skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great but go to the rural south where people are dirt fucking poor. Average is an inane statistic by itself--just because in aggregate we are richer because we can afford a $200 meal in Nor Cal doesn't mean that wouldn't be a boon to feed a family at the bottom elsewhere.
Yeah, I'm a scotch man myself (get that "e" out of me whisky), largely because of taste but I do also like the fact that so many great scotches come from family-owned distilleries - of course, even "family-owned" can be a big company with lots of money, but it's still nice that most of them aren't huge companies.

Edit: worth pointing out that there are a bunch of independent distilleries in America, which I'm led to believe by bourbon-lovers make some amazing drinks - but I don't know nearly enough about this area to give examples. It's just that the big companies outnumber and massively out-produce the small ones.
From what I understand, companies are required to defend their trademarks, lest their inaction be used to indicate tacet approval of use in court.

More importantly though, they own the trademark and have the right to decide what can be explicitly linked to their brand. Even if the site wasn't making money off of it (to be honest, I'm not familiar with the one in question) the fact that it was using the JD name in a way JD didn't like warrants a C&D.

So yes, they could have been nicer, but they were in the right, and I don't think their request was unreasonable.
How This Guy Lied His Way Into MSNBC, ABC News, The New York Times and More
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

We used to think that all you had to do was work for a company for 40 years in the same job and you would be taken care of with your pension + social security. Pensions are just about nonexistent these days. Social security is going to be gone after the baby boomers suck it dry. And, personally, I don't have much confidence that blindly throwing my money into the stock market for 70 years is going to help me more than smartly saving my money. The current climate on wall street seems to be to rip off retail investors and take advantage of pension funds.

edited for typos..
don't quantum mechanics stand contrary to determinism? As far as I know there's a certain amount of unpredictably with particles in superposition.
This really looks fantastic: All code is run through the GHC compiler for static type checking and then translated to javascript. This means:

1. It has full Hindley-Milner type inference

2. It produces readable javascript that is reasonably debuggable

I could imagine using this for real projects in the near future.
My issue with the word "evil" is that its popular use serves to distance the perpetrator from everyone else, as if he's been infected by the Devil. No doubt he's infected with something, perhaps even something that could be cured or mitigated with therapy, but it's not supernatural or part of God's mysterious plan.

Similarly, I don't like the use of the word "miracle," which was used a lot during that Hudson River plane crash a few years ago. God did not intervene, as many suggested. Rather, a well-trained pilot did his job to perfection, and all thanks should go to him and the institutions that provided him with that training.
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Microsoft also said they would drop licensing to companies like dell, toshiba, if they were to include netscape in the PCs that they sold
Robert Heinlin: "If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against...."
IBM - 433,362
Everyone down the forum slide - Weeee!!!
To find out how long you have until retirement try this:

http://networthify.com/earlyretirement

Also, the author's example was a household that makes $100,000 annually and saves 10%. They must work 52 years to save the $2.3 million needed to retire.

If they increased their savings rate to 50% they could retire after 17 years and would only need $1.3 million.

If they increased their savings rate to 80% they could retire after 5.6 years of work and would only need to save $544,000.
If you open the Youtube URL in VLC ("Open network stream") and slow the playback down to 18/24=0.75x, the motion is much more natural throughout the video.
I don't disagree that society's attitude toward depression and mental illness in general is far from enlightened.

However when you consider how unexpectedly schizophrenia can creep up on people, or how unexpectedly PTSD symptoms can go from mild to severe (just two examples) even with significantly improved treatment we'd still have it happening now and then.

And even if it happened only 10% as often, it would still represent a minuscule risk for most people, perhaps slightly closer to lethal asteroid impact than to lethal food poisoning from Sushi on the risk scale.
I am looking forward to CODEL support in shorewall's simple or advanced traffic shaping scripts. I have tried to cobble together a custom `tcstart` file for CODEL and it has not been very successful. Does anyone have shorewall working with CODEL?

Also does anyone explain the difference between vanilla CODEL and FQ_CODEL? Is one an obvious choice over the other?
I'm a whiskey person (I drink a lot of rye) and I'm not intended to disparage the distilleries because of their parentage. I think a lot of them got rolled up in the 70s and 80s. Heaven Hill and Sazerac put out some pretty great stuff.
I'll start with health care.

I'm referring to the overall system and its premise. The problem is that the system is based on employment and the government fills in for certain populations during unemployment.

There are 4 large problems in that simple statement.

One is that employers are even involved in shopping for health care. If I own a company that makes software for the education market, for example, why should I have to know or care about the nuances of health care plans? Why should I have to do periodic cost analyses of plans to see if my company should switch? My business is software. My concerns should be about developing a product, selling it, supporting it, and accurately reporting financials to the government. Health care is out of my expertise and out of scope.

The second issue is that employers are not required to offer health care. We don't see it so much in the IT industry, but health care plans are quite often not offered by employers or, if plans are offered, it's to full time employees only. Effectively, it leaves out people who work part-time out of necessity or choice.

The third issue is knowing when the government will cover you and when it won't. A multitude of programs exist to cover children, but not parents; or, cover children and mothers but not fathers; etc. In some instances, one plan covers you for a certain amount of time during unemployment but then you have to apply for a different plan after the first plan's coverage period expires. This is too complicated. People who don't deal with these issues routinely quite often don't know they're even eligible.

(Ironically, our fear of the government completely managing health care due to its bureaucracy is causing by far more bureaucracy.)

Finally, according to the WHO, the US ranks 37 in the world for system efficiency. I'm sure statistical methodology and data collection accuracy can be questioned. But, we're not talking about being 10 and we think we should be 3. We're 37 . I'm not willing to chalk up such a low ranking to those factors.

Many individual components of our system are really good, e.g. clinicians. The high skill positions we train, we train well. But the system overall is not a healthy one.
I didn't say (or mean to imply) "compare my list of three with this list on wikipedia." I stated the three cases of massacre in recent UK history, which is well below that grandparent was implying.

I then provided a link to a list where you could pick out the dozens of cases of recent massacre in the United States (among a list of around ~125 across history). I haven't compiled an exhaustive list myself, but just from glancing at it you will be left in no doubt as to the scale of the problem in the US and that the UK is not comparable.

Honestly I'm sure you could name off the top of your head over a dozen during your lifetime that occurred in the United States.
Related: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dp6/imperfect_voting_systems/
Not jumping for free throws isn't just a tradition. Jump shots sacrifice accuracy to make it more difficult for defensive players to block your shot. There's no risk of your shot being blocked for a free throw so players don't jump.
I think at an older age, when you are more likely to have health problems, 31k is probably not enough.
The antidote to Landsburg's naive (and quite unoriginal) approach to voting: Valdis Krebs' "It's the Conversations, Stupid" http://www.orgnet.com/PoliticalConversations.pdf

Or for a mental exercise, figure out for yourself what is wrong with this statement (key quote from the Slate article): "Your individual vote will never matter unless the election in your state is within one vote of a dead-even tie."
On the contrary, the Coursera courses that I've taken have been nothing less than top notch. The teachers have been great and easy to understand, the programming assignments challenging and relevant, and the whole experience felt polished and well done. I did try one Udacity course, but quit because I felt it wasn't challenging and poorly done. I don't think it's fair to compare Khan Academy and Coursera, since they are teaching far different conent (algebra vs. undergraduate level courses)

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Imperfect Voting Systems
No less an extremist as Thomas Jefferson supported the estate tax, and we still have it for many good reasons. This article talks about it better than I could:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/10/estate_tax_...
negotiate some black market underworld he knows nothing about to get his guns

Why not? Many people do it to obtain illegal drugs.
No but you can hide an OS-level software back button, like in any Android 4 phone that doesn't have hardware buttons.
Anyway, there is nothing better than stock market. I don't want to tell obvious things, but buying stocks are buying what the economy is made of. Everything else, like real estate for example, is just a direct or indirect derivative of stock. Investing in anything else (of course as long as we stay in a legal field, and mean only passive investment) just trades profits for risks. Best way of doing so is a balanced portfolio of stocks, bonds and cash, due to inverse correlation between stocks and bonds most of the time, but anyway, this isn't required on a 70-year timeline. If stock market won't give you the return, nothing else will - even bank deposit can be 'diluted' with inflation.

Social security, pensions etc. - agree, these are on the way out due to demographic changes. But that's a point for individual retirement savings, not against them.

And yes, there is no such thing as stock performance prediction, this has been proven many times since the 1930s. So funds are useless in the long run - just a way to trade performance for risks, and pay a fee (while i agree that in the case of Vanguard, you lose almost nothing because the fund is really cheap).
Technically we already came up with a solution to "force" people to save for retirement. It's Social Security. Unfortunately the economics of the 1930s don't work quite as well these days (people living decades longer and the base of workers shrinking instead of growing, families no longer caring for their parents, etc...).

It is really sad to hear my friends in there 30's saying they haven't started saving for retirement yet, it's so hard to convince people to do this because it's "someday" money, and people like to see instant results.
No, not "Period."

There are any number of other ways he could do the same damage. We all know that. So don't force in an absolute where it doesn't belong.
Not everyone speaks English. This might be true in the most touristy areas or in international corporations but it's definitely not the case in cafes, grocery stores etc. So if you move there be prepared to learn a bit of German,

For the most part everything else you mentioned is true. I'm not sure about the work permissions. Berlin is an awesome city overall.
They could sure as hell stop mojang getting paid. I don't think they care if people continue to pirate the infringing program.
I can't speak to the CLR, but the JVM isn't bad at all. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/javascript.php

But, microbenchmarks, blah blah blah.
That's not why you shouldn't vote. You shouldn't vote because our politics is a bunch of crazy people yelling at each other.
The number of low karma accounts posting below is suspicious in and of itself.
Ridiculous should be determined by how well something works.

To predictably let a huge segment of the voting population to become destitute is arguably ridiculous. Human nature hasn't changed. Whether or not a mob deserves their state makes little positive impact on the mob. The fact that such a mob exists is a sign of policy failure.
> You don't need 'investment expertise'. You put your money in a Vanguard index fund, and you don't pull it out until you're done working. With a savings rate of even 10%, you're golden by traditional retirement age.

It actually does take much more investment expertise than the average American has to know what a Vanguard Fund is, to know that it's a safe bet etc.
I have seen a number of people write that CODEL will be mainlined in 3.5. But from what I have seen it has been there for sometime now:

Initial CODEL commit entry from May:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git...

Search for CODEL in linus's tree:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Fl...

And there has not been a lot of CODEL activity in the net-next tree since the activity in May:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fdavem%2Fnet-...

Am I missing something obvious?
He claims it's "ridiculous" to expect people to save responsibly. Yet it happens in east asia, and it happened historically in the west.

The story is another demo of this curiously common mentality where nobody can be held to account for their choices. You can't say that people are fat because they're slobs with no self control, no, it's fructose, fast food ads, or whatever. The education test results aren't lousy because the kids are dumb and lazy, it's the teachers.

People aren't saving enough or taking enough responsibility in general because we're seeing the end-game result of four generations with a generous public social safety net. I could fix the retirement savings problem right quick: Bring back the poor house. If you want any sort of public assistance you have to live in a big concrete dorm with rows of bunk beds and do menial labor. Make some TV shows about living in one.
Hum, i think everyone love javascript, but no one wants to actually write some ...
And that's why you should invest in low-fee index funds. You can't beat the market, so don't try. Just dump your money into a few good funds and ignore it for 60 years.

You have to do something with your money. If you just stash it into a savings account you will literally lose money to inflation. A good mix of index funds (or target retirement-type funds) are probably the "safest" long-term savings you can do with your money.

You probably won't become a millionaire, but you probably won't be destitute either.
The Coursera courses I've previewed have been fine. But even the flagships (e.g. Andrew Ng's machine learning course) are just traditional lectures divided into smaller pieces with an auxiliary system for dealing with homework, student-student and student-instructor interactions, etc. There's nothing wrong with that, but from my perspective it's only a marginal improvement on the long-form video lectures that have been available online for years.

I predict that the incoming slew of new Coursera courses will adhere even closer to tradition. They're driven more by universities wanting to be fashionable than by a grassroots commitment from individual instructors at those institutions.

For comparison, I've completed most of CS212 on Udacity and 6.002x on edX. The edX system is very impressive for a first pass, and Udacity has come a long way from Thrun and Norvig's first AI class, both in polish and pedagogy. Udacity's hands-on programming approach is great but obviously isn't a good fit for every kind of course. The on-the-fly quizzes are more generally applicable, but I've mostly found them to be a useless distraction.
I'm not currently in the UK so I can't test it myself but I was under the impression you don't even need the SIM
Anyone spent a winter in Berlin? It's incredibly cold. Traveling around the city on bicycle, train etc is great during the pleasant summer months but it's literally painful during the winter.
I would argue that is a basic failure of parenting and education, not a financial failure.

Why aren't basic finance classes taught in grade schools anymore? How hard is it for parents to teach their kids to save 10% of their income, and to put it into an IRA?

Edit: Before anyone points it out, I know the IRA is a relatively young investment vehicle (the 70's). Swap IRA for any sane long-term savings and retirement plan.
Even after paying $471 million in taxes on the art, the heirs stand to net half a billion dollars. So it's hardly "nothing" and hardly a cause of hardship (and that's just the art portion of the wealth). In the US, it is a tiny fraction of estates which are encumbered with any sort of inheritance taxes.

As an American, I am not opposed to inheritance taxes. Discouraging the creation of an hereditary aristocracy is part and parcel of the legacy of our revolution and has long been one of the reasons for enacting inheritance taxes. Given the way in which our tax code favors capital gains, the inheritance tax is in many ways a mechanism which allows people to grow their wealth tax deferred. And in the case of the art, it is a stretch to consider any increase in value a capital gain that contributed to economic growth.

Other cultures enjoy supporting hereditary nobility. But it's not part of our founding principles.
Isn't all software, always, just a few weeks away? lol.
> There has been exactly three massacres of this type in recent UK history (~last 50 years). There are dozens in the US just in the last couple of decades. So implying that UK has a similar incidence of random killing spree gun crime as the grandparent did is disingenuous.

I am no expert in this field, but the US has approximately five times the population of the UK [1], so wouldn't it be expected the number of random killing sprees be at least five times higher?

[1] US population: 311,591,917

UK population: 62,641,000

(taken from www.google.co.uk/publicdata)
>the problem Sparrow, and all desktop/mobile apps face(d) is the one-time nature of their revenue. You

That's a problem!? That business model has been a staple of software development for decades!!!
feel free to drop me a mail if you want to know anything about working at soundcloud. i'm an engineer. rany@soundcloud.com
How is that any more or less irresponsible than presenting the same argument to readers who are likely to be consrevative?
A few things:

* Udacity really tries to learn how to exploit the on-line medium well. Coursera tosses courses not that different from a capture of the normal university course on-line. Coursera instructors have minimal support in how to put together a good on-line course. This comes across in a huge number of ways (as with Khan, you're being tutored, not lectured at, with tight integration of questions/videos, etc.).

* Udacity courses have massive post-production. There's a big difference between a professional recording followed by editing, and a professor with a webcam and a tablet on which to capture PPT slides.

* Udacity courses target a narrower range of subjects, and so have appropriate technologies to teach those subjects. Coursera is one-size-fits-all. It really doesn't work well in many contexts.

The major downside of Udacity is related -- they mostly target intro CS classes. Coursera has a much broader selection of richer classes.
Windows has more functional and consistent interface standards than any other platform. It's predictable and utilitarian...in other words, the exact opposite of OS X and "the web".

In Windows, keyboard acceleration is a first class citizen too and it works better than on any other platform.
Expensive lessons in Python performance tuning
An even darker thought: even "the good case" is built on the idea that you can effectively hit 8%+ risk free returns with a reasonably diversified portfolio.

What if that is no longer the case?
Still doesn't answer my question.
Well they are obvisouly going to be worth a few $$$ just because they sell so much of it.

But the cynical engineer in me assumed that all the "Billy-Bob still pisses in every barrel just like his grand-pappy did in 1869" type advertising, meant that it was actually made in a chemical plant in New Jersey by Union Carbide!

Must admit I've never tried the stuff - always worked on the principle that if it's not a single malt made on Speyside it's not worth drinking.
I am a firm believer that you shouldn't vote in any given race if you cannot at least name the candidates before you look at the ballot.

If you don't even know who they are, how can you possibly make an informed decision?
Oxford and Cambridge are certainly exceptions. In general, if an institution offers both a BS and BA in the same subject (at least in the sciences), the BS tends to be more technical.

I'm not saying this to diminish the value of a BA, because what their curriculums lack in technical equivalence are often compensated for in breadth and general well-roundedness.

Of course this is not hard fact, but it's a generally correct pattern in American universities.
"All ten of us pulled our triggers at the same time, so none of us is responsible for the murder."
How can you make yourself luckier?
The population of the USA is about 10x te population of the UK. You'd expect far more killings. The important number is per capita.

Of course, going by what happened to get into a Wikipedia list and what you happen to recall is pretty slim as evidence.
I don't avoid it because of, it's just a nice added bonus to the drinks I like (the likes of Talisker). Just the same as I use gmail because I think it's the best option, but it makes me happy when Google do stuff like support LGBT rights :)
The chart on the link is misleading. There is no need for 'withdrawal rate' parameter, because it really depends on how long you expect to live after you retire. The later is retirement age, the higher the withdrawal rate should be, so the chart should calculate it rather than make me enter it.

Also, with the defaults it has (5% above-inflation profit and 4% withdrawal rate), it results in the savings that never end but continue growing at about 1% per year, which is an overshoot for someone who just wants to retire, not leave a huge legacy.
Completely, completely wrong. Politicians look directly at victory margins to decide the policies to focus on, and future candidates use them to decide whether to enter primaries.

Here's my blog post making the whole arguement: http://rogueleaderr.tumblr.com/post/25524737459/why-you-shou...
I noticed the use of $, _, and globals like enumFromTo in the compiled js. It says $ means "thunk" and _ means "force". Does this means this compiled js further compiled so $, _, and globals are further replaced with something like Fay$$...?