skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you set as the deduction for a flat-rate tax. I don't think the voter has had any effect on tax law in a long time. It is all special interest groups and people trying to influence behavior through taxes.

I would love them to eliminate the home mortgage deduction, because it is another factor encouraging people to buy homes when they shouldn't. I would also say taxes on capital gains should be zero. Too many normal Americans don't have traditional pensions and will need the tax break in later years.
After you've learned both, maybe.

But that is beside the point. Haskell is more difficult to learn.
Let's say that you wanted a really good chef. Would you go to a place where 99 chefs, each one, will cook a meal for free so you can choose the one you wanted the best? And knowing that most of the chefs had been cooking lot of free meals daily?

You may be lucky and find a world class dish by a struggling undiscovered great chef, but most likely you'll settle on whatever doesn't make you vomit.
He already had lost all of mine due to the drone strikes, rendition, and other atrocities, ... but this certainly doesn't help.
I suppose you wouldn't like a waterbed, then, since it's essentially 1 giant moving part.
It's not religious appeasement, you don't see them appeasing Buddhists or even Christians.
Maybe Web Intents?
>/me wanders back to a multi-million line Haskell codebase running systems in 25 countries, processing billions a year in financial transactions.

Hope the codebase runs well, because that's the bank I use in Singapore ;-)

Has you/anyone written something about how Haskell got picked for the task by that particular bank? Is the language used at other financial type businesses? I've heard some firms use Ocaml.
You should also fix the cheapest unlimited plan with 4 GB is $110 not $120 with 1 GB.
This confused me as well, it felt like the author was thinking about the problem space all wrong. As soon as I read

"As a Django developer, there wasn’t a straightforward and obvious way to just do things in the background on a page request"

I started thinking, "um, django produces http responses, you can only respond once...".

Clearly, from his gevents example, he's looking to do things that take time, and wants to do them as concurrently as possible, then send the whole response at once. But if he really doesn't want the user to wait, then this is not something you should be doing in a webserver anyways. You really should be building that into the front end javascript, and let it handle all the async data grabs from small, fast, cacheable web requests, then redraw the page as the data comes in.
> under what circumstances today is it the best thing to spend routable IP addresses for machines that aren't exposed directly to the Internet

Under the circumstance that you have a spare /8 you aren't using for anything.

You could argue that "the best thing" in that case would be giving, selling, or leasing pieces of the /8 to someone who needs the space. But maybe you aren't in the philanthropy business, so giving's out.

And maybe the prices aren't high enough for your taste, so selling or leasing are out. Or maybe there's simply not enough demand on the market to absorb 16m addresses. Or maybe the terms of the allocation agreement say you're not allowed to transfer them, and you're afraid that trying to do so will give the Internet people a justification to give them to someone else.

> if routable IP addresses were easy to get, there would be lots of cases where it would make sense to use them

If your organization has a spare /8, routable IP addresses are easy to get for you, so these cases do make sense, for you.
> What an embarrassing failure of economic reasoning.

1. IPv4 addresses are overdemanded and undersupplied.

2. IPv6 addresses are practically limitless and will serve the same purpose once we switch over.

3. We should switch to IPv6 ASAP.

Where's the economic flaw?

(Also, it should be pointed out that allowing trades on IPv4 would not decrease availability, it would only increase it: Right now, you can't switch the owner of /x blocks without IANNA approval, so right now you have no choice but to push for switching to v6, whereas with trading you could waste money on v4 instead. Moreover, this would encourage the companies with the most money to buy IPv4 blocks rather than invest in switching over to v6, which would slow down the process for everyone since they're the biggest companies. TLDR -- force investment in IPv6 not IPv4. There's also a fairness issue since these IPv4 blocks were originally allocated for free -- should MIT be able to make billions on their block?)
I guess killing diplomats is the new way to get White House assistance for your special interests project.

Rewarding a behavior is the best way to get more of it.
Patent the square sheet form factor and you can lock out competitors and/or get hefty licensing fees. (as well as method and application of turning a sheet 90 degrees to hide coffee spots under pillows that you will then license at no cost to buyers of your brand of sheets while suing buyers of competitor's sheets)
Are you seriously comparing scaling these businesses with scaling online media companies ?

If dealing with logistics issues at scale would have been easy, your grocery store would have been able to deliver to your home. Do they ? No -- because its not cost efficient due to the logistics involved.
It's a CDMA phone which by definition can't be unlocked.
Does the Obama administration really want to enter the business of suppressing every "inconvenient" video that might offend the sensibilities of Middle Eastern mobs?
It's a shame "crafting proper headlines/titles" was not one of them.
Consider this an expression of extreme interest on my part.
Good for Google. Unlike Visa, Paypal, et al. who blocked payments to Wikileaks at the government's request.
Alright, now that I found this, my last excuse for not writing my own CL implementation is gone.
As a non-American, I see religious appeasement of Christians all the time when I see US politics.
Busy with work through this weekend most likely.. feel free to submit a pull request for log scaling: https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing

Will obviously give credit..
I don't understand this request. Doesn't this lead to every organization having a case for pulling down any video they deem to be in violation of bad taste.

The white house has a beautiful 250 year old document they can get behind that makes the issue black and white (free speech) and absolves them of looking like they played favorites to either side. How is this publicly sterilizing solution the best option?
Can we get a link to the video?
I don't think you're reading these comments in context. I'm arguing that even if they only reach the major urban areas, they'll still be a large, profitable company. You're responding that reaching beyond them is logistically difficult -- again, "so what?". If you want to answer my comment, you have to say something as to why TaskRabbit has to be available in the 'burbs to scale.

The purpose of the comparison to Netflix was to emphasize that the addressable market for your product or service need not be "every household in the nation" to be considered "at scale". It's OK for TaskRabbit to never offer all its services in every suburb -- because it's logistically difficult or impossible -- they still have the potential to be a large, profitable company without doing so. I never made a comparison between how easy or difficult it would be to grow.
There's definitely a notorious difference from the young Steve Jobs to the older Steve Jobs.
Hipmob is live chat for hipsters.
Does IETab or Chrome Frame not work for these deployments?
How normal people will use Windows 8
It was just a request. A request they are free to make and Google is free to decline.

One (edit: four) of Obama's civilian employees was killed by an angry mob, ostensibly because of this video, so I don't think it's unreasonable to ask. I'm also glad Google declined.
So the guy who produced the video is Egyptian? And is apparently facebook friends with the Metropolitan Seraphim of Glastonbury http://www.policymic.com/articles/14762/nakoula-basseley-nak...

When there is a situation this awful, why does it have to be so utterly ridiculous as well?

I'm not sure whether the inability of many fanatics to think before they aim makes them more, or less scary.
> if your development machine is shared, how does your team manage versioning and avoid conflicts? How do you test individual changes?

Of course the machine is shared, but our development workspaces are not. We all have separate accounts on the staging server. The idea is that the staging environment is identical (in terms of software) to the live environment. Of course, we would have to coordinate any sort of hardware stress testing in order to get accurate results, but that's a rare edge case and would be true even if you were developing locally (since stress testing on the local machine wouldn't give useful results).

> If your development server is yours only, I fail to see the point: your real development machine is the remote one and your Windows box is nothing more than a glorified VT-100.

Oh come on, don't be obtuse. The reason I use Windows is because Windows 7 is a genuinely good OS that helps me to be productive. The UI is well-designed and I have direct access to all the various browsers I need to test sites on. I have good text editors and SSH clients. I have a solid laptop with features that I desire (easily upgradable, TrackPoint, much more durable than a MacBook). The only downside is that Windows comes filled with bloatware, but that's a matter of just installing a clean copy of it.
Interesting to read the comments here. It is an interesting dilemma that the web site finds itself in. My personal opinion is that if it cared that much about things like adblock it should just not load. I totally agree that it should have the right to not load and I have the right to not show ads if it did.

I agree with the author that nothing on the Internet is 'free', its just not necessarily paid for by the person kicking off the transaction. As advertising evolves you'll find that a whole bunch of sites will go away because they aren't worth advertising on (user's don't engage) and the owners can't afford to pay the costs. I saw an article in an advertising trade magazine that suggested nearly 25% of the current ad supported sites would go off the air if there was no click fraud. I've done a bit of research but not enough to confirm or deny how close that number is to reality. There was a pretty good sized group of smart people inside Google dedicated to ferreting out stuff like that.
That is nice to hear. My biggest problem with IPv6 has always been the size of the addresses, which I think is too big, but I always thought I was just being old-fashioned. It's interesting to see other people think the same, although probably for different or more justified reasons.
bose headphones without noise canceling, been using them for 7 years, used the upgrade plan a couple of years ago to get the newer version for half the price.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect hasn't been translated into Arabic yet.
The concept dates back much further than Christensen. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
http://catfi.sh/3
If the table next door was having an obviously private discussion they'd probably be a bit put out if you started offering your opinion. People know their conversations often aren't secure, but then there are certain social expectations. Sometimes it's just expected that other people will politely ignore their conversation. If you told people that you had been spying on them I guarantee you that they would not blame their tech. They would place the blame squarely at your door for having listened in on something you shouldn't have.
It was not a legally binding request, they just asked them to review the video for violations of their terms of service, and "please" remove it if it was found to be in violation. Any other organization is and has always been free to do the same, just as Google is free to decline the request.
You are computer science student? At NYU? Is this question for real?

http://netbsd.org
http://freebsd.org
http://openbsd.org
http://dragonflybsd.org

They all borrow from each other. They even borrow from Apple sometimes.

As for what has been copied, you simply need to read the source code.
Idiots rule the AT&T Yahoo worlds
Some idiots decided that I need to see full page news items and should really click (four time) to get to my email. My email home page suddenly changed to a new and shiney "AT&T Powered by Yahoo" page. Thus forcing me to go to an email client like thunderbird (or merge it into my outlook) - losing precious ad monies.

Pathetic - they should be fired immediately.

Have others seen something similar?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM
Innocence of Muslims (YouTube Video)
I don't think you'll find much evidence that venture capital as an asset class is thriving. And given how long it takes for the performance of a venture fund to become clear, there's no way you can say for sure that the behaviour of investors today is leading to the returns they want.
I cannot take the author seriously, as there's no mention of DTrace — which isn't even OS X-specific, as it originated on Solaris, has a good FreeBSD port, and even some rumored-to-have-once-been-working Linux port attempts. (Didn't work last time I tried them, which was half a year ago.) There's a useful book covering all supported platforms:
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/02/23/dtrace-book-sampl...

DTrace also forms the basis for Apple's Instruments, which the author chooses to casually dismiss:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Develo...
Anybody who's ever thought about how an antivirus product works has come to this conclusion: Antivirus will detect software that does things that are known to be bad, but not software that does things in a new way. Depending on the level of sophistication of the antivirus solution, that either means a completely black-and-white distinction between what matches what is essentially a rainbow table of MD5 signatures and what doesn't, or more complex binary analyses like what kinds of actions an application binary performs, or what IP address ranges it attempts to establish a connection to.

Now, this doesn't mean that antivirus is useless, or that the antivirus era is over--by the logic of this post, the antivirus era was over the minute it began. What it means is that antivirus is a tool that helps protect you against "stupid"/mass malware, but not a tool that gives you any kind of "complete" or "100%" protection (although every AV vendor will certainly try to convince you that their products do), and this is particularly true--today as it was 10 years ago--when it comes to malware that isn't widely distributed, or, put more fashionably, "targeted malware" and "advanced persistent threats" (hence: malware which belongs to a "family" that hasn't been caught, analyzed, and added to a binary/behavioral signature/heuristic database of some kind beforehand.)
If there was mention of his name on the /about page, it's now been removed.
What I personally like about Elon - he has demonstrated that he gambles with his own money. This makes him fairly unique among serial entrepreneurs who love to raise massive rounds for their next projects even after a prior successful "exit", using lame excuses about discipline, supervision, reality checks, second opinion, etc.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html

Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Cherry-picking one number and comparing it to another country by converting the dollar amount is a ridiculous and meaningless comparison.

Looking on here:

http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/pay_monthly/24_months/Medi...

It looks like the cost is $70/month for unlimited text/voice and 1 GB of data. That doesn't seem much cheaper at all to me.
Maybe some of the software used for "setlists" for worship songs in Church services would help? You can do things like print lyrics with chords, "song books" and such; a basic feature is preparing a list of songs for the expected running order.

Only ones I know of (from research a few years ago on FOSS apps for this) http://opensong.org/d/about, http://www.easyslides.com/index.php/features, http://openlp.org/en/features, http://www.lyricue.org/.

There are very mature paid apps for this sort of thing too.

HTH.
Acer cancels smartphone launch with Alibaba at last minute
Chrome Removes Bundled NPAPI Flash on Windows
It said in the article that it was to comply with local laws.
To stretch the airplane analogy some more, it's interesting to think about how breaking contact with the ground allows you to accelerate faster, because you're no longer spending any thrust to overcome rotational friction of wheels on runway. It can all go into increasing your velocity.

Maybe the startup analogue is getting enough people or money in place that you as a founder can avoid the day-to-day distractions of running the business and focus.
I use these: Sony DRBT50 Bluetooth Headset [1].

I bought them for $115, however some dramatic dynamic re-pricing seems to have occurred recently [2]. Also, I'm a longtime fan of these Sony MDRV600 [3] which sadly appear to have been discontinued.

Also, this Electronic Archicture album [4] is one my regular ambient listens when trying to focus.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DRBT50-Stereo-Bluetooth-Headset/d...

2: http://camelcamelcamel.com/Sony-DRBT50-Stereo-Bluetooth-Head...

3: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Studio-Monitor-MDR-V600-Headphone...

4: http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Architecture-2-Ambient-Edit...
By itself? Probably not. I leave LTE disabled on my Galaxy Nexus to save battery life most of the time. I can't even remember the last time I turned it on. It's nice for tethering I suppose but for normal usage it's not worth the battery cost. If you're on AT&T HSPA+ is actually fairly close to LTE speeds already though the latency is generally higher. I see about 7-8Mbit/sec on Verizon LTE and about 4-5Mbit/sec on AT&T HSPA+ -- not a huge difference.
We have to ask why on earth the White House should even care if the video violates Google's TOS. This was as close as they could get to a takedown request without violating the Constitution.

Really disgraceful, IMO.
It's not appropriate for the Executive branch to make requests to remove content that is political for political reasons. This has a chilling effect[1] and can thus be rightly judged by the populace as being against our shared reckoning on free speech.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_%28law%29
I think it's a mistake to say "employee was killed because of the video". They were killed because of barbaric rules that extreme version of Islam promotes, and those who take it seriously enough to blow themselves up and other people. I applaud Google.
Learn Cocoa
On the same grounds, should the White House have asked Youtube to censor the numerous clips of Kerry and Biden praising the killing of Bin Laden at the DNC last week?

I'm sure the Islamic world might have taken offense.
So is this how Microsoft is going to fight Linux on the desktop?
I Am Not A Lawyer, let alone an International Lawyer, but the article seemed to imply that it was blocked in some countries (eg, India) to comply with local blasphemy laws (related news: Indian Skeptic Charged With Blasphemy For Rationally Explaining Miracle: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/04/14/indi...), but Libya and Egypt were just special-cased.

Does anyone know if Libya and Egypt have blasphemy laws, or just volatility?
I have been in a similar situation to you. In my case the depression was so bad I simply HAD to do something about it, and it involved significant changes to my lifestyle (changing job, moving away from the city, etc). My wife also went through depression recently, and has recovered through CBT (with an excellent therapist) and anti-depressants. I'm not really a fan of anti-depressants myself as they are mostly (or all) placebo, but I guess sometimes a placebo can be a trigger to kick yourself out of depression. There are free online CBT tools such as mindgym which might be useful.

In your case I think a big part of your depression is loneliness (and lack of girlfriend in particular). The human brain has evolved to want companionship, and depression is its way of nudging you to try and achieve that. I was in a similar situation to you - I didn't have a proper girlfriend until I was almost 30, and thought I would never have one (but now I'm married).

There are lots of online dating sites which make it easier to meet people (that is how I met my wife over 10 years ago, and there are much more options these days).

Basically there are lots of opportunities out there in terms of jobs and relationships - you just need to change your mindset to realise that.

I'm happy to chat with you further - just post a throwaway email address or something.
There's a major difference between pandering and appeasement, I think. I'm not American but my perception is more that politicians pander to religious groups to sway large voting blocks, not with any actual intention of treating religious bodies with any future political reward.
Does it matter when politicians dodge the questions they are asked?
I have the source code, yes :)
I'd guess the fraudulent redubbing of these actors lines into fatwa provoking ones means the actors probably have some recourse to get the video pulled.
Stem Cells Cure Deafness in Gerbils
"pointless extra electronic waste" pretty accurately describes this fact-free diatribe. Flagged.
The WP article specifies that there must be threat of legal sanction. There was no threat in this case, only a request.
Did you mean "could" because you said "should" which makes the whole thing read like nonsense.
are you happy with the construction quality?

I was originally leaning towards a pair of Bose but was a little put off by some of the Amazon reviewers who complained that they felt a little flimsy & that they are a little tight fitting.
> ostensibly because of this video

That video had nothing to do with anyone being killed. It was an excuse used by the mob to justify their desire for murder and violence, so they would not appear as complete savages.

I've watched that video, and the worst I can describe it is with words: "silly" and "amateurish". It wouldn’t even pass the litmus test for the type of speech that incites violence.

It’s clear that those people were egger and willing to kill Americans and Westerners long before this video was made.

> so I don't think it's unreasonable to ask

It's completely unreasonable to ask the American people to throw out parts of the Constitution to try to appease clearly incompatible religious and juvenile groups half a world away.
I didn't get that but it must be interesting... What does it mean plz?
It blows my mind that they aren't simply using Jekyll to generate and update the status page. I mean... they wrote it, right?
Kids. Have they never heard of the Streisand effect. It's pretty much in one place now. Take it down and it'll be back up 10 fold on youtube mirrored, and then also on other services like vimeo etc. You can't kill these things.
Asking just looks native
Map Projection Transitions in D3
This was a wholesale scrape:

https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing/blob/master/public/...

Why do you have the database.com logo in your repo?
I think the issue with single-letter variables goes deeper than it just being unreadable (although its that too for someone that isn't "used to it").

For example there are issues with scope (what happens when I need a second or third "f" variable" and maintainability too (6 months from now I have to remember if "f" stands for "foo" or "file").
I have a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 2 which I've had for quite some time. Comfortable as hell--can wear them all day. The only big problem is the AAA battery that they require. When the juice runs out, no more sound, which sucks.