skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as e-books go - the problem is 'reach'. Pulley and Shopify just don't have the reach that Amazon does. Authors are still trying to figure out the best ways to monetize without going through publishers and it will take time for their thinking, and Amazon's competitors, to mature.
The amount of stupidity in this article is startling.

There are plenty of legitimate and common sense reasons for why Apple would keep much of their overseas earnings overseas. There are financial reasons e.g. minimizing wasteful forex conversions. There are legal reasons e.g posting collateral for court cases or tax disputes. There are logistic reasons e.g. having money on hand to make it easier to acquire companies or hire new stuff.

If Apple really wanted to avoid paying taxes then they are plenty of ways they could do this. But they DO pay taxes. Just not US taxes for non-US revenues.
That's okay, there's time to work on the shielding. 0.03 c is the most that can be feasibly achieved using top-end near future technology like dusty plasma fission fragment rockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket
How about putting a shield made of antimatter in front of the spaceship to clear away any hydrogen out of the way?
I agree with you that IQ is far from a complete measure of what matters, but I do think that it is an issue.

The reason why is because jobs that are likely to use the abilities of a high IQ person generally require a high school diploma, and frequently require a college degree. Therefore denying these people an equal opportunity to get those credentials limits how effectively society benefits from their abilities.

Also I should note that the matter is personal. I have a good IQ and yet I came within an inch of failing to complete high school. Were it not for a teacher named Bernie Bowker, I would not have graduated, gone to college, or had any prospects of getting jobs where my abilities would be useful. I think that that would have been a tragedy, particularly for me.
I went and reread it, because I'd skipped the Nexus 10 section last week.

At least the article describes the author's experience of holding the phone, if not actually using it.

But I didn't feel my two questions were answered. The only part that came close as the Google person saying that LTE increases battery usage. I want to know more than just what the manufacturer says about it, ideally based on some hands-on experience. Which is what I at least appreciated about the Wired review.

I do agree the article is better than the video, but it's still mostly just repeating what Google said on launch day.
You meant Viet Cong, right? I spent quite a while trying to figure out how venture capitalists fit into that.
What math and what system ?

It is simpler and easier the way Apple does it now. Money originates in each country that a sale is made some of which flows into the regions e.g. Americas or APAC. It would be much harder to be constantly moving money in and out of the US.
Time to divert my focus to Google+ for a few days.
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Gallup has studied this exact question. They have found that working on areas of brilliance, and structuring jobs to work around areas of mediocrity, is hands down massively better than trying to address weaknesses.
Great job Adem, well done indeed.
Not necessarily. There are some interesting potential radiation issues with "warp drives" as well. For example, at the boundary of a warp bubble of the generally-Alcubierre-like variety, space is shearing / expanding such that virtual particle pairs are incapable of recombining, just like at an event horizon. That could potentially create a great deal of radiation draining energy from the warp field.
Additionally, what happens to particles that are intercepted by the travelling bubble? They don't just disappear!
Hmm missed that. Sorry for the repost.
Facebook is definitely a huge time waster and distraction. But it's so addicting...
Oh, I just realized the parent didn't link to the Nexus 4 review: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3589280/google-nexus-4-rev.... I assumed they had, as that seems like the reasonable thing to do.
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don't do it, man
Thermonuclear pulse propulsion (a la Project Orion) can do better than that- up to 0.1c. And that requires no unproven technology; just a lot of money and a lot of politics (and a lot of fission fuel to buy with that money; I dunno if it's more than you could actually get on the market or not, but it would definitely cost A Lot).
A very nice read. But are "a good schooling" and "a good learning" same? I have seen many folks with good schooling and with perfect GPAs, but most of them are only good at sitting and scoring in exams :-S.
Geeks to the rescue. NYC's tech community rallies together for Sandy relief
Because the hydrogen atoms we care about are bound in galactic orbit, and that means they have a relatively low maximum relative velocity to us. If they weren't, they would all fly out into the intergalactic void in geologically short timescales, star formation would cease, and we'd have no such radiation problems after all.
Just until you've clicked close on him enough times... then never again... you'll miss him, you'll see.
I wonder why Ireland doesn't change their "if the Irish subsidiary is controlled by managers elsewhere, like the Caribbean, then the profits can skip across the world tax-free"[1] law. If so many huge corporations utilize the tax loophole, you would think it would be in their interest to tax that at least somewhat.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...
Most of those services are local services paid for through property taxes, which I would expect they pay just as much as any other land owner pays directly or renter pays indirectly in any areas where they own or rent.
yes indeed, India is the country of the future, and the fact here is - "It always will be".
Great work! Love the transition effects.
Practical Unix - Stanford Class
> Lastly, we don't really have a good physical understanding of matter at near C speed limits. With mass increasing as we approach C, I don't know we can assume the same physical properties of any material in classical models.

Yes, we do, and yes, we can. Matter travelling at near c relative to us behaves exactly the same as any other matter. That's what frame invariance means. From our perspective, yes, the ship would seem to have more mass, which is a direct result of the equivalence of mass and energy and the fact that it has a crap-tonne of kinetic energy. But from the ship's own perspective, its mass does not change at all- rather, the entire surrounding universe seems to become more massive.
Don't be silly. I have 2 super-trivial patches in the Linux kernel tree (one to fix an array-indexing bug, and another to blacklist a feature on a piece of broken hardware). They're simple patches, but I'm nonetheless really happy to have contributed to such a giant project. You shouldn't apologize for feeling the same and wanting to post to HN about it!
C# vs C++: The mythical "twice as efficient" application
Yeah, but everyone loved to hate on clippy. Results would swing the opposite way.
They pay the taxes for income in the US. This is about foreign earnings.

If they stopped selling internationally, would you say it is no longer robbery?
Large companies even do it at the state level too. see[1] for an example of using an office in reno to avoid some (I don't think you can avoid some taxes like payroll, etc) taxes in California.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...
I had the opposite feeling of my old mbp. Every OS upgrade seemed to slow down until I got an SSD and more ram in my new laptop. Which is expected to some level. To say it got faster each iteration is a bit of a stretch.
> Is there white resentment about having too few white players in the NBA?

This is like saying is there black resentment for lower graduation or employment rates. There's quite a bit of evidence that the stereotype that white men can't play basketball significantly reduces ther chance at succeeding at the professional level. If the resentment is there, it manifests itself at a subconscious level that no one, not even the "victim" is aware of.
You know what else is an obstacle to relativistic spaceflight? Being able to do relativistic space flight.

Fun fact: people realized this a long time ago, and proposed different "shields" in front of the ship (it turns out that the most effective shape is a smoothed-out cone [of ice, say] -- see Asimov's Song of a Distant Earth).
Too much of anything isn't healthy. That's what "too much" means.
The ability to answer those kinds of ambiguous questions is extremely culturally linked. The whole idea about IQ tests is that they're supposed to be universal and culturally independent. The Cow/hen/pig/sheep question is clearly not culturally independent - what's important about those animals is a cultural question.
Even though GE is generally considered well run, let's not forget that it needed a bailout by Warren Buffett during the financial crisis.

At risk of sounding like I am defending my own mediocrity, the average worker and manager are going to be the ones who can last the distance.

Top performers have a nasty habit of getting promoted, or headhunted. Or burnout. Institutional memory gets lost. Ultimately, it's the average long distance runners who carry the torch to the finishing line.

Not that I dont think the best performers shouldnt be duly recognised and rewarded, but overemphasis on top performance...that's the stuff Enron is made of.
Aww, it's missing the robot I always used to use! Pretty funny though, it would be useful for a decent April Fools Day joke. Nice job.
They are benefiting from all the social services regular citizens are

Who is "they"? Apple employees? They're paying lots of taxes.
For 2011, Apple paid $8.28 billion in income taxes, on $34.2 billion income, for an effective rate of 24.2%.

Similar for the other companies mentioned in the article. For instance, I believe Google paid around 20%.
Disney and Lucasfilm: A New Hope
>It would take like 34 days at 10g acceleration to get to C.

So why not take 340 days at 1g?

There are many problems with high relativistic travel. This is not one of them.
Somehow, I find the MS word UI even more impressive. You can edit the page, move blocks around, and so on! Pretty well done for something that has no application at all.
In short, because the Milky Way disk sets a preferred rest frame. Other matter in the galaxy all rotates with approximately the same speed around the galactic center. Here are some numbers to give you intuition.

Tangential speed of the galactic disk, obtained by averaging over nearby stars: ~ 250 km/s

Speed of sun (and other nearby stars, in random directions) with respect to the galactic disk: ~ 15 km/s

Speed of Earth with respect to the Sun: 30 km/s

Speed of satellites in low-Earth orbit: 7.8 km/s

Speed of light: 300,000 km/s.

If you want more, this article discusses these speeds in the context of estimating the dark matter velocity distribution.

http://pa.brown.edu/articles/Lewin_Smith_DM_Review.pdf

It's fairly accessible as far as physics articles go.

Even if you get outside the Milky Way, the cosmic microwave background sets a preferred rest frame. I can't find the exact speed of the Milky Way in that frame, but the speed of the Earth is ~360 km/s. (This means the Milky Way's speed is somewhere between 100 and 600 km/s.)

The take-home message is that the although the laws of physics have no preferred rest frame, the actual matter out there in the universe most certainly does.
Everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500s in the past couple years. A surprising number of them are deploying internal tools and applications that target cutting edge browser features, even if their public-facing sites still require IE7 support.
Because you are using a service that you did not develop ? Of course facebook is here to make money , like you are.
Well it's sort of a half-assed suggestion since I don't like the program. But there are many free VPNs that could solve this problem easily and rolling your own is fun and informative.

Pretty weak blog piece to be honest. Proclaiming that it's somehow a moral duty to steal something is trumped up nihilism at best.
Having worked a helpdesk at a university, I agree 100%. It saddens me when people come in with $400 pieces of junk loaded up with crapware that take 10 minutes for everything to load on startup.

I know how to remove all of that and get a reasonable experience out of the hardware - they don't.

My 13" MBA with every option ticked is a way better "default" computer for them, but they're not willing to or unable to spend the money for whatever reason.
Because as soon as they do that, there's less of a reason to spend a lot of money setting up an expensive corporate HQ in Ireland.
In my opinion open source ecology, also on the list, is much more interesting. It's basically the industrial revolution open sourced. Not that the Tesla Model S isn't, but it's well known and a consumer product.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIsHKrP-66s
http://opensourceecology.org/
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Does anyone else notice that the "Bounce In" effect is horribly pixellated in Chrome Canary? It's almost as if the scale effect is working with a much smaller resolution original photo. Seems to work just fine in vanilla Chrome.
I remember reading the Dangerous Minds post when it appeared on HN and thinking "How is this not price gouging at best, or extortion at worst?".

I didn't ask at the time as I prefer not to get embroiled in possible flame topics, but seriously... how isn't this very shady and likely to result in a class-action?

I ask only to understand, my knowledge of US law isn't extensive (UK citizen here).
I worked at a startup a year ago that had cases of Velveeta mac & cheese. I have to think it was a joke, but they were stored in a way suggestive of human consumption.
Urm, pretty much all of the rest of the world. The contract system is big only in the US and EU, and it is a somewhat broken system.

It doesn't have a poor camera, it has a very good camera, only not as good as the GS3 or iphone

The GS3 is the only other high end smartphone that has expandable memory, and you don't see that selling at $350.

LTE - well i'm not even going to go into this one
Ahh. Understood. Most enlightening. Thanks for that.
It has been fixed. The hashing thing was naive. Now it's only switched on if you start the viewing with a coordinates hash.
And maybe even worse than the when part, the "how".
Thank you!

I started this project before that brilliant XKCD drawing. It inspired me to look at LeafletJS as an alternative.

I don't know how to switch off the vertical overlap-scrolling. Perhaps there's an option in the API. Will try to take a look.
> It is a wonder that they don't complain about the lack of frameworks a'la RoR/Django

No it isn't, because all the basic things needed are there ... Ring, Compojure, ClojureQL, etc... If those libraries where missing, then you'd see people complaining.

On the other hand this does highlight the advantage of using Clojure. Being a pragmatic functional programming language, it's easy to work with and combine small and simple modules, instead of needing a framework that includes the kitchen sink.
This assumes mediocre workers will always be mediocre. I've always assumed the job of managers is to find the right place for for bright people they've hired. I've certainly seen mediocre talent turn onto stars in the right environment.
> Because with most websites when you agree to the terms and conditions you also agree to hand over all rights to that content to the service provider.

Rarely true anymore. Most sites that accept user-generated content explicitly state that the users retain ownership rights, but grant the site operators a broad license to republish that content.

But that doesn't matter because the government does not need anyone's approval if they have a warrant or subpoena. Compliance is not optional and supersedes IP protections.
Sorry about the back button thing. It's been fixed now.

I never really noticed it because I never navigated like that when I developed it. #homeblind
There's also the risk of hitting small dust particles, etc.

A quick back of the envelope calculation reveals that hitting a spec of dust that weighs just 1 ug (a millions of a gram) at 90% c produces ~36 mega joule.
Not a huge amount of energy (about the energy of burning 1kg of coal), but still.

Hitting a grain of sand (10mg) at 90% c produces ~360 giga joule (energy of a small lightning)
The updating of the location hash has now been fixed.
Do you have any other info/links on the problems associated with the Alcubierre?
I did not know about that. Thanks for pointing it out.

I had so much fun building this that I don't mind discovering existing wheels lying around.
We tolerate middle men because it's easier for a single human with a singular vision to create an easily searchable marketplace of creators' content than it is for the creators themselves to come together in a cooperative and form it themselves.

TLDR; Humans are good at following leaders and complaining about results rather than working together and leading themselves.

(Presidential elections are a perfect example of this)
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This reminds me of an article I read here ages ago on IBM's Black Team. It was (and is) fascinating to me. In case someone hasn't see it, www.t3.org/tangledwebs/07/tw0706.html. Discussed on HN here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=985965
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Are those taxes that Apple paid because they were taxes on Apple as a corporate entity, or taxes paid by Apple onbehalf of its' employees who were being taxed on their income?

I don't believe that there is an accusation that the workers at Apple are avoiding tax, but that the company is avoiding tax.
It's capped at 5 I think. Zoom level five corresponds to a width of 8,192 pixels. Zoom level 6 would be 16,384 pixels. And the Nick Field picture is only 10,768 pixels wide.
But is it actually that expensive to set up a corporation in Ireland?
I actually downloaded and tried out the app for myself, and I liked it. While an algorithm cannot best a human, this app seems to do a pretty good job at summarizing the news. I think it's feasible - a large portion of any given news article is typically spent expanding on a few main ideas that are typically expressed in one or two sentences. Your typical 1000 word news article follows a predictable narrative structure.

That being said, I found the whole user flow of swiping through sections to be terribly unintuitive and confusing.
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This is how that page looks like on my computer

http://i.imgur.com/x8kqM.png

Windows 7, Chrome 24.0.1312.2 dev-m
Great work! Serves as an excellent reference implementation for me to learn CSS transformations.
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Sure, I agree with you, it is not possible to compare them side by side.

I am merely pointing out the fact that I have yet to find a smooth experience on modern desktops like I found on previous systems years ago. No matter how much power we now have, it still feel damn slow, and maybe there is an excess of gimmicks vs actual, useful, clean functionality.
It's corporate income taxes. Apple does not pay taxes on behalf of its employees.
Clojure Corey's worth reading, but know that it is considered to be extremely non-idiomatic. Several reasons:

1. Bootstrapping. Some functions are defined somewhat verbosely because the higher order functions are defined later.

2. Performance. By definition, everyone uses core, so core is on everyone's critical path. Therefore, core must sacrifice idiomatic code and brevity for performance. You should make the same tradeoffs only after measuring.

3. Evolution. Clojure has gained features and, since stability is valued, core doesn't get revamped to utilize them without greater justification.
Why Windows is not ready for general usage
Here is a paper on the results of interactions with external matter en-route: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5708

With a couple of popularizations:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/04/killer_warp_drive/

http://www.universetoday.com/93882/warp-drives-may-come-with...

(Essentially, particles encountered en-route pile up near the boundary and are released in a large burst when you turn the thing off, which is potentially very bad for the local environment, of which you are a part.)

And here's a paper on the horizon-like properties of the warp bubble boundary: http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~scilooe/srp_2003/sci_paper/...
The English language is terribly ambiguous... even for native speakers. Unfortunately, test creators frequently do not appreciate this fact (a crowd sourced question review service for teachers and exam creators might be an interesting solution). One of my favorite examples is the number of alternate scenarios that this sentence could be describing:

the boy saw a mouse running in his pajamas

Counter-point: Throughout school, I often pondered whether the ambiguity in test questions was actually intentional. In the real world, you are often given problems to solve that are poorly defined, so perhaps this is good preparation? However, when working on real world problems, you can clearly state any assumptions you've made to arrive at your solution and this is not easily applied to answering questions on a bubble sheet test with very limited context.
Do the puzzles at www.4clojure.com and be sure to "follow" the top 20 or so users. Once you solve the puzzle, you're shown the solutions of those users that you follow. I learned a lot of neat tricks that way!
Well deserved for Tesla.

They built the Model S from the ground up specifically to be an electric car. This means every engineering decision was made with the idea of optimizing the E.V. experience.

For instance, you know that notable 265 mile range that is one of its biggest selling points? Well that requires huge and extremely heavy batteries. But instead of this added weight being a disadvantage for the Model S, Tesla made use of it as it best could for an automobile -- it drastically lowered the center of gravity. This, in turn, gives it the excellent cornering ability that the car buffs are all talking about.

Regardless of what field you're in, this is a great example of turning your disadvantages into advantages. Great engineering.
Spdyproxy on Ubuntu 12.4 LTS
Yep, seems to be having trouble on Chrome stable too.
Well, that escalated.

I kind of agree. That's why I mentioned chainsaws. This instruction manuel for a Stihl chainsaw is, I think, good. There are many pages of warnings. Most of them are informative and address real problems - page 4 talks about why this chainsaw is a special use saw. There are no "Don't hold the wrong end" warnings here.

(http://www.stihlusa.com/WebContent/CMSFileLibrary/instructio...)

Some things are dangerous. Everyone can reasonably know they're dangerous, and we don't need to withdraw those items from sale. Other items are dangerous, but those dangers are not obvious, and even though we put warnings on the objects we still find people being harmed.

Again, I'm not sure that harm is enough to force some items off the market. Maybe just bigger, better, warnings.
If you do, do it through http://whatdotheyknow.com/ so that everyone can see the response.
Yet another case of chrome's bad rendering.

The font used: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English

Why would anyone try and use bad typewriter font imitation on a website is beyond me.
I have wondered for some time whether syntax highlighting really adds anything. Intuitively, it ought to . . . but has anyone ever tested this rigorously? I'll give it some anecdotal testing tomorrow and see if I regret it.