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I don't see why the author needs to add a "what is D3" section to a tutorial. A visitor to a tutorial site for library_x is pretty likely to know what the purpose of library_x is.

I think he's targeting his audience well. I'd imagine most of his users arrive like this...

1) I need a data visualization library.
2) D3 seems to be a good one.
3) Read the D3 docs at the project's homepage.
4) I still need help learning D3.
5) Google for tutorials.
6) End up at this person's tutorial.

"What is D3" would make sense if users did this in reverse (like I'm sure some people clicking on this news item have done), but I don't think that's the normal use case and I don't blame the author for not addressing it.
Actually, I don't doubt that you have good reasons for investing in 9gag. I'm just not the target audience for the content. (And consequently think it's a bit crude.)

I'd originally posted (in response to sbierwagen) that 9gag receiving investments 'significantly altered my opinion of 9gag'. But then deleted it because the obvious interpretation wasn't my intended one. I figured the monetization scenario for 9gag might look good if PG +others are investing.
Long-term real-estate play: buy land near urban areas that will be soon submerged (100 year time frame) and near the "new" coast.
>There is no algorithm that can determine the truth of any proposition in arithmetic (for example). It is impossible, in principle, to construct such an algorithm. But given any proposition in arithmetic, the mind can decide its truth value.

These two statements seem to contradict, unless you grant that the mind either fudges the proof or constructs new axioms such that the proof can be valid. Why do you assume a program can never do this?
AMT + Deduction Cap would be the same thing effectively, assuming the deduction cap applied to everything. Right now the reason people make millions and pay no taxes is because they give generously to charities, and their investments are tax-free muni bonds. AMT still allows too many deductions to force all the top earners into paying taxes.
I've used windows 8 for a few days and I would say its not THAT bad once you get accustomed to it. So far I haven't seen any reasons to switch to Windows 8 on my main computer yet.
This is definitely a good point that people seem to forget all of the time.

That said, can you blame investors/buyers for being upset that Google is showing off such a nice piece of hardware but doing such a bad job of selling it? It certainly seems like a debacle in their eyes.
wealth == accumulated assets, but wealth != income

High-income people are frequently wealthy (outside of incomes derived through lottery winnings), but the two are not equal in their political views - those sitting on their wealth will be in favor of income taxes (since they barely have any), those who work for income will lean in favor of asset and consumption taxation (property, estate and sales taxes).
This is an absurd (yet common) response.

And if you are for a war, why don't you buy a gun and go fight?
You misunderstand the context of efficiency. We're talking about efficiently allocating limited capital resources. This is done by 'prices.' The government by definition cannot efficiently allocate capital because there exists no market signal from capital consumers as to how the scarce resources should be best utilized. The government can only guess and spend.
I'm guessing your not a big John Locke fan.
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A major problem is income != wealth.

-- And it took a constitutional amendment to tax income.
Haha is this comment meant to be self referential?
And discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802332
Not everyone fits into neat little boxes. I read the article imagining using this device myself (and I'm a man!), or using it with a partner (man or woman).
Ruby is probably the language I've written more code in than anything else. I quite like it; I find myself chafing in lots of other languages.

My point is that Dijkstra was kinda big on programming-as-strict-mathematics; a loosey-goosey super flexible language like Ruby would not have met with his favour, IMO.
Yes, so... the metaphor is valid for copyright. Which was what I was defending.
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Very impressive achievement for his age, though there is of course also a lot of spin-doctoring involved[1]. Stripe seems to be heading into the right direction.

[1] The whole "millionaire at 17" bit decodes to getting a big stock-based exit for Auctomatic with modest cash. Said stock then dropping to pennies shortly thereafter (~40x drop in stock price). Add in the merger and $600k in financing and there probably wasn't left other than a bailout for the investors. http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/LIVC/chart
Small business owners are least affected by capital gains increase, since the capital gains tax event is triggered only during sale. The proposed terms of sale (taxation included) don't make sense for you as the business owner? Then either ask for a higher price or don't sell.
>I have little knowledge about how the brain works when copying information but it seems that when someone is working hard to quickly copy something down they are not analyzing the meaning of the content nearly as well as if they were sitting and listening. It seems like time could be better spent.

Once you get fast and accurate enough - you've built into yourself the buffer space to be able to spend time on understanding.

Plus its always a neat ability to have. Especially being accurate. Making spelling mistakes and having to press backspace is infuriating.
As a small ecommerce player, I can't see why you would even bother doing this in any state other than the one in which you operate. I don't think Newegg does this, for example.

BTW, I live in a zipcode with 2 cities that have different sales tax rates.
All open source software is half off this weekend. And every weekend. Odd numbered Tuesdays its always double price. A friend once got open source software for 99% off, although I've had to pay triple. But not a penny more.
Nice data, but nearly impossible to understand. It would be nice to put at least a couple of big cities (Palo Alto, Fremont, etc) on the map, so that you could understand where's what.
Money stored into bank accounts are re-invested into property and construction, which is a type of capital-reinvestment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM

Essentially all modern medical scanners export data in this format.

This fantastic site will let you view (after upload) DICOM images in a web browser:

http://slicedrop.com/

There are a number of accessible (ie not clinical radiology priced) viewers available, the best of the lot for general use being Osirix [1] (OS X only), and ClearCanvas [2] (Windows only). Ginkgo CADx [3] and Mint viewer [4] are also good, and both cross-platform.

There are several well-regard open-source libraries for DICOM: gdcm [5] and DCMTK [6]. Widely used open-source medical image visualization SDKs with DICOM support include MITK [7] and 3D Slicer [8] (the afore-mentioned ClearCanvas is also an SDK in some sense).

[edit: formatting and add link]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsiriX

2. http://www.clearcanvas.ca/dnn/

3. http://ginkgo-cadx.com/en/

4. http://www.mint-medical.de/

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDCM

6. http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en

7. http://www.mitk.org/

8. http://www.slicer.org
One of the teams in our incubator batch had a product for developers. I remember how Mårten Mickos (Founder of MySQL) gave them hard time:

"There are people who will spend any amount of money to save time, and there are people who will spend any amount of time to save any amount of money, and those are developers."

I saw where he was coming from. There is a reason why most developer tools are free, and even Apple charges only 99 bucks for their developer program. Developers are not a huge market and their willingness to pay is really low.

Later this team pivoted towards a much more lucrative space.
I don't think it is a problem that is harder on mobile than web, it is just that up till now for mobile we have only focused on downloads: downloads is the main metric for iTunes Store and Google Play to rank apps and to get into a top 25.

I totally agree that this is a stupid metric and we should move to monthly active users, both for general measurement of success as well as ranking in app stores. Getting a lot of one time visitors on your web site is not hard, monthly recurring visitors is. No different on mobile, let's start dealing with the challenge of engagement on mobile as well.
I think that ignorance of Dijkstra may be the cause of your confident appraisal that he would have liked Ruby.
> all while maintaining the CSV's validity

Yeah, cause we all know how hard that is.
It would be even cooler if the enlarged version of the table was readable without squinting!
I don't know if we hate paying for things, but it's certainly going to be hard for a single company to outperform any given popular GPL tool. I think you are right about selling to the company instead, but services (I don't want the hassle of running a Git server) are probably a better bet than a local tool (Not an improvement over vim/I could write my own that does it (IMO) better) if you are going for developers.
Talk about the "ultra-rich" becoming "addicted" to money is loaded nonsense, but never mind.

The idea of taxing investment income leads to a lot of terrible, perverse outcomes. It steers wealth towards being locked up in big companies and funds, since this is how you compound investment fashion without that money being repeatedly taxed. It also makes sure the incentive to invest on one's own accord belongs primarily to capitalists, since the tax naturally compounds when you buy and sell on your own account. Non-capitalists must allocate their money in one of a handful of government-approved fashions, or be eaten by repeated capital gains taxes for things as simple as rebalancing.

Capital gains taxes seem motivated by a broad desire to soak the rich, but you will find very few economists on the left (or the right) supporting this idea over alternatives like a progressive consumption tax. Capital gains taxes are one more example of a clueless "progressive" idea leading to outcomes that are poor to both progressive and non-progressive perspectives.
You can't possibly actually believe this.

When I'm doing volunteer work, I'm working for the interest of the disadvantaged. My synagogue collectively works for the interest of the disadvantaged through their social action programs. My town's interfaith food bank is run very well and addresses a collective problem without taking a dime of government support.

Government plays a role in helping the disadvantaged but it doesn't play the only role, it's not necessarily the most effective role, and since it involves taking money from people involuntarily, we should make damn sure the help's truly necessary and there's not a better, voluntary way to do it first.
My dad always enthused about the Canadian system which is based on a six-character string that is closer to Battleship-style coordinates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada#Componen...
I like this UI style, and clean code. Good work!

We released as somewhat popular iPhone-based "springboard" like clone a while back on GitHub (https://github.com/fieldforceapp/openspringboard) and have since gone on to iOS6 and the iPad. The code isn't anything to be proud of.

For our iPad app, instead of your side bar style, we use a top bar with the ability to slide it down when needed, an hide it when not; the content is wrapped in a UIScrollView of buttons for the various options, using a simple highlight to indicate the selected option. You can find some screenshots on our website or in the app store description of our iPad product.

Two questions for you: how about extending your code for both side-bar and top-bar orientations? And related, can the CKSideBarController be hidden?
Awesome answer. It looks like ubm and isuppli haven't done teardowns yet, but hopefully they will soon.
I agree; very clean.
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To fix that it probably only needs one or two really good examples, though. I find the lack of examples to be the most common cause of misunderstanding. The reason the experienced person understands is because they have their own examples already.
No way what you're saying is true for both Singapore and Malaysia. Some shares need to be allocated to locals though if you IPO in the country.
Like everything Ayn Rand, that's completely upside down, since government is also the only entity that has ever succeeded in guaranteeing people's rights.

So government is the best friend of man's rights, while libertarianism is the biggest enemy. Libertarianism = corporate feudalism.
Its not really scary at all because that is what governments have always done, unless you are an advocate for no government at all in which case you are damn scary.
I would very much call their handling of its initial release a debacle...but one of those problems that every company would love to have.

My experience: got on the notification list for the phone and started counting down the days. Go on at 00:01 GMT the day it's to be released; it's not for sale. Go on at 00:01 EST the day it's to be released; it's not for sale. Check again in the morning; nothing. I check at 11:35 EST (apparently 5 minutes after it arbitrarily goes on sale) and try for 20 solid minutes to buy one. Problem after problem after problem with the Play store (it pretty much fell over). When I finally get through, I notice my order has silently had the device removed from my cart, and realize it's sold out. I give up.

6 hours later I find out that people had randomly been getting success throughout the entire day, just by dumb luck. But now it's really really sold out. No communication from Google as to what was happening (still hasn't been any official word).

Now I can't even count down the weeks, because honestly nobody has a clue when more inventory is coming.

So yeah, just a monumental case of "let's shit on our customers because we have too many of them." I don't find this fun Google. Just let me order the damn thing and ship it to me when you've got it.
I wished everyone understood this. I can't count the amount of times I've heard arguments like "well, we should store this other bit of data in this table too, so we don't need to perform a join to retrieve it". If you need speed, just use a cache (and proper caching discipline) at the highest level that makes sense, instead of micro-optimizing DB access. It's stupid.
not precisely what you asked, but a useful approximation:

"If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit." [2012] -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2012/04/03/john-stosse...
Why not make the table text instead of a graphic? I can't find my zip code and it seems this list isn't sorted by zip.
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Most (all?) open source licenses place no limitation using the license and selling the source code.
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In large organizations that out-source their recycling/shredding there are typically two bins: a wide mouth "Paper Recycling" bin and a small mouthed "Secure Shredding" bin. I wouldn't be surprised if an office worker saw the two bins and decided against feeding a huge stack of documents 20-at-a-time into the secure bin instead dumped the whole stack into the non-secure bin.
The whole point of my post is that progressive taxation is a question of which individuals pay what, not whether money stays with individuals or goes to the government. You appear to be caught up in the framing of political rhetoric.
I don't think I misunderstand the context. The definition that people generally use when discussing this is making some fundamental assumptions that simply do not hold up. Efficiency for efficiency's sake is meaningless--its always in the pursuit of some greater goal. For the private citizen, that goal is different than for a government. It is a flawed argument to assume that the government does, or should, have the same goal as a private citizen.
Not quite sure why it's an absurd response?
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Please do. Whenever I don't see transparent pricing, I assume it's prohibitively expensive.

Also, frictionless CI as a service? You are doing God's work. I hope you succeed.
That is a false dichotomy.

You want me to choose between anarchy or <insert your form of government here> where you've asserted that it doesn't matter what form of government I choose because they are all the same.
That's an interesting idea having the browser handle the nav persistence. I assumed it would be done with JS but I supposed when it becomes common enough having it baked into the browser would be a better idea.
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Which diminishes my point not a bit.
MS seems pretty capable of making a usable OS. Have you used Windows 7?
Philly in the house! Pun intended. Seriously, didn't know you guys were in my backyard. Any chance on similar data for the hometown?
This seems like a riskily reductionist point, as we know that people aren't always single-issue voters focused on achieving their financial best interests.
I'm not so sure about that. When they first released the Nexus one, that was certainly their goal. But then it sold poorly & suddenly Google had to reign in their ambition. I think they were totally blindsided by the success of the Nexus4. First, They (along with the tech press) strongly underestimated how little LTE matters to a lot of people (What's the point of incremental speed increase when I'm capped at a ridiculously low number of gigs.) In addition, They totally missed how enthusiastic people would be about a flagship device being sold at the price of a subsidized device that would lock them in a 2 year contract.
This seems like a willfully ignorant reading of the op-ed. There is context here which any reasonably well-informed person should be aware of, which is that the gains made by top earners far outstrip the gains made by middle and lower income people. As a result, those people are worse off than they were in the past (their income has failed to increase relative to cost of living increases in recent decades.) So the reason people focus on the wealthy is that middle and lower income people are already at their breaking point.

Also, it isn't clear to me if you're referring to the "Buffet Rule", or to a scheme like the one proposed by Buffet here. In any case, he admits that even if we did the first part of what he is proposing (the minimum tax for the wealthy), there would still be work to be done.
Why is it a great business? Because it has users and almost no barrier to entry? How sustainable is that?
Agreed. Mr. Buffet is free to donate as much of his 'tail wind' wealth as he chooses. But please, hands off of my wallet.
Just tried Typeracer... It's so awesome! Definitely much more fun than OP. Did you ever make money from it? Maybe consider making a social mobile app?
Not to take anything away from him, but I think his other achievements are far more impressive. Learning to fly or play the piano generally "just" takes time and money. The really hard things are those where you can apply yourself fully and still fail.
I hope that's not true. A koan's job is to thwart understanding. This concept, on the other hand, is simple and beautiful and it ought to be possible to explain it — though perhaps not without a few well-chosen examples. (Edit: kaizen-konpusai beat me to it on the latter.) For fun, I took the liberty of revising your aphorism (don't be mad. I mean it as a tribute ;)) and adding one explanatory bit. Do you think anything has been lost?

Metaprogramming involves three things: the code as text, the code as program, and the code as data.

The text (often called the source code) is what programmers read and write. The program is what the code does. The data is how the code is represented to other programs.

A good language for metaprogramming requires two things: the program must be easily expressible as data, and the text must clearly evoke both the program and the data in the mind of the coder.
It's disingenuous to say you're working FOR the disadvantaged. They aren't directing your activity and they have no power in the matter.

Government actually responds to the desires of the disadvantaged so the difference is infinite.

Volunteer organizations only serve a very, very narrow sliver of the disadvantaged, and they usually don't work to eradicate the disadvantaged but rather to exploit them to perpetuate their institutions.

The customer of the volunteer organization is the donor or charitable person. They dictate the behaviour of the organization. The product is the disadvantaged person, who is used in sales pitches and so on to convince the customer to hand over their credit card information.

Just because the disadvantaged are used by private charities to extract donations from the wealthy doesn't mean that the volunteer organizations are working FOR the disadvantaged.

Simple fact of the matter is that working for the disadvantaged would include a lot more responsiveness, a lot more prevention, a lot more intelligence, a lot LESS volunteer work and a lot more professional work. (volunteer work is poverty tourism 99% of the time--the poor don't need people handing out soup at soup kitchens. They just need money to buy their own soup and a social system that gives them some opportunity to become self-sufficient.)
Most developed countries are representative democracies, and the will of the people is expressed primarily in their choice of leaders through elections.

In the U.S. at least, the Internet plays a very large and growing role in elections. In fact I would argue that in the most recent election, the Internet scored a decisive win over TV ads--the most effective political tool for the past 40 years.

Once officials are in office, they can be petitioned (lobbied), and again the Internet plays a major role in how unions, associations, nonprofits, etc. organize their grassroots to do that.

Keep in mind that "Internet" means more than Web; in the case of politics, email is still king.