skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. It's one of the few things why we live. We(human race) would die out if nobody would have kids. Taiwan and Japan are two countries with a really low birthrate and you can see the aging process very well.
Not correct. Even if you are _giving_ the stock to the employees, there are significant tax advantages.

"Uses for ESOPs:

To buy the shares of a departing owner: Owners of privately held companies can use an ESOP to create a ready market for their shares. Under this approach, the company can make tax-deductible cash contributions to the ESOP to buy out an owner's shares, or it can have the ESOP borrow money to buy the shares (see below)."[1]

[1]https://www.nceo.org/articles/esop-employee-stock-ownership-...
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I thought that a lot of Smalltalk's power was in the mutability of its objects, notably the debugger and "become:" features. Does the JVM really support that?
This is a trans-industry problem. However, with the rise of social networks and other external data holders, it's getting more pronounced than ever in technology. I wrote a large article about this issue - the new feudalism - in summer 2011. May be of relevance, specifically the bits about distributed p2p storage: http://www.zdnet.com/facebook-google-welcome-to-the-new-feud...
The Stripe API is really good...but it's not perfect. It still requires a huge amount of manual development that services like Recur.ly and Spreedly already implement.

Having implemented several Stripe sites, I found I preferred more of an automated recurring subscription management service, and then Stripe is just a gateway at that point.

That being said, I use Stripe extensively and love it.
That assumes pressure is the way to raise gifted kids. What I mean is nobody seems to look into proven ways to "produce" gifted kids. If you google for Polgar, only few things come up, mostly chess related, which isn't the point at all. His book is out of print, not sure if it was ever even translated to English (he is Hungarian). That is what I mean by nobody seems to want to discuss it. Not only Polgar, also the other examples I read about in "Bounce" (for example there was apparently a Russian "factory" for tennis stars).

Tiger mom made a splash, but I think that was because people wish they could just force their kids to be brilliant.

I actually don't think "my kid played piano in [some famous concert hall]" is worth destroying the soul of your kid for. But what if the some technique (non-soul destroying) could be used to raise people who are brilliant in fighting cancer or programming social networks?

You are right, everybody worries about making their kids succeed, but people don't seem to look at the right aspects of it. They just follow the path layed out by schools, to put more pressure on rote learning.
Are you asking with a view towards becoming a licensed attorney, or with a view towards learning a sufficient amount about the law to be qualified to answer questions / make decisions, without being formally licensed to do so as a profession?

If it's for formal licensing, only four states let you take the bar exam without attending an ABA-accredited law school (California, Vermont, Virginia, Washington). A few others have provisions for you to attend only 1 or 2 years of an accredited law school, and then do self-study for the remaining portion without actually earning a J.D. as a prerequisite (Maine, New York, Wyoming). But even in these states you typically have to engage in some kind of approved course of study, although at least in California, this can be via an online law course.

I haven't looked into the others, but at one point I looked into it in California, and the two options are: 1) attend an unaccredited law school (could be an online one) for the equivalent of a 4-year course of study, and take certain exams along the way; or 2) follow a 4-year approved course of independent study supervised by a judge or a legal practice (the classic "reading law" apprenticeship option that was once standard, but has been phased out in most states).
Irony:

Mr. Schneier links to MobileScope in his story, a company making an app to help you track which applications are sending your data out.

If you go on their site and sign up to learn more, your confirmation screen proudly displays "Powered by Google Documents."
It is certainly not our hope that people use this as an avenue to dehumanize the unfortunate.

But is it more acceptable to see the unfortunate clearly wearing thin clothing when it's 20 degrees out and maintain the idea that they are people who must maintain their pride, or offer them the chance to sell out? It's a hard question to answer, but I think society has already answered that for us. Fast food restaurants already offer young professionals a chance to sell out by offering higher wages than many starting jobs in alternative industries [1].

1 - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/skills-dont-pay-t...
There is a fairly strong connection between poverty, stress and high reproductive rates.

The baby boomer generation is largely the product of WWII. The birth rate of Palestian's is significantly higher than that of the Israeli population. Birth rates in very poor countries are almost always significantly higher than in developed wealthy countries. (IANAE :)
All of the things you listed are experiences that women who have children have. All of these issues are related to one another - women are denied access to birth control, esp. abortion, and are often primary care givers to children whether they have that child voluntarily or not. The cultural narrative for women in the US is that you leave behind your life and identity as a sacrifice in order to support your child/children, which is something that may lead someone to feel that having children is not fulfilling.

People do not live in a vacuum and cultural messages and images about child raising that women see and experience shape how they approach having a child (if they even plan their pregnancy, which the article shows is not true for a lot of people). The author of the article, Jessica Valenti, is a feminist author and that forms the background for this piece, which is why this piece takes a look at many different experiences that women have in regards to having children.
And that's the mental gymnastic that lets people steal all sorts of intellectual property - they rationalize it, pretend it isn't somebody's property and livelihood, and take it mostly because they just want it and its hard to secure so it ok, right?

If I'm not willing to pay him, then he's not owed anything. Hey! I'm not willing to pay for lots of things; now I can just take them. Thanks, Gormo! I'm free of social responsibility!
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It could also mean there is extremely stiff competition -- economic, political, or otherwise -- from telco consumer service companies.

If Google can pull of a broad-sweeping, workable switch from the likes of 3G/4G to local WiFi then that would be extremely impressive in every regard (social, technological, economical) and it would effectively sidestep consumer telco service companies.

In order to achieve a better world of digital wireless the marriage between smartphones and telcos needs to end.
I see your 95/XP/2000/7 and raise you ME/Vista/8... perhaps I have been a little selective, or perhaps the word 'history' is a iittle vague, I think my point is clear though and IMO well supported... by history.
Do men still have to be told not to let their hormones affect their choice of hires? I didn't realize that was still a thing.

Also, why does it have to be a secretary? Are they 100% female now? If he was looking for an engineer, would he need to be told not to let his hormones decide?
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> Sure there are always workarounds and in the end spouse can always look for someone to sponsor application for working visa, but good luck with getting it if you had no or little experience. Going back to school doesn't really solve the problem of spouse being attached to the main visa holder (AFAIK education in US can be quite expensive).

OK. Let me put it across in a different way then: Why should a person with no or little experience be allowed to take a job which could potentially be used by someone who is a citizen?

> What I dislike the most about H1B visa is that it is almost the only way to start working in the US which as you said aimed to temporarily fill a need for highly skilled labor. So what are the alternatives? I would be totally OK with H1B if it was limited to say 2 years with absolutely no possibility to extend it, people would not be lured to the USA with false promises of future improvement of their conditions. Last time I checked it was possible to lose H1B simply because of quota no matter how many years you've spend in the US, it's wrong.

So is your issue the time limitation itself or that time for which one can be on an H1B is two years rather than five years.

> I would like to compare it to Swiss B permit. It is very hard to get one especially because of quotas on the first time applicants, but once you have it you don't have to worry anymore. To extend it all you need is to be gainfully employed (you're not tied to your original employer). Process is rather streamlined and after 6 years you receive C permit which is similar to the green card. (disclaimer: some cantons are better some are worse, in Geneva and Zurich for example they can issue L permit instead of B which is limited to 2 years without notifying the applicant, basically you learn that you have L when it's too late...)

I agree that a better system must exist: Of late, I have come to the realization that the H1B is an evil system which is basically a form of white-collar slavery. However, it is going to be hard to build a scalable, robust system that benefits current citizens without exploiting future citizens.
Any language that someone is arguing should be "the next big language" should take things other than everyday development on the JVM. Nevertheless, wanting to be able to patch the JVM has been a part of my "everday development" several times.
The thing is, in Canada all small Telcos are using the networks of the big Telcos. In Quebec City for instance, there are only two internet providers: Videotron and Bell for cable and phone line internet respectively, all the small players are just resellers for their network.

Of course their profit margins are small: the big Telcos still gets most of it. Their support, however, is often incredibly better than what any big Telco could ever hope to achieve.
The easy of implementing it into any app is incredible. The dashboard is also very simple and easy to use. It eliminates needs for Gateways, scammy Paypal and other merchants.
They also eliminated the need for merchant accounts which is a pretty big benefit compared to Braintree. One could also use Paypal but...
I wonder if technology is in fact a natural monopoly?

If what we are heading towards is a sci-fi future where every single device integrates seemlessly with everything else, can we do that with so many "kingdoms" not to mention the chaos of independent developers doing their own things.
while there are some tricky parts, we haven't run into anything where the jvm prevents us from doing anything that is smalltalk.

the magic of the smalltalk debugger is largely based on 'thisContext' which reifies the stack into a first class object; implementing thisContext was trivial. we have more work to do around exposing that to debuggers but don't forsee any huge issue.

james did a short, 30 minute presentation at ESUG in 2011 about implementing Smalltalk on the JVM that might answer some questions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8OeNvgFcs&feature=youtu...
Millions of dollars of ephedrine based cold 'medicine' are sold over the counter each year making companies like Pfizer serious profits. So they lobbied Bush & Congress not to ban it completely.

And good for them. I'm not sure why you are placing 'medicine' in quotes. I have found that pseudoephedrine helps allergy and hay fever sufferers like me to deal better with dry winter weather and spring pollen. Substitutes like phenyleprine are weak at best.

Every time I purchase pseudoephedrine, I am reminded of the government's futile war on drugs, when the clerk scans my ID and has me sign the keypad stating that I won't buy more than 2.4g per day or start a meth lab.

Which I won't. I just want to use a legal OTC medication for its intended purpose.
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Even more importantly, you might take all that time to review it and the miss a mistake that's actually there, thus wasting all of your time (for some definition of waste).
Actually no, it's been pretty big in the British papers. It's sparked a fairly large national discussion on various child rearing straegies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234571/Cant-boast-Y...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9686721/Daughter-defe...
It is indeed MIT licensed.
What's the reason for using 3G/4G then? What are the downsides of Wi-Fi in comparison?
Very interesting. I'm not that big fan of healthy habbits (I go to bed late at night and get up in the afternoon, for example), though I do some running occasionally.
But what I liked in the post is that it's not only about habbits in fact. It's about human's psychology that's involved in doing anything. So we can say: "Don't cease working on your startup if you fail at some point - you should be ready to overcome the failure and pivot or start another project".
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It's not the same game at all, though. When you invest in a startup, you help them make a product which they then try to find customers for. When you back a kickstarter, you're basically pre-ordering the product. A successful kickstarter already has their first run of customers. Startups generally fail when they can't scare up enough business, while kickstarters only fail if they can't actually produce the product they promised.
That's probably because governments enforced a monopoly on weapons. Do you think the world would be better if we allowed companies to raise private armies of mercenaries?
A first take on contracts in Clojure
I know this wasn't really discussed, but is there a recover fast technique to help you get back on track once a habit breaks; I've noticed that if I break a long standing habit (3 months+) a few days in a row (exercising, flossing) it spirals down to non existence, and takes considerable amount of effort to re-establish
"Over 60 percent of the children studied were reported as planned, almost 30 percent were unplanned ("mistimed"), and 10 percent were unequivocally "unwanted." The results of Barber's research showed that the children who were unintended ... got fewer parental resources than those children who were intended. Basically, children who were unplanned didn't get as much emotional and cognitive support as children who were planned.... Across the board, children who were wanted got more from their parents than children who weren't. Children who were unplanned were also subject to harsher parenting and more punitive measures than a sibling who was intended."

Wonder if this effect on children is stronger or weaker than the oft-GOP-touted effect that raising a child with a mother and a father is the best way to do so -- i.e. how do planned-for children raised by single mothers compare to unplanned children raised by both fathers and mothers?
Everything is huge in China. That doesn't mean that most chineese can order something online and receive it at their door.

(I don't know if they can. But your comment is a non-sequitour.)
I'm all ears, Jacques!
When we were looking for a new doctor, we asked two friends, both MDs, who they used. Both used doctors who don't take insurance.
Or, use the Responsive Design View in Firefox

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Responsive_De...
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Reminds me of Chuck Feeney - who made billions and then gave it all away/set up a foundation, including giving $26 million to long term employees.

Great book on him called `The Billionaire Who Wasn't`
Ah, don't forget to integrate the "skirts length theory"[0], if we are driven to reproduction because the environment is better, than a stronger drive to sex makes sense :)

[0] Good times beget short skirts and economic crisis make them longer
Depends. Apparently, 80%* of applicants can't do fizzbuzz right.

*: random figure
both Groupon & Zynga did phenomenally well in customer acquisition and revenue... what they have failed at is long-term retention.

So, in other words, a great pump and dump scheme?

You make it sound as if their business models should have changed at some point in order to achieve both. Do you believe this is genuinely possible?
Brilliant, I guess this means there will be absolutely no excuse to bomb the shit out of densely populated Gaza now.
I love that his examples of starting with simple+easy (gym three times a week at 7.30am) are what are for other people the end goal!
Unfortunately some providers like Verizon are forcing customers to switch to a digital line that has an 8 hour battery backup. During Sandy we didn't have cell towers or landlines to rely on. It was an incredibly uncomfortable feeling to have no easy means of communication with family just a couple miles away.
Sometimes I like to think about the "why" for these sort of posts. Why are you building the habit? Is it like an addiction? Are you getting a sense of euphoria? While it's a good mantra I don't think it's a traditional habit you're creating.

If I approach this from a CBT perspective then you're not building a habit. Instead you're retraining your mind to place a higher importance on health or physical attractiveness. We can break personal aspirations into different categories ranging from mind, body, spirit... or more specifically -- intellectualism, mental acquity, empathy/compassion, love, friendships, family relationships, spirit, tranquility, peace, relaxtion, etc... We can generally rank these in order of importance from 1-3. 1 being very important, 3 being not important at all.

Prior to this experiment, if he assessed his importance on health and wellbeing, he probably placed it low. Easily a 3. Maybe a 2. After a month or so it may have transitioned to a 2. Either by constant reinforcement of his necessity to go to the gym, or because of an actual change of mind.

Or I'm talking out my ass... I don't know.
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Makes sense. Have you considered porting Squeak itself to JVM? This would get the JVM benefits, and the similar "take advantage of existing stuff" from the Smalltalk side.

Just to be clear: I'm not in any way invested in Squeak or Pharo, just curious about your approach. Well, this and also perhaps a bit skeptical about implementing new stuff when similar stuff exists.
While this "smARtDUINO" (lame!) copycat behaviour is indeed appalling, the alternative can be a real hassle, too. Trademarks and copyrights deserve protection, but as YouTube has shown, DCMA abuse can halt projects just as well.

Perhaps they could implement a 'Flag' system, that allows IP owners to signal illegal use/infringement, after which a review (in which both the complainer and the starter should be involved) can decide whether or not the project can proceed. This could easily sail into DCMA hell or lawyer heaven if a big corporation feels threatened, which could file complaint after complaint just to stall the competition.

But where do you draw the line?
That is certainly true in some places, but the telco I speak of owns the last mile copper and are working on rolling out their own fibre to the customers. There are more telcos in Canada than you might think. Ontario alone has around 20 telephone companies that are not the big players and are not just resellers of the big players infrastructure.
I noticed this to, and noticed that they lie. Well perhaps not lie but they cherry pick the other homes, and they can be 35 - 40 miles away in a 'similar' area. The only funny part was when I got my PV solar system, which I turned on "to test" prior to them getting through all the paper work. (we were one of, or perhaps the first, people in our general area to get a 'large' PV system (a bit over 5kW)) Our house came in at like 1/10th the numbers of the 'efficient' house but all the wording was written to tell us how we could improve to get closer to the "efficient" house (which in our case would have meant leaving on a few lightbulbs 24/7 :-)

Anyway I realized then that what ever program generated those reports, the programmer had been told that there wouldn't be any 'good' houses so that text never got into the code. I stopped paying any attention to their propaganda at that point.

As that was 9 years ago I'm sure they are much better now than they were but still.
Would be against Kickstarters' TOS to sell micro-shares of the company making the product? It would be like a distributed yc.
Can you purchase one? I don't believe so. Is one planned? Yes. Currently the only one on the market is the $35 option, but the $25 option is planned as a lower-spec version. Have a peek at their FAQs

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

With shipping and conversion rates, the price I actually paid when I ordered mine was around $45-$50 though.
It's pretty damn close. First class functions give javascript great power. Combined with something like sweet.js and underscore, and javascript becomes a language with the functional library of a lisp along with macros. After that, javascript is just lisp with really weird syntax.
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Thank Kilian! Will address your feedback. FYI, you can remove bad dubs by clicking on My Recordings and selecting one or more dubs and hit delete. You can also delete any tracks in My Box by swiping and then deleting.
The report Jeff mentions could not have been made nine years ago as the company that generated Jeff's report (a company hired by PG&E) didn't exist nine years ago.
From what I understand of this specific project, they "solved" the consistency problem (which is quite a feat, granted).

They don't say they have an ACID NoSQL database, which is, to me, an oxymoron: ACIDity is useful if you have a powerful query language.

In the end don't you fear that you might simply reinvent SQL? Or, am I missing something?
A common misapprehension, but it's actually "Jeremy Ashkenas". Sorry about the confusing handle.
The Chrome extension apparently adds a user tracking script
Why not clothe Hobos in your own school's jackets? People should be proud of helping people.
Would be nice if this worked with HTTPS, but otherwise it's pretty awesome.
Pitching a slow ball just begging to be hit out of the park. Nice hook ;)

The interesting thing for me was which language to do it in. I hovered over JavaScript and Python before finally opting to do it in "safe" Java... a language I haven't programmed in for ten years but whose C-style syntax I could write in my sleep.

Attempting challenges could be helpful for keeping me on my toes in other languages.
The cupboard seems dry in terms of D3 right now. But there seem to be quite a few good books with R. The ggplot2 book is great, but I don't think it's on O'Reilly
http://www.amazon.com/ggplot2-Elegant-Graphics-Analysis-eboo...
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This is not really true - I worked for the company that generates these reports. It's true that the default product is snail mail, but this has been shown to be highly effective at driving down consumption and is a net savings for the power company.

Further, the company in question does A/B test various ways of sending the report, including email-only to find the most cost-effective way to drive down consumption.

Finally, the neighbor selection criteria DOES account for empty homes and other demographics, where that information is available.
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