skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very simple: long-term capitals gains. As a founder, you bought your stock more than 1 year ago, for virtually nothing. In the US (minus California), that's a flat tax.

(*) founder stock is not to be confused with stock-options, which is what early employees usually get. Completely different.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Krugman fan. Even he had a good laugh at the Krugman Times and shared it on his blog.
I can't say what FB did here with much confidence - its an anecodte. But I'd like to point out that it isn't hard to reverse engineer the information out of FB. Buy a targeted ad and then watch the click-throughs. Cross reference the click-throughs from that ad with data from another tracker that knows identities and you've now been able to link whatever your FB ad criteria was to the identities of anyone who clicks through - even if they don't do anything else besides click through.
I think it's silly to start efforts towards this ban when none of the politicians making said efforts have even worn google glass, or, likely, seen it in person.

They're not operating within their area of expertise here, and aren't even familiar with how distracting the experience is when driving, either anecdotally or through studies/ research. They really should wait to get some data before interfering with peoples' freedoms like this.
That article was one of the larger loads of crap Ive read in quite a while-x
> But isn't there are huge market advantage to using the technology now, before your competitors do. If you wait until technique B, then you loose out on the first (or early) adopter benefits, and probably lost customers to your competitors that implemented the technology before you.

I am pretty sure every half-decent company has a research team on graphene right now, it is just that they don’t have results yet because results take time and making sure that these results are correct takes even more time.

Furthermore, as you said – even if we now managed to build a battery that charges in half a minute, the surrounding infrastructure is not yet there, and especially with components as critical as batteries, you don’t want them to break/blow up at your customer’s place.
Melinda Gates wrote a great piece for Foreign Policy discussing the importance of pivoting away from focus on male contraceptive to female versions --

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/why_birth_c...
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Who have you had the best experience with, and what were the key factors that made them good? Were they fast, personable, well-connected, able to negotiate on your behalf? Or was there something else that made them great?
CloudFlare is saying that the site may be down due to "excessive load." I was under the impression that this is one of the main reasons CloudFlare exists, to handle big surges in traffic like this one. Their intro video leads me to the same conclusion. Can anyone who uses CloudFlare shed some light on this?
That's true, once it got that big, but I think the hope is that it wouldn't necessarily remain the top comment under those circumstances. Allowing people to collapse the thread, before it took a whole page, would allow them to see and upvote the other comments if they wished.
When you have kids and you realize how little time you have, it forces you to learn to identify and focus on the things that matter. This easily translates to your career.
You can achieve the same on http://preso.ly using your SlideShare account ;)
It isn't about ribbon being inherently good or bad, it is how it required the retraining of dumb office staff that could barely hit the power on button of an office PC if it turned off. If you are using closed software and that kind of thing happens, either you try to hold on to an outdated unsupported version or pay the overhead of transitioning your staff to a new interface.

Same reason no one wants to even try Windows 8.
> The recovery from the Great Depression began instantly with Roosevelt’s policy shift, in March 1933

Bad article implying cause and effect that isn't there.
Extraordinary. Great idea and very well done implementation.
> I think it's silly to start efforts towards this ban when none of the politicians making said efforts have even worn google glass, or, likely, seen it in person.

Not as silly as basing regulation on anecdotal evidence. Oh wait, that's already happening either way.

Anyway, I thought it has been shown that hand-free phones are only marginally less distracting than regular ones while driving? If so I see no reason not to regulate.
Which part of antitrust law would the government use against Google in this case? Google does not hold a monopoly and they are not price-fixing anything. They may be accused of anticompetitive behavior, but unless Google does something very irrational I don't see that happening.
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Studies have not been able to show negative effects from moderate drinking in pregnancy. The medical community tells women not to drink because they have not been able to show that any level of drinking is "safe".

http://palatepress.com/2012/02/wine/light-drinking-during-pr...

The medical profession is positively paleolithic and incredibly patriarchal when it comes to pregnancy. There is no rational sense of weighing risks by probability, instead it's a "you can never be too safe!" attitude. My wife researched this issue heavily during pregnancy, and what really ground her gears were all the people who say "the safest option is to just not drink at all." But the fact of the matter is that these same people continued to engage in incredibly risky behavior like the wife continuing to drive during pregnancy.
No, I did mean Monte Hall - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

It was a class project my freshman year. I already knew the probabilistic parts to it from junior statics in high school, so I was bored out of my mind.
Acknowledging it is a first step. Also, this is another layer of distraction removal:

http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
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call me naive, but it has been my impression that Facebook ads are never that sophisticated. He liked a gay-friendly post and then he got served a gay-friendly ad that happened to be about coming out.
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This is meant as a cynic humorous comment:

What do you wonder about? Facebook used advertisements that were relevant to your interests and wonderfully subliminal at that so you did not even get annoyed by them. You bought the barbecue sauce because it was perfectly advertised to you and you just couldn't resist.
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> I am a libertarian, and government has no business protecting us from ourselves, but it does have a duty to make sure I don't injure or kill someone else.

This falls in a category of state action where I don't disagree with the intentions of the bill, but I still think of it as squandering legislative resources.

It reminds me of a recent debate in a nearby county over whether or not to put speed cameras in school zones. The argument was that children should be protected from dangerous driving, which is basically indisputable. Those opposed pointed out that no children had ever been injured in the county's school zones, raising concerns that the measure was designed purely for revenue, when other intersections probably needed better enforcement.

Now, I don't know, maybe the County Commissioner had a kid approaching school age, and saw someone speed on that road, and made some hasty, biased risk calculations. I don't know if the chance for "tickets in school zones" money drove the push.

But I feel like we are generally terrible at catching the "opportunity costs" of legislation. If W. Va. wants to stop people from killing each other on the roadways, maybe it shouldn't be looking at Google Glass, but looking to add structural improvements to its most dangerous intersections, on-ramps, and exit-ramps. It could prevent deaths next year without making anything else illegal.

Since a legislature can only solve so many problems in a year, fixing the imagined "google glass" problem actually means other problems go unsolved. Because of that, even if they were solving a real problem, it could still reflect a failure of governance.

The investment analogy would be that it's not enough to just get some return on investment, your measuring stick is whether or not you make a better return than you could have for equivalent risk. Mere profit is sometimes a waste of capital. Legislation that saves one or two lives over the course of the next 20 years, but squanders the opportunity to save hundreds more, should be seen as essentially responsible for the difference in deaths.

I don't think we've really solved this problem for public action though in any state, not to mention the national level.

I'd be interested if anyone has a solution. So far all I've got is "only let actuaries vote," but that might not be the utopian paradise I imagine...
I like the Metafilter solution to that: rather than just submitting links, users submit links and a short, 1-2-sentence explanation of why they think the link is interesting. I find it much easier to browse the submissions there as a result. Maybe the explanations could be hidden on the front page, but I'd find them very useful on the 'new' page.
This is the first time I've seen this argument against linkbait headlines, and I happen to like it a lot. I've never actually considered headlines from a psychological perspective.
Python data tools just keep getting better
Cloudflare isn't too much more than a wrapper around a CDN for your static assets. The request still gets sent to your server, they just re-host your images and stuff on their edge servers. They also do some "security stuff", and can help you with minifying assets and things like that. So excessive load can still be a problem.

On top of that, the free account doesn't really come with any guarantees.
And it's all copyrighted by Oracle -- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/applicatio...
> For the first case, I'd rather use something like Google Native Client.

Wait, you're saying Google NaCl could be going the way of Java -- being used for server side containers, rather than client side apps? (I don't really see why you'd want that over using a single process(tree)/binary compiled from go...).
We need a hero. Will someone please read the whole thing?
So basically the only benefit you get for the fee is health care? Then its pretty expensive. Does it increase with income or is it a flat fee?

Can you work around the whole thing, if you make e.g. your wife (or father, or whoever) the owner of the company and hire yourself as CEO? So you would pay health care + other stuff as a percentage of your wage (which would be very low monthly + share of yearly profit).

I am asking extensively because I plan to spent a year in Spain in the near future. And while all this information is irrelevant to the stay (I am a student and will hopefully have set aside enough to spend the year without having to work on the side). But I really like to understand as much as possible on how the country works. :)
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Upvoted the OP in order to call attention to what I consider primarily a propaganda piece by the Bloomberg new service. There was nothing secret about the executive order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 , except possibly that even the Wikipedia article does not explain in what manner Congress granted the President (actually the Secretary of the Treasury) such extraordinary power to confiscate property. That FDR used the Brer Rabbit strategy to call attention to his ending the gold standard only shows he was a skilled politician.

> The recovery from the Great Depression began instantly with Roosevelt’s policy shift...

I think most objective measures do not show recovery from the Great Depression until the ramp-up of arms production prior to American entry in WWII.
I'm intrigued by NixOS [1]; it seems like it's designed to solve this exact problem.

[1] http://nixos.org
I'm normally in the same belief, but the cost of each state getting to tax what is sold online differently will cost more than this. I figure it is a replacement for 50+ taxes with weird rules for one streamlined tax. I'll take that.
I actually forgot that it probably had to do with a plasma tv, that's true, there is a reason for it.

"You're kind of veering to the point of insulting people"

Not my intention, but I guess it's my way of responding to the gimmicky features Samsung pushes - instead of focusing on usability. Something that I think the galaxy S4 promo videos demonstrate quite clearly. It's great that they try but in the end it ruins the experience (it shouldn't need to, but it does in my opinion).

If Galaxy S4 was a stock android device I'd buy it. With TouchWiz... I just can't...
I have mixed feelings about this. Being married definitely forces you make different decisions than you would otherwise. You cling on where you are longer, no adventure. There are no quick decisions, but long and strategized, calculated ones. I think one makes more "mature" decisions when dealing with an adverse situation.

However, on the other hand being married and having children (2 in my case) is a huge attention drain. You probably will buy the dwelling you're living and it bring its own distraction. Working long stretches of time, and even keep on thinking and solving problems while not working is long gone.

Would I trade family to the other? No way, life is more than that. It's probably a cliche but true; smile of a cute 1 year old daughter worth more than millions of lines of code.
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I've realised a long time ago that human knowledge on animal intelligence was underrated. They may not be able to predict future observations nor to be able to remember trivial events from the past nor to create or use tools, but when you take a closer look at them, whether they are insects, fish or mammals, they can all sense danger and opportunity in nature. It's no automatic reflexes but true analytics of their environment. After all a worm is said to have an IQ of 1 when the IQ of a computer is 0. Animal kingdom is smarter than previously thought and most of them probably have emotions like fear, pain & empathy. This is no anthropomorphism but a true fact.
One of the more popular sites of this nature is rosettacode.org, which in their own words, "is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another."

For example: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_World

Plus, I enjoyed learning the word "chrestomathy", which "from the Greek words khrestos, useful, and mathein, to know, is a collection of choice literary passages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject."
I was working on something like this but yours looks much better. What's your stack?
Maybe but both are going to take up space and the video isn't really clear on how much space the super-capacitor is going to need so you'll probably end up with the same problem of not having the same long life as just having the single slower charging Li Ion battery.
And I think some guys would be reluctant to spray anything directly at it.
And the "dirt vaccine" seems to boost/correct the immune system of both pigs and men:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/sep/18/5

and

http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/7892/dirt-vaccine-resear...
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Large previous thread on HN from 45 days ago here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5177994
Gotcha. I thought he proposed simply substituting hits/attention for upvotes
The article doesn't describe sexism, the article describes scarcity and demand:

In Silicon Valley today it's not possible to hire more women simply by recruiting them. Good engineers today have their pick of jobs, and good female engineers are being stalked like the last antelope on the African veldt.

Etsy's solution doesn't seem to be to stop sexism, Etsy's solution appears to be train more engineers, take a risk on junior women engineers out of Hacker School, and let their risk taking and boots on the ground approach serve as a signal to senior women engineers.

None of this is evidence of sexism in CS and engineering, it was a winning strategy to defeat scarcity.
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Is there a site where I could see a spreadsheet or something similar with information about current startups: name, url, founded date, industry, short description, long description, country/city...

I usually look through the posts of the Who's hiring monthly threads to know what some of the current startups/companies are working on.
Poll: would you visit a "thinkerspace?"
"The primary drawback from the male perspective is that condoms decrease pleasure as compared to no condom,"

Hummm really?

Condoms are a usability nightmare:

- Fragile

- Comes in few sizes, beyond that, you're in 'specialty shops' territory. (Really, I don't care about shapes, flavours, bells and whistles, I care that it fits!)

- It's lubricated on the outside. Good for when you're using it, AWFUL when it comes to applying it.

That "teaching kids how to put on a condom using a banana" thing? It's good intention, but someone needs to come with a realistic model. Maybe put a condom on a banana then try putting another over it: closer to the real thing.
Perhaps, I know I'd rather have a super fast charging phone that lasted a day than one that lasted 3 days and takes a long time to charge, but there are still people out there that seem to think the megapixels are the only thing that's important in a camera.
When I was a kid we were somewhere that was boring as hell, so I laid on a bench and stared up at the tiled ceiling. I noticed that for a square (n x n) block of tiles that n^2 = sum(1..n) + sum(1..n-1). From playing with the numbers in my head, I was able to derive the formula the sum(1..n) = n(n+1)/2. Later when I learned Gauss' formula in school for the sum if integers, I was like "Hey, I invented that!". Those kinds of thought experiments just don't happen if you're staring at an Xbox all day.
> Some cars already project information onto the windshield.

Yes - information such as speed. Driving related things which the driver would normally need to know while operating the vehicle.

Google Glass is a distraction in much the same way a mobile phone is while driving - it's removing your attention from the road to do things such as texting.

So you can't compare the two.
2 things:

Harassment is normally defined not by the intentions but how the action is perceived. Therefore she does not have to justify what is or what is not offensive...

HOWEVER - any sexual harassment policy will also state that you should try to let the person know that the actions are offensive to you, if you do not feel comfortable doing so, you should follow the procedures in place, i.e. she should have just contacted the event organisers and let it end there.

What she did was - what others have already said, she tried to envoke the powers of soc med to venture on a personal vendatta to 'punish these guys for everything they've ever done wrong (and any other man for that matter) and it backfired.
Not sure if this helps, but there's the Kiwix offline Wikipedia reader and its associated Zim files:

http://www.kiwix.org/

http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/

http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Tools/en#Generating_ZIM_Files_From...

http://www.openzim.org/
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I used to love browsing del.icio.us for jquery plugins back in the day and love http://www.functionn.in/ but he hasn't been updating it much lately.

HN is great but all the industry insider stuff is a time sink for me and I'm trying to avoid using the computer unless I feel like it's for something productive.

Do you have a favorite go-to site for finding cool new programming and design tools?
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>> And Minnesota is by no means the most boring state in the United State

That's true. We still have Wisconsin. :)
Did you know that Sweden (which included Finland) had effectively 100% reading ability as early as the first part of 18th century?

This was due to a decree (Church law of 1686) by Charles XI which required reading skill in order to be allowed to wed.
There are complete parochial records ("church examination registers") to study this progress up to level of single individuals.

Surprisingly enough these documents prove that writing ability and reading ability don't need to go hand in hand which has often been thought as self-evident.

tl;dr What you don't see immediately in Finnish/Swedish education is hundreds of years of reading tradition and deep historical commitment to literacy (ability to read), quite unconnected to industrialization (unlike elsewhere), which happened rather late in Sweden and Finland.

More: Understanding Literacy in Its Historical Context, pg. 28 "The history of literacy in Sweden" http://www.google.fi/books?id=WBLOVq4ocLEC&printsec=fron...

"The reading ability campaign in Sweden was carried through almost completely without the aid of proper schools." (pg. 42) Thus there has always been a strong component of household education.
People should have the right to do whatever the heck they want with their property. While these "lawmakers" are at it, they should ban all of the voice-enabled cars and force people to text and hold the phone while driving.

I was driving down the road in an unfamiliar place with my iPhone and Google Maps in my lap, looking at it every now and then, and I noticed that after looking for a second I was usually half a foot in the wrong lane. I thought, "Glass would make this much safer, much easier." It would be so great to simply see where to go in the corner of your eye. I think that's the most practical feature of the first version of Glass.
It loads in the app, and there's a button that gives me the option to load in Safari if I want to.
Is Crunchbase (http://www.crunchbase.com) the thing you're looking for?
Want cognitively diverse teams? It’s not as simple as hiring more female technologists.

I'm sorry, is the author implying that men and women approach engineering problems differently (i.e. they think differently)? Is there any evidence of this? I thought "essentialism" was anathema in contemporary diversity circles.

Eighty percent of Etsy customers are female, but the company itself used to be known in startup circles as engineer-centric and something of a dude-fest

So the fact that eighty percent of Etsy users were women despite having an all-male engineering team apparently means that you have to hire more women engineers to attract female users? Again I'd love to see evidence that once a core of female engineers were hired significant changes where made to the site that could only have come from a "woman's intuition" (natch). It seems to me that having a female dominated user base in spite of an all male engineering team disproves the assertion that you need hire women to achieve "cognitive diversity".
The intention behind "Hello, world!" was to show the steps you need to run your code. In C's case: compiling it.

These examples just show some silly code, without any further information.

It would be really interesting to see how some languages deploy.
Wow, just wow.

The video for the male condom is very illustrative.

Hopefully they will have success with it.
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Seconded. I would use http://flippa.com.
Bloomberg: surveillance drones (with face recognition) are inevitable in NYC
Do both until either one pays off...
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or just rig your own device and grab the high powered laser off of a blue ray player and slowly pull it to the outer edge. Seems a whole lot easier than having to deal with it messing up a drive within a computer.