skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal is not crazy, as long as you use definitions that would stun most Americans. Most of what is called "poverty" in the United States is called "wealth" in much of the rest of the world. The article explains the definition of "eradicate poverty" being used as a worldwide development goal: "The World Bank aims to raise just about everyone on Earth above the $1.25-a-day income threshold. In Zambia, an average person living in such dire poverty might be able to afford, on a given day, two or three plates of cornmeal porridge, a tomato, a mango, a spoonful each of oil and sugar, a bit of chicken or fish, maybe a handful of nuts. But he would have just pocket change to spend on transportation, housing, education and everything else." As it happens, Zambia is an apt example country to consider. The year my wife was born, her birthplace (Taiwan) was poorer than Zambia in that same year. Taiwan has made more progress year-on-year, more steadily, than Zambia in the decades since then, and Taiwan is now a wealthy country. So a country doesn't have to start with a lot to gain a great deal of wealth in less than one human lifetime. Encouraging diffusion of knowledge and technology and especially encouraging civil liberties and better governance all around the world could do much to raise the living standards of people everywhere.

That said, if "poverty" is defined as having less than what "average" people have in a particular country, it will be difficult indeed to eradicate poverty anywhere. As Thomas Sowell has written, "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
If you don't pay tax you still get free medical treatment - but sure, society pays for it.
"Lies"?! Are they sure that's strong enough? Perhaps "conspiracy" would be more appropriate. The byline could be, "This One Weird Fact That Makes Typists Angry" :)
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Is this just a proxy? It seems like this script accepts packets and forwards them on to localhost.
> why would the ai be millions of generations smarter?

Pure uneducated speculation on my part.

1) In order to emulate a Super Nintendo you need hardware at least 20x faster than the hardware needed to run the Super Nintendo natively. In order to emulate a human brain you'd need something with much more potential... if that potential exists why waste cycles emulating? If it isn't emulated then it is something else entirely.

2) We choose to rely on robots to explore the floor of the ocean with the occasional human being showing up just to make a documentary. We'll have cars driving us around, we use video for everything, we'll rely more and more on stuff brought to us instead of us going to various locations.

3) Even if we start with human intelligence the ability to remove unnecessary components will create something that is no longer human. I don't believe the needs/wants of an ai program or modified human construct will behave remotely human. Take a real basic element of human/animal behavior; survival. I don't think AI would find it necessary to 'defend itself' because it is a logical next-step for any advancing species. If it is destroyed today it'll come back in a ten, a hundred, or a million years. AI (if it is possible) is as inevitable as the printing press, lightbulb and stone mill.

Of course, ymmv, I mean we may as well debate how many noodles the Flying Spagetti Monster has, there's only 1% science and 99% science fiction at this time.
Sales search: Writing a query parser/AST using Pyparsing+Elasticsearch (part 2)
If you return control to the user under 150ms your app will fell quite snappy. From 150ms to 200ms is okay too. Anything above 250ms is noticeable and considered by many as sluggish.
I know it is still very alpha.

I just wanted to raise your attention to it, but you are right, it would be better to have a proper Ruby compiler available instead.
I do this with Squid, or Fiddler depending on platform.

I have done a similar trick for the entire lan by doing port forwarding on DD-WRT and similar.

I pretty routinely highjack ports as domains for doing local testing. If I want to make sure that I'm hitting my own cached version of an API that I need to consume from a third party I just serve it from local. That way I can dev offline, or guarantee that I will always get the same response, or a much faster response. I could Mock it, or do a number of other things, but it is often nice to be able to see what is going over the wire, and using a proxy to handle the redirect and port change is one of the best ways to do so.
> Apparently you need "real research" before claiming it's more efficient to put the vowels on the home row rather than scattering them everywhere.

Yes, you do, or how do you know you're not fooling yourself?

Or do you believe in n-rays, too?

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langB.htm
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Agreed.

I was convinced it was going to end up being a commercial for some new car.
music is - Thomas Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor) by John Murphy

theme from scifi movie sunshine
Wish it was on youtube instead,I could not watch it on my tablet.
I always thought qwerty (and the other letters) were on top because they wanted to show it off and type "typewriter" as quickly as possible.
It's a combination of a proxy, a DNS server, a ipfw rule, and a resolver file. All that is needed to allow you to capture port 80 traffic without running your application server with sudo every time.
Conclusion: "smart people" (I'm not debating that they are smart, merely criticizing the institution of "smart people" in this context) don't have any more of a clue than anyone else.
Do you know of any well known facilities provider - desk space and internet - to be used by individual hackers (in Pune/Bangalore) ?
I think these rules miss the point of Zen. The primary teaching isn't about achieving spiritual perfection by embodying absolute states of mind. It is about finding a middle road between two extremes. For example, although a gigantic ego makes it difficult to cooperate with others, it would not be possible to survive without an ego. The middle road is to find the connection between your ego and the egos of other people. If you think you are selfless and have no ego, the paradox is that you probably have a gigantic ego, because your identity is invested in being spiritually pure.

The stuff about "shut up", "stop crying", "there is nothing special about you", and "NEVER stay at a company which does take away the happiness in your life" is similarly unhelpful. Zen teaches us that working with emotions is often more effective than working with thoughts, so if you're crying, that's probably important. In terms of being special, a snowflake is both unique and highly similar to all the others at the same time. It's abusive to focus only on the similarity. And if a company is taking away your "happiness", there's a reasonably good chance that it's an opportunity for you to learn something about yourself before you run away from the situation.
That could only be true if you ignore software for business (even small and medium business, not just "enterprise").
i had to install a testing snapshot May 4 because wasn't sure when they were releasing stable wheezy, and needed it immediately.

only package that broke the next day after full dist-update was "less" which for some reason will not co-exist with man-db. that was it though everything else updated fine
High national property taxes may be the key trick to handle the concentrations of wealth
Consider the comparative overhead of dealing with this as a percentage of income (or percentage of attention demanded of management, or any number of things) and you'll see what I mean.

The issue isn't whether large businesses spend a "fortune" on health care, the point is that their political incentives are entirely different than those of small businesses because the effect providing health care to employees has on their business is so entirely different.
that's not how bitcoin works. the blockchain (the ledger) can fork into competing chains. if your client and my client disagree about which is the live chain we can't transact. the core bitcoin team can only suggest which chain to consider the live chain. anyone who disagrees is free to use different chains.
I think the keyword is "text-heavy". Rendering 256 characters into a texture to use with WebGL is one thing, but what about unicode, or readability at small sizes? I'm honestly asking, I'd love to hear about ideas or libraries etc.
IPhone Usability "Quirks"
The terms of these agreements seem pretty arbitrary and probably present a false sense of security. Properly encrypted data in the cloud is completely secure. In fact it should be impossible to tell from random bits.

On the other hand data on an encrypted disk is not exactly the same thing. It must be made available to the OS whenever the user is logged in. Any breach in security say from an email attachment or malicious website would expose its unencrypted contents.

I wonder what the required policy is for backups? Can they be stored on servers if encrypted? Remote servers?
Which tablet do you have? I just watched on my iPad with iOS 6.1.2 running mobile Safari. The video looked awesome and the experience was quite smooth.
Funny you should say that, because it indeed was a one-man conspiracy.

(For people that don't know it, conspiracy does not necessarily imply tinfoil, aliens or illuminati -- as an example, covert action to harm others for own benefit will do).

Dvorak, who had money to gain for his alternative keyboard, falsified research and oversold the improvements, to promote his work over Qwerty.
Discussion: There's little upside to being labeled a "gifted" child
Why this? https://github.com/Birdback/manage.py/blob/master/setup.py#L...

Would be more straight forward if you would remove that and let users just run python manage.py or ./manage.py
In the search for exobiology one possible sign to look for within planetary spectra might be a predictable annual oscillation of carbon dioxide levels as occurs on Earth when plants photosynthesize more in the summer than the winter.
You can right-click on the video and select »Watch on Vimeo« but this is not really obvious.
Well, since you seem to be an advocate of tracking down complete strangers and demanding they give you what you want, I would be remiss if I didn't inquire as to what I may demand of you, where I may find you, and if you could make the trip from LA worth my while? ;) EDIT: So, Maui it is! I appreciate you living somewhere nice to visit, and even on one of the HI islands I've yet to visit. Now I just need to figure out my demands. That is, in addition to some delicious vegan fare, and some Japanese lessons for my Japanese wife, who knows less Japanese than I do. :)

No, you have misunderstood: I am an advocate of following through with action on your dreams. If your dream is to harass me, I suggest you dig deep and find a more worthy goal. Best of luck.
If you like this then you should check out Baraka, this film has a few shots that were inspired by it. The follow up - Samsara - is also excellent.
If this were true, they would be the home row
As I understand it, the core bitcoin team (as well as all bitcoin users) can do absolutely nothing if the majority of the miners ignore their request, as long as THEY agree on a fork to work on.
>Apparently you need "real research" before claiming it's more efficient to put the vowels on the home row rather than scattering them everywhere.

Yes, you do. What's "self evident" about it? How do you know if it's worse to alternate fingers and hit around, compared to stationary clicking for the most common characters?
pfarrell thank you for your answer.

This truck stop looks interesting, especially "curry up now" and "Tikka Masala Burritos" looks promising.
I just hope this food is fresh.

I have just found that monthly bus is $74usd for Adult "A" Fast Pass®.

Hope I will have time to go to some meetups, and I will definitely try to visit airbnb techtalks.
normal, binomial, poisson, uniform, exponential
Yep, thanks for the clarification, I don't disagree but just taking issue with parent's point that dollars lent = dollars loaned therefore it's impossible for policies to affect lending rate.
Yes. There's a reason modern science has mostly supplanted philosophy. To rephrase Occam's razor: things that seem intuitive aren't always true :)
This suggestion is rather naive and impractical. Most people do know JS. It's a rather painful way to develop reasonable UIs. Not even jQuery is abstracting enough these days (for this kind of work).

Please make useful suggestions and cut down on specious remarks. RJS is not in use for a long time. This article did not even merit the first page, except it's a slow weekend.
This seems too simplistic. I am almost tempted to download the two frontends just to see why it is so much bigger.

Lots of inlining (which -O3 would cause, it always does. I often find -O2 produces faster executables)? Debugging information? Pulling in the standard library?

A compiler doesn't produce an extra 3MB of code for no good reason.
Traveling by "AI over laser" is a clever cheat for the speed of light that I hadn't thought of. But how do the physical outputs on the receiving end get there in the first place? <:)
XPS 13 Notebook, Developer Edition

http://www.dell.com/de/unternehmen/p/xps-13-linux/pd?refid=x...
Google Glass: An Etiquette Guide
Because the origin "story" was that Qwerty was designed to make you type slower (to not jam the keys in typewriters) and is thus inherently slower and inferior by design.

(It was indeed made to not jam the keys, but not by making the typist type slower).
http://www.swiftkey.net/
The best take on BI (or NIT) I've seen:
auction the unemployed. This solves so many of the problems it's not funny.
http://www.morganwarstler.com/guaranteed-income-auction-unem...
Then just add:

if __name__ == '__main__':
manager.main()

to your manage.py
I find the argument "MS can change the requirement to make SB locked down" very fallacious. Sure, they could do that. But they could also do that even if we didn't have this unlocked SB thing that we do. In other words, Microsofts ability to require locked down SB is unaffected by current state of SB requirements. So there is no reason for outrage against MS about the current situation with SB on x86 platforms, because even if we didn't have SB now MS would still have the ability to make locked down SB mandatory.

If there is someplace that would need outrage, it would be the utter crap that gets shipped as the firmware, first as bios and now uefi seems to follow the same path. And the blame for that lies squarely at the hands of HW manufacturers.

>Not to mention distributions like fedora are making massive changes to restrict access to users of their os when it is booted via secure boot, to prevent windows from being "compromised".

Would you mind expanding on this, what are these "massive changes" you speak of?
I'm also curious about a larger swath of tests -- a single algorithm can hardly characterize a whole compiler.
Isn't Dvorak about comfort instead of speed?

People trained to similar levels on dvorak or qwerty achieve similar speeds, but qwerty has higher levels of pain, RSI, carpal tunnel, etc?

Of course, there are many reasons this could be true that have little to do with the actual layout.
I purchased the Dell XPS developer edition here in DK 2 months ago. While it's under "small business", you can buy it as a private person (the only downside is a stream of annoying small business email ads until they acknowledge your unsubscription). Here it is on the UK site: http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
"When I learned about Chinese eugenics this summer, I was
astonished that its population policies had received so
little attention. China makes no secret of its eugenic
ambitions, in either its cultural history or its
government policies."

So little attention indeed. Why is this so little known or debated in the West? We make a huge deal of the human rights abuses in the rest of the world every chance we get. Calling the amount of attention that this issue gets in Western public discourse, scant, is indeed overstating it. There is no discussion at all.

"The most likely response, given Euro-American ideological
biases, would be a bioethical panic that leads to
criticism of Chinese population policy with the same
self-righteous hypocrisy that we have shown in
criticizing various Chinese socio-cultural policies."

Why do the Chinese get a pass in the respect that the Germans didn't? American film makers churn out documentaries and feature films about the Third Reich by the dozen every year. Yet I haven't seen even a single Frontline doc cover this.

Chinese execute thousands of their "lower classes" every year. This is nothing but the "cleansing" of the intellectually deficient and the ungainful.

At the very least Western intellectuals and universities should condemn this and refuse to collaborate or issue professorships and research positions to Chinese academics in a wholesale fashion (since, as the author put it, "there is a unusually close cooperation in China between government, academia, medicine, education, media, parents, and consumerism in promoting a utopian Han ethno-state.")

However we see nothing of that sort.

Western academics are quick to boycott their Israeli counterparts for the slightest infractions of voicing support for their Zionist state.

Where is the uproar here?

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Global_distr...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/sep/12/boycott-i...

Edit: Clean-up
Faster XZ compression
Why is their no trial of Ruby Motion? That's been the issue for me. Spending $200 just to try something makes NO sense. Seems to me they're hiding something.
Add drop shadows on Android views
Thanks! I'm also looking to do gestures for Aliases, commands, and assisted key entry. MUSHes in particular use characters %@&*= that are just awful on the iOS keyboard.
Or someone who has never used it, mocking its imagined failures, shows that when people gets there hands on it, they will see it wildly outperforming expectations and achieve mass-market appeal.
>After a couple of generations, it would be game over for Western global competitiveness.

That's nice. Speaking as a westerner, fuck "western global competitiveness". Why West should have the upper hand? It's not even 1/5 of the global population, and it has done the most horrible crimes, from the Holocaust, to Slavery, to exploiting and colonising the rest 4/5, including fighting China for the "god given right" to sell opium to its citizens. Time for some payback.
It is on YouTube, along with his other timelapse videos. This isn't a new one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewTU7DNP500
> Traveling by "AI over laser"

I hope the error correction is good. Imagine getting bits of the transmission knocked out by dust.
What are you talking about? If other people are buying his cars, he will still make less money paying his employees to buy his cars than he would have otherwise.
In modern MMORPGs, PvP is often disabled and Exploers are replaced by a wiki.
it could enroll on first boot, it could warn you if the boot sector/etc changes, it could do an almost infinite amount of things that do not require Microsoft to become the sole gatekeeper.

Microsoft could also make a legally binding gaurentee they would never change their minds about it, but you can be certain they wont.

There is a strong parallel to CableCard[1], when cable companies were allowed to bake their network PPV/etc authorization directly into their receivers, somehow it seemed that CableCard was never reliable for people with stuff like TIVOs, it would mysteriously fail dozens of times for them, each time requiring a visit from a cable company technician to replace the card, because thats of course, strictly nessisary. The FCC later mandated all devices must use CableCard for authorization, and these issues vanished.

I easily see a similar thing occurring for the ability to add your own keys.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD
I think you have a point on these two observations, though I would question (or flip) the specific groups helped/hindered by actvist government policy.

The challenge is the broader policy implications of reversing course. For example, if the intent of the economy is to encourage activity and growth, then wealth transfer should be away from savers to spenders in a liquidity trap, for example (through increased inflationary expectations).
>So raise the IQ (didn't the western world "invent" this notion?) of a population so they can be replaced by machines (after all, what use does a government have for highly intelligent people but to put them to work)?

Em, the government is not (necessarily) some "enemy". The government is the representatives of the people and the country. So the use the government has for "highly intelligent people" is to strengthen the country.
With each web project I take part on, I feel more and more in sync with what the author states.

The proper way is to have desktop applications that take proper advantage of the hardware and operating system integration and use the network for communication.

Leave the browser for the documents. No need for browser compatibility headaches or JavaScript/CSS/HTML hacks.

Just use your favourite programming language and take advantage of the OS capabilities to full extent.
Speak No Evil: Google's Policy Violation Checker