skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a given. I'm sure the same thing happened for the first rockets and the first moon landings. Thank heavens they were successful, but I bet more than a few astronauts in training had doubts.
Remember to quote it correctly:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

The differences may be subtle, but the meaning is quite distinct from the way you phrased it.
For many people, increasing rates also increases that ability to deliver.

A hand to mouth developer has to prioritize by which project will pay an invoice the fastest rather than the highest paying project (I need to get paid today, I can't afford to wait for big corp to pay me net 30.) That means plans may change on a day to day basis and low priority projects get delayed.

The hand to mouth developer may unexpectedly fall off the radar because he got his internet shut off and can't pay the bill.

The hand to mouth developer takes on too much work and ends up delaying everything because he doesn't have enough time to knock everything out. If he hits burnout from this, then he may fall off the radar indefinitely.

You MUST set your rates at least to a point where you can save money. You MUST have at least a 3 month cushion (the more the merrier.)

For those looking to hire freelance developers, a low rate should be a red flag. You don't want to risk your business on someone who is being affected by these issues.
So our options are either bleeding edge versions or prehistoric ones?
Time Magazine science writer Maia Szalavitz interprets ...

[0] "Your Drive to Compete May Come Down to Dopamine" http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/02/your-drive-to-compete-...

[1] "Amphetamine Spurs Slackers to Work and Workers to Slack — at Least For Rats" http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/29/amphetamine-spurs-slac...

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... some research by Michael T. Treadway and nine others.

[2] "Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Human Effort-Based Decision-Making" http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/18/6170.full

> " ... We found that individual differences in [dopamine] function in the left striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex were correlated with a willingness to expend greater effort for larger rewards, particularly when probability of reward receipt was low. ... "

You could argue that this mechanism is a neurochemical amplifier of entrepreneurial behavior.
I think a lot of people on here have that half mind to go (though probably not on this particular programme). This is the closest thing to the settling of the Americas ever since; it's something historically meaningful to be a pioneer. Granted, what keeps us grounded are our dreams and plans, and the fact that it's most likely suicidal.
It's not. There's plenty of studies that show the most effective ways to help a society is by empowering the women [1][2][3].

Standing for "equality" for the sake of "equality" doesn't actually benefit anyone.

[1] http://www.care.org/getinvolved/advocacy/pdfs/whyempowerwome...

[2] http://www.wfp.org/women4women

[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development-professionals-n...
I believe he's trying to say that he doesn't want results tailored to him at all. For example, if I were republican, I'd tend to get anti-abortion material when searching.

He seems to be saying that he'd be okay with typing in his city name to get local results in exchange for not having any personalization. In other words, it's beyond local vs non-local.
This wikipedia article has further details from multiple sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Cycleway
> Nonono, you have it backwards. We NEED more parasites! The supply of labor exceeds demand right now which sends the price to 0 (minimum wage paints the problem a different color but doesn't fix anything). We need to decrease the supply of labor so that the market can start pricing it rationally again.

We need to fix the market in a new way, so that the market can be free? What the what?!

A free market is one where price accurately reflects the mix of supply and demand.

A free market is NOT and NEVER one where supply and demand are manipulated to produce a "better" result.

You are arguing supply side good, demand side bad but consider zooming out and asking first if manipulation of either variable will really produce a predictable, desirable result.

I've heard lot of arguments that say "but this is GOOD market manipulation" but it always ends in tears.

Supply and demand will always win out in the end. The market is faster, smarter and stronger than you.

The winners are the ones that can ride the waves, see what the result of manipulation this way to that will be, and position themselves accordingly. Increasing the ability of the participants in the system to react in these ways makes the system more rational, and in turn more stable.

Juicing one variable or the other makes people build knowledge/lives/decisions on a pseudo foundation that will eventually be undercut by market forces. It teaches people the wrong things and makes the system less rational and therefore more bubble prone.
Not quite. Sid is always unstable, and the new testing is jessie:

http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/

Otherwise you're right - now it probably not the best time to switch to jessie/testing.
> sadly, this doesn't seem to support any sort of multithreading

Maybe multithreading is just not yet implemented?

> So that kills one of the main reasons to use Clojure in the first place.

I could see ClojureC being very useful for when you want:

* small footprint
* easy C-library interop
* fast start-up time

and where you don't necessarily need multithreading.

(BTW, I'd be curious to hear what you think might be the differences in use cases between ClojureC and mjolnir/clojure-metal.)
$20 is what you would pay for a comparable Linode virtual server.

You can also colocate your RPi for free in Amsterdam, but would you host anything serious there?
This isn't about making up for existing disparity or some form of affirmative action ... it's simply that women seem to be the best investment if you want to impact change on future generations.
Not to mention that managing a business (freelancing) is a totally different skill set than web development. Of the developers out there who are decent at web development, many are hopeless at running a business.
As simple of an operation as this is, I wonder how hard it would be to brute force this without knowing the location. If you assume that the location values must all be within some distance of each other, I suspect you could iterate though all 65k keys fairly quickly and find the tightest group of them and it would likely be the right one. This makes me want to get some kind of thing going to decode them and try it myself.
1) The Wachowski's what?

2) Andrew "Andy" Wachowski has three sisters, so I don't know who these "brothers" repeatedly referenced are.

3) The hell is a "science sci-fi movie"?
I had never heard of this before. I confess to paying attention to almost nothing in the hollywood field, but the blackout on coverage of this case must have been exceptionally comprehensive that I never knew The Matrix was stolen before.
"Sorry, this game works only in Firefox and Chrome."

Welcome back to 1998. For the record, it works fine in Safari too. Why do people even do this?
To get picky, it's actually border-color:pink;
> BFS, DFS are for graphs, not just trees
BFS and DFS are applied to graphs, but the search space is indeed a tree.
It doesn't look like this is true: (http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp)
if my graph is dense then would using a adjacency matrix take like O(V^2) space complexity ? Anyway I was just suggesting this because I use it in practice. Just wanted to know the cons of it if any.
On top of the already-posted Snopes articles, here's an LA Times article on the rise of the hoax:

"In that alternate reality--created by Internet chain letters, radio stations and reputable community newspapers, and still flourishing on the World Wide Web--people sincerely believe that Stewart won her lawsuit last fall, and that she now is the wealthiest African American in the country, thanks to a record multibillion-dollar award. Her supposed settlement has been hailed as a legendary achievement in copyright infringement law, and a major moment in African American history. People also think that word of her victory has been suppressed as the result of one of the most sophisticated media conspiracies in history--even though none of that is true."

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/31/magazine/tm-motherma...
You could also take unused railroad tracks and pave over them. It's been done elsewhere. Nice, long, straight bike paths.
There is good reason you've never heard of it. It is nonsense.
I think Canada is an excellent example in support for BI, as the social net is so great that there is no real poverty.

However, in spite of the fact that there are ways to live on social security, only a very small number of people choose to do that. It shows that social security does not stop people from having ambitions.
Not only that, the article linked to contains this paragraph:

Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood , as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.

This paragraph is specifically mentioned in the snopes link. I think it is safe to dismiss this article without a more reputable source.
Can I take my upvote back? I seem to have fallen into the trap..
Try mogreet.com.
And that I think is the biggest problem of Debian. They aim stability but how can you possibly claim that your custom backports are stable when e.g. the original developers have stopped supporting it?

They may be able to pull it off with the kernel, but they can't possibly do it for all their packages. As an example: How are the Django backports to 1.2 more stable than upgrading to 1.3 when the official Django project has stopped supporting 1.2?
This article is copypasta from 2004, back when Lana's transition was barely a rumor. See Snopes[1].

[1]: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp
Snopes investigated this case and determined it to be false: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp
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I don't know if you know this or not, and I didn't notice if TFA made this point explicit or not, iContact was successful enough to be acquired for $169MM, and he remained CEO right up to the acquisition. And they grew to > 300 employees at their peak, so it's not like this guy is talking out of his arse here.
The only part of this I'm going to take issue with is "You should learn Perl because you're likely to encounter a lot of Perl code in the wild."

"...because you can learn something from it" is a far better reason, because it's actually valid. Now, specifying what you're suggesting could be learned would be a good step, but I'd take it as-is without a problem.

The former, though? No, Perl is no longer occupying visible roles to the point where any new programmer can assume they'll be seeing it at all, much less "encounter a lot of Perl in the wild." It's out here, sure, but it's hidden in commands we use or scripts invoked by background tasks non-systems-programmers have absolutely no reason to touch.

Learning to do irresponsibly illegible things in Perl will teach you some great regex and... Perl. Learning Ruby (or Python, or Java, or even PHP) will get you actual work -- that doesn't involve being sequestered in backwards academia -- far more often now than Perl.
Sophia Stewart, The Real Creator of ‘The Matrix,’ Wins Lawsuit
Read the entire article, you will see Firefox 1.0.3 listed.
Just look at Brazil's income distribution program: Bolsa Familia.

It has been shown to improve local economies and people's lives. Even though it is not completely unconditional and doesn't quite get to provide enough for basic needs.
Keeping all user/site data under /srv makes it superbly easy to back up everything on a server from a single base directory.
The article suggests that this is for live streaming shows. Would a CDN based approach work in this use case?
My guess is that Path people sat down and decided that nothing good was happening so 2013 was going to be it, either grow and get acquired or shut it down (no Foursquare scenario).

To grow they chose spam and fishy growth numbers in countries like Venezuela. I hope it doesn't work out for them.
It can be a lot more expensive, though.
And hundreds of thousands of people die of malaria every year. There are more efficient ways to spend charitable energy.
> The notion that anyone could profit off of such a venture—a bicycle toll road—seems insane now.

I completely disagree.
Honest question from somebody that doesn't know any better, with the data from the HGP available for quite some time now, it doesn't appear to me (as a layperson) to have had the promised impact or suddenly providing a genetic map that will allow us to quickly find and target genetic diseases and other undesirable traits: would anybody knowledgeable in the field be able to provide some insight into what kind of impact the HGP data has had?
I came to the comments here for the express purpose of mentioning Hack Design. I've been doing it from the start and I've learned a huge amount in the meantime. It's fantastic.
> This felt more like a reality TV show about going to Mars.

That's because that's what it is! Literally! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

> A global reality-TV media event is intended to provide most of the funds to finance the expedition.
I've also noticed, at my local Costcos (there's something like 5 within 30 minutes from my house), that there is a pretty large cadre of very long-term employees there. There's a few employees I recognize going on 10 years of employment there.

They're doing something right I think.
Is this some sort of conspiracy? Two people post the same fake article 5 minutes apart..
OP here, Thanks for mentioning :) corrected the article
> Learning Ruby (or Python, or Java, or even PHP) will get you actual work far more often now than Perl.

Please only say such things when you can back them up. Yes, learning Java will get you more jobs (though, who really wants to do Java for a living?), but you'll still enounter Perl in more jobs than the other languages you mentioned:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Perl%2C+Ruby%2C+Python%2C+...
They only transcribe a tiny portion.

All is indefinitely stored in case it should be required later.
When you're playing a small stack your Nash equilibrium actions do not extract as much EV as the actions you would make with a large stack. In other words, the best choices you can make with a small stack are poorer choices than the best choices you can make with a large stack.
Listing all the problems with any idea of a bike lane along a freeway will tire me out (starting with: there's no space, high barriers are regarded as ugly, there's no way to make the interchanges work, the freeway under road overpasses will permit larger road widths only with enormous expense, we can't even build carpool lanes and light rail, people won't stand for the construction delays). Let's not do this.
No not really. This is my observation and I'm sharing it. That's it.
Are skype calls being recorded now too? They had pretty good security until recently. The independent security review they posted on their site is like.. 8 years old now.
I recommend just flagging the post.
I think Google Books project provides an interesting twist on this. Now their AI not only has the whole content of the publicly accessible Internet to study but also quite nice chunk of material ever put on paper.
Thanks, that was a clearer explanation than his. Nifty.

Btw, why do they want to do this?
Read that paper linked by the article.

Those attacks look so fun! I like the LCD attack in particular.
There's already all kinds of resources to purchase on design (including Design for Hackers, which Wells mentioned). And if you're willing to pay for it, that's awesome. But the thing is, most of us developers aren't, because we don't think we'll be good at it, we don't think we need to be good at it, we don't think it's worth the investment, we aren't "designers" and therefore don't want to spend the cash on it, etc.

But we really need everyone to understand good design theory, at least at a basic level. It streamlines the development process, and it may even prompt a few developers who hadn't really thought about it to do a little more with design.

What I love about Hack Design is that it is free and very casual, which means I can look into it in my spare time because of my own interest and motivation, without any investment and without any risk.

Also it should be noted that the course is largely comprised of a curated set of already-out-there blog posts, articles, tools, and other materials. Curated is the active word there; it's like a guided tour of the design community. The toughest thing about getting started with any new area of learning is knowing where to start, especially with something so vast and foreign to many of us as design. Having someone to point you in the right direction, let alone guide you step by step through the entire foundational process, is a huge leg up.

Okay, I'll stop gushing now. I just really enjoy and appreciate this course.
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You can expect most bugs in 3.2 has been fixed so it's very stable. Old doesn't mean unmaintained. Debian's kernel developer Ben Hutchings has been backporting for 3.2 for a long time with lots of security fixes and hardware enablement. In comparison, RHEL 6 uses 2.6.32 with lots of selected stuff backported. This development model avoids new random features introducing bugs.

Also, you can have newer kernels in the debian backports repo.
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... estimated portraits showing (according to the artist) "family resemblance", and assuming a 25-year old individual.

Still, very cool.
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Yes, as far as the assaults among urban youth, perhaps active policies are able to provide good explanations for the decline in violence. I for one believe that culture usually plays a larger role than is commonly admitted in politics, where the emphasis is often on punishment (e.g. for drug dealing) when the same money could, in my opinion, have been spent more productively on prevention / education / culture change in various communities. The recent Obama administration move to treat drugs as a public health issue seems to be going in this direction.

As far as teen mothers -- yes, overall it's been a drop, but that just underscores the disconnect with what's happening with poor urban youth:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871086/

"Teen pregnancy rates in New York City (NYC) are consistently higher than in the United States (US) overall, particularly among blacks and Hispanics and within poor neighborhoods."

I think the teen pregnancy phenomenon is part of a larger phenomenon of people having children out of wedlock, and then the mothers raising them as single parents. When it's the norm to have the state provide funds to help raise the children, it creates a moral hazard and affects the culture in communities which are highly dependent on welfare.

As far as actual drug use and drug dealing, I'm not knowledgeable enough to get into details, except to note that the War on Drugs seems to have produced some pretty sad results. 20% of the inmates are in prison for recreational drug related offenses, and the amount of youths from poor neighborhoods is alarmingly high. I would say that this War on Drugs has, among other things, been affected by the negative side effects of the welfare state and minimum wage laws. I agree with Thomas Sowell that minimum wage has held many back who would otherwise have found employment somewhere. However if you're going to abolish minimum wage, you should definitely offer the unconditional safety net in the article.

Welfare is a complicated issue, the most I have been able to understand overall is that it definitely lowers poverty, but its long-term effect on culture in poor communities has been to create a culture of dependence, disenfranchisement, and out-of-wedlock parenthood. The last one seems to perpetuate the first two. This may rapidly change with the internet disrupting education and other sectors, and I hope it does.

I lean more left/progressive but I have to agree that this is unsettling: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/pdf/wm2934_bythenumbe...

And what's most unsettling is that the welfare state in the USA will have to expand as jobs are eliminated.
And Facebook added threaded comments recently too
"pivot" = fail
It really depends on the existing structure of the society. I guess that in, say, turn-of-century Sicily or present-day Somalia the money would pretty fast end in the hands of local crooks.
Debian has historically run on an approximately 2-year release cycle (and more recent releases have been closer to that cadence). Right now, Testing is kind of old, because it's been frozen in the run-up to the Wheezy release. In a month or two, Testing will probably be mostly current, and will stay that way until about 18 months' time when the Jessie freeze kicks in, and then it'll be a slow wait until the release of Jessie and then the cycle repeats.

Ubuntu is too... opinionated for my tastes, and other distros are too conservative (CentOS/RHEL) or too wild (Arch, Gentoo). Debian Testing seems to have a high-quality, comprehensive package archive and keep reasonably up-to-date, and if the price to pay is that for six months every two years you get a stable desktop environment instead... no complaints from me.

EDIT: The usual lag between Testing and Unstable is 10 days, except in big, complicated transitions and dependencies (say, when a commonly used shared library is being upgraded to a new, incompatible ABI). Again, I could probably be more up-to-date if I tracked Unstable instead of Testing, but I'd rather wait for Debian to nail down its migration plan in Unstable so I can upgrade smoothly, rather than have the latest and greatest and have to rebuild my own packages occasionally.
I consider myself pretty economically conservative.

After a lot of thought about the future of employment, automation, the effect of wealth distribution, safety nets, and many other factors, I finally concluded that paying all citizens/residents (determining who may be the hardest problem) an equal subsistence wage, enough to cover cheap housing in low demand areas and food, would be of both social and economic benefit to all. Critically, at the same time, drugs should be legalized, regulated, and available to addicts in controlled environments.

The threat of starving sick homeless in the street, the basic tenet of laissez faire capitalism, is not a humane incentive for a modern society, nor is it beneficial to a developed economy.
Imagine you had a brilliant idea to start a company which served demographically targeted advertisements to users across the web. Since you are brand-spanking-new you have very little data about users. You need to find a way to quickly and cheaply build demographic data about users so you can actually accomplish your mission.

If you launch a ton of these types of games, you could build a pretty decent database of user's browsing histories. If you are using news sites as your sites of interest, you could use that browsing history to build up demographic data about each of the people who play your game (demographics for large sites like CNN are pretty well known).

There are certainly other reasons, but this is the first one that came to mind.
Trouble is, the government represents 300 million people. You can't "reclaim your government" when the angered party consists of a couple thousand people.