skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i understand that structural reform is the 3rd phase in the "3 arrows" agenda.

printing money / pork is obviously easier politically. if there is to be any significant reforms, my guess is it will not kick in until well after the upper house elections.

edit: worryingly the gov appears far more interested in nationalism then economic reforms... so my hopes are not high.
At Google we built a tool for this that presents the results graphically on a timeline: http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/

It's been invaluable for us on Maps to be able to graphically trace the execution of our code.
Mine was a compliment, not only an analogy.

The tech field needs people that are both confident with words, fun and have a deep understanding of the inner details of things.

_why was such a writer, let's hope Adit (correct?) is another.

Regarding form vs. content, I think that the HN community enjoy discussing form as much as content. Most of the people here are interested in design or typography, things that more close to form than to content.
You forgot the link.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=xmpYnxlEh0c&desktop_uri=%...
I think this was just meant to be an amusing remark to make people laugh...
Thanks a bunch for the info :)

It's not so much that I don't care about the dictator/fixes/direction, but rather I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the significance. It's like an election where I'm not yet even capable of informing myself of the significance of the issues at hand.

Hopefully I'll be able to make an informed "vote" in the future.
Like I said, I don't necessarily know. I'll tell you what, I'm going to go think about it for an hour and come back.

For now, stating the problem correctly will have to suffice: What form factor rewards Depth over Sensationalism? The latter should be understood both in the journalistic sense and in the "wow, that's a cool animated gif" sense. NB: if there's a universal law of content aggregators, it's that the less time it takes to absorb content, the higher its upvote ceiling and the more that category dominates. E.g., on Reddit, imgur > gifs > youtube > political headlines > short articles > your niche. Call me crazy, but you may seriously want to consider doing away with votes, headlines, even the "next" button. I really don't know. Brb in an hour or so.
"fail safe technological solution" = tor? Grug, that's not good advice to give out.

First, it's never good to rely on anything. Second, it's well known that people run tor gateways as a means to acquire 'interesting' traffic, and that probably includes law enforcement (though Applebaum does seem to have an honest aura, the project did originate from US government funding). Many people relying on tor probably do not realise this.

Be careful out there!
Total FICA is 15.3%. And don't forget sales tax (approaching 10% where I live, on purchases made with after-tax income).
It shouldn't be the law just because government passes, but I like to think our government isn't so broken that laws are passed with complete disregard to majority consensus.

But I don't think it's hair-splitting to call the collection of funds for the benefit of society (and actually used for societal projects) taxes and those collected to stuff the coffers of politicians and their cronies as stealing.

In other governments, where order is kept at the end of a barrel rather than with a vote, I imagine stealing takes place quite flagrantly, but then the rest of the wouldn't call that a "tax" at all (secretly, those citizens would also call that stealing).
"Also, funny math in the referenced Forbes article - 3 of the lowest quintile supposedly get money back that they did not earn."

What you "earn" (in the sense of deserve) in a modern integrated economy with extensive division of labor is mostly a fictional number. Apple makes $0 without people to assemble iPhones and iMacs, and it also makes $0 without the designers in Cupertino designing the products. Given that both groups' labor is necessary (in the causation sense) for Apple to earn any money at all, what allocation of the proceeds is appropriate between the groups? We create a particular distribution on the front end through our legal system, then adjust it on the back end also through our legal system. It's all equally arbitrary.
SSI is forced retirement savings program. You get out an amount proportional to what you pay in. It makes sense from that perspective to have a cap on the amount of income taxed, because they have cap on the benefits you can receive.
Oh, count me whooshed then.
Unless you pay the AMT.
If you've actually read the Game you know he talks about this in the latter third of the book.

And fake-it-til-you make it is just another word for practice.

I'm somewhat biased because I know Neil and go to his intensives. But they are extremely good and I've gotten a lot out of them. Further, I decided to meet him because of the Game.
Long time Gentoo user (almost 10 years) here. I'll admit that it is NOT a distribution for everyone, tailored more towards power users and tinkerers in general, but for me it is the ideal distribution. Here are a few reasons why I think Gentoo is great:

* Customizability / minimalism: Binary distributions usually come with tons of packages compiled with all kinds of bells and whistles, and often times make choices for you like what init system to use, what DE/WM to use, heck even what kernel to use. They are customizable to a degree, ie. you can install additional DE's after the fact, but not as much as Gentoo, which puts you in control of exactly what should be installed, and exactly what options to turn on. On a machine without bluetooth? Don't compile any bluetooth support into any libs/apps, not even in the kernel. Gentoo allows you to build a custom-tailored minimal software bundle for your exact hardware.

* Bleeding edge: Being a rolling release distribution, you get to experience the latest and greatest of open source software as it is being developed. Admittedly Gentoo has fallen behind lately on some areas due to not having as many active maintainers as it once used to, but for most areas it is still as bleeding edge as you can get (probably behind Arch overall). GNOME 3.8.2 became available the next day after its release, I'd say that is pretty bleeding edge.

* Documentation: The Gentoo forums and wiki are a great source of information for any general linux desktop (and server) issues. Arch has taken over in terms of having the majority of the mindshare, but I view both distributions' forums/wikis as the primary source of informed discussion on desktop linux topics.

* Speed: Not everyone is into -Oomg-optimized ricing, but for people who are, few other distributions will let you use custom CFLAGS all around and push your hardware truly to the limit.

Long live Gentoo!
Thanks for your feedback. All saved in the company notes.
The Advogato trust metric sorts users into four kinds, "seed" (the built-in trusted users), "good" (those the algorithm assesses as both behaving well and certifying well), "confused" (those the algorithm asseses as behaving well but certifying erratically), and "bad" (assessed as badly behaved).

I think the problem you describe is in essence the need for an automatic trust inference that recognises that worthwhile participants often certify badly and knows how to "prune" the set of tolerated participants down to those whose voting activity is high quality.

Advogato hasn't really been successful overall (Steven Rainwater suspended new account creation a year ago), but there are many successes in its history (it has been run with very little intervention for over 10 years, and generally succeeded in separating spammers from free-software types for most of that period) and its experience is probably worth studying.

http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html
> mean a physical presence that is everywhere at once

Everywhere at once means "no privileged reference frame". (Kind of like how light, from the point of view of light itself is everywhere at once, and light also has a the special privileged reference frame of no reference frame at all.)

You were the one who claimed the most people believe in a privileged reference frame based on God. Not me. Now you are backpedaling from that claim - which is fine, because not only do most people not believe that, it doesn't even make any sense.

And I agree that this should conclude the religious digression of the main topic. Not that there is a whole lot more to talk about, unless you want to talk about (argue with?) my comment above on light.
Whooshed++ :)
Does nothing qualify as something?
You might want to check out ooomf (http://www.ooomf.com).

They curate a daily mailing list for freelance developers and designers. Jobs are screened and clients provide set spec/set-price they want it done at. For devs, Lots ofsolid projects listed at what amounts to 45-63$/hour.
I agree that the tech community could benefit from more well-versed people with insight into our tools and paradigms... however, I don't agree that _why is such a person.

He openly claims to be a poor programmer, and as an artist... well, my contention is that he appeals to a very limited audience. That's not a criticism, simply a suggestion that while he may be valuable in an artistic sense to some people, he's not contributing to the "tech community" in a meaningful way. By which I simply mean that he should not be a yardstick by which we measure anyone.

Let him be himself. Let the rest of us be ourselves. Let that be good enough.
This is definitely news and I hope more people on HN see it. It hasn't been tested on roads yet, but it looks very promising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qpHl0GbQNI - interview with Ionut after the award.

http://seewithtongue.info/ - Ionut worked on this sensor that allows blind people to "see" on the computer, using their tongue. This was released only a year ago, and also "allows processing and adjusting the images taken from a webcam in real time using Artificial Intelligence." Ionut said something similar about how the car "sees," so I'm guessing that the car vision came out of this.

Please share any other info you find.
The main place this would actually be an issue is your eyes. The lenses have absolutely no blood flow, and therefor don't cool down quickly if exposed to microwave radiation. Usually leads to cataracts and such. Crazy right?
Loved reading the article (thanks!) but even this article flips the the lack of mastery on its head by expressing the author's enthusiasm for progress, his implied conviction of future growth, and a supporting cast that will help him get there. The negativity serves as a literary element to highlight his positive attitude and optimism.

What if he felt truly overwhelmed and hopeless, having lost key team members to a freak accident or freak legal issues? Would he be able to post expressing his purely hopeless despair? I doubt it :(
Except that the truly rich tend to get most of their income from capital gains rather than wages and salaries, and there's a much lower rate for capital gains than for earned income. The "Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary" problem.
Her invention is certainly probable and represents a significant achievement -- extremely impressive for a high school student -- but it is not "revolutionary." Her claimed specific energy is 20 Wh/kg, comparable to the state-of-the-art in nanostructured supercapacitors (not always graphene!) which a quick Google shows to be around 31 Wh/kg:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl2023433

So her supercapacitor is roughly on par with similar nanostructured supercapacitors being developed. I must stress that the highest specific energy does not always mean the best technology, but practical/fabrication considerations can lead to different things making sense for different applications, in particular you have to watch out for the nasty tendency of some capacitors to short-circuit, which at supercapacitor energies means "kaboom!".

That last bit is why expensive tantalum capacitors are often preferred over cheaper fabrications with higher specific energy: tantalum is safe and reliable, which matters a lot.

edit: I should also point out that neither her supercapacitor nor other current nanostructured supercapacitor electrodes achieves an energy density on par with a cellphone battery. The specific energy of a lithium-ion polymer battery used in cellphones is roughly 150-200 Wh/kg: nearly ten times as much as this girl's claim!
A worthy if abstract question, though it's presupposed by the original piece (or at least what it quotes), as it specifically dismisses certain things... so while it may allow nothing to be something, it indeed dismisses some things despite, perhaps, coincidentally accepting nothing. ;)
I love i3, been using it for over a year after using dwm for about 1.5 (and trying many others). Now for me, it's setup up borderless with a hidden bar, I'm not much for fancy extras. And the multimonitor support is great too.
I would use the same form factor, but give each story a unique decay rate based on word count. You could also take the ratio of pageviews to upvotes into account. That problem with HN is that by the time enough people have time to read a longer story it's already gone forever, so all we really get on the front page is the text equivalent of lolcat pictures. By keeping longer stories around for longer on the new page (and then on the front page) you are putting everything on more equal footing.
I reluctantly confess that, knowing nothing about Haskell, I was lost by the 4th diagram. Presumably if you know Haskell, the line "data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a" makes sense, but I can't parse it.
Literally the strangest thing I've ever read on HN. I've two large plants (spathiphyllum) that sit with their pots on either side of my wireless router. They're as healthy can be, though they do get a little brown when I get absent minded.
I seem to remember my computer (Running Ubuntu 10.04 with NVidia drivers, and the standard DE) doing that at one point. Through changing my external monitor, the resolution used was larger than my monitors, and I could scroll the viewport by mousing over the edge.

I never bothered to figure out exactly how enable/configure this feature intentionally, because I saw it as more annoying and simply reset the resolution.

I also remember being on a mac, wherer I could zoom in the entire screen, then scroll the viewport.
The layout makes all of the difference. The numbers aren't right next to each other on hackernews, so there's enough visual difference between the two.
Kubuntu on my home desktop, Fedora on my work laptop.
I said it's a rational policy response. But it's not a rational market response in the current environment. KP is a market actor that was betting on the viability of that market. So far it's not working.

There are other ways and means to effect change besides the marketplace. I never said anything about stopping "doing things that benefit the planet."
If the site is aimed at high quality content I'd suggest that the submit page should not be the first thing that the user sees after creating the account. I understand that right now you need users&submissions but in the future it might be beneficial if users will be required to learn a bit about the community (read X posts, take part in Y discussions etc.) before submitting stuff.
Thanks. I've never freelanced before, so I think I'll start off with $2k projects, so i can begin some kind of portfolio
> Not to burst your bubble but most of the taxes you pay go to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and various handouts to select industries.

That's not really true. A large part of your taxes goes to the military, but that's not co-extensive with the Iraq and Afghanistan war. That money goes towards maintaining the largest most powerful military in the world, enabling the U.S. to continue to be the supreme world power. If you don't think that primacy is directly relevant to your quality of life as an American (a people who as a category consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources relative even to other highly developed countries), I'm not sure what to tell you.
No. I'm a heavy DropBox user and have never used it to avoid email filesize limits. And I am pretty sure I am far from alone.
Imagine the saddest, loneliest, weirdest, most obnoxious kid from your elementary school. Maybe you were that kid. They go up to every little clique and say something, but no one listens. They invite everyone to their birthday party, but no one comes.

Would you wish that on anyone, even if they were annoying or angry or wrong?
I love the red and green lights on the top, as though it were a boat or plane, and without navigation lights you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going. It's like a cherry on top of all the other crazy.
From my understanding she's a summer student at the Yat Li lab at UCSC.[1]

This concept is not newly developed by this young student[2][3], it seems that she's just a summer student who used the labs work to submit to the Intel competition, this is actually a very common practice for high school students. As usual the media overstated her role, the work was not done in the 2.5 months she has off for the summer solely by her. That's not to say she might not be bright, but it's not her genius that developed this concept, although she may have contributed. In fact this work was first submitted for publication in 2010[3], long before she joined the lab in 2012[4][5].

[1]http://www.usc.edu/CSSF//History/2013/Projects/S0912.pdf [credit: gizmo686]

[2]http://research.pbsci.ucsc.edu/chemistry/li/publications/201...

[3]http://research.pbsci.ucsc.edu/chemistry/li/publications/201...

[4]https://sites.google.com/site/yatliucsc/people

[5]http://www.ucolick.org/~raja/hs/LIST2011.txt

Edit: Added reference showing she was not part of the Li lab in 2011. [5]
I suspect it's mainly used when you are reading your email and want to save a file attachment to your DropBox.
I would be happy to try this out and to pay your entirely reasonable yearly fee if I like it, but only if you provide a local login option that doesn't rely on google, facebook or twitter. I hate tying services to my other accounts, and I'm not making an exception for you. Not trying to be difficult, just letting you know the reality: tying login to other services loses you customers.
I use Arch Linux with a tiling windows manager like Awesome/Xmonad (currently using Awesome). I like how lightweight this and prefer to not use a mouse as it cuts down efficiency so I use a combination of Vim, Vimperator, tmux, and Awesome to quickly get things done).
The shit I believe communities should do
Note also that because of this, I still haven't been able to see what the service is even like, because there is no demo.
After using Arch, going back to anything else is a pain. I want the latest packages, systemd, and the simplicity. It's easy to tinker with custom kernels, wms... anything really.
Exactly my point. Structural reform is a nigh-impossible problem, upper house elections or not, in any country, and Japan has a well-established and deeply-rooted history of "change is bad."

In that culture of consensus, change simply has no chance. I have many friends in Japan, and my fear for them is that their government is even more obstinate than others, despite their situation being even worse. The thing that makes this problem intractable, though, is that their people are the same as people everywhere: They'll swallow the propaganda, they'll believe in the radical, just as long as the radical doesn't require they change their lives.

No one wants to change, and the current administration in Japan knows that. They're playing on it, just as the last administration did, and as the next one will. No one will do anything until it's too late; change is too hard, too expensive, too invasive, too inconvenient.

I hope things work out for Japan. I just really, really worry that if the current political movements go through and amend the constitution in the ways proposed, Japan will go from a traditional and slightly stilted democracy to an oligarchy in all but title, run by reactionary nationalists without their people's interests at heart.

[edit: This is a problem that's playing out in many industrialized nations and will play out in many more; Japan is just seeing more and different parts of it more quickly due to its unique situation.]
The one thing that really annoyed me is that all my AIM contacts disappeared. Granted I only have 2 people with which I talk regularly, but one of them is pretty much my best friend, and luckily I have other venues of communication because if not I would have lost contact with him forever because Google hates me.
The "choice to do" is located in the brain. If the brain is malfunctioning this choice can be very difficult. People with severe depression, anxiety, OCD often have malfunctioning brains.

In my case depression usually manifests as extreme fatigue coupled with disinterest in everything. Choosing to do anything is very difficult if nothing has meaning.
fox news aims to influence the population, that's their goal. You're making an apples to oranges comparison there.
If you aren't learning critical thinking before you get to college, then we're doing high school wrong.
There are bad and ugly games on every single platform.
Not the person you replied to, but I've thought of this myself.

What about what MetaFilter[0] does, where users are encouraged to provide a short blurb about their article?

[0]: http://www.metafilter.com/
What have you found that helps?
As a shareholder, I think taking advantage of tax loopholes is the company's job. However, If I was British, I might see this in a totally different light.
> but it doesn't mean that there is something "unnatural" about people other than warlords having the most influence and power.

I didn't say it was "unnatural." Indeed, given history, you can say that it's the natural tendency of humans to organize into collectives. The term "state of nature" usually refers not to whatever humans do naturally, but rather the condition that exists prior to the creation of society.
It is a subsidy, but it's a subsidy within the organization.

The original version of my comment explained this but I removed it for brevity. But yes you are right. From what I understand the money flow, especially at elite institutions, can be very complex.

Also "net sticker price" was the term used by the commenter I was responding to.
I clearly remember stages in my life and particular forums in which I have been exactly 'bad', 'confused', and 'good', and this seems like a useful distinction.

It requires much more forum experience to identify what kind of comment causes insipid comment threads than it does to write a good comment in the first place.

That said, you could probably just measure someone's comment quality and their vote quality independently and get a lot of the benefit, with fewer errors from rigid categorization.
I don't know Haskell, but it seems pretty clear: "something called a Maybe named 'a'; is equal to Nothing, or just 'a' itself" (hmm, I'm not sure that's a whole lot clearer :-/ )
Given that both groups' labor is necessary (in the causation sense) for Apple to earn any money at all, what allocation of the proceeds is appropriate between the groups?

This is a disingenuous question. The money taken from the designers in Cupertino is not given to the (mostly Chinese) workers who assemble the phones.

Instead, it is given to people who did not contribute at all to the production of the iPhone (retirees, other non-working Americans, etc).
We should follow Bloomberg's advice and dispense with the illusion that education alone will make up for the vast income inequality between people in this country.

The poor should be plumbers and the rich should just take over their father's company or pull a Summly.