skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup, also what would happen is the government would get bigger and bigger on these newfound taxation revenues. That's not great, but in the most idealistic situation, it's not necessarily bad. However, what is bad, is when the economy sags, the taxation revenues to sustain this bigger government will fall short, the government will go into debt, and do one of two things: It will either print money or borrow.

Borrowing (with interest) implicitly assumes the growth of a revenue stream. With private entities, the lender is on the hook if it goes bankrupt and can't fulfill its obligation. With public entities, the citizen is on the hook, so the only solution is to increase taxation down the pike, unless you have a miraculous recovery that restores the economy to what it was before (plus interest). If you don't think the wealthy will find a way to avoid this taxation down the pike that the middle class and poor will have a harder time leveraging, you are naive.

Printing money is worse. Because it devalues the currency, makes everything more expensive, and that $100,000 limit that you set as the point where the wealth tax kicks in becomes a lot more painful. Pretty soon, the poor are paying this tax that only the rich were supposed to pay. Over net time, the people that you are hurting the most are the poor, because the rich have long ago figured out how to avoid this tax.

Congratulations. Through your programme of good intentions to fix the divide between the rich and poor you have made the situation far worse than it ever was.
This is just MacOS nonsense. It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else. The only reason it is on the front page of Hacker News is that we can't see outside our own event horizon.

Poke me when a popular web email service implements GPG.
The GPL and proprietary licenses are both about controlling what other people can do, just in opposite ways. They each address the fear that other people won't play nice. The BSD license sits in the middle and is about trusting people to make good decisions. The trust extends so far that BSD code can be converted to the GPL or a proprietary license.
How would a donor go about doing this, in concrete terms?

I mean, should I be spending my money on political lobbyists or what? What measurable outcomes should I expect?
I don't have the renting experience myself. I bought my first house when I was 21 and easily made over $500,000 on buying and selling houses. At my height I owned 3 rental properties.

But those days are done. For the past 5 years, renting would've been much better than owning in most areas of the U.S. I don't see that changing any time soon.

Your "not a loss until you sell" is a myth. The reality is that assets have a book value and that book value should reflect reality. Assets can also be used for leverage - good luck telling the bank you're trying to borrow money from that your assets' current value "doesn't mean anything". You're arguing the "feelings" argument of investing which is vastly inferior to the mathematic reality of investing.
You're forgetting the key benefit of frameworks built on preprocessors like Sass or LESS: you can use their mixins to define semantic CSS rules, without using presentation classes.
I don't see how your logic follows at all.

Car crashes in 2002 were in the range of 30,000 deaths. Which is orders of magnitude higher than the sniper.

So in my opinion we shouldn't waste money on NSA wiretapping that doesn't stop terrorism (because if it did it would have stopped the Boston Bombing) and instead invest that time and money into transportation infrastructure.

By doing that we would save more lives, improve our economy and most importantly still have constitutional freedoms.
what are you allowed to put into an IRA, and those investment vehicles are the benefits of a privilege that no one else has. Could you use your IRA to invest in a person just released from prison, to give them job training, if he agrees to pay you a portion of his salary back? No. But you could use your IRA to invest in a fortune 500 company.
Lots of economists like wealth taxes, too. <--- Can you cite some of them please?
Yes you can, but my point was that this is of no utility with GPG. Whereas with s/mime anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients), so there is value to using s/mime prior to all your contacts also using it.
I would hope so, but even so the character hes playing isn't clever.
Did volcanoes stopped everywhere?
This is single most inadequate topic in my news feed today.
Climate is always changing. And it is the Sun and the Earth's core which are the most powerful drivers of it.
Did the Sun stopped shining?
It's pretty strange that the talking notes linked below say that one of the biggest threats to computing is locked down embedded devices. The author's fix is to then implement a replacement that would allow vendors to completely lock down embedded devices.
There are lots of animals that don't hibernate. Have you considered that you misynderstoid evolution theory? Biology isn't complete doesn't mean the parts known so far are wrong.

Can't write longer replies now because I only have a phone atm.
Even more so, the constant fear of being watched changes who you are, how you act and the choices you make, even how you think. That is the whole idea behind the concept of the Panopticon.

Just putting cameras that might not even work in places or put those dark glass domes like you see in the stores makes one act and feel different.

There is an expectation of how police works with a given set of constraints. It seems like a _quantitative_ difference whether a police car can drive by and see your house or a police car is assigned to follow you vs small drone constantly hovering above your house or a tracking device attached to your car. Legally those are the same but they shouldn't be. The distinction is so dramatic like you put it that it is a _qualitative_ difference between the two cases, not just a matter of degree.
Have had a very good experience recently with givlet.
well but some xkcds were pretty epic themselves - certainly bigger than this frame

http://xkcd.com/980/

http://xkcd.com/1110/

http://xkcd.com/657/

http://xkcd.com/1037/
And your single first sentence (this was drafted before you added your second paragraph) hints as to why:

Chronic diseases cannot generally be "cured", just controlled, so patients need a lifetime supply of a drug.

A new antibiotic will only be used in the direst of cases, like vancomycin as mentioned in the article.

It costs so bloody much to get a drug to market that drug companies tend to chase the former, where they can in theory get their money back (that's actually not tending to happen overall), whereas the latter could bankrupt them. Asking the government or charities to play this game is asking for politics to further enter into it, the outcomes are not likely to be good.
Thanks! Glad you like my music.
It might be less heavily oriented toward black communities than gut instinct, though.
No, you cannot revoke your s/mime cert. Your CA can. That is a big difference.
They don't use https anywhere, not even on the oauth redirect back with the token in the header... isn't that.. bad?

How much you want to bet they are doing 0 encryption of the tokens they are storing on their servers.
Link to first frame: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/
Yeah, we just didn't have enough time to add in the boss battles :(
> Then there's the incredible value iPod Touch that Samsung can't compete with.

Not for a lack of trying: http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-players
I think you've shifted his meaning a bunch with that summary. Peter Buffett doesn't mention Haiti specifically or make suggestions that casually translate to "fix [some country's] government and economy".

He's vague and impressionistic, and his most concrete suggestions (which aren't very concrete at all) are in the 2nd-to-last paragraph:

"Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market. Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner? No. It’s when no 13-year-old girl on the planet gets sold for sex. But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts, we’ve got a perpetual poverty machine."
I'm wondering about that too. Because of the ubiquitous planes and helicopters, and satellites too, I've assumed no warrants would be needed for a drone surveillance net. (My plan is to move to a smaller town, if only for less noise.)
Yeah, I guess I'm not quite getting why I (or anyone else) should be upset about this. Using unmanned drones a handful of times in cases where I would imagine a helicopter would have previously been used sounds pretty reasonable to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_...
Can you give more information about the context where you are using background workers and queues?
I could never get into any Window Manger for Mac OS X. They seem to be stuck on the idea of just moving your windows to sides or corners of the screen.

AppGrid is the first and only one I could actually use without it being annoying.
Great claims require great evidence. Prove God existence. Show us reproducible facts of God existence.

Disclaimer: I'm a christian, but I know that God existence is just an assumption that I have made on faith, and it can't be verified nor disproved, because it isn't testable. It isn't scientific knowledge.
Or go with 'investor', if not in the usual sense of word.

I am a user concerned with long-term investments into ecosystem: apps, purchases of DRM-d content (as bad as it is), compatibility with peripheral devices (external batteries, fitness and medical etc). I've been burnt before (Palm devices anyone?) so now I pay a great attention to market share, third-party ecosystem, opinions of developers about the platform etc.
GlusterFS - Open Source Distributed File System
The primary thing most nonprofits need is money. Here, I'll give you an example:

My mom ran a branch of Habitat for Humanity for a while. People universally loovvee Habitat. People were constantly volunteering, which is great! However, most of the time, there just is no work to be done by volunteers.

The primary thing Habitat needs is land and construction materials (which usually means: money).

People were sometimes upset about being turned away... but unless they could donate land, money, or construction supplies, there just wasn't much unmet need for general laborers.
"[The speaker] managed to ask for the addition of about fifty new “features”, little supposing that the main source of his problems could very well be that it contained already far too many “features”. The speaker displayed all the depressing symptoms of addiction, reduced as he was to the state of mental stagnation in which he could only ask for more, more, more... "

LOL
Where are you hosting it? From your home connection?

For anyone interested, there are several[1] provider that provide free or cheap raspberry pi colocation. I'm almost sure that they wouldn't have a problem colocating a cubieboard (or similiar) if you shot them an email.

Regarding performance, I'm sure a raspberry (which is less powerful thana cubieboard) is more than enough to serve static pages, and even dynamic pages if your site doesn't get a lot of hits.

[1] http://raspberrycolocation.com/, http://www.micron21.com/raspberrypi-colocation.php, http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/, https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+pi+colocating
Why do you instantly assume that 20 years from now things will be "much worse?" Even though I have no idea what "much worse" would even be.
Reasonable to me too. But I'm confident the plan is to have hundreds of drones in the sky 24/7 over major cities, covering every square meter every x minutes.
Hmm. You're right. Likely most the properties i'm coming across are as part of one-off side projects.
Funding and founding organizations that can serve as counterweights to the ones advocating on behalf of the interests of the already powerful would be one way.

Though it took some decades, we have seen the results, in the public narrative and in policy, of the founding of the Heritage Foundation (1973), the Cato Institute (1974), and Americans for Tax Reform (1985).
For the past 5 years, renting would've been much better than owning in most areas of the U.S. I don't see that changing any time soon.

In many 2nd tier markets renting has gotten much more expensive over the past 5 years, though. A mortgage payment is less than rent in Minneapolis, for example. The rentals suck and it's hard to find one. Renting a nice place is surprisingly expensive, approaching Seattle costs.
Except it's not the end, it's still updating...
I am filled with such angry frustration about the current situation that all I want to do is lash out at you.

"It's ok. It's ok because it seems reasonable."

It is crossing lines.

It is governmental activity that the citizenry does not know about, does not consent to, and here you are going "Well, it was for a good reason I guess."

My conclusion reading your paragraph is that the rule of law means nothing to you.
> Initially, most individuals carrying bacteria with the new resistance factor had some link to clinics in India

One big problem is that in India, lack (or poor enforcement) of regulations results in abuse of antibiotics, which leads to the development of resistance. People are also much more susceptible to infectious disease, due to poor public health policy (lack of clean water, etc.).
Do not underestimate the swamps. Vast swamp areas in South Poland and Belarus are the kitchen of the European weather and a huge carbon sink.
THe thing is biospheric carbon is really irrelevant if you compare its mass to what volcanic activity brought and bringing. The mass of the biospere is relatively constant thing over the last 3 billion years.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/06/property...

http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/wolffe/
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1181/
I don't. Can you provide a link? That seems like profoundly dumb public policy to me: no domestic use for unmanned aircraft?
> The ultimate question, of course, is will you buy into this?

I definitely will:

This is probably the best open mobile OS alternative, right after FirefoxOS.
Seriously, Microsoft have already fucked this one up.

One of the things I've learned is to learn from other peoples mistakes

(for reference to make sure I'm not written off as a Linux shill, I was MCSD cert for the best part of a decade, own an Xbox 360 and a Lumia. Metro just doesn't work on the desktop for me).
"One thing that I find people forgetting is how valuable their time can be to non-profits and how that often is way more valuable than donations."

This is not what I've heard from everyone I know who runs a nonprofit. See:

http://blog.givewell.org/2008/11/12/is-volunteering-just-a-s...
http://blog.givewell.org/2011/07/13/a-good-volunteer-is-hard...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/uk/beyond_the_reach_of_god/tca

and especially: http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/

"Yes, people are sometimes limited in their ability to trade time for money (underemployed), so that it is better for them if they can directly donate that which they would usually trade for money. If the soup kitchen needed a lawyer, and the lawyer donated a large contiguous high-priority block of lawyering, then that sort of volunteering makes sense—that's the same specialized capability the lawyer ordinarily trades for money. But "volunteering" just one hour of legal work, constantly delayed, spread across three weeks in casual minutes between other jobs? This is not the way something gets done when anyone actually cares about it, or to state it near-equivalently, when money is involved."
Outside the public consciousness, the term's only real professional use is limited mainly to some forensic psychologists because of the criminal justice system's rather peculiar requirements of psychology. Given the hoops it requires they bend through, I wouldn't look towards FP for diagnostic guidance. Robert Hare as well, but personally I tend to think of his work is sophomoric at the best of times and idiotic at the worst . He's also (in my opinion) a world-class prick, having used legal action to prevent the publishing of a critical paper that had already made it through peer review:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=critique-of...

But that's neither here nor there.

Anyhow, setting aside the lack of any diagnostic definition for either term, sociopathy has never been anything more than a synonym preferred by certain individuals. But if we're looking for some point of differentiation, one of the main reasons to prefer one synonym over another was to try and emphasize causation by social factors. Certainly not some sort of empathy switch.

Generally speaking, that confusion is part of the problem with both terms. They carry a lot of baggage and pop-psych definitions, but sorting through the muck and deriving some sort of diagnostic criteria is an exercise in futility.
Pardon us for being interested in something that a lot of us can benefit in? I didn't see a sign when coming in that said everything on the front page needs to be world-changing news.
since when does the amount of spending have anything to do with its effectiveness? And anyways, by what criterion is the OECD judging what constitutes "social spending"? Finally, the child poverty rates in that graph is a really fine comparison. The US has a lower child poverty rate than australia or japan, which would have been surprising to me. I'm not terribly embarassed by living in a country whose child poverty rate is equivalent to New Zealand's.
Will you feel the same when you can see (and hear) several drones in the sky at any given moment, 24/7?
IMO, you can't compare quarters of 2 companies with different product cycles. Samsung just released S4 while Apple's last product launch was 9 months ago.
There is a way that scientists have been able to analyze photos to discover the pulse of the person in it. Its very interesting, though I do not know the deeper details of it.

I am too lazy to find a link, if anyone else wants to share it that would be great.
What line are they crossing? They used manned aircraft for all sorts of things, and have for decades. Manned aircraft are prohibitively expensive.
Ah, OK, I don't feel so bad now. I didn't realize so many people had joined this. Kudos to the organizers for taking on such a huge task, and sticking with it.
Huh? The author's fix is to help develop embedded systems by freely distributing an unencumbered tool set with:

1) A smaller attack surface
2) Correctness as a focus with regard to code
3) Conciseness as a focus with regard to tools
4) Improved speed
5) Clear documentation (In TODO)

http://www.landley.net/toybox/status.html

http://www.landley.net/toybox/design.html
For those interested in more poker discussions http://www.reddit.com/r/poker
The RV Conjuring Cartoon
Do embedded device vendors deserve our trust to make good decisions ? They don't display outright malice, but they are institutionally set up to abandon software after a few years, as software maintenance is only ever a cost center.

Unfortunately management doesn't care about this aspect of their business, and has to be dragged kicking and screaming to a world of user-upgradeable software.
Unity will always be "great, apart from X pain in the arse bugs". Nothing ever gets fixed or acknowledged on launchpad. It rots for 2 years and then gets closed.

My deal breaker is that it knackers virtualbox mouse input when running a windows guest meaning you lose all mouse move events.
Remedios naturales para la caída del cabello
Mavericks is not yet supported it seems - "Incompatible Plug-ins Disabled [..] Contact the makers of these plug-ins for versions that are compatible with Mail 7.0 and Message 7.0."
With benchmarks like this it worth asking 3 questions:

* Are they relevant. Does this represent the expected production workload. You could find this is 10x better than nginx at some feature but that feature is just not interesting to you then benchmarks are not that interesting

* Does the speed difference matter? Does it matter if the page loads 1ms faster when it was only 20ms before.

* Does it scale. This kind of relates to first question but it looks at abnormal amounts of traffic (Slashdot effects). Either from an attack or just becoming popular too quickly. If simply adds a server with more CPUs would that let Go server scale better than nginx? It might even though nginx could probably process sequential requests faster.
blocked by paywall

One thing I've learned from many so-called "philanthropists" is that hosting charity events can be a great status and money making/saving opportunity for those in the business of it. If you've ever watched a "real housewive of ..." episode, those wacky ladies are constantly hosting charity events and provide a pretty good example of how this works:

1) Get a really good tax accountant and lawyer.

2) Establish a charity (in the U.S. they're called 501(c)(3) organizations and have various laws about how they operate. Dedicate it to "Cancer Research" or "Helping Orphans" or whatever.

3) Set yourself up as the head of the charity, give yourself a respectable, but not over the top salary. This is the "organizational overhead" you often hear about.

4) Recruit a bunch of free volunteers concerned about your cause and host a charity event. Well done theme parties can bring in the most money. Include a donation envelope in case people can't come but still want to "support your cause".

5) Collect money. Make sure you remind everybody that their charitable donations are tax deductions! This will keep them coming. Guilt your friends into coming as well. If you get popular in the charity circuit you can even start charging a "cover charge for the even expenses, recommended donation is...$xxx" or "$xxx per plate" if it's a dinner.

6) Subtract misc expenses for room rental, supplies, cheap gifts for volunteers etc.

7) Take the donated money, subtract a percentage for "organizational overhead"

8) Donate the remainder to your cause or if you have time, spend the money on "donation events" where you get press for doing some kind of community service (advertising).

9) Get your charity to spend money on office equipment, cars, travel expenses etc. Deduct as business expenses.

10) Any left over money is a bonus to you for a job well done (can't show a profit!)

11) rinse and repeat

There actually are good charities out there that do good work, but separating them from this kind of self-service is hard to do.
Instead of buying condoms and bottled water for Haiti, we should fix Haiti's government and economy.

This sounds dangerously close to colonialism. Or nation building to use the more modern term, although the modern version of it is rarely ambitious enough to actually succeed.

(As an example of the distinction, compare the colonial British efforts to end widow burning, compared to contemporary American efforts to end honor killings.)
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>but I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds?

Not always - for example I have one VPS with 64mb of ram, on a shared 1gbit line, and one with 128mb of ram on a shared 100mbit line.

I use them for TT-RSS (nginx + php-apc + php-fpm + postgresql), a self-hosted image uploader (nginx + php-fpm), ZNC and an Irc Bot.

You'd be surprised by how few resources nginx (and similiar, like lighttpd) uses.