skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is untrue. They had the people who made the most noise in the 1980's and barely touched anywhere outside the US.
For me, the goal of passive income is flexibility. Sure, I would hope that I wouldn't have to work if I didn't want to. But it would also mean I could work on anything that interested me. I have a huge list of projects I've wanted to work on forever but will never have time if I don't find a way into financial flexibility.
Are you still a winning player? Were you playing before Black Friday? I heard it was easier. I studied the game a lot these past few months and I barely break even. I'm only winning in live poker.
Come in, the water's warm.
>Until the tools take 5 min to setup, and encryption/decryption is automatically handled by the mail client, PGP will never take off. Things like the public key directory have to handled transparently to the user.

Actually, we're close to that. I have had trouble figuring out how to smoothly encrypt attachments though. (I'm sure it can be done though.)

Five minutes to set up? Yeah pretty much.

Encryption/decryption of emails is handled automatically in enigmail after the first encrypted email is sent. You can set it up so that for certain users it sends them an encrypted message by default. (Though the interface for this is a little confusing, it could use some polish.)

It helps you import a key if a fingerprint is included or a public key attached to the email.

I was actually pretty impressed with what I didn't have to do. It still needs some improvement though.
You're underestimating the level of effort here. It's not about lacking the $100 (they've received more than that in donations), it's that Apple makes significant changes to the way their applications are built and run and they don't communicate the changes very well, if at all.

In addition, as the apps are linked and compiled with different settings (clang, no ppc, no 32-bit, etc.) then plugins that are dependent on these APIs have to find their own way.

ML was a huge change from Lion in many ways. Mavericks has some issues that an individual can resolve on their own (mostly) but it's a moving target as it is not released yet.

But I do encourage you to donate. Integration with your native mail app should be worth $50-100+.
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WeChat has 300 million users according to Wikipedia.
This could and should have been written as:

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Web browsing has always been tough on earlier iPhones due to the limited memory. Also if they're running an OS 2+ years newer than the device, it's kind of expected - the new OS has more bloat and features, and is designed mainly for newer versions of the same phone.

My iPhone OG was quite responsive until about iOS3, when it got kind of slow.

I've never had problems scrolling in non-web-based apps.

Of course, the equivalent operation on a similar-year Android or Blackberry makes you wonder why anyone bought those phones.
I agree with the article on the "If food is too hard… you’re doing it wrong" section. I don't think that this means Soylent is worthless though, on the contrary, I think it's what makes it viable.

While I would never choose to live on just (or mostly) Soylent, as I enjoy food too much, I think it would be very useful to keep around.

Instead of something to replace food entirely, it could be reserved for when you're in a rush. I'm sure that Soylent for breakfast Mon-Fri is much better than nothing. If you're out of the house and need to grab lunch, I'm sure Soylent is healthier than McDonalds.

All the criticism of soylent I've seen is the completely reasonable (and almost certainly correct) assertion that it's not sustainable as the exclusive food source in the very long term. Like everything it should be done in moderation.
hacker news in general seems to have an uneasy relationship with the line between "digital marketing" and "spam". possibly because aggressive email marketing campaigns really do pay off for startups, regardless of how many people they annoy in the process.
A sailboat IS a schooner...
From reading the comments here and on other articles about Soylent, the argument seems to break down into two camps: Harmful until proven safe, or safe until proven harmful. And I really don't understand the mindset of the "safe until proven harmful" people.
oh, you are right on all above. right now I'm way overbuying transit... not quite 10x, but 5x, so I really should increase quotas.

For a long time, it was that my network was so shitty that doubling traffic would make the thing fall over, but that problem is fixed... new network is way more robust. so yeah, I should increase transfer expectations.

I mean, in reality, I follow the 'use all you want, limit you when you get crazy' model, rather than hitting you with a big bill when you go over. (I should make that a selectable option) so it's really similar to what digital ocean is doing with their 'unlimited' - obviously, if you go crazy on an 'unlimited' system, you get limited. My limits are 'setting expectations' - but right now they are setting expectations that would have been reasonable in 2007, which is silly, as my current network is pretty robust, and really can handle more.
wrk looks interesting. Have used http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
Thanks, I'll correct it.

Edit: Oops, too late to edit. Anyway, I should have said subtitle. I think.
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Samsung coasts on Google's creativity in pushing Android. If they had to rely on Tizen or Meego (or god forbid Symbian), they'd be dead in the water... and that's not considering Google's very popular 1st-party Android apps (ie, GMail, Maps, etc).

Without Google, Samsung has no trump cars in the hand. They know it, which is why they put any money at all in to other OSs.

What is amazing is that Google is letting them dominate the Android market so completely. If Google hopes that a strong Samsung will ward off a strong Apple, they better watch their own back.
There are many facets to preparation. Intelligence isn't the only one.

If you behave in a way where others don't want to see you with total power they will have great incentive to find ways to have you lose power. The risks to the USA from being seen as thinking that might makes right is an acceptable philosophy (and since the USA has the might to pretty much do whatever it wants right now it can get away with doing so).

But those that must accept the bully today, will want to find a way out eventually. Currently the USA seems to mainly be aligning with short sited politicians the world over that trade off the rights of their citizens to domination by whatever they USA wants done. This actually works for the short term (to a degree).

But it likely creates situations where citizens elsewhere get tired of electing toadies to USA dictates and throw them out. And given the dynamics, those politicians pursuing anti-USA policies from those countries is increased as the flagrant might-make-right actions turn people off.

Balancing intelligence with diplomacy is wise. But the USA seems to have totally abandoned the idea that the rest of the world's population (95% of the total) matter. Diplomacy seems to have been abandoned for the much easier and funner (when you are the mightiest) policy of we have the might, do what we say or you will suffer.

I agree, that the world can become a huge mess fast. I believe diplomacy is critical in such a system - in order to protect yourself from the result of an out of control mess. But diplomacy is a mess and complicated and frustrating. I can see why you don't want to deal with it if you have the might to tell everyone to bow to your dictates. But I think it is foolish and risky to have limited diplomacy as much as the USA has. This limiting of diplomacy in the USA is not new, the consequences have just become much greater it seems to me in the last 20 years. We only seem to have really had any patience for it at all when dealing with the USSR - because we were worried about the damage that could be done if things went badly.
The difference between benchmarking and DoS is intent. It could be taken the wrong way and now it's a felony.

"Three Felonies a Day" via https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...
Wouldn't using the service knowing that you don't have a contract be fraud?
The Fed is not run by private interests. The president appoints its members. It has a dual mandate of low inflation and low unemployment. So...?
Well, I would say round about 303 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
A friend said it came back "Retry later"
all the good code is GPL

Yeah, like the Apache web server, OpenBSD, OpenSSH, most of the software released by the Internet Software Consortium, LLVM, SDL, Ogre3D, Xorg, Python, Perl, Django, V8, Lua, Mesa, CEGUI, JQuery, CURL, Sass, Groovy, and LESS among others.

You're right, all of the good code is GPL -- oh wait, none of those are. I guess that code's no good.
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Asking sincerely: How far do you think a few million dollars could go? What sort of research needs to be done (and would be convincing to lawmakers)? How would advocacy money be spent?

I think this is a steep challenge, even for a millionaire.
GPGMail is not quite Grandmother ready

My little company is working on an encrypted email solution that is--http://parley.co will be entering pre-beta next week :)
I'm also not really sure about this article. I find the evidence in that graph not to be compelling enough for summarizing with "bottom line:" and some real clean explanation.

I find the trending cumulative percentage a little confusing to think about.

I also wondered, does this mean there is some income bracket losing people? That is, no more families making 25-75k but still as many making <25k, so the <25k have fewer slightly-above peers?

Then I wondered if maybe this means something about the <25k potentially having less income? That percentage stays flat, but those other earners are changing classification to rich... I don't really know.

After writing this up I realize that what I'd like to see is the whole income distribution. This cherry-picks certain points on the CDF and plots them over time (the income cutoffs of 25k and 75k).

What's interesting to me is whether or not we've gone from a unimodal income distribution to a bimodal one, in the sense that there's a trough between the lowest income families and the highest. If we have a 'middle class' we avoid that, and probably that is socially important.

I think this graph is better for understanding the main article, which plots the Gini coefficient for income distribution over time by country [a few, anyway]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_since_WWII.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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In other words you're missing the plain meaning of the sections that I quoted because you try to consider it in the light of http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW.... which was written a decade and a half later?

This clearly shows you haven't actually studied his writings, because he has been raising the same points for many years in almost every EWD, OP is EWD340, so here is a sample from before this period:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EW...

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EW...

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EW...

For example from EWD317:

If we take the existence of the impressive body of Mathematics as the experimental evidence for the opinion that for the human mind the mathematical method is indeed the most effective way to come to grips with complexity, we have no choice any longer: we should reshape our field of programming in such a way that the mathematician's methods become equally applicable to our programming problems, for there are no other means. It is my personal hope and expectation that in the years to come programming will become more and more an activity of mathematical nature.

For a programming language to be simple in the sense of being able to prove things is a completely different thing than for it to be simple in the sense of being easy to understand informally. Yes, bastardized versions of his ideas did make it into the mainstream, I doubt it's always even because of his direct influence and that's what the wiki article I posted three comments earlier is about.
It's not the primary focus of the article, no. There's not that much documented writing on Siri-before-Apple. This was the best single source I could find for the facts I cited, all of which are in that article.
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If you are having trouble with this, wikipedia has some good instructions which helped me. First try autostereograms [1] (these are more simpler to see), and then simple random dot stereograms (RDS) [2], and finally magic eye static and moving stereograms.

BTW, the book which introduced RDS: "Foundations of Cyclopean Perception" by Bela Julesz is considered one of the most influential books in cognitive science. With just a computer, using no invasive microelectrodes and animal sacrifices, he proved a fantastic result...stereopsis (fusion of the individual images from each eye) occurs before object recognition!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-dot_stereogram
I'd hire their Chief Photography Officer, I'll admit that much.
It's official: Fez 2 has been cancelled
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While I do agree to a certain extent you have to think about the scale of the time frame of immortality and factor in the other circumstances you'd have to face. Is everyone else immortal? Fancy watching everyone you love die while you're stuck rebuilding your emotional trust? Immortality, I assume, is forever and that's honestly a terrifying duration for any circumstance.
I think the title is misleading.Most people would assume it's the SMF software itself.
The P6 has only two read ports in its permanent register file for operand values: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~afek/p6tx050111.pdf (p. 36). P-M upped it to three, and Sandy Bridge removed the limitation completely.

Intel's optimization manual describes the stall: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/manual/64-ia-32-archite... (3.5.2.1, "ROB Read Port Stalls.").

The optimization manual mentions examples of the stall occurring when e.g. often-used constants are stored in registers, or when a load is hoisted "too high" and the value "goes cold" before its consumers use it.

Agner Fog's manual has a discussion starting on p. 69, 84 of his manual: http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf. Note his use of an unnecessary MOV to "refresh" a register to avoid the stall.

I only glanced at the code quickly, but the comment about how he got rid of a load by holding a value in a register made me think the load was keeping the value from "going cold." Of course, I didn't profile it so I'm probably completely wrong...
Debt collectors in the UK do this as a matter of course. If you ever get one on your case, your solicitor will suggest that you print your name or write an X rather than use your signature or it'll come up on another document agreeing to piles of additional charges later on.
kneel down before the warrior (all levels): https://gist.github.com/syasrebi/6097679
You broke your word to the employee. You promised him you would fax him the contract with your signature. You've known for one or two years that this day would come and that the required notification was 90 days. You decided to stay with the company for well over 90 days, so with a little bit of advance planning you could have met their draconian requirements. Now because of a technicality - you neglected to fax them and they forgot to collect your signature - you might be legally able to get out of it.

Yes, you'd save $92, but in terms of your own life, getting out of it is worse for you than it is for them. If you go around the world not trusting and manipulating people, you experience the world as an untrustworthy and manipulative place. You will never be close friends with somebody that you cannot manipulate, and you'll never be close friends with somebody that you can really truly trust. These things might not matter to you until you're in a really bad situation, but by then it will be too late.

Look, I've done lots of things like this. I've put people into jams that they simply couldn't get out of with no visible harm done to me in the eyes of anybody else. Being manipulative gives you power and control and money, but not being manipulative gives you personal integrity. At this point in my life I would easily pay $92 for my personal integrity.

The right thing to do in this situation if you really felt like 90 days was walking all over you would be to take back the contract the very next day and either agree on 30 days or get your money back, possibly with a chargeback from your credit card. The second best right thing would be to give them 90 days notice. The third best right thing would be to go and talk to them right away. When I say "right thing" I mean "thing that is not somehow taking advantage of the situation". It's not about the money, it's not about the other party's behavior, it's about the kind of person you want to be.
Re. Terrece McKenna, Interstellar spores & evolution.

This is a pretty clear indication to me that psychedelic inspired insights are merely the concatenation by the mind of unrelated concepts where the result is definitely not more than the sum of the parts.

Some simple refutations that spring easily to mind:

- mushrooms have the same type of DNA as the rest of earth's living creatures, no?

- information cannot be transmitted in a chemical compound. You can have a trip by ingesting the psychoactive compound extracted from magic mushrooms.

- no other animals were enlightened or had their evolution enhanced, why only us?

While it is attractive and intriguing to believe that hallucinogens open the doors to perception and reveal a larger reality, I believe that it is much more likely that the modeling/simulating machine that is your brain is conjuring that impression in a way that is, by definition, seamlessly undetectable and wholly convincing to that same brain.
This simply devalues startups and re-emphasises how startups are less disruption and much more a third way between job or student.

Only a market where a flood of new, mostly indistinguishable entrants would be able to use an app for funding
the hypocrisy in his statement is mind blowing.

call me out if I'm wrong here, but he just had a bazillion news stories saying he was going to do philanthropy. how is that not back patting? finally, he concludes that we will have a perpetual poverty machine by people patting themselves on the back with charitable acts, so his solution is to try and get all 13 year old girls to no longer be sold for sex.

that makes zero sense! I'm gonna try and follow his logic here: he says the market is too vast. ok. we should shatter those structures and vast markets. ok. we gatta be absolutely sure that 13 year-old girls are no longer sold for sex any more.

so, could he be implying that he really wants to return to traditional markets without wifi on every street corner and just the regular old 18+ year-olds sold for sex?

(sorry for the crude comment. it is not meant in harm. after thinking about it more than 10 seconds, I have no idea what kind of world he wants to create!!)

EDIT: I would imagine that what he really want's to do, is invest all that cash into google, install wifi on their street corners along with a chromebook so they can get them some form of education, and then track all their communications, to be 100% sure that they're not being sold for sex.
Wait, if edge cases turn you away from a language, exactly what languages do you use and for how long?

If Jeremy and the rest of the CS core contributors documented things like this it would cause more confusion. Look how contrived the examples in the blog post are to begin with.
TL;DR: If you nest functions in CS, you should be aware that you are creating a closure. If you create a "global" variable in your file/module, you should know that it is global to your module.
well said.

I do very very imperative things in haskell. Including very very high quality numerical algorithms where i'm writing vectorized math that uses the cpu ports well (the things that let you get instruction level parallelism), the cpu caches well, etc.

Basically, I know how to write fast code. Haskell supports writing sophistcated algorithms using these gnarly bits of code i wrote as primops in a really nice way. this code is more imperative than most "web" code ever written ever, and competes favorable with state of the art alternatives written by dedicate experts.

Point being, anyone who says haskell can't do IO is an idiot and needs to finish their computer science education, or get one :) (or, get a refund)
French person here, a lot of my French friends from high school went into med school. Free universities, no debts, heavy unionization, you can easily move to nursing/pharmacology if you fail med school... free education solves many social problems.
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If you just type the command in you should see a list of options and what they do.
They do in the short term, but in the much harder to measure long term, I'm guessing that they do more damage than good. I know many people who absolutely abhor and refuse to ever use LinkedIn thanks to their incredibly aggressive email team, for example, but I'm sure the engagement numbers looked real good when they sent out each of those email blasts.
Six percent! What !

Any real estate agent in the UK offering that would get laughed out if town - 2% is common, 1% is realistically negotiatable
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Could it have something to do with stalling while register renaming?

r8d/r9d are used "a lot" so it may have something to do with dependencies between steps, especially from end of the loop to the beginning (if I understood correctly)
Ah okay, so really they were just protecting the rights of slaves. Gotcha.
Honestly curious, but the "sweeping conclusion" I'm drawing is either that this i legal. According to this ruling (regardless of the fact that there was no majority opinion), am is it true that what the FBI is doing is legal?
I have had a huge amount of fun lately going through the J labs. Start at jsoftware.com to download the interpreter, then the labs are all built into the interpreter. You can also run it on iOS. The terse code actually means you can type in real programs even on an iPod keyboard.

When I taught people to play frisbee, I used to throw with my off-hand when teaching, because it made me pay attention to the fundamentals I was trying to teach. Learning J had some of that same feel. I felt like a newbie, but when I saw the kinds of audacious programs you could write, I was hooked. Highly recommended for a bit of fun in your spare time.
...since americans will buy ice while on their arctic trip, this CEO's biggest problem in my opinion is securing free wi-fi, onboard internet access for the next digital-centric Skymall.... so that he is able to convert as many people as possible of those 70% that browse the Skymall catalog nowadays.

Given that Skymall is on just about every US-bound or intra-US flight, if this Weiss character can't insure the impulse buy of these passengers, he should be fired as soon as he can't deliver on this.

If Internet access cannot be secured on the airplanes because of whatever, then he should serve the catalog from a local server onboard the aircraft through an existing wifi or worst case, invest in onboard wifi w/the air co's.
What is the barrier to entry? i.e. What makes this hard? Is it just "being the bad guy"?

edit: not to sound like a jerk, but I'm curious
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