skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies don't pay taxes it's the shareholders and the employees who pay taxes.

You're dead wrong.

The corporate tax is 35% at the federal level and anywhere from 1-12% at the state level. Reductions in corporate taxes increase the net income available to shareholders. One easy way for under-levered companies to increase profits for shareholders is to go borrow a bunch of debt (interest expense is deductible). As a sidenote, Minsky thought eliminating corporate taxes might increase economic stability because it would remove the incentive for corps to increase leverage in order to minimize taxes.

You might be thinking of a REIT or a MLP where taxable income is passed through to the partners.
You're right. And if I made a comment about how well I learned to clap through almost no effort I suppose I'd have one-armed people writing comments to complain.

If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense.
You seem to be deliberately misrepresenting what i'm saying in order to argue about things i'm not claiming, so i'm just not going to continue this discussion.

You also seem like a bit of a dick.
Maybe camera is just the way to go then. There's Kinect, of course, but Intel is getting into the act as well:
http://click.intel.com/intelsdk/Intel_Developer_Kit-0-C92.as...

Video demos here:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/perceptual-co...
Hmm...

Do I need authority to solve a problem? No. If I can solve a problem, I can solve it.

Does missing authority mean that I'm not an expert? No.

I need (web) authority for selling. Don't mix up authority and expertise. It's possible to know a lot about something and still have zero authority in web.

Does solving a familiar problem mean that someone will buy it? No. And if you don't have customers, you don't have a business.

What you present here is just a more intelligent version of "if you build it, they will come" and we all know that doesn't work.

It doesn't matter what all fancy stuff I'd have skill & expertise to build if I can't sell any of it.

And as I said in that post, I'm happy and proud of this launch's performance :)
This struck me as really weird too. I Was half expecting "and I removed FullHDLogo.BMP but it's probably Go!" toward the end.

16 seconds is crazy slow, a sure sign that previously Something Wasn't Right.
There is a reason so much of what they do is covered by ITAR. ;)

In general, rocket technology is missile technology.
it's evened out because people now live where they work instead of have EVERYONE live one place and work numerous other places.

I'm a capitalist whose fine with everything going on in SF to be honest, but I agree that Google is essentially solving a problem it is also helping to create with the buses, so while I don't think they should be criticized I'm also not sitting here cheering them for being environmentally friendly when it was evidently in their best interests to do what they did.
SF and California should raise their income taxes further then. There's no way to dodge that.
Rebol, Io, Smalltalk & Perl6 are also examples of non s-expression homoiconic languages.
Aircraft carriers on the sea floor? Not if they're refitted with megawatt lasers, railguns, UAVs and USVs.
Oh no, where will I find out what to think now?
No you can get carrier agreements, and we have in Rwanda, but that's not a business model we particularly want to go after. We've had the same experience as your own, sometimes it is really quick, other times it takes forever or just isn't possible. But there are plenty of aggregators out there trying to expand and cover all the markets, and in time they will get to Rwanda and the rest of Africa I'm sure.

So we are focused more on providing a platform that lets you build the app, and using the (rather effective) stop gap of an Android phone to bridge until the day we can use Twilio right here in Kigali.
What exactly is the problem here

It's just a tipping point. The disparity is becoming much more obvious and in-your-face, and busses some people can ride on and others cannot (while in reality totally reasonable) really serve to highlight the feeling of divisiveness.

The funny thing is it seems like this is nothing we haven't seen before- it's gentrification, except some sort of ultra-gentrification where the middle-class are driven out by the upper-middle-class.
Classics VS. Graphics - What defines a true gamer?
Sorry for down-voting your original post, I misunderstood. Your clarification makes sense and I agree.
Hi, I'm the teacher of 30x500, the course in question.

You're right -- by far, the product failures I see are caused by people who are self-focused (what do I want to make? what's fun?) vs service-focused (how can I serve people? create value?). Which is why I teach the exact opposite path:

http://unicornfree.com/2013/how-do-you-create-a-product-peop...

My students have cleared that one up already, I think :)

So let's address your #B — "what problems they have the authority to solve."

What is authority exactly? Who gives it? It's not really a term I use in the class because I think it's misunderstood. When Jaana wrote that she didn't have "enough authority," she meant reputation, not authority. But when you come down to it, it's not like Jaana is, say, a famous actress, who wants to break into rocket science. No, she's not famous or well-known at all.

Her real problem isn't authority -- or the perception of authority, or reputation, or trust. It's not a question of image but reach.

Her statistical chops are not at issue, only the size of her platform (readers, followers, fans). And she's working hard to fix that problem right now, using the "ebomb" strategy I teach in 30x500: Educate people, help them, and they will 1. read it, 2. share it, 3. remember you.

As you can see, since we're discussing her post and people are saying how useful it is, this strategy works :)

Now... if you have a platform already and you want to help people, serve people, and sell them something, and you're worried "They won't believe I have the experience!"...

Don't try to sell a teaching product. Don't let it rest on your judgment. Don't use yourself.

Instead, give them a tool that is "factual" -- "This is the math, just plug in your numbers" -- instead of based on opinion or your personal experience. This way you outsource the "judgment" to the end user of your tool. An alternate way is to do research and compile findings, and let the research speak its opinions instead of you.

In that way, Jaana did take my advice. :)
All this article does is make me wish there were an alternative to typical Borne shell garbage. No sane person would ask for a wretched pile of hacks like this.
If it's just about the electrons being pulled closer to the nucleus, why doesn't the effect apply nearly as much to it's neighbors on the periodic table?
What I mean is that we'll come to accept the fact that things like sexting are really common, and we just won't treat it like a big deal anymore.

(Not a fan of the sarcasm and ad hominem, by the way.)
The way I read the story, he shut down the site because he received a non-specific warrant e.g. demands for access to every user's messages. It seems to be pretty clear that he believed that specific warrants are fine. I saw nothing here, nor in any of the other HN front-page stories about Lavabit, to suggest that Lavabit was unable or unwilling to provide law enforcement agencies with plaintext for suspected criminals. Lavabit's users are lucky that the founder is not willing to participate in wholesale surveillance.
Debatable study on XML having the same performance as JSON.
The 30/30 limit is actually an Android limit, and one we get around if you install the 'message packs'. We've had handsets send around 1000 messages an hour without problem.

SMS prices vary a lot by plan and country, but here in Rwanda it is 10 RWFs per SMS on carrier, which translates to about 1.5cs. There are various promotions you can get to lower that further, in Kenya you can buy a message pack that brings the price down to less than .5c each.

Oh note that it is always free to receive calls and SMS messages in Africa, as everything is pre-paid.
The problem with "rules" is that they live in an ideal world, not the real world. "Give up only 15% of your company" sure, if you are the next Google, but even then every raise they did wasn't perfect. Let's be honest there is an ideal way you would build a company, but it doesn't exist for anybody. Startups are hard and messy. You do the best you can, but you can't just know in advance you're picking the best idea, the best people and fundraising quickly. It's not like that at all.
Others here are skeptical that just anyone can memorize pi to an arbitrary length. One way you can test if this has to do with you being 14 when this happened, is to memorize phi or e to 100, 200 or so digits with no mnemonic device. Or, maybe a string of random words or the contents of an entire magazine, each 100s of items long. It all depends on you being honest, but I'm curious. Maybe your brain has changed since then or you learned how to do this, but at a certain age when the brain was more malleable, hence the window of training was very narrow and adults like myself can't do this, either.

If you can memorize this without a mnemonic device, then I hate to break it to you, you are a mutant with Eidetic memory. And, so incidentally was your friend.

If you can't, then perhaps you've found a special, easy way to make memorizing numbers easy. Perhaps you should start a website and sell this technique?
Obvious next step: compress and pad to original length.
Do you want the fresh apple or the rotten apple? They're both apples. Make yours the fresh apple.
The author is suggesting that people will eventually get sick of the news provided by social media and begin to crave serious, slow journalism again. I don't think this is an issue where "Problem --> solution" relationship exists. It will simply take time to revert back to what the author deems as quality journalism. Medium has a lot of these "truthy" titles but this one actually does not seem far off the mark.
Betapp - Bet with your friends...about anything.
And when (if?) energy weapons and railguns become a reality, all of a sudden a 100MW reactor is not a bad thing to have.
How about: "The number of properties in San Francisco renting for less than $1,772 declined sharply between 2010 and 2012."

I'm not sure this graphic really contains any information.
The nigger cannot be taught.

http://www.randomnumbers.info/

God says...

127:4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of
the youth.

127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

128:1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his
ways.

128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou
be, and it shall be well with thee.

128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
LORD.

128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon
Israel.
> the best-considered view among medical practitioners with clinical experience is that the placebo response has no clinical application.

"Conclusions: It is evident that placebo effects are real and that they have therapeutic potential. Laboratory evidence supports the existence of numerous placebo mechanisms and effects in both healthy volunteers and patients with a variety of medical conditions. Furthermore, clinically relevant evidence demonstrates that placebo effects can have meaningful therapeutic effects, by virtue of magnitude and duration, in different patient populations. Although substantial progress has been made in understanding placebo effects, considerable scientific work remains to be done in both laboratory experiments and translational clinical trial research, with the ultimate aim of harnessing placebo effects to improve patient care."

from: "Placebo Effects: Biological, Clinical and Ethical Advances"
/ by Damien G Finniss, Ted J Kaptchuk, Franklin Miller, and Fabrizio Benedetti /
Lancet. 2010 February 20; 375(9715): 686–695. /
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832199/
Because it is run by people disconnected from the real world. Walled-garden of rich people who like to read about people liked themselves.
Sure. I work at an investment bank with hundreds of SQL Servers self-hosted myself. Your original comment I replied to said:

it looks like you want them to open their db up to the world?

What I was trying to say was that this is not the case. With Azure, it takes 10 seconds to open the firewall for a specific IP address. With a self-hosted firewall it probably takes longer but it's still not "opening their db to the world" as you stated. It's opening a hole in the firewall for a specific source IP address on a specific port with a specific destination IP address protected by a strong login and password. So, open for one person, closed to the rest of the world.

Your alternative is not to use the service.
The buses are a convenient and visible symbol for SF activists to
use as a shorthand for the influx of tech workers and housing demand.

While buses clearly reduce roadway commuting loads, and are
convenient for those inside them, they are also highly visible at
pick-up/drop-off points in the City, and in HOV lanes on the freeway
- especially visible to people who are waiting for a Muni bus, or
who are in heavy traffic watching buses go past in an HOV lane.

Activists who understand this keep talking about buses
rather than about people, or about the failures of the
City to provide more competitive working environments
for tech companies and their workers.
An HTT cpu can still only execute one instruction at a time; there are often instructions that cause the cpu to have idle time (stalled waiting for data) and hyperthreading allows for the cpu to spend that otherwise idle thread making progress on a separate task list. However, this still means that the two scheduled threads are contending for the same execution unit... The parent is suggesting that this contest may cause more of a performance degradation than the advantages that HTT provides, which would be easily resolved with some benchmarking :D
Was wondering if someone would notice that.

Eric and I are from Seattle and are big Macklemore fans. :) There are a few other easter eggs in a similar vain on the site.
Perhaps I should have phrased it as "I like living in a place where MOST my neighbors do not work in tech".

I am in agreement that having some interaction with others in the tech industry is important. There should be a happy medium somewhere since living next to nothing but tech workers and lawyers is boring. My current neighbors are teachers, photographers, small business owners, but I wish there was a techie in the mix.
may I ask, what exactly did you have to re-invent? It's true that Go is very young and so are the libreries, and that only recently has started to be seen as web language. But my experience is that the most common problems for web are solved with things like Revel. Is true that is a bit feature basic and there are not that many other options, but I wouldn't consider it insufficient.
Superhero framework ...
At the same time everyone of those google employees who lives in SF pays SF taxes, quite high taxes as a matter of fact, and that contributes to the community, 2-3x more than any of these hippy touchy-feely types who claim that SF is theirs and theirs alone.

I agree though that they should pay for the use of public land for their bus stops, as they are solving a problem they largely created by making it possible for their employees to live there in the first place.

SF already has pretty high taxes, so the creation of a lot of wealth is not google or anyone elses fault. If SF can't do anything to alleviate poverty with the vast amount of funds it collects then that is the problem.

And if it't not possible anymore because SF is just overall too expensive, then that's life, some cities are wealthier than others, you don't see people moving into Montecito, Bel Air or other rich neighborhoods and demanding affordable housing? Perhaps if the city has become that desirable it just isn't possible anymore.
> Even if we were to face China in a war, we'd own the seas. Once their one (maybe two by now) carrier is sunk, even assuming they sink one of ours, we just bring in one of the other 12.

There have been reports that the Chinese have developed and brought to initial operational status the DF-21D, a medium-range, hypersonic, anti-ship ballistic missile specifically designed to be a carrier-killer [1]. The concern is that our carriers might be chased from the Western Pacific.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21#DF-21D_.28CSS-5_Mod-4.29_... -- also http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2013/06/12/why-china...
I disagree.

Exceptions are not some obscure, theoretical language construct and Java exceptions aren't an arcane, experts-only part of the language. If I'm hiring for a "Jr. Java Developer", I expect them to know Java. Not every detail, not the edge cases, the really weird stuff, the 3rd party libraries, the frameworks. But they should know the core language features and syntax. If he's told me he knows Java, and I have to give him a pass on exceptions, is it cool if he can't create a derived class? Doesn't know the type system? Operator precedence? How little competence is okay?

I have an expectation that if you are applying for a "Jr. Java Developer", no matter what you did or did not learn in school, you'd better have picked up a book or cranked up Google and gotten familiar with Java. Why? Because as a programmer, that's going to be the rest of your career. Good programmers are always going to need to be learning something new, often quickly, and usually doing it on their own. If you aren't willing to do that to get the job, why would I expect you to do it once you have the job. And if you can't pick up a passing level of competence in the core language features in a couple of days of prep, then you probably don't need to be working in programming.

Unless it's Lisp. Totally cool if it takes months to wrap your brain around that.
Tomahawks work ok against midrange opponents, but I suspect that the Chinese have SAM systems that can knock them out of the sky, given their lack of stealth capabilities and low speed. Given that the Chinese government can hit a satellite from the ground, I think they might be able to target something that is 500mph and radar-visible.
I am glad that you developed an excellent memory. I used to know PI to 30 digits but forgot it and got some digits wrong.

You might want to write a book on memory and memorizing things using what you learned when you were young. People like me need to learn that. My memory is not perfect, and I am often picked on for not being able to remember stuff.

I believe that I can do it, and am not sure why I fail. Ever since I developed a mental illness in 2001, I've been having memory issues and difficulty concentrating. The psyhe meds for example make me dizzy, confused, and drowsy. In 2003 I could no longer work as I was too sick and became disabled. I always wanted to get out of this rut and get back to work some day. I am 45 now, and nobody wants to hire someone that old these days.
> Most young technology workers order food and supplies online, so she doesn't run into them at the corner store. They keep their noses buried in their smartphones when they walk on the streets and don't volunteer in the community, Flandrich said.

This is true even outside Silicon Valley. A techies community is the Internet. GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, forums, etc. This trend will only get more prolific as the Internet becomes more immerse.
Maybe he's looking for "Possibly Encryption Might be Somewhat Less Secure Than We Personally May or May Not Have Thought At One Time, Technically."
Isn't Disqus loaded client-side? If so, it's not comparing to Go as much as rendering comments server-side, which you'd see performance increases with PHP or Rails as well.
The buses use public land because they are entitled to - they pay road tax just like every other commercial operator. It makes me chuckle seeing the SF gov't complaining about this when it really makes SF richer through property and income tax paid by city residents who would likely live on the peninsula were it not for these corporate buses. Anecdotally I saw LOTS more engineers choosing to live in SF once the shuttles started at Google.
These are actually good, practical examples. Thanks.
In other words, you have no idea what the difference is.

A hyperthreaded Intel CPU has M functional units and N decode/issue pipelines.

A non-hyperthreaded Intel CPU has M' functional units and N' decode/issue pipelines.

A hyperthreaded Intel CPU with hyperthreading disabled has M functional units and N/2 decode/issue pipelines.
Because it's the one with full d orbitals as the outer electrons.
And I did a huge amount of little mistakes! I consider myself lucky in that I eventually reached the launch goal at all.

It's not luck, it's because you got the core thing right: You are killing a real pain people with money have. :) If you get that core right, you can make tons of mistakes and still help people and make money. It buys you the chance to improve and fix and grow.
iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel
That'd be a welcome change in telephony.

Price Wars are inevitably unsustainable, I want to see Twilio deliver on quality.
I would think about it IF this was a current problem the company was having, and they want to see what potential solutions are out there. So it can't be an imaginary problem (ie typical interview questions)

But then you'll get into all sorts of legal issues (like can you actually use code candidates wrote, etc). So that makes it impractical. So it now enters the realm of boredom since it's an imaginary problem :)
Becoming prolific.
> "I'm not sure if you read my comment before becoming offended by it."

That post didn't read to me like he was in the slightest bit offended.

It's simply making the point that if you view the world through a lens of "you can do anything if you just try" then there's a downside of becoming less compassionate as one might ascribe to laziness what may (more correctly) be ascribed to a genuine physical or mental inability.
Thank you!

You've got cool blog, esp. prior posts selection!!
With regards to your first point, I'm honestly surprised the city/county/state doesn't just pass laws that require these companies to register such programs with the government and pay fees to operate the bus routes. Those fees would then go directly to the public transit authorities at the various levels.
> the entire contract should be converted into drone development, which will actually pay dividends

...or, maybe, education?
It's not that the P(heads)=P(tails), but rather the coins are identical to each other. Each throw of the coin has the same probability and is independent of other throws of the coin.
If your whole argument is that all manned air-ground mission planes should be replaced with drones, it's a stretch to call the parent "absurd". Your comment would be better without its first and last sentences.