skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul, you are incredibly smart guy, so seeing you respond to scientific studies with "anyone with children is aware of it" is pretty disappointing.

As tokenadult points out, these studies are serious business. Anecdata doesn't really cut it.
Welfare politics are driven by resentment, and offense that "My tax dollars are paying for lazy welfare queens to drive Cadillacs!" Because of this, there's a tremendous amount of overhead built into fraud prevention and making sure no one who isn't utterly desperate gets it.

With GMI, there's no justification for class resentment - you get the same benefit as everyone else.
Thanks, glad you found it interesting!
Considering the reliability of standardized testing, I'm not particularly impressed.

I don't deny that some people are more capable and likely to pursue certain crafts and trades, but your initial example was mediocre.
Apple definitely is. They used the same strategy by switching to x86 and making it easy to run Windows on a Mac.

Google is a bit different, since they have a distributed platform that you can use on literally, any OS. They definitely want people on their platform, but so far they haven't taken any steps to 'lock' people in (I mean, they renewed their contract with Mozilla, they open-sourced Chromium/Chromium OS, Android, etc...).

I suspect most people are in Google's ecosystem simply because it's better. And until Google say, makes Chrome and Google services run only on Chromebooks and Motorola phones, I'd say they haven't behaved the same as Apple and Microsoft.
I'm all for a "Star Trek economy", but I think that implies having very low costs on stuff, too, such as replicated food that barely costs anything more than the atoms needed to create it (energy to make it would be free/renewable).

But from what I hear prices in Switzerland are very high, and while I'm interested to see how this experiment will play out, I fear they will get even higher because of it, which could make the whole minimum wage raise pointless.
I also beats all the other regexps engines though.
No one's saying the bug is Google's fault, they're saying that taking advantage of the bug is Google's fault, because it is.

People are annoyed about it because it's stealing from the rest of us who do pay our taxes.
This isn't V8 beating C; this is one regex library being faster than another (both written in C or C++).
Rosberg was losing 1.7 seconds a lap because of rubber in his front wing, and he started the race on tyres that has done two runs in qualifying. It is the general consensus that Red Bull do have a performance advantage, but it's nowhere near 2 seconds.
Faster? It's taking the French Gendarmerie a decade to transition to Ubuntu. It'll take much much longer to transition the Chinese government to Ubuntu (if that ever happens). The first linux distro designed to be used by the Chinese government was developed in 2001, and UbuntuKylin is a loose continuation of that, so we'll see how that goes.
I'm guessing it may help bring JSON to use in the more restrictive companies that are scared of 'nonstandard' file formats. The kind that currently uses XML for everything.
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I'm a Wikipedian, and between posting my first comment here and replying to yours, I was just posting to a talk page of a biography article on yet another pseudoscientist who has too many credulous followers on Wikipedia. I like Wikipedia well enough to roll up my sleeves to try to make it better, but I dearly wish that more Wikipedians knew more about how to look up reliable sources before adding edits to the encyclopedia that any bozo can edit.
I just travelled through Asia (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) for two months and, indeed, everyone still uses Windows XP. I was actually pleasantly surprised when i used XP again after many years in internet cafes and noticed it to be good in terms of user interface. Things 'just work'. Maybe because i've used XP for many years, but i had the impression that many things were in logical places, little bloat or silly stuff that you get in Windows 8 and, most important at all, very fast and responsive even on the old machines they had there.
>"This is V8 calling a regexp library written in C++"

But it also beat the C++ implementation though.
How did I mischaracterize it? From my post: "The article provides lots of evidence that women react badly to this belief..."

Do you disagree that the original author characterizes the belief as false, in addition to destructive?
A Little Piece of Heaven - Big Sky Ranch Texas
Imagine sitting on the deck of your new home watching the waves ripple through your pond. Imagine fishing in the river with your children and grandchildren and enjoying the fresh caught fish for supper. Imagine your checks imprinted with your new address of 23 Blue Sky Lane. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Blue Sky Lane, the name paints a picture of a clear blue sky with birds chirping and nothing but the sound of the wind rustling through the Oak trees.
(Just for the sake of argument, and of course, in the odd event the U.S. went for a plan like this, you'd assume a long transition period so as not to screw people's ability to plan.)

The first trillion is "easy", insofar as it's revenue/spending that you could eventually redirect:

~$600B in existing Social Security taxes/spending.
~$400B in non-healthcare-related welfare spending, like food stamps and unemployment benefits.

You could maybe squeeze out another couple hundred billion from reducing aid to states and other programs made redundant by the new payments.

But the next nearly two trillion is really hard. Eliminating the entire defense budget wouldn't get you even a trillion. Doing the equivalent of lifting the Social Security tax cap and adding a marginal 12% to high-earner income would only net you another $125B.

If you were serious, you'd need to either double income taxes, most of which would come from the middle class, or impose a VAT or sales tax around 20% that would raise the equivalent (which would hit the middle class and the poor). Taxing the rich alone won't do, unless you really believe that ~70% marginal rates would actually raise twice the revenue of ~35% marginal rates.

And all of this assumes you can do this without tanking the economy and thus tax revenue.

Anyway, I'm actually hoping Switzerland goes through with it, since it will be interesting to see what happens. I'm all for unconditional cash payments as the main form of welfare, though I think something like the EITC on steroids would work better to ensure people who can work productively do.
Eh, I wouldn't say Schumacher won against vastly superior Adrian Newey cars. Once Ferrari hit their stride in the Schumacher years they often beat McLaren by being far more reliable and robust. They also built up their advantage with their Bridgestone partnership to a level that made them dominant. So dominant in fact, that it led to a spec tire.

Adrian Newey designs in the past ran on the ragged edge of fragility in order to make the cars as fast as possible. But that resulted in many costly DNF's that cost McLaren at least one championship. Now the Red Bull cars are still blazing fast but they're also very reliable.

I'm pretty sure Red Bull is cheating with traction control through their KERS system but I'm also sure they'd be winning races without it.
There is nothing wrong with it. I just prefer the technological competition that is so much a part of F1.
Why do we still teach a semester of trigonometry? How about engineering instead?
> Don't blame them if it's legal.

Obviously Google isn't evading taxes. Google has lawyers and accountants telling them that this is legal.

But some of the schemes that big companies are using are not legal, and the only way to test that is in court or to hope they agree and pay up.

This is a small argument in favour of tax simplification. The UK tax regime is baffling, and simplifying it would be a good thing.

{EDIT: I say UK tax system, I assume the same is true for the US tax system too.}
That is true, and there might be a decent argument for it (bringing the cash to invest in the US).

But the comment I replied to was implying that Google lobbying alone was responsible for all that is wrong in the world, and even the valiant efforts of Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook couldn't stop it.
Whatever time you decide, I'd recommend you pick a "start date" for your own company, and stick to it. That morning, get up early, shower and dress sharply, and report to your new "office" at 9am. Maybe not literally, but try to get into the mindset of productivity and dedication to your new job. Especially after a week or three off, it would be very easy to ease into it lazily and half-heartedly. But if you are starting your own company, you'll want to hit the groudn running, with momentum and acceleration.
The OS on the air gapped system is not that important, since you don't have to deal with regular internet threats, and anybody who wants to attack you will use 0-days anyhow. But I think that the air gapped computer should have a different OS than the computer which writes the USB sticks (and is connected to the internet). Just to force the attacker to burn two 0-days.
It's a paywall that automatically sends you back. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101104483 is the nonpaywall link.
"Six government employees, plus two contractors including Edward Snowden, have been subjects of felony criminal prosecutions since 2009 under the 1917 Espionage Act, accused of leaking classified information to the press—compared with a total of three such prosecutions in all previous U.S. administrations"

Correlation not equal cause.
I'd love it if we had a functioning individual market for health care, so that such a system could replace Medicaid/Medicare, but the jury's still out on that. Fingers crossed that ACA exchanges actually work out without requiring massive subsidies.
..as long as you take responsibility for the consequences.
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But the employer will say: "Now that they're getting the $2800, I can cut wages and keep more for myself."
Here is an incomplete prototype I developed of a UI to build impress.js presentations http://stepludesigner.azurewebsites.net/designer/index/1

(make sure to add a few slides and go to the "Presentation Designer" tab)
Likely because V8 only works on platforms where JIT is possible, so the regex engine relies on JITting specialized native code for the regex. A portable C/C++ regex library can't really do that.
I really hope Ubuntu touch takes off. For one, it's completely open-source (Sailfish has proprietary bits). And it looks like it's coming along nicely, from the looks of it they've got the nicest UI (and I'm acquiring a Galaxy Nexus this weekend to load Ubuntu onto).
> After all, I pay income taxes on all my income, not on the savings after I have spent my money.

Actually, you, like a corporation, pay taxes on income after deductible expenses, and you, unlike a corporation, even get the privilege of assuming a certain amount of deductible expenses without proving it.

OTOH, almost everything a corporation can do with money other than lock it in a vault is a deductible expense, so there is that.

> Why should companies get to pay taxes on "profit" and not on revenue?

In theory, I think, because corporations are legal fictions and the actual benefits that their shareholders, employees, etc. -- the non-fictional people involved -- derive from them are taxed as personal income or capital gains, and corporate tax serves as a fee on delaying those personal taxes by retaining profits in the corporation.
GMI is a dividing line on the libertarian right. Most still hate it, because they're basically anarchists who hate any form of government spending. But there's a minority who really like it for its simplicity and fairness, and the positive impact on personal liberty.
Why do so many commenters on tech sites believe "mum" or "grandpa" only run a browser?
Steve,

How do you explain savants/prodigies?

We are all born differently. Our brains work different ways. Our muscles want to do different things. As such we have a propensity towards one thing or another.

It is true if you have kids you can see this. Every single baby is completely different, even newborns, in how they respond to things.
... They get vaccines in Japan. I can't tell if your wording was AWFUL or you think people in Japan don't get vaccines.
One individual is not 'empirical evidence.'
What if determination is also significantly inborn?

> Broad genetic influence on the five dimensions of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness was estimated at 41%, 53%, 61%, 41%, and 44%, respectively.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8776880
the kind that correctly uses XML for everything.
reading it looks efficient but what about hand writing it?
I guess that re2 (the library that this C++ code is using) is slower than irregexp (the library that V8 is uses) on this benchmark.
As far as I know Irregexp[1] compiles on V8 byte code so you can't use it isolated without V8.

Please, let me know if you find the opposite.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new...
Until it steals your important data, or crashes your system, or sets your laptop on fire from maxing out your cpu for bitcoin mining.

Depends on the specific malware obviously.
No, they are specifically searching for content by @{username} - refer to the cheat sheet on the search page. @{non-existent-username-or-user-with-no-activity} triggers this behavior.
Ask HN: Want to experience Remote Work. How to?
I really want to experience remote working and want to meet with great people across the globe. But i actually don't know how to look or apply for a remote position. Applied to a few but didn't get any proper response.

Can you guys share your ideas and help me about working/applying,how to handle the time difference,the salary,the communication etc ?

PS : I'm a pragmatic software dev mostly experienced with JS/CS/Node/Ruby/Rails. If you need a nice guy please contact me.
I like the way you expressed the matter in your essay "What You'll Wish You'd Known" (January 2005).

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

"Don't think that you can't do what other people can. And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. People who've done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only exaggerate this illusion, partly due to the worshipful attitude biographers inevitably sink into, and partly because, knowing how the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like the subject's life was a matter of destiny, the mere unfolding of some innate genius. In fact I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they'd seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.

"Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it's not our fault if we can't do something as good.

"I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."

We are NOT sure, on the basis of research, what anyone's upper limit of ability is. We have no idea about the extent of the "reaction range" constrained by the shuffle of genes a person obtains before a person is born, but we are absolutely sure that the reaction range is a RANGE, exquisitely sensitive to environmental influences. The discordance of identical twins for all human behavioral characteristics amply proves that. So, yes, let's say determination can matter as much or more than inborn ability. There are ample examples of that in today's world.

EDIT AFTER SEEING stiff's COMMENT AT THIS LEVEL:

Yes, many children bail out of further study of mathematics because they assume school lessons should be easy, and so they think "they have no talent" for subjects that become hard. A series of FAQs I have written about mathematics learning,

"Problems versus Exercises"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/ProblemsversusExercises.php

"Repetition and Practice"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/RepetitionPractice.php

"Resources about Learning Mathematics"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/LearningMathematics.php

"Courage in the Face of Stupidity"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/CourageandStupidity.php

were written to encourage learners to be willing to challenge themselves when they feel stuck learning mathematics. Most professional mathematicians feel stuck a lot of the time when they do their daily research work, but they keep going.
but no constraints on ham sandwiches
More of a formality than anything else. Since JSON was already defined by Javascript, formalizing it doesn't really engrave the standard, it just gives it the recognition that its not just some whacky thing created by Dave.
The winner of the Americas Cup determines the rules for the next one. In this year's Ellison wanted catamarans. Here is some more info on the some of the rules http://www.cupinfo.com/en/ac34-americas-cup-2013-ac72-class-...
Building great products is hard. Take something hard and try to scale it, you get shit. You have to make it easy first, reduce it to a formula that you can then abstract and export to other domains. Apple has not achieved that. They can't buy up big companies and expect them to suddenly start getting the same results Apple gets. This is pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
>For the NSA-agent wishing to leak, a good idea is too look into HaikuOS, MenuetOS etc and use those instead of GNU/Linux, or ArchHurd. Something very rare, something unexpected.

Is that really the best idea, though? One of the things Linux has going for it is a couple of decades worth of public scrutiny and hardening.
FWIW, for getting ads, your location and TLD matters. Perhaps, you can check Adwords ad check tool--available when you place ad for any keywords.
If you assume the OS is coming from a compromised vendor, what's to stop it from making wireless network connections on the sly? Or adding a 'phone home' payload to any outgoing data copied to removable media?

You could physically destroy the wireless capability. But not using or destroying the media inputs would leave you with a fancy typewriter.
Ask HN: Anxious About Email?
Hi, all -

This is kind of bizarre, but I hate responding to e-mails. If I can't respond to an e-mail immediately, I get this sort of anxiety that the person on the other end is angry at what will be a "late" response. That makes it even harder to work up the nerve to reply later on, and so begins a sort of vicious cycle. I woke up this morning with 17 e-mails in my inbox, and I honestly don't even have the energy to check and see what they are because I am that anxious that it's 1 e-mail that was sent yesterday and 16 angry followups asking where I am. Every so often, I'll work up the nerve to just plow through a large group of overdue e-mails, but that drains me emotionally for a couple of days, and just reinforces my negative thoughts about e-mail. This is irrational, but it's really getting to be a pain.

Does anyone else feel similarly or have any experience with something like this that they would be willing to share?
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's just a different philosophy. Personally I like the ability for engineers to innovate in F1 more, but of course that varies from person to person.
Clay's nytimes article summarizes the points that he makes in the talk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/business/a-capitalists-dil...
It does not work with @{any letter}. Try @b or @x - they will search for content by user 'b' (http://github.com/b) and user 'x' (http://github.com/x).
Well, by this logic, open software isn't open source unless you have access to a computer. It's only up to the author to grant permission, not to truly enable.
When discussing populations, and making statements about them, the presence of an outlier does not invalidate the statement about the characterization of the population.

We are, of course, all different. Diversity is a great strength. That doesn't mean that there's a biological basis for every kind of difference.
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That's like saying we shouldn't use the envelope to represent email, because no one sends snail mail any more.

The save icon concept makes no sense to me either, it really doesn't represent anything related to save, maybe download but without the word "save" next to it I would not have associated the two (and to me looks like a copy of the Burton Snowboard icon https://www.google.com/search?q=burton&tbm=isch)
Reminds me of this comic:

(Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes)

http://9gag.com/gag/3968335
not being an apologist, but i'm curious as to what the alternative would be.

if i believed that more open information was the solution to factual journalism, then i'd have more sympathy for this report.

the truth, however, is that journalists spin context of information (with graphs, info charts, interactive elements, and polls) to sell ads and get more eyeballs.

while i agree that obama has been extremely heavy-handed with retaliation on whistleblowers, the report ignores the bias that also exists within media outlets to add their own context to sell more, rile up a base, or attract more advertising investment.
Not necessarily.

You can close the loopholes and lower taxes, leaving a neutral revenue effect. That still leaves a net gain through less expensive tax enforcement and compliance, along with an attractive corporate tax rate that suddenly becomes very competitive internationally.

If we closed all corporate tax loopholes, you could lower the corporate tax rate down to closer to the 22% range (if my memory serves me).
Neo: I thought it wasn't real

Morpheus: Your mind makes it real

Neo: If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?

Morpheus: The body cannot live without the mind
There are good reasons to exclude certain business partners, none of which were raised by Fisher. The only criteria he stated was nationality.

What is the difference between "local benevolence" and Nationalism if the consequence is that nationals are treated in preference compared to other individuals?
At the risk of sneering at science for it's own sake: why is that the most important question? What extent is programming an innate skill doesn't seem to have many obvious utilities, but finding effective methods to address gender disparities in STEM fields does. Not to mention that these studies also indicate that a belief in effort rather than innate skill improves performance for both genders.
That's true.

But it does show how good V8 is at optimizing out the JS part of JS when it's irrelevant to the computation, and it shows how well-optimized the regexps in V8 are.

None of this is terribly surprising given V8's use case, but only a few years back this would have been a ridiculous result. I enjoyed taking a minute to reflect on that.
I was using Windows XP last week to make sure I didn't break compatibility and I miss little things like snap[0]. It is remarkable how quickly we build muscle memory because I really didn't use Windows 7 until about the third quarter of 2010. I was either on Tiger on my personal computer or XP for everything else.

[0] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/feature...
A Component-Entity-System for games.
I see basic income being implemented by giving tax refunds divided over two week payments instead of as a single annual lump sum. Then we set an amount where you may get a larger refund than you actually paid in taxes.
Windows XP extended support ends in April (2014). Having your computer hacked due to unpatched OS and browser should be worth paying to avoid. If you don't feel like paying, there's always linux distros, *bsd, nexenta OS...

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/default.aspx?LN=en-us...
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