skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair issue, but also a particular use-case. Java seems to be suitable for long running apps where that 100+ms start up time is easily covered as an ammortized cost over the apps uptime. It still doesn't answer what benefit would Java have if it had been native compilation from the start versus VM (and later VM with JIT-compilation). It would not have been able to run on near the number of platforms that it initially supported if, instead of porting a VM, they'd had to support many OS/ISA pairs. The VM -> VM w/ JIT approach provided a deployment path based on incremental improvements. Initially support dozens of platforms with good enough performance, then over time improve performance on each platform. Versus initially support a handful of platforms with good performance and spend years getting the breadth of platform support.
There's no reason a basic income would be inflationary. Sure, if it's funded by debt or printing money. But you can't simultaneously worry about it being costly to fund and it being inflationary.

Beyond that: yes, you could in theory make things cheaper by only giving the basic income to people who need it. But that's a fool's errand: although that course would reduce average tax rates as a first order effect, it would drastically raise marginal tax rates, which are much more relevant for predicting behavior. On top of that you instantly add a whole lot of administrative costs and interest group jockeying about determining who deserves it and who doesn't.

You get a huge amount of value out of an unconditional grant, and it distorts the market far less than any other structure of welfare scheme.
This. We nurtured it, we funded it, and as recently as WCIT-12, I personally had zero desire for international governance, as many other countries have some very 'non-open' ideas about what to do with the Internet. But, as it turns out, so do we.
The worst thing a big company can do is buy another big company. The two will never mesh well - one will be subsumed into the other. It is very, very rare that big acquisitions and mergers work out well. One company is sure to wither on the vine.

If you don't believe me, go ask someone who worked at an EMC company who was part of an acquisition.
I'm not sure air-gaps are as safe as we think they are.

Yes, its tinfoil time: the NSA and various other Defence agencies have deployed satellites capable of tuning into any CPU built since 1998.

Air gap in a deep, deep hole. Or maybe on the other side of the Sun. These are the only really safe places fur humans subjects of the new Tech Overlords to to stash data...
That article claims that Google regularly returns result pages full of ads, and shows a screenshot of a search for [what is bitcoin] as evidence: http://i.imgur.com/eBtzYic.png

Obviously a non-commercial query like this should return few (if any) ads, so I tried to reproduce the author's results. Here is a screenshot taken of searching for [what is bitcoin] in a fresh Incognito window: http://i.imgur.com/KfY3gvs.png . There are no ads, and the search results a reasonable.

I thought the vastly different result could maybe be a result of searching on google.com vs google.co.uk, but changing the domain did not generate any ads either: http://i.imgur.com/5gcOvtJ.png

Does anyone on HN see a page full of ads when they search for [what is bitcoin]?
I think that in any skill/talent/profession, it is tempting to identify the individuals that thrive at it -- seemingly without effort. Almost all "arts" have some variation of this myth -- programming, sports, painting, writing. Its easy to identify those people -- Pablo Picasso, Bo Jackson, John Carmak, Jane Austen -- and say that they were natural-born whatever...

I reject the idea of innate "talent" or "skill". However, I firmly believe that certain individuals are more adept -- either through genetics or environmental factors -- at "learning" a skill, which is a by-product of the assumptions and abstractions that we construct to process information in the world.

I think that this myth is much more prevalent in the visual arts. Any one can be taught to draw; a good chunk of the first half of art college is unlearning the bad assumptions you have made about visually processing the world. Those that learn "quicker" are a product of an environment where they never made those assumptions in the first place. But that is simply the first step -- the foundation -- beyond that it takes hard work and practice... A dedication to the craft. If you lack the commitment to the craft then it will suffer... And I think that's true for anything: math, programming, writing, drawing, sports, cooking... and so on.

I think that telling someone they "can't" do something or they are naturally "bad" at it is definitely an environmental pressure that could affect ones ability to learn a craft. In fact, it doesn't sound like a good environment to learn anything.
How much money are you spending to make sure current programs are not misused? By making it universal, you get away with much less administrative overhead than you previously could.
Brazil's Push for Internet Sovereignty is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso 20 days to submit
The Library of Congress is sponsoring a set of legislative data challenges to advance the development of international data exchange standards for legislative data. These challenges are an initiative to encourage broad participation in the development and application of legislative data standards and to engage new communities in the use of legislative data. Goals of this initiative include:
• Enabling wider accessibility and more efficient exchange of the legislative data of the United States Congress,
• Encouraging the development of open standards that facilitate better integration, analysis, and interpretation of legislative data,
• Fostering the use of open source licensing for implementing legislative data standard.
I agree Apple has been improving in cloud services but did they not completely scrap their Dropbox alternative? (iDisk).
How did people organize an uprising before there was an internet?

Or, perhaps, yes, organizing an uprising neccesarily means risking your life.

But here's schneier on air gaps for his recommendations against protecting yourself from very powerful attackers. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html
> I think the programming profession does not celebrate the idea of "born programming"

Seriously? Just read the comments above. I'll quote you some of the best if you'd like.
A rare example of a useful Wikipedia article, "Hangul,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul

fills in many of the details about the elegant alphabetic writing system used in Korea since about the same year that moveable-type printing began in Europe. The development of this writing system was a great advance over the former use of Chinese characters to write Korean (which is NOT a language cognate with Chinese). The simplicity and consistency (even with five centuries of subsequent sound change) of hangul spelling for learning to read Korean helps school pupils in Korea learn more in fewer total hours of schooling than is possible in Chinese-speaking countries.
Nonsense. Not getting caught doesn't mean cheating didn't happen, it just means cheating wasn't detected.

Your statement is like saying that if we don't detect intrusion into our computers, that no one intruded.
Braintree has been acquired by Paypal [1].

[1] http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-...
Negative. After the yellow flag erased his lead between laps 25-30, he was able to get ahead by 3.2 seconds in one lap after the restart. After that he gains about 2 seconds per lap. They are definitely using something, especially with that engine audio signature.

Personally, I wouldn't outright call it cheating, since it's within the rules, which is what F1 presumably wants, but it is against the spirit of anti-traction control rules.
"Women are just as good at math as men" is not the same proposition as "mathematical ability is innate". The latter is not incompatible with the former.

Further, the evidence cited here does not show that women are just as good at math as men, since the samples used were not randomly chosen. The samples chosen consisted of men and women who had already taken calculus (and some other criteria).

http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/fr/GDP1/papers/spencer99.p...

The articles do a good job of showing women are sensitive to stereotype threat. But that's all they show.
Can you provide some sources for those statements?
I'd say 4 weeks is perfect. Take your family, friends, {girl,boy}friend and enjoy the most.
The time you will spend now you won't get it after you get into the Startup race.
It looks nice, but not being able to use my mouse to navigate is kind of annoying.
I'm a big fan of Prezi, and think that impress.js is pretty sweet, but I have to admit, every time I try to dive in and use either tool to build a presentation, I realize how much planning is required to execute one effectively.

I'm still a huge fan of reveal.js[1] and love the fact that I can get a rich presentation, with all the functionality I need in an easy-to-use, extensible framework. Ever since discovering it, I haven't been able to present well with anything else...

[1] http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/
I am one of these folks that claims natural math/development skills which were inherited from my natural parents. Here is my empirical evidence:

I was neither raised by or knew my biological family growing up (though I know them now). My mother is a developer, my supposed bio-dad is a developer, my late grandmother on my mother's side was a mathematician & psychologist, my grandfather on my mother's side was on the early teams at IBM, and my uncle whom is close to a doppelganger of me is a developer/linux admin. I knew none of these people growing up. My father and mother who raised me are respectively a restaurant manager and a hair stylist. Neither have any significant interest in the sciences or mathematics realms. Somehow I ended up in the family business without a shred of influence from them.

Take my story for what you want, but in this case the women were very much involved with the biological version.
> Almost none of this is true if the operating system allows you to provide a write-only layer – you'd be limited to the operations which the GPU can perform without the browser seeing the bits but that would address the needs of most sites at or better than the current plugin situation.

The EME language indicates that the aim is to provide raw frames to the browser. Regardless, Adobe (with flash) has moved on from the idea to draw everything on top and not interact with the browsers compositor a long time ago. It turned out to be just extremely unworkable for a lot of flash usecases. These days, flash provides a filled framebuffer for the browser, and the browser composits it with the page in software or hardware.

The step back to the model that the proprietary blob draws directly on screen will turn out to be non usable for most web properties (like netflix, youtube, amazon, bbc, vimeo etc.) because they all place custom branding, advertising, user annotations, closed captions, player controls and other navigational/informational elements on top of the content.

> Say we do draw a line and convince the W3C to drop EME — who benefits other than Adobe and Microsoft? Apple doesn't need EME because they're selling billions of dollars of movies through the iTunes store. Google will put EME or the equivalent into Chrome for anything they can't sell through their store.

Microsoft has been one of the staunchest and most feeverish proponents of DRM. Initially launched by Google and Netflix, to a mounting opposition from the EFF, Cory Doctorow, me and many, many other people, Microsoft stepped in and agressively stiffled dissent in the discussion on the standards body and held almost daily telephone conferences with netflix to push EME trough as fast as possible.

The reason Microsoft is all hot&bothered about EME is because for the first time, in a long time, they see a credible chance to lock the web back into only their own platform (and certain tollerated proprietary small-bit players).

The question isn't who is going to benefit if you oppose EME. The question is who is going to benefit even more if you don't oppose it (which is Microsoft).

So the argument "Oh Apple and Microsoft are just gonna profit off EME" is moot, they're gonna pull their vendor-lock in and non-standard web fraud anyway, but now they get to say "waaaat? we're not evil! see, it's a standard!!!"

> This places Firefox in a really unpleasant situation: Mozilla will either be forced to license something, hope something changes before the plugin vendors drop out, or lose market-share because users are more likely to switch to IE / Safari / Chrome if something doesn't work in Firefox rather than not pay for DRMed content.

As I've said before, Firefox is in more than an unpleasant situation, because either EME is totally crippled and unusable for everybody, or the CDM will only be available to proprietary browsers. Either way, Mozilla/Firefox loses. But allowing EME/CDM/DRM is the worse choice, because it attaches all the legal headaches of DRM with a standard bodies blessing.
I don't see how it's not indicative of some inherent predisposition thereto. I realize the prior post was brief and may not have gotten the point across fully; point is, most choices I made revolved around programming, it's what I did (and do) for fun, it's how I view the world.

That an entire generation got started the same way may very well be indicative of "inherent predisposition": that period made it easy for the predisposed youth to reach the leading edge of technology very fast and keep pace for a very long time. This in contrast with the current generation, whom I often worry find it nigh unto impossible to "begin at the beginning", there being such a vast swath of complexity between individual transistor and, say, Skyrim: the nature may be there, but nurturing it is much more difficult.
>"mathematical ability is not innate, because if it were, women would react badly to this fact."

That's not the argument. I think the argument is that when people are told that they are expected to do worse than their peers, they do, but when they are not told that, the gap disappears. Therefore arguments from statistics about innate ability to perform being associated with other characteristics (being a woman, for example) when widespread, become circular.

This is the argument.

>[...]belief in gift and natural born ability is toxic to all, and by eliminating it, we won’t alienate so many from technology.

This is a consequence of the argument.

As to the identification of some actual physical ability in math or programming which is defined at birth, it requires a positive proof that's not circular. A study on the innate relative unemployability of American blacks would find a lot of statistics to back it up, but would be a circular waste of everyone's time and a consequence of that (based on experimental evidence) would be a higher rate of unemployment in American blacks. Note that the fact that there's a pragmatic consequence of pursuing a field of study in a particular way has no reflection on the truth of the thesis, yet taints the effort of determining that truth.

As far as I'm aware, the only arguments for innate mathematical ability are dripping with survivorship bias.
Let's say I grant the author his points about harming gender balances and programming culture. That still doesn't address the most important question: Is it true? Is programming an innate ability?

It's unclear whether programming can be taught, but the most depressing study in this area is called The Camel Has Two Humps [1]:

We have found a test for programming aptitude, of which we give details. We can predict success or failure even before students have had any contact with any programming language with very high accuracy, and by testing with the same instrument after a few weeks of exposure, with extreme accuracy. We present experimental evidence to support our claim. We point out that programming teaching is useless for those who are bound to fail and pointless for those who are certain to succeed.

It will take more than this single study to fully convince me, but it definitely put a dent in my initial belief.

1. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
"if you're not excited to get started at your next job then why even switch jobs"

Why does being excited about a job preclude you from being able to take a vacation? I started a new job recently, and while I was excited, I took a few weeks to visit with friends&family, took a trip to Montreal, and spent some time away from coding and computers. It was a great time, and nothing would have been different had I started work a week or two sooner.

@OP, if you can afford it, take a few weeks to enjoy yourself!
Schneier is kind of disappointing more and more...

Be cautious of this advice dear readers.

" (The ultra-paranoid way to do this is to buy two identical computers, configure one using the above method, upload the results to a cloud-based anti-virus checker, and transfer the results of that to the air gap machine using a one-way process.)"

No, the ultra paranoid would buy two computers, perform install 1 from friend 1s internet connection, downloading everything keeping a copy and check-sums, then perform install 2 on a friend of a friends connection, then compare the results of both the downloaded check-sums and the installation. (For certain flavors of Linux it should be the same).

There is no point in uploading to a cloud-anti-virus checker if the NSA is after you, its not like they are going to use Slammer or some other known virus against you.

Jesus christ, and he is using Windows !? WTF. He is going against his own advice - to use public/free software as often as possible.

For the step of moving files between air-gapped computer, he suggests using USB sticks. He forgot to say that you must encrypt the entire usb-stick as well, You dont write a file-system to it! Only an encrypted blob. As "viruses" can be transferred on the NTFS he is probably using. Even Linux fs had a vulnerability - when the kernel tried to mount the fs it would privilege escalate to root and run code - code that can be hidden in the NTFS alternate (hidden) streams.

EDIT: 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. Modify the installation from the default as much as you can. Hm, we should make an Ask HN thread - what is the best ingenious methods for current NSA employees to leak again, now that they have to share a computer with a partner?
This is part of scheme to avoid paying taxes on foreign income altogether:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-22/google-joins-apple-...
You want me to argue?

> taxes are killing (+60%)

Taxes are NOT 60% for business, it's 30%. It can go up to a bit less than 60% on personal incomes. That is if your are extremely rich. In 2012, the average taxation was less than 6%. The 45% slice of imposition (which to date is the highest) applies only if you earn more than 500,000€, and only on your incomes above that threshold.

For instance if you earn 1,000,000€ you will pay 458,140.05€ of taxes on incomes, which is a bit less than 46%. To get up to 60% of taxes on incomes, you have to be immensely rich, you won't be suffering from your contribution to society.

> the State is bordering on insanity

Your personal (and imho, stupid as fuck, even if I don't particularly like our government) opinion.

> social security doesn't reimburse much anymore and yet you're forced to pay for it+a private insurance

This couldn't be more wrong. I don't have a private insurance (nor what we call a "mutuelle" to be clear), I only have the minimum public social security. I went to the hospital twice last month, and both time got a small surgical act in addition to the consultation of a doctor (she's one of the best in her domain, worldwide, fwiw). This cost me 21€ the first time and 7.5€ the second time. Most of the medicine I had to take after that were reimbursed almost entirely. This is not a special case, this is the rule.

> firing people is extremely costly, you can end up paying someone for years even though he's not doing anything anymore.

Other people responded to that one. But I may add that if you end up paying people for years after they stop working for you it's either for a non-competition contract or that you fired people without being able to give a reason. Too bad for you, workers are a bit protected in this country.

> you can get sued for firing someone and the judge will side by default with the employee, most judges here are communists/far left to begin with or at least socialist if you wish.

Let me laugh a bit I'll come back when I'm done.

Your next paragraph is pure speculations and is plain wrong. No the richest didn't leave. A few cunt like Depardieu left and made a lot of noise about it, but that's all. But if you want to leave, feel free, nobody will stop you.
We are already buying tens of billions of dollars in "free ham sandwiches" in the form of Social Security Disability fraud every year. That's a LOT of ham sandwiches - similar in cost to running a war on the far side of the planet. Extreme poverty as a result of a post-labor economy also means very high public and private costs for police, prisons, and security.
>both being true, as far as current research shows
Cryptocurrency trading volume over the last 24 hours visualized
I was pretty annoyed by that as well.
You shutdown all the targeted benefit programs that try and give money to people based on certain criteria. Things like unemployment benefit, state pensions, food vouchers, tax breaks for people on low incomes, tax breaks on goods and services that are deemed "essential" like childrens clothes.

What you end up with is a much simpler system. Everyone gets enough to survive, if you decide to earn extra you pay standard rate tax on it all.
He is making that claim:

>both being true, as far as current research shows
Weren't there some issues with 64bit XP version though ?
I remember having trouble with it but maybe I was just unlucky. Would be interesting to see what % of those XP users have 32bit version still.
If Red Bull is indeed cheating, Christian Horner would be a fool to come out and admit it.

Cheating with traction control has been a problem in multiple forms of motorsport for a long time. It's difficult to prove, so by and large, teams that were cheating with it have just denied it flat out.

Red Bull is definitely violating the spirit of the rules, it's just a question of will the FIA come down on them or clarify the rules. In Formula 1 the difference between getting punished for cheating and getting away with it is often political.
Conceptually I like it for that, and other reasons. But what programs do you toss out? Education? Health Care? Food stamps? Subsidized Housing? Each of these has vast constituencies.
So what OS was written in Java?
hello i am a natural born programmer i am a creature of pure logic birthed from the essence of paul graham's reckons, may i join your society
Work to live, don't live to work
He is making a claim:

"There are two distinct things, both being true, as far as current research shows"
Yes, but that comes from it being available to everyone (of a certain age), which is the same advantage a basic income has.

Unfortunately Medicare runs headlong into the other point the comment above was making: Medicare forces you to spend a very large income grant on a very particular category of consumer good. And that effectively forces huge spending on healthcare when society would be better off if they could spend it on other things.
That's right, and that's why France have for instance some of the best hospitals in the world and why they are almost free.