skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the real lesson of that episode was "most people on the DC metro in the early morning hours are probably commuters in a bit of a rush to get to work on time." Perhaps an evening concert in the same venue would have been more productive...
Sure, I never meant to say it works for other things outside programming. I was just pointing out a tool I have used that I felt might help out someone who was just interested in programming (this being a largely tech-centered site) and not exercising or cleaning. I also use it for writing, since my blog is backed up on github. If it doesn't meet your needs, no problem, Commit sounds great too.
I've picked up used MacBooks (for relatives etc, I hate Windows tech support) for as little as $300. Still running years later. They couldn't be happier.
As a public investor, I was wondering why my ticker wasn't ticking last Friday. I'd encourage anyone in AU/NZ to take a look at Xero - we don't have many public tech stocks here, so it'll be interesting to see what happens to this one and its effect on the scene here.

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=ASX:XRO
I'm on a mobile device, so I cannot research as much as I'd like, but this is just a patent application, not an issued patent, and more encouragingly, a quick glance at USPTO pair shows that is was abandoned in 2010. It was abandoned following a non-final rejection by the examiner.

Now it doesn't mean that it's dead for good, since abandoned applications can often be revived, but given that it's Microsoft, who has enough resources to pursue even trivial patents, and that it has been 3 years since it was abandoned, I'd be cautiously optimistic.

On the other hand, it has been referenced by a bunch of other patents, indicating they cover similar subject matter, so you should look into them too.

PS being open source won't save you from infringement.
When I was 17, high school, and really enjoying maths a maths professor came to our school to speak to a few of us about continuing maths at University. She really annoyed me. She asked what about maths we liked and a friend and I answered that it was the certainty - that things were right or wrong and you could most often tell plainly which they were.

She of course responded that we couldn't be more wrong.

Annoyed the hell out of me until I came across Godel and began to understand maths from a different perspective.

Wish I'd had chance to study under that professor.
That woman was simply telling the truth. A cellphone with a lithium ion battery is a bomb. A small bomb to be sure, but on an airplane even small bombs can be dangerous.

The day will come when all carryon baggage and clothing will be banned. You will be required to strip naked at the airport, and put on a regulation air travel robe. If you want to bring anything else on board it will have to be packed in the pockets of a transparent plastic roll, which will be duly xrayed and unrolled by security personnel who will then inspect the contents. There will be a special "pill pocket" section for any medications required on board. No electronic devices will be allowed except special tablets with removable batteries which can function when being plugged into the aircraft power supply. Things like batteries and cellphones will need to be checked in the special small baggage section along with your street clothes, and will be transported in a special bomb-proof cargo hold just in case.
The probability may well be very low - There could be a statistical influence in why I have all these 'stores' due to being required to travel 70-80% for my employment for the past 5 years.

If you read blogs on these types of things you are only going to see the 'worst case scenarios' as the majority of people with positive experiences are unlikely to rush to their PC and write a glowing post about their Visa experience...
I would consider convincing corporations to "waste" their money for no profitable result, is a great achievement. More corporate money should be spent on the betterment of invention and human welfare without an expectation of profits.
Was that in the article somewhere?

At any rate, there's some fine line where an activity that could otherwise be described as a hobby becomes work. It's the actual activity + intent + context + judgement of the authorities that matters... Presumably when you essentially establish residence, get paid, hire and manage other people, that line has been crossed.
> If the top 10% controls 80% of the wealth, there are definitely enough rich to fix the debt.

In many cases wealth isn't liquid. Wealth exists in the form of securities and assets. If you were to attempt to tax these, there would be absolute chaos - bank runs, stock market crashes, etc..., as everyone tries to liquefy their assets or move to protect them.

You could potentially tax cash savings, but that's not going to change much.
ReQall Product End of Life
I've got reply here:
https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/225
From the examples in your post, it seems like you only got to calculus. Which is not really advanced math.
Dude spends $5000 a year living in a cave? I could live all year in the Philippines with a normal house and not really having to cut back on much.

This article is silly to be talking about poverty on purpose. These guys are living really frugal, not in poverty.
I can not see what I am looking for there, sorry. The Tent protocol certainly is interesting, but I was asking for an open place where it is possible to share / exchange / collect and extract knowledge and experiences about decentralized social network software.

I was hoping for an open, easily available information source that can be followed.
Olicarchification, the new gentrification, is a bitch. What do all of these "successful 'creatives' (architects, cinematographers, commercial and television directors, etc.)" think happened to the people that were living there before them?
Why entrepreneurs should blog
Dear reQall User,

It is with deep regret that we are writing to inform you that we will no longer be able to provide the product reQall after October 31, 2013. We terminated development on the product more than a year ago, but have been keeping the product available to our users, despite the fact that we have had to subsidize the costs. However, a couple of events have changed the situation:
The vendor who provides the platform on which our IVR (for Phone Access) is based has informed us that the platform will no longer be supported as of October 31.
iOS7 has broken reQall for iPhone so that users can no longer record tasks on it.
As these events break 2 of the 3 major components of reQall, we feel it is time to let it go. The product and our users hold a special place in our hearts, so this has been a difficult decision for us.

Here's what you need to know:
Before November 30, you can export your personal data. Go to http://www.reqall.com/webui/my_accounts and select "Download my backup" on the lower right side. You will receive a csv file of your existing reQall items via email.
reQall, the company, will continue. Our strategic focus continues to be on reQall Rover and The reQall Platform, which we use to create customized personal assistant applications for enterprises.

If you have any questions, please contact us at support@reqall.com. Meanwhile, remember to export your data before November 30th.

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I understand the implications here, but pre-chewed popcorn might not be that bad, especially considering how it won't leave kernels stuck in your teeth.
I suppose good sarcasm should take the reader a second to figure out. Well done.
Movie theatre popcorn is a guilty pleasure that microwave popcorn doesn't quite replicate...
Argentina is great for international tourism I can assure you, cheap and classy, if you handle Euros or Dollars of course, if you ever come visit the country I highly recommend Bariloche, relly, it's beautiful, "El Bolsón" is nice also, a lot of green and nature, also full of international tourism.

If you want tango and city-life Buenos Aires is nice, but as all big cities it has bad parts and good parts :)
Not THEE reason, but definitely those overpriced snacks are a huge income for them. Just like nightclubs and their $4 water bottles and $9 drinks.

Can't really go to a nightclub without drinking, can't really go to the movies without eating. I know some people do, but that's the very few minority.
I remember when a nightclub I sometimes go to, http://1015.com/, was closed because their alcohol license expired by accident. I was shocked that they closed the whole place down, but after talking to co-workers they said "Yeah, the drinks are the cash. No overpriced drinks, no point in even doing business..."

I don't drink alcohol myself, I actually go to dance! ...by myself even!
I have been doing something somehow similar for the past ~6 months by tracking (per minute) the number of keystrokes, distance travelled by my mouse cursor, number of clicks, active app, active wifi network and free disk space. I can't wait to start visualizing these over time.
Banksy Art Sale in Central Park [video]
Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' loft) five years go for 150/_month_.

You don't know what you're talking about.
I'd really like to know how Fred's shared plan bill is $2000/month for what seems to be a family of four.
Ditching ed-tech for fashion-tech
The famous violinist Joshua Bell once played in a DC metro station for nearly an hour. He played six Bach pieces (some of the hardest ever composed) on a $3.5MM violin. Over a thousand people rushed by, unperturbed. He made $32 and some change.

I still don't know how this makes me feel. You can say it's human to ignore things on the street, but there were more children who stopped than adults.

I think it's moreso that the older we get, the less we trust our emotions. We're scared to have an original opinion, or go against the grain. We let the responsibilities of life take over-- it's easier than reflecting on who you are and how things feel. We don't want to get in trouble, don't want to be late for work, don't want people to laugh at us, don't want to feel alone.

I wish I knew how to fix this in the world. I think we're missing out on a lot.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
"I was a T-Mobile customer for more than a decade from the late 90s until a year or two ago."

Unless he was a T-Mobile customer in Europe, I don't see how this is possible. T-Mobile in the US was formed circa 2001 with the purchase of Voicestream Wireless. I remember because I've been a customer since 2002, and all their equipment was tagged with Voicestream logos.

Unless of course he was a Voicestream customer first, who was then rolled into T-Mobile. Who am I to say, I just pay attention to details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile#United_States
I am not sure about the strength of this suggestion and I am not going to comment it (or the suggestion itself).

It's funny how many excuses people try to find against such "proposals". You can hear/listen to all kinds of excuses. From "yeah, good luck making them pay their taxes" to "if you tax them they will go to another country". Really? They won't pay their taxes? Jail them. Really? They will go to another country? Let them go then, and forbid them from operating in your country.

It's beyond understanding how such a big part of the "middle class" believes we shouldn't touch the rich.

And, of course, it's also beyond understanding how we have allowed tax heavens to exist. Very funny, for example, to watch Germany go all crazy against private money in Cypriot banks but ignore Switzerland and Luxemburg ones.
This reminds me:

Who's on First [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_on_First%3F
But the price of drinks in nightclubs are so high precisely because they know you want/have to be there for other, social means (unless you're in one of the few places that actually serves brilliant and justifiably-priced beverages).

And, I would argue, that, analogously, that is the reason why cinemas have ridiculously priced concessions — because you go to the cinema on a date, or with friends, for a social occasion that causes you (or some people) to be willing to pay higher prices for their drinks and candy. Take, for example, going on a date, many partners may feel pressured under the social norm of not wanting to appear 'stingy' and will shell-out the $15 for a bag of popcorn and a Coke.

If you wanted concessions independently of a cinema, then you likely have a fetish for over-priced junk food!
> The article is wasting our time.

indeed. here's a better link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program

> Fuck I hate math.

this is the only other sentence of your post i had time for, and all i have time to say in response is that i don't.
Why a marketplace, though? One can already organize resistance against a regime one considers harmful enough to merit violent resistance, via militant groups. They can be right-wing groups like the militia movement or Greece's Golden Dawn, or left-wing groups like the Black Panthers or Germany's Red Army Faction. They do at various times assassinate prosecutors or politicians.

An assassination market seems to change the barrier to entry: rather than personal commitment, it's money. Is that likely to produce better decisions, when it comes to extralegal assassinations? I don't see a strong a priori reason to believe that "people wanted dead by people who have money" is likely to be a good signal. That just seems like a formalization of the classic mob hit: if you've got enough cash, you can get anyone offed.
Famous Celebrity?
What a wonderful popcorn advertisement!
First of all, based on that essay, it's entirely plausible to believe that Jim Bell is in fact guilty of felony tax evasion (and possibly more).

However, it seems kind of crappy that the government response to a controversial exercise of first-amendment rights is to look really hard at you, dig up some dirt, and get you sent to jail. (Or make some dirt -- or at least trump up the charges if the dirt's not enough.)

(A similar revenge case may have been brought against the CEO of Qwest, for a more 4th-amendment/NSA angle; in this case the charges that may have been trumped up were insider-trading charges, and certain evidence about the government's motives was excluded from the trial by the judge. Here's an article we've discussed in these fora before: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30... )
Coping Up with Stress
I wouldn't blame Google (or any multinational corporation) as much as I blame our legislators who failed to prohibit this kind of tax evasion schemes.
Thanks for your efforts. This needs to happen.
Or as much of a mess on the ground afterwards.

Liquid popcorn?
Looks very cool but it's hard to give any meaning to the data
Microsoft Mission Impossible
Judging by the F-word, most Facebook users seem to be neurotic 19-22 year old males.
It's good that you mentioned it, but it should be said that the experience is far from perfect (at least in FF). Playback speed resets at every question break, each new video, etc. Audio drops out of sync frequently and seems to have more issues when sped up than in VLC.
Another conclusion you could draw is that when you remove the hype Banksy's work just isn't very compelling (anymore, or perhaps just on canvas). Or perhaps this is evidence of the opposite: a fair number of people were willing to pay $60 for a small monochrome, hastily-sprayed stencil piece.
I'm glad that works for some people.

It would never work for me, though. I can't imagine how spending 15 min/day on a screenplay would be productive at all -- when I sit down to program, or write, it takes me that long just to "restore state" and remember what I was in the middle of previously. I only really find myself becoming productive at things after the first hour -- plenty of people call this being in the "zone", etc.

This might be a good thing to do with fairly menial/brainless tasks, but is it really useful for more than that? But even with cleaning the house... it seems so much more efficient to spend an hour every week, when you've got spare time, than vacuum a room and a half one day, dust half the house the next...
In the Cryptosphere talk the author says that you can use a cryptosphere address to reference the latest version of a git repository but I thought cryptosphere was content addressable. How does this work?
Allow them to build as many apartment blocks as they like. Supply and demand will eventually sort it out.
I use an app called Lift (https://lift.do/). It allows you check in to habits you want to form, it notifies you if you're on a streak, and you can look at historical graphs for your weekly and monthly rates. Makes it really easy for me to see if I'm falling off (or doing well) in exercise, my side projects, etc. (I'm not affiliated with Lift)
The novel Capital by John Lanchester is a great look at a London street that was historically lower middle class but over time has become upper class.
From the article, the study compared 48 people given free popcorn throughout the session to 48 people given one sugar cube at the beginning of the session. Those given the sugar cube demonstrated more positive responses to the advertised products.

The variables seem to be: (1) the substance of popcorn vs the substance of sugar cubes; (2) the quantity of stuff administered; (3) the duration over which someone got free stuff; (4) the overall caloric intake; (5) chewing vs non-chewing; (6) the degree to which the absorption times vary between sugar and popcorn.

Let me offer an alternative explanation: if you have nothing to do because your sugar cube dissolved and you're bored, you might pay more attention to the ads. If you're getting an unlimited supply of popcorn, that might be more entertaining to focus on than the ads.

At any rate, this study probably isn't testing what they think it's testing. It certainly doesn't demonstrate that the act of chewing has any causal relationship with their findings.
I was trying to find a breakdown of Freshbooks, Xero, and Quickbooks. Found this: http://accounting-software.findthebest.com/compare/64-157/Xe...

Anyone have any thoughts on features/prices of these?
I believe JMLR forced the old ML journal to become open access as well, just to stay alive.
would you blame Google if they gave money to legislators for allowing this kind of tax evasion scheme?
It is a shame, as it is a very beautiful script. But alas, I think globalization will inevitably lead to an essentially universal writing system used for almost all languages.
People as Pixels
The Real Story of Lavabit's Founder
Is this really a problem? Isn't corporate tax rate one of the ways countries compete for businesses to be registered with them and pay them tax? I'm sure any government efforts to reduce this will just make it harder for everyone to run companies from other countries.
As others have pointed out, in the court of public opinion, ideas are not a meritocracy. Loudest wins, and hedging is seen as weakness.

There is an experiment here that can be applied to start ups. Can you predict the success or failure of a start up based on how confident the founder is perceived?
Your alternative explanation is awfully close to "chewing". Chewing is a mild distraction.
Not so long as it was done in a legal manner.
Right. The last time i used subversion was about 7 years ago, so i forgot it. But it makes sense for centralized vc
Thanks for submitting this news through a link to a professionally edited newspaper rather than through a press-release-recycling website. This preliminary study needs more replication, of course, just like most preliminary studies, but it has interested implications. I wonder what a study of the effectiveness of televised public service messages about not snacking while watching television would show.
I'm sure I could subsist on a very minimal salary. But what would I be left doing? I enjoy traveling, I enjoy playing several musical instruments, I enjoy owning a reasonable computer (granted, my main laptop is a $300 eBay find), I enjoy eating interesting food, I enjoy buying books, I enjoy doing fun things with friends. And I wish I worked less so I could do all of the above a lot more.

Sure, I could compromise on all of that. Couchsurf. Use the library (both for its books and its computers). Become a better cook to make more with less. Do other things with friends. Etcetera etcetera etcetera.

But the mere term "compromise" implies "loss of originally-expected value", and there comes a point where I could have all the time in the world and not enjoy spending time on anything. Back to the OP, I question what Price does all day when he's not working odd jobs. I almost expected him to be an artist or novelist or somesuch.
Part of the issue with Bell is that it's not clear to anyone that it was really in jest, or even just a hypothetical future proposal. He proposed an assassination market, and was collecting home addresses of IRS and FBI officials, coincidentally.
I use this one: http://dontbreakthechain.com
Avoidance, not evasion.
Good point. He could still publish his wilderness zine in a country with a currency that had a higher purchasing power parity than that of the U.S.A. and do odd jobs in that county for extra spending money if he wanted.

According to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...

64 out of 180 counted countries in this world have an average income of $5,000 USD (equivalence) or lower.
I find that the more often my mind is in a certain context, the shorter it takes to switch to that state.

For example, when I work on a programming project every single day, then every time I sit down to work on it, it takes a mere 5 minutes to remember where I was previously. But if I come back to it after, say, a week, it can take up to 20 minutes.

This isn't based on any kind of science whatsoever though. Just an observation I made about myself.
If you and contribute funds to pay an anonymous assassin, you've committed attempted murder. If the anonymous assassin succeeds, you can be tried for murder even if they never locate the assassin.
You've heard the phrase "perfect is the enemy of good enough?"

I think it applies here. There may be better ways of doing things, but I'd rather get something done than do nothing, lamenting the fact that the method at hand isn't the most perfectly efficient way possible.
Too bad the mouse was recorded when not moving, worse still it left big black circles where useful data might be. Bad decision since you get nothing from the circle, apart from "user is not using the computer" which is useless.

Other data looks pretty random apart from the main blob which is positioned slightly off the center to the left and up.

Cool idea bad execution.
It appears that sort of thinking puts one in the minority: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/multicu...
Reminds me of that meme of the hippie who uploads her anti-capitalist propaganda from her new iPhone, using McDonald's Wi-Fi.

I don't get how this is worth of an NBC article. Perhaps since I'm used to a whole different socio-economic context; I live in Mexico, where the minimum wage is below $2,000 USD a year, so I don't find $5,000 a year to qualify as "poor" or to be anything impressive.

I know many cases of people who live with way less than that, including myself; I've never had a formal job, and have always lived from one or two days of freelance work each month, or from schoolarships. Sometimes I go for a full month with around $300 USD.

I agree with Gexla in that this is silly at best.
I strongly disagree that Lisp-style s-exprs are the solution to this problem. They preclude future-proofing language tools. If feature X is currently described as a n-tuple, and I want to enhance it, I must now either create a new tag (which breaks tools) or increase its arity (which necessarily centralizes language development). A solution to this would be to represent nodes as key-value sets. There is precedent for this: XML and CSS both work this way.
LaTeX2HTML5: Interactive equations and diagrams