skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Apple should indeed make some acquisitions with its cash hoard - but it seems to me that the kinds of prospects that would fit best with its vision are companies focused on engineering great hardware-centric products which consumers love. eBay and PayPal don't match that vision.
i'll need to match the title and the artist 100% accurate, which is pretty insane, considering that you play against the time.

I entered "Next Episode" and it gave me errors, because i didn't write "The Next Episode"
I'm not very familiar with Windows 8's security features (besides the inclusion of an improved Windows Defender and a sandbox by default).

However, what security can one speak of when it's only (enhanced) security against uninformed third parties? With features such as SmartScreen snarfing your requests, security goes only as far as the will of the vendor or their cooperation with an institution of power.

Windows malware threats still seem to be going quite consistent.
What if some people are naturally disposed to believing they can accomplish things?
That surprises me - I would have thought they would have disallowed the catamaran entirely. It's a radically different design. Are the restrictions for safety, or to cap some kind of performance?
It's based in India yet charging for shipping outside USA? From the applications it sounds like a US based company that's offloaded some development in B'lore. Is that the case?

Some functionality overlaps with similar projects like : http://www.sticknfind.com , http://www.wallettrackr.com/
This is wrong thinking.

Those loopholes are there because Google pays(lobbies) for them to be there. As far as I know, they've paid more in lobbying last year than Microsoft, Apple and Facebook combined.

Those loopholes will never be closed, Google and the like will make sure of that.
Who is your threat? Are you worried about a spray-and-pray attacker who just dumps a bunch of malware out there? Or are you worried about being specifically targeted by someone who wants your stuff?

In the first case, a USB key bought at a big box store might be full of malware. In the second case, the big box store is the perfect place to buy something, as long as it's not the store where you always buy stuff, because the APT wants to keep his profile small.
Just saying that there are A LOT of fiscal optimizations - totally legal and publicly encouraged - to keep your taxes below 40%.
Otherwise, I can't agree more with you about the chance of accessing amazingly good healthcare services for free in France.
Here, Walter White would not have had to cook meth, after all...
EME was proposed and designed by Google & netflix and implemented in chrome book long before ie had it. the biggest proponents by far are Google and Netflix.

But hey you don't see anybody talking about how Google wants to kill the open web, its simply the big bad WC3.
I still have no understanding on how this sort of thing would be paid for. Presumably, it's via some form of income, consumption, and corporation taxes. However, the marginal income tax rate would have to be huge (as you need to recover the entire amount paid to the earner in "basic income" before you get a cent to spend on someone else), the consumption taxes would negate the value of the basic income, and punitive corporation taxes would just ensure no-one actually sets up a company there.

Until we have Star Trek style technology for these free ham sandwiches, I don't see how Star Trek style economics will actually work.
I took it another step: http://imgur.com/JvMbVe4

I found a Stanley screwdriver that is great to carry around in my pocket. I used a bit of Instamorph to build a clip for both and now they don't slide around in my pocket!

I love this stuff.
> much larger are the attitudes and aptitudes a child learns in their formative years

On the other hand it's a common anecdote that the best (most?) programmers are self taught, like you, they don't learn it as part of their 'nurture'. Couldn't this point to a predisposition to enjoy it?
For the record, 100€ net in the pocket of an employee corresponds to 180€ cost-to-company.
You don't get to Windows until #4. The world has changed.
"Stereotype Threat and Women’s Math Performance"

The childish belief in stereotype threat is killing our culture.

http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/are-girls-too-...
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2013/09/maths-is-man-thi...
I think this looks great, nice work.
While certainly a combination of nature and nurture, there's little question natural born programmers exist. I am one. At 4th grade Dad brought home a terminal and had me type in a 3 line BASIC program (printed a sine wave). I was instantly hooked, programmed daily, and some 35 years later I'm still lovin' it. That nature had to be nurtured lest it be starved or destroyed, and given room and care to flourish it did.
What do you need to recoup/recover from? This is your dream (or I assume it is) - so I don't really understand why you need to take a break. You've crossed a major line - celebrate by rocking the #$(&* out of your new opportunity. I took no time - I couldn't wait. Too excited to work on the 1,234,567 things that needed to get done!

Or take a vacation if you want to. You're the effing boss now - ain't nobody telling you what to do anymore.
The best programmers I know broke away from the herd very quickly. (By 4th grade?)

It seems very hard to break out if it was curiosity, parental encouragement, or genetic ability. I am certain that #1 is the biggest driver, and #2 was involved. I suspect #3 is too, but not as much as we give it credit for. The breakout programmers did it day and night because they loved it, and quickly expanded on whatever initial advantage they had.
This article is nothing but a blatant argumentum ad consequentiam, which is a logical fallacy.

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

The argument given here is basically "mathematical ability is not innate, because if it were, women would react badly to this fact." The article provides lots of evidence that women react badly to this belief, but no evidence whatsoever that the belief is wrong.
A link to the Git repo:

https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js
Fantastic, although the extension doesn't work for me? Does it work for the latest Chrome?
I only wash my hands in the bathroom if I shit on my hands, and that happens at MOST two or three times a week.
IBM enters smartphone market with a 4.7 touch screen (1994)
Two typos are allowed.
Leading "The" is optional on artist name but required on title.
This is how I report UI bugs.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Star Trek style economics no economics? I seem to remember a distinguished bald captain talking about how society has moved past the need for money.
Blog post is terrible.
First quote talks about of the stupidity of the idea "hereditary wise man". That idea is indeed stupid, but what it has to do with the idea of "natural born"?

And while my ability to play basketball can indeed be developed to some degree, can it be developed to be good enough to play it professionally? I doubt that.
Now, some my say that there is difference between physical and mental abilities, but really, are we so sure that we are all born with exactly equal mental setup and potential?
Or is this a problem which is better avoided, because it does not play well with polit-correctness?

For the last point: does this "belief in natural born ability" apply only to programming and math?
What hurts technology is not those "childish believes" but belief that it is at the centre of the universe.
> I think it's completely reasonable that women may not feel immediately comfortable spending after-work time with male colleagues.

Yes, that might be the case for a lot of women. In Saudi Arabia.
So, in your words, Wired covered a developing story that so far has only appeared in forums and low-end blogs. They pieced together a story from various sources, despite your claim, and presented what is out there right now.

I think they did their job.

You can't expect every time a news story is written that it will provide new information, especially when you are already quite aware of the content of the story before you even read it.

I, for one, have never heard of this story. I found the article interesting.
It's a societal thing. Too many people have in their mind that STEM fields are nerdy and for guys only and they bring this retarded attitude into parenting. Only way it's going to change is gradually unfortunately.
"Social scientists have argued that American hatred for “welfare” is racially coded, and that historic support for stronger social programs in Europe has been tied in part to ethnic homogeneity and lower immigration."

Interestingly enough, this is not true for Switzerland. In some cantons, up to 60 percent of the inhabitants have a migration background. (i.e. they or their parents were born abroad) [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland#Popu...
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Visualizing 560,000 Lidar Points in the browser
One of the problems I had as a child was the lack of exposure to the right tools and books. I was interested in games and knew DOS inside and out (at least from a user's perspective), and could script batch very easily, I had a big gap in getting to the point of writing an actual executable. There was a huge "I didn't know what I didn't know" problem. I envy the children of today with the internet at their fingertips and much more accessible tools, although they still face a similar problem, perhaps in the opposite direction (paradox of choice, perhaps).
I think that's a good thing honestly, instead of being only an arms race for the team that will make the most expensive car they have to be very clever in finding ways to shave a few milliseconds in each lap.

I see that like code golf or the IOCCC, the constraints are what makes it interesting and challenging.

In the case of F1 I think it's also about keeping the human factor, without regulations I'm sure by now we'd have fully automated cars that would react in a microsecond, better than any human could. But that's no good show.
So then what of the people who think, say, that white supremacy is common sense? Why should we let a very vague concept of "common sense" prevail, especially when "common sense" seems to change every other decade?
Economics is not money. Its about how to allocate the limited resources in the most efficient way. Money is just a tool used for example in capitalism.
FTA:

The key itself is not evidence, contraband, fruits, or instrumentalities of crime, Lavabit argues, but is merely a way to get to evidence, contraband, fruits, or instrumentalities of crime. This is a clever argument pressing an undeveloped aspect of Fourth Amendment law, but I don’t think it ultimately works. It’s pretty standard for computer warrants to authorize the seizure of passwords, encryption codes, operating manuals, “and other information necessary to access the computer equipment, storage devices or data.” I haven’t seen a Fourth Amendment challenge to such provisions, but I would think they are okay because they involve instrumentalities of crime. That is, the password or encryption key is part of the tool used to commit the crime, so it is part of the instrumentality of crime and can properly be obtained in a search warrant.
A Women's magazine with no Photoshop whatsoever
> much larger are the attitudes and aptitudes a child learns in their formative years (mostly before school age.)

Sorry, but... citation needed. I think the point the article tries to make is that there is no substitution for good old hard work: not your preschooling (or preschool parenting), not your genes, not the colour your bedroom walls were painted: dedication to improving your skills always wins.

> People who like to go out and drink with their friends every day after work, instead of learn new things at their computer will never be competitive with me.

I spent a large part of my 20's drinking & socializing, and it made me a much more rounded, resilient person. I now occasionally work on my side projects at home, but it's no substitute for the 100,000 hours of in the trenches experience in various sectors of the IT industry. What I've learned at work vastly dwarfs what I've learned at home.
What do you mean "all of it"?
I recognized your username, but couldn't remember where I remembered it from. I then looked in your comment history. After seeing the medical malpractice comment you left, I don't think I want to live in Texas anymore.

My wife and I were victims of malpractice in 2006. The result of it was our son was born 3 months early when otherwise he could have been born full term. We lucked out. He appears to have no complications from being so premature. But the emotional hell that dumb bitch doctor caused us I will never forget. (yeah, dumb bitch is a nasty term, but we were in a Christian hospital due to proximity, and she judged us for our hippy-like appearance and failed to do the most basic diagnostic activities before sending us on our way)
I get the "This removes marginal disincentives to work" argument, but who pays for this? 30K per family in payments requires 30K per family in taxes.

Lets say the US has 100mm families. 30K per family is $3 trillion.

What do we stop doing to find that kind of money?
Sounds very similar to how an entire generation got started with programming.

Whatever cause you attribute to your interest, I find it more reasonable to believe that you found the concept of having a computer render your input on a screen to be fascinating and that it led you to teach yourself and practice further how to do this, or a multitude of reasons, but not that you had some inherent predisposition to being a programmer.
It seems you are trying to be cute/follow the meme that it's good to hate on PayPal because of the account freezes and stuff as of late. However, before PayPal it was so hard to make a payment or transfer money to someone. They deserved the success they had for a groundbreaking product. Hating on Musk for decisions the company has made more recently is pure folly.
There used to be such a beast. It was called Can-Am, and the rules were basically that cars had to have two seats, fenders, and at least one engine. Other than that, it was anything goes. It made for spectacular racing, but tended to be dominated by one team at a time, and it was ridiculously expensive. It was ultimately shut down for cost reasons.
Affordability of a basic income proposal is a function of the social/government services it replaces, any tax increases, and the less tangible positive effects on spending and tax receipts associated with wealth redistribution towards the poor, and any social savings as a result of less crime, or fewer incarcerable offenses.

Specific, though informal, measurements were made by Pascal J. for Canada.[123] A 2004 taxable basic income benefit of $7800 per adult could be afforded without any tax increases by replacing welfare, unemployment, and core Old age services. (Canada has supplemental poverty old age programs and pension system). The number excludes any intangible benefits of tax revenue increases due to higher spending and lower personal savings, and any expenditure savings on criminal enforcement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Clicked through looking for a download and all I got was a Kickstarter shill. I'm disappointed.
There are two distinct things, both being true, as far as current research shows:

- People who believe that mathematics is an ability that can be trained perform much better than the ones that believe it is an innate skills some people have some people don't

- Intelligence, and as a consequence the upper limit of mathematical ability, is to a large extent genetically determined

There is no conflict between those two statements.
Before writing the post off with a logical fallacy, perhaps you should consider the biases inherent in doing so, and whether they are distorting your reasoning: http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html
>before worrying about satisfying others
Exactly. Sounds like you got sucked in to something. Ask yourself if this is something you want to do or something someone told you you should do.

Edit: In case you want to learn more about 'traps' one can fall into, I suggest this book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World/dp/0965...
V8 performance can beat C sometimes
1. Right, but both the Valley and Paris are tremendously expensive places to be - arguably Paris has more justification for being expensive, being more desirable in non-tech ways. The fair way to look at it is by comparing salary relative to cost of living, and I'm not sure if Paris is competitive even then.

2 + 3. I'm a Canadian, I'm used to social benefits, but Canadian taxes also aren't that much higher than US taxes. In fact, when I was in California the taxes were for all intents and purposes identical to the equivalent income in Canada. From the sounds of other posts, the tax revenue is primarily coming out of personal income taxes, not corporate taxes - which means a lower salary is extra-painful.

I've heard this argument from Canadians, that the 50%-off-engineers situation in Canada compared to the US is somehow a good thing. It's not, there is a tremendous brain drain to the extent that of all the capable devs I've met in school, I only know 3 who remain in Canada.
"Here's a man who has spent 33 years at Microsoft, loves the company," he said. "He really did not get enough credit for what he did accomplish.

"I can't name a CEO who didn't make some mistakes in the hi-tech industry.

"I think Ballmer has a lot he ought to be proud of. So he didn't get everything right - not many people do."

Ummm.... Is he suggesting lets celebrate someone who spent a lot of money buying companies that didn't pan out? And better yet, let's suggest the company that destroyed them in the market to switch and follow their vanquished foe's failed strategy?

No wonder he destroyed so much value at Apple!
The Glorious Post Seed Startup Financing Chaos
To the extent that the US provided technical leadership, resources, stability and benevolent dictatorship, they could hope for the community following them as the best alternative. There is no longer any basis for such hope or expectation.

It's probably been a long time coming, and too bad it had to happen the way it did, but that seems to be the way these days in so many areas of US "leadership." We can't be trusted.
All of the custom internal applications written over the last decade or so that provide vital business functionality, I'd have thought.
Gemini was actually more cramped than Mercury. It had 160% the habitable volume of Mercury, but twice the crewmembers.

Gemini was known as the Gusmobile, because Gus Grissom basically lived at McDonnell during its development and tailored the design to his own preferences. And really tailored. Because Gus Grissom was the shortest astronaut at 5'5" (1.65 meters), Gemini turned out to be uncomfortable for everyone else.
If you must take the pill to become the new you, is it really you you're becoming? I feel that it's the pill, not your self, that becomes the identity.

I suppose we could take this further, for the sake of making a point, and ask if one receives a lobotomy, is one his or her self?

I'm glad you typed it up, it made me think.
> 1. To allow teams with smaller budgets to compete.

There's a far better way to help the smaller teams: Split the sport's revenues more equally.

Under the current regime, the top teams receive many times the amount the smallest teams do (e.g. more than a 9x difference between what the Constructors' Champion receives and the paltry $10m the bottom two teams are given) - http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/Popup/2012/10/24-10-12-...

The English Premier Football League, on the other hand, splits the revenues far more evenly, with the winner receiving only 55% more than the last-placed team - http://www.sportingintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/...
Is not just a matter of having maths skills. There's some other traits involved. These traits sometimes are developed and sometimes are born with you.

You born being introspective or not. This will have a great influence in what kind of professional you will be.

I'm not saying that you can't change yourself, but in my opinion a big part of you is defined by your natural talents.

I consider myself as an introspective guy. This is something that I'm not able to change, and surely it has a great importance in what kind of work I'm able to be useful.
Indeed, tons of bugs.....
Isn't the women's performance being the same as men's in the math tests when they weren't told math skills are innate evidence that women are just as good at math as men?
Does stereotype threat only work if you believe in it? What if you have issues with the methodology?
But 1 year ago, facebook was popular than today ;-)
More than you would like. The amount of surface area left is substantial so something could be recovered. The best way is to melt them with thermite. If it is legal in your area.
I was instantly hooked, programmed daily, and some 35 years later I'm still lovin' it.

This doesn't demonstrate innate ability. It demonstrates your interest in programming. Do we have natural born interests?
I wonder how much money is wasted in the US in government bureaucracy between making sure people who claim social security benefits are due social security, that medicaid claimants are not medicare claimants, that food stamps physically go out to those in need, and that the foods stamps themselves are just spent on food, etc. Probably much more than checking how many people over 18 live in each address.

Also, the whole economy benefits by simply giving out money that people can choose to spend as they wish, instead of in limited categories (like food stamps).

Finally, people who work (legally) already pay taxes and are managed by the IRS, so taking this basic income back from them in taxes wouldn't be that much overhead.
The W3C standards are so far licensed non-derivatively, but that's about to change.
Now the Maker Movement Has Intel Inside
Stop Giving Me Bad Advice A Flowchart All Founders Will Enjoy
I cannot imagine any use Apple would have for eBay / PayPal. They seem like they would be more effort than they are worth. I could see Adobe and AMD.
That's Hugh Jackman, the movie's called "Real Steel". Not to confuse with the Robert Downey Jr. movie series where he controls a fighting robot that he occasionally is inside of.
Google: Update of Terms of Service
How it would work is to use the KERS to charge during engine acceleration. A brilliant idea, and it wouldn't have to be plumbed into the standard McLaren ECU all the teams have to use.

Lewis Hamilton stated that Vettel's RBR car was getting on full throttle 65 feet(!) sooner than all the other cars at a corner in Singapore...which means that there's clearly something going on that isn't just Newey's aero.
One purpose of a lump sum distribution such as the monthly "basic income" is to counteract the regressive nature of consumption tax.

For example, suppose we want to provide free mass transit. We then get terrible rush hour traffic and the system is overburdened. So we must charge for transit access. Even better would be charging more for rush hour than off-hours, more for long-distance, etc. But this is regressive! Relatively cheap for the wealthy for rare events, expensive for the poor who need it for everyday commuting. The solution is to provide a lump sum grant to all citizens equal to the amount a person would pay for everyday transit commuting. Thus the poor get "free" transit and the wealthy get a few bucks and the positive externalities of transit.