skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it really needs a `rename` command. The query language supports it without:

r.table('posts').replace(function(item) { return item.without('author').merge({writer: item('name')}); })
As a theoretical matter, capital gains are indistinguishable from other kinds of income and should be taxed as such. Corporate income taxes, moreover, are just the simple consequence of the fact that a corporation is a distinct legal person and is taxed as such. These are two incredibly obvious points that get buried beneath the bullshit on these subjects.
fuck binary.
Might not be entirely accurate, I'm currently in China but will show up as being from the UK or US because of my VPN.
What is interesting is that New Zealand is a "State" according to the Australian Constitution.

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practic...
Look for P/E ratio. https://www.google.com/finance?q=fb&ei=TaBkUum8GOGuiQKpyQE He was off by a little but it's not material to his point.
it fixes what google cares about
I'm by no means a programming newbie, so maybe this skews what I'm about to say, but I find that reviewing release notes and changelogs is often quite useful while I'm still in the belly of a learning curve. If the project in question has a cohesive vision (big "if"), this can help frame the trajectory of that vision and get you to march in step with the project's state of the art more quickly.
Funny that no-one mentioned the fact that the page had a brazilian flag. Musicians has the right by law to veto biographies and personal information written about them in brazil, this also applies to brazilian webpages. It could be understandable that these people would make out a big chunk of the customers for a company as wiki-pr hence the page's Portuguese translation.
The monster is a smart monster. He knows that, once you leave the safe circle, he has a higher angular velocity. So, as soon as you pass that threshold, he will start to run around the lake. It does not matter which direction he initially takes, but once moving is committed to that direction (if he were to reverse direction, he would end up, in the future at the same point he was once at, but at a later time, and you would be nearer your goal; he's too smart to let that happen). Once you are outside the safety circle, he will run, and not stop running in that direction.
Funny but this search looks very, very different and worse now http://www.google.com/competition/images/search-algorithms.p...

The fat is that Google can affect their competitors and website owners in many ways.
This definition of income was developed by economists who developed the theory of income taxes.
AT&T Strikes $4.85B Cell Tower Deal with Crown Castle
Does that mean that AT&T coverage will decrease significantly?
Safari on iOS doesn't have many settings... The page is just broken.
The government has many mechanisms through which it distributes subsidies, and while I'm sure the centralized exchange is going to be one of the most efficient and convenient, I'm not nearly so certain that the difference will be larger than the effects it has on the market.

Let me be concrete. According to [1] (which gets its numbers from the CBO), individual plans have 29% administrative overhead as opposed to 12% for employer plans. If the exchanges successfully emulate employer plans, they save 17%*$300b = $51b per year in health care costs. Unless the exchange program is 10,000% more efficient than its alternatives (tax subsidy, payments to companies, etc) then the effects I listed dominate.

In any case, the exchanges were designed with the explicit intent of making the individual insurance market more efficient, not merely making subsidy disbursement more efficient.

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/healthcare/repo...
then again that's why i like to read stuff without having a preconceived idea of the author. Best way to have a fresh view on stuff.

People write some good stuff and some bad stuff. Not because they're not smart, in general. More because of pressure due to various reasons, or because they lost interest, or what not.

Personally, every time i see a "not so much of a win" followed by memes to make it "look we rock!" it makes me feel pity for our whole industry
Central America?!
The calculus is used to determine the maximum ratio of speeds.
Indonesia, anyone?
Trans-america?
That crow was cawing Flagg, Flagg, Flagg..
Laundering Money Online: a review of cybercriminals’ methods [pdf]
Honestly speaking, this paper has nothing to do with criminal money laundering. Just a snapshot of third-grade forum with script kiddies out of inner circles.

Money laundering is when several fake corporations established and begin transfering shitpiles of botnet and card money from Baltic states to "isles" to such an extent that whole countries are scared of opening accounts for "internet startups" after that.
I agree. Fake traffic or not, it's factored into the price and the stats are still just too good compared to what you can get anywhere else from an information standpoint. As a marketing person, you're always proving your worth--digital ads make this a lot easier (at least if you're good at your job).

The problem (at least if you're selling digital ads) is I don't see a scenario where margins increase. The "ad network" effect will continue and there will be more consolidation in the industry with more link-bait headlines coming out of blog mills. The area where there could be more profit would be if content creators integrated more with advertisers, which is only going to get hairy and annoying in a different way. But for something like NYT--I wouldn't be all that surprised if the line between advertiser and content continues getting more fuzzy in order to maintain decent CPMs on what is probably a relatively fixed amount of traffic/inventory.

Another opportunity comes to mind--better demographic targeting, better inference algorithms (given a list of factors, what can we tell about this person re: age/sex/income/likelihood-to-buy-our-specific product-based-on-past-purchases?)--these will also allow content creators to maintain higher CPMs, so there's probably a market there.
I guess it falls under "Southern North America"
It will probably be more accurate than doing this poll manually (many people won't submit their data).
A venture with a 75% chance of providing 5000 utils of value is not the same as a 100% chance of producing 3750 utils.

Put another way, inflation motivates gambling and deflation motivates saving - it points out a serious consequence of forced spending, namely a flight to other, less abstract stores of value.

I would like your views on what deflation represents in an economy, I understand people are saving/hoarding money but by never spending it don't they remove themselves from the system? On the other hand, wouldn't an increase in productivity lead to the same amount of money buying better/more goods?

Using a stupidly simple model, if the total productivity of a society using Bitcoin remained constant would there be any deflation? What if the total productivity fell?

We should discuss the implications of mining in another post :)
Fukushima water contamination worsens after typhoon, Strontium found, 70x limits
I understand hacking as:

Creating your own way to achieve goals

And usually you need to do that because there is no Manual or defined path to do what you want.

Programming on its own is not hacking. I read almost everyday people claiming to be hackers because they put together a script to consume an API... and the API has documentation. This really grinds my gears.

My first hacking goal, for instance, with less than a year owning a computer, was to change the start button on windows to have my name instead of the "Start" (yes, I had my first computer at late 90's). Pretty ridiculous goal, but it was fun and when I succeeded that felt really good.
Applicatives were the example that I had in mind. See also http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2012-12-01-static_analysis_with_ap..., or think about how regular expressions' limited power makes parsing with them a linear affair. (Incidentally, regular language parsers are Applicatives, too.)
I wish I knew what format HEVC-MSP was, I've never heard of it. I know HEVC is H.265, but I'm not aware of a still image format coming out of that.
I have always considered what you describe to be a specific subset of "cracking": "warez" or "warez cracking".
There have been all sorts of unusual and immense wealth redistributions to boomers recently.

For example: the Fed stealing purchasing power - by devaluing the dollar - from the poor who can least afford to lose it, and giving it to middle and upper class home owners in the form of trillions worth of housing bailouts (by buying up toxic mortgages and dramatically reducing inventory; bailing out Fannie, Freddie etc; using QE to hold down interest rates and thus keeping mortgage rates artificially hyper low - all of which have massively and completely artificially increased the value of housing assets).

And that doesn't even touch on the trillions in stock market value that has been re-inflated by the Fed's policy of intentionally creating asset bubbles to fake a wealth effect (again). Most of the people benefiting from all this money chasing risk are the middle class and the rich, and they're disproportionately boomers.

Of course, then comes the (at least) equal but opposite reaction.
Just let it be.

How will you paying [your mortgage, baby's diapers...groceries] this time Mr Johnson? With "let it be." Your advice sounds nice, if you have money.
This reference came to my mind

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
I disagree. It's not idiomatic in, say, Python, to catch every possible exception, only the specific ones that the programmer thinks are likely to occur in practice.
I'm surprised by the lack of mention of Remember the Hanzi and Anki. They were both originally developed for Japanese (the original book Remember the Kanji), but it seems like they would be just as useful. Chinese characters always seemed a little easier to me since most only have one pronunciation. A RtH deck plus a vocab deck for pronunciation seems like a fairly straight forward way to tackle all the characters within a year.
Haig-Simon income is easy to define in legal and accounting terms, hence its popularity. But it is not what economists would consider the "correct" definition of income. I'll quote an article from The Economist which summarizes mainstream opinion quite well:

One of the most basic principles in economics is that the taxation of capital income is inefficient. Taxes on interest, dividends, and capital gains represent a sort of “double taxation”, of wage income.

http://www.economist.com/economics/by-invitation/guest-contr...
Umm... Google maps has a compass... which rotates with you as you turn. Just look at your icon on the map, at has an arrow facing the direction you are.
Your approach is wholly impractical on its face, actually.

So, let me get this straight: You laid down tens of thousands of dollars on a vehicle that you only post-purchase read the manual of, and you're raising this as some sort of standard people should follow?

Honestly, asking the right questions (and test-driving) upfront should be what lands the purchase, and not discovering the folly of purchasing a car with such ass-backwards issues you only discover after the fact when you bother to dig out the manual.

You drove it off the lot after you bought it, right? Or did you read the manual in the lot right after signing the papers locking you into the purchase?
"we can create computing programs, called “algorithms”"

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Agreed. I read that statement with the same disregard. Unless she wrote the entirety of the ip stack specification, the argument is moot. Not one single person does or can know every piece of the technology puzzle. This amounts to calling me stupid for using gnome because Linus likes KDE, or more recently vice versa.
Thanks Johnie. It is almost what I want, except that it is not open-source and free...
Handling AJAX calls with Node.js and Express (scraping Craigslist)
> Watch out, though, for integer division: now 1/2==0.5 (not 0).

There go half of my bugs. ;-)
First, java is not a plus IMHO. Any time I have used anything java based, it's been quite slow. You also have to deal with all the typical java issues like memory and heap space, but that is another diacussion all together.
NoSQL is just that, no SQL. If you want an SQL database, use one. The creators of the nosql db's did so for a reason, I don't see the need to back port it in. Sorry for the rant.
Simple Visual for Inequality - Google Searches Show the Scope of Sexism
'Sophisticated advertisers have conversion rates"

But many are not sophisticated.

"I'm not going to spend more than $0.15 per click."

You might for a while to test it, hoping it works or maybe try it with a fixed amount each month.

Fraud hurts advertisers, can't gloss it over.
Right, which is why I don't recommend designing by A/B testing single-variable changes in the first place. Instead of assuming that your site does better with extremely long lines of tiny type, even thought that goes against pretty much every typographer's recommendation, I'd assume that you started at a small local maximum if the results really do suggest you are best optimized.

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Another thing that came to mind: read time could actually be working against you, how do you know people are leaving because they can't read the type vs. they are leaving because it was so easy to read they finished earlier ;)
Multiplexing is necessary because the remote/local port for an open TCP connection acts like a temporary cookie, uniquely identifying a browsing session. The more time you can keep a connection open and the more requests over it the more tracking you can do. 'Ideally' you'd have one connection to google-analytics and keep it open for many minutes for better user tracking.
... if you don't care about your data!

It's not a database that by default just throws your data at the wall and well, doesn't even care to look if it stuck.
Almost exactly a year after they bought Android, Schmidt joined the Apple board of directors.

The iPhone certainly was in development some time prior to its announcement.
Quot capita tot sensus.
I haven't finished it, but I like this a lot better because it's authentic street art from the people who grew up in those locales. The Banksy collective on the other hand has a lot of money behind it and feels more like rich people appropriating street art.
As someone who's spent several years researching and working within the online advertising industry, I can attest to this being quite common on a lot of the larger Alexa-ranked sites and traffic sources.

There are many highly ranked sources that will simply burn through your ad spends as quickly as you can deposit funds to the account. People often times spend thousands throwing away money on "testing" these sources, only to usually find they don't pan out.

That's why one of the most important things in online advertising is constant optimization and watching the conversion rates from different sources and adjusting bids as necessary. Drop the sources that don't pan out.

It's similar to stock trading, mitigate your losses quickly and don't bleed your ROI or throw away excess money on "testing" what works. Prune the sources that aren't doing anything for you, and watch your ad spends become much more productive.

The only thing the traffic described in this article is good for is vanity metrics and pumping up numbers like it sounds several of these large brand sites are doing.

If you're looking to inflate your numbers, sure... waste a bunch of money on a ton of bot hits, it's still 1999 right? Just don't expect any sales or conversions from that type of traffic... ever. It just simply won't happen.
> Anyone who wants to build a fork can do so. Now if they want a hardware platform to run on, go find one outside the Open Handset Alliance ecosystem. It's fair game -- if a hardware partner thinks that one of Google's competitors can provide a better Android fork, they are free to leave the Alliance and go partner with that competitor.

A good example of this is Amazon. They are doing this successfully.
Instead of "Southern North America (eg. Mexico)", a better name IMO would be "Mexico, Caribbean or Central America".
80% does not a monopoly make. Microsoft was in an entirely different position at the time.
No, it is helpful, because it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Pixel City - Procedurally Generated City
Android clearly went in a different direction post-iPhone.
Doesn't align properly on Android/Firefox too
I can't vote either. I am from India.
The explanation of why I like Go is best found in: "Less is exponentially more": http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
Ironically: with Javascript entirely disabled, it works.

Still, that's flag-worthy.
Woot! :)
Claiming that Google is "controlling open source" by working in-house on it's own Android applications is just really bizarre.
yeah, I just now learned arxiv isn't peer reviewed. Considering magnitude helps with perspective.

However, is it far fetched to think illicit funds might finance the development of a virtual economy, in a mobile game perhaps, that could be used to launder money? Seems theres a need for fraud detection practices to extend into virtual economies as well.
OK, but that's a different concern. If a database admin manually switches a master (called a primary in Mongo), then someone is responsible for deciding what to do with queries that are in flight. In Mongo, the driver drops them, which is less than optimal. It certainly is a hard problem for writes, but not so for reads.

To your point, I think deployments on modern architectures generally want the ability to scale out and tolerate network partitions, which makes the ability to drop and re-elect masters, reconcile a node that rejoins after a partition, manage shards, avoid hosing remaining nodes, etc. critical. Inability to do so really hurts on a platform like AWS (or in any multi-datacenter deployment, really).
If you go back through his archives (which took more time than I thought it would) you find a FAQ post about an essay concerning alleged sexual discrimination in his wife's tenure hearing [1] (it's referenced here [2]). Both claim to have links to the original article, but they're dead.

EDIT:
Concretely? It seems like his wife was up for tenure and was denied it on account of what the author claims was sexism, based on past actions of the administrators in his department.

[1] http://zacharyernst.blogspot.com/2012/03/sex-discrimination-...

[2]http://philosophysmoker.blogspot.com/2011/12/zachary-ernsts-...
Does anyone have more information about what exactly is going wrong with this site? Apparently Development Seed (the company behind http://mapbox.com) was (one of?) the contractors behind the project[0] and they've always seemed (at least judging from their product offerings) quite competent.

0. http://developmentseed.org/blog/2013/06/25/healthcare-launch...
"[...] while there may be [some] humans who are actually angels [...]"

There you go. You really showed me and my vague language.

Robbed the posey right out of it, ya did.
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Hasn't that always been the relationship between Microsoft and Apple in the desktop world?
Central America Panama
I've heard this is a relatively new phenomenon at Amazon; it's great that they're moving in this direction.
I second this. Looking at the libraries you are using have many positive effects; its due diligence, its relevant and a great way to learn more about the power of your dependencies.

Personally I also try to discover best practices on how to solve problems in my domain, and learn why they are best practices.
So the 5S is (allegedly) killing the 5C. Why is this bad news?
This is one of the few things I agree with RMS on. However, I think I can capture what he's trying to say in a more succinct way: I like to think of a hack as an exploit or usage of something -- could be a computer, could be chopsticks -- in a way that is unanticipated or unintended.

As he says, the utility does not really matter: it could be just a neat trick, or pure entertainment value, or intellectual gratification, or a security vulnerability, or something genuinely useful.

Ironically, by his own definition, I also think most of RMS' own work cannot be called "hacking". Gcc and emacs, for instance, are simply very useful software engineering projects, but in themselves not hacks as a whole. On the other hand, his one work that is clearly a clever hack is the GPL, which uses copyright to transfer control of rights to those whom it was not intended for.
Right-wing billionaire advocates for elimination of social security and lower taxes on the rich. Color me surprised.

Only interesting thing about it is that he's trying a message he hopes will resonate with young people.
oops!! my bad on male part should have used his/her.
Yeah, it's not very clear or clean, but also take into account the audience this site is aimed at.
Or is it "Northern South America"?
If being nice solved the problem, he never would have gotten to that point then, would he? It would've been a polite, "excuse me, I believe this was wrongly reverted and doesn't clash with any WP policy" followed by a polite, "Gee, you're right; sorry about that; I'll fix it."
Yep, this is absolutely true. At Perfect Audience, our advertisers are often using as many as 3 or even 4 tools to track and measure their return on ad spend. The numbers don't always line up exactly from tool to tool, but they can see pretty quickly and clearly if a new channel's going to product ROI or be a dog for them.
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'develop' link renders an error
What is a Good Net Promoter Score?
Yes, you hit the period right on the sentence.
Grandparent seems to make a valid argument.

it's more like launching a shuttle mission

Given how much we spend time talking about MVPs, Lean Startup, etc, I think people on this site are trying to avoid launch a shuttle mission. [Often] They're looking at building startups and are looking for both time-tested and new-but-advantage-providing technologies and techniques. At first glance, MongoDB appears to be advantage-providing so people adopted it quickly. They didn't read the manual; they put it in production on a small site and got surprised by the lack of durability.
dwm needs their documentation fixed. Not all of the keybindings are documented on the suckless webpage, and this has undoubtedly prevented many (including the author of this article) from realizing how easy it is to jump in without having to mod it.

Alt+I and Alt+D increment and decrement the number of windows in the master area, on the left by default.

Alt+L and Alt+H increase and decrease the width of the master area respectively.

Alt+J and Alt+K move focus to new windows.

And alt+enter switches the position of a focused window with an unfocused one.

It's incredibly easy and fun to be able to do all your window management from the keyboard, and dwm will run much more responsively on slightly older computers.
I read the article and kept hearing echos of the Microsoft strategy of the 90s as well.

History may not repeat, but it rhymes.
Wow, no one has ever noticed that health care in Europe is cheaper than the US! Why don't we just sweep the entrenched interests aside, convince congressmen to throw away billions of dollars to their constituencies, and scale up a European system from a completely different regulatory environment to cover an order of magnitude more people? It's so simple! /s