skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, that was responding to a comment that was almost as dumb, although it weaseled out with that "IQ tests tell us" clause.
Honestly, I have no idea. I live in Berlin and Native Instruments, Ableton, and Soundcloud immediately come to mind.

It's about the ability of smart people to start businesses in places with good quality of life and low costs, serving the whole planet.

Pixelmator comes to mind too, but that's Vilnius and they're small, but absolutely game-changing.

It's quality, not quantity.
Tim Cook's point carries over to customers as well. For me, knowing a company is taking a progressive stance on human and civil rights goes a long way towards how I view them.
I started to make a list of all the things you can get in 2013 that you couldn't get at any price in 1970 (notable ones included Gleevac and a Blu-ray set of the Godfather trilogy) but I am just going to give up. If you think you'd be happier living as the median American in 1970 than as the median American in 2013, especially in the Socratic satisfaction sense of knowing the experiences of both, I just can't imagine how to convince you otherwise.
If robots can replace all human jobs, then why does anyone need to work? Or why does money even make sense them. All people need is food, water, and shelter. If machines can provide all that, lacking a job doesn't matter.
Progress marches on, but as much as I enjoy some good kernel porn, only one in a thousand HN readers will be affected in any way at all.
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In case anyone else is curious, DRM in the kernel stands for Direct Rendering Manager [1]. It has nothing to do with the DRM that's usually discussed on HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
AWS has a bunch of options for exactly what you're looking for.

Just want better disk performance? Use instance storage or high provisioned IOPS EBS.

Just want a lot of memory? Pick a M2 or CR1 Memory-optimized instance type and pay for more RAM without adding CPU.

Just want more CPU power? Stick with the same amount of RAM as the m1.large but add 5 times the CPU power with the c1.xlarge.

More disk space? On EBS you just pay per GB.
Balaji Srinivasan makes a lot of sense. The paper belt used to run the show. They are now losing that power and trying to claw it back with yet more paperwork. I am entirely favourable to the idea of curtailing, thwarting, and thoroughly undermining the regulatory bullies in the filthy paper belt. They have no legitimacy.
I've seen studies where applying a DC voltage to your brain significantly increases its performance with no (known) side-effects. Here's the first link I found, if you're curious: http://gizmodo.com/5882754/how-to-electrify-your-brain-to-be...
My two suggestions:

1. Once a unit has been targeted, put it on top. I accidentally targeted a word I didn't mean to (duplicate first letter), but couldn't figure out what it was I needed to type, as there was another word in front of it.

2. Don't allow duplicate first letters--I'll be half way through typing a word, before I realized that it targeted a different word. Or rather, restrict it to when there are >26 words on the screen.
Please add other regions, especially us-west-1.
I really don't get this. Can I really pick cheap and right, and just expect it to take longer?
I'm just now getting into Python. Primarily because I'm abandoning Fisherian methods for Bayesian methods and all of the books seem to have examples in Python.

I use R in a business setting. I'm a data scientist at Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com)
10 year experience at age 28 is maybe unusual but not unheard-of. I'm 27 and I have 13 years professional programming experience.
US to lose out if it keeps stiffening Bitcoin regulations
>Well when you have replicators and automation to do all the work, you have more time to focus on other things.

The problem is, business models will probably bill you for time of use while you rent-out your replication.

Technology is great, but as long as their implementers seek profit over ideals, there's a pretty big obstacle to your utopia.
Google Officially Launches 'KitKat,' Its Latest Version Of Android
how do you define "professional programming experience"?
This is their biggest issue... They have no incentive to bootstrap and provide legitimacy to what would end up becoming their biggest competitor in the future.

They are stuck - they can see the short-term huge benefits and profits from being a trusted middleman, but once it takes off and becomes accepted in the mainstream they would be cut out of the picture (and forced to pivot again...)
There's one from Tim Cook on HN right now: http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304...
He better not miss out on 3.14.
Not really. For example, it's just as easy to look at it as $1 in financing charges, since your financing the device purchase.

I think that's the batter way to look at it since a) that's the price they've charged with or without the data, and b) I believe you can BYOD and get the same deal without any charges (other than possibly buying a SIM if you don't already have one).
Not OP. I am guessing a service along the lines of StormDB or postgres.heroku.com.
Agreed. Blogging is a tool of the mediocre. It's like the blind leading the blind. And those who do have a clue are trying to manipulate you to their hidden agenda.
I think I should have clarified that this was for Australia. Yes, I can buy the US version and I probably will but the fact that Google is using dodgy regional pricing irks me.
Yes, if you read further on the blog, you'll see I'm more than slightly denigrating. I read a book recently called The Cult of Statistical Significance and it's really turned me against Fisher. Not only do I see his methods as sub-standard to Bayesian analysis, he was really mean and disparaging himself to those folks. It's interesting, my username is what it is because he used to be my hero! Just 6 months ago, I really considered him to be the father of modern science. Now I basically see his work as mostly enabling mediocre scientists to rise through the ranks. This is what I mean by that: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/10/daily-c...
Too bad the robots didn't eliminate the shitty jobs first.
Nuclear power can prevent use of “the atmosphere as a waste dump”
With respect, I think you're coming at this from the wrong angle. In my opinion, availability of blurays, or whatever, has no correlation whatsoever with the general health and happiness of a society. In fact, the essay I linked specifically seeks to factor that out, on the presumption - that I share - that it is basically irrelevant. Are you a miserable, miserable man today because you can't get 2025's GreenRay UHD or super-ultra-holo-3d or the iPad 20 or whatever? Would any of those things make you a long-term happier person? Of course not. Technological knick-knacks do not bring long-term life satisfaction. Convenience does not equal happiness. You will not die with a smile on your lips because you own a retina display.

I'd advise you to read the essay I linked. It might change your thinking on a few things.
'Consistently controversial' might be more accurate! The up/down vote patterns are probably similar to 'top comment snark', I'm sure I read in the last month or two there was new stuff added to deal with that.

Easy way to find out - info@ycombinator.com.
"It's much smarter to invest in Bitcoin directly."

Let's assume that bitcoin is a currency, which is highly debatable, but let's put that aside for now.

One does not 'invest' in a currency. One either uses a currency or one speculates in a currency.

Now, returning to the fact that bitcoin is far from a true currency, as much as its proponents wish to purport to its practical usage, the fact is that 'investing in bitcoin' is very little removed from taking a punt on a race horse or a penny stock or beani-babies or any other highly dubious 'investments' which have come along so far.

What kind of currency has fluctuations +109% in a less than a month's time? (October 1st to October 23rd 2013)

The only difference in the case of bitcoin is that it has the allure of technology, cryptography and all the mysteries connected with it.

All great hustles have that. Madoff did it with the 'mystery' of the stock market. Ponzi did it with the 'mystery' of the then still recent international stamp post delivery system.
Deserving is a funny idea. I'm not talking about "does Paris Hilton deserve her money?" or even "does Bill Gates deserve his money?" which all too often devolve into personal attacks and minutiae and miss the broader systemic question.

When you implicitly demand that people work for money, you're making an intuitive error that brilliant economists, from Adam Smith to Karl Marx, have mistakenly stepped into many times: the idea that value comes from a day's work. That's the folk version of it, but in economic's early days it was professionally argued for enough to get its own name: the labor theory of value. There's a long history of debate around it, and even today there are highly sophisticated versions of it floating around that have added epicycles and epicycles of subtlety, but the long and short of it is that it's been proven wrong. Not from a normative point of view (which is impossible anyways, as that's just moralizing), but empirically speaking.

And the moral version of it doesn't make much sense either. I'd be the last to say that an investment banker doesn't work hard, but does he work harder than a single mother on food stamps holding down three part time jobs? Or, for that matter, do either of them work harder than a peasant in rural India?

Lots of things determine income. But by far the biggest is economic productivity, which is heavily correlated to capital intensity.

As a collective whole, we are far more productive now than we were a couple decades ago, let alone a couple centuries. For that we get far higher incomes for far less work. Does being born in a first world country in the 21st century deserve extra income? No, not really. Yet we live with it and don't beat ourselves over the head for it: we do it because we can. And even once developing countries have caught up with us, we'll still have to ask ourselves if we deserve greater income than our ancestors merely for coming after them.

Capital will continue to grow exponentially for the foreseeable future. It will not be long before the labor of maybe a billion people worldwide are able to provide a standard of living for everyone that's higher than people in first world countries get today.

Do the people who aren't part of that productive core "deserve" the money? I mean, maybe, maybe not, but does the answer to that question even matter? None of us really deserve what we have, so so long as we make a workable system where the incentives line up so that everyone can live rich lives with a base level of income, I'm all for it.
How am I supposed to play Settlers with you if I'm remote?
Pi wouldn't count on it.
The compensation at these is substantially better than what you've mentioned. Some offer regional offices around the country and world. I can see how the extra autonomy and reduced workload would be nice, but I'm not sure you can judge without trying both.
China is not communist though, it's state capitalism.
Well Silicon Valley does need America's consumer market, legal infrastructure, security, and skilled work force. The author of the article is not wrong in that sense. How successful would your start up be if you had to waste time worrying about your clients breaching contracts (with no legal resource for you to recover the money owed to you)? Or waste time worrying about populist policies destroying your business model? Or figuring out ways to cope with extortionary behavior from local organized crime/and or government?

These are all legitimate problems businesses in other parts of the world face (though not in places like Germany or UK).

Even the markets developed countries like Germany are not as large as the US consumer market. Having close, easy access to the biggest consumer market in the world has its perks.
We used tuProlog for rule-based intelligent agents in several applications and it worked pretty well, but its poor performance eventually led us to look for alternative implementations. That was about five years ago, though, and perhaps it has improved.
I agree that who-owes-what is negotiated by the parties and not objectively pre-determined, and that we, as commenters, have a hand in deciding who-owes-what.

I ask you: would you want to secretly fail a secret grading criterion because something about you (tone, content (Church says it's content-based discrimination), et cetera) is not acceptable to a moderator?

Crucial points are: secret failing and secret grading. I wouldn't; I'd value the feedback, or get the heck out of there.
Considering the negative connotations of DRM, I am surprised it isn't named something else.
The talk did not "dismiss non-techies as unimportant to the nation's future".

BSS was talking about finding new places for trying new things if they aren't allowed in America. Or even within America finding new ways of trying new technologies without affecting the entire society all at once.

This article is overly sensational and reactionary.
Open your eyes and maybe you'll see why art can stop that.
Those armed citizens are not allowed in airports by law. There's a reason airports, along with schools, post offices, the state of California, etc, are called 'victim disarmament zones' by the concealed-carry crowd.
I don't think this is really a contradiction. I took GP to be complaining about Hollywood residents who want to force everyone to drive. These creatures do exist, and they deserve our scorn, at least partially for the hypocrisy inherent in their preference.

I'm not familiar with Walkscore.com, but somehow I wonder if they base any of the score on ease of commuting to work.
I have purchased every app you've made and am constantly recommending them. I was very pleased to see this hit the front page.

Keep up the outstanding work...
> I also find that SQL feels to me quite a bit like Prolog (you have to sort of squint), and I find myself liking writing SQL way more than you're apparently supposed to from how much people complain about it online. That might have nothing to do with having learned Prolog, maybe my brain is just wired wrong.

It's not just you. I'm in the process of writing "Euclid's Elements in SQL". It can be a beautiful thing if you think in relations, rather than tables.
It is very important to be able to leave, to be able to provide for yourself and your loved ones if a relationship goes bad.
LOGO was exactly what I thought of when I saw his post. 'pen up' and 'pen down' and so forth jive very well with "natural" language.
Surviving the post-employment economy
The difference is a slot machine is mathematically negative expectation. Also Bitcoin is zero sum after commissions. So very different.
If I get a certain variety of leukemia, and I'm in a society which hasn't discovered Gleevac yet, I will probably die. That's a pretty awful consequence. Not getting to see the Godfather movies in glorious 1080p is perhaps a lesser tragedy, but all these little things add up. Sure, there are all sorts of "holistic" measurements of society's overall happiness, but I'll come back to the Socratic question: Would you really be happier in 1970, knowing what you're missing from 2013? And again, we're assuming straight up that you're not in some woefully underprivileged demographic that would be seriously screwed by having to live under 1970's mores.
I guess, getting paid for a programming job, and doing so vast majority (or all) of the time can be considered as professional programming
Completely off topic - It drives me crazy when the enter key doesn't submit forms. Especially one liners.
Significant for me, they reverted this bug - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61781

Could not get a dbus connection following resume from suspend. Very annoying.
Bill Gates: Internet connectivity doesn’t mean much
So then there is the question Marx posted a century and a half ago - what do capitalists do with the money they make? Only so much can be spent on mansions, and even that is an investment. They can bury some precious metals in the backyard if they want. But then the rest of it will all go to capital spending.

What is the result of capital spending? More commodities. But who will buy the commodities? Workers. But they can't afford them, they just lost a round in the capital/labor fight. So kick the can down the road, have the workers go into debt to buy the commodities. That works for a little while, but then the problem becomes worse and a bigger collapse will happen at the next crisis.

Despite just coming out of the "worst recession since the Great Depression", the Federal Reserve etc. did save the US economy for now. I'm of the belief that sooner or later the world economy is going to hit the skids and even Keynesian New Deal measures won't bring things out of it. Only time will tell of course.
I agree. That sort of flagging leads to an echo chamber of like minded voices that excludes anyone with a reasoned, but differing view.
love and give a vote
"Well that's developer's problem, isn't it?"

Obviously not as the developer got full payment. It's both the developer's and client's problem.

"Yes, that's how contracts work. Welcome to the real world.
How is it your problem that the developer agreed to an impossible task?"

Did you miss the part where the client wasn't going to get the app/code unless he paid? As soon as the dev said he needed payment or else the submission was a no-go, it became the client's problem. The "contract", if you could even call it that - good luck to the client trying to seek legal recourse with it, was poorly thought out. "Welcome to the real world."
Well Bitcoin is currency not a bank note.
> The ability to irretrievably lose massive sums of money with no recourse is a challenge for Bitcoin. Banks have insurance for just this sort of eventuality.

I find it funny that you pose the problem and give the solution in such close proximity. (In case you miss my meaning, the solution is to trust large wallets with third party companies that insure their holdings and guarantee your money even if they are successfully attacked)
Sometimes I wonder if any new investment that I make in my skillset is just buying me a few more months of profitable employment at some point around say 2050. The loss of employment for less skilled labour is happening now, but I see no reason why eventually all labour could be supplanted by increasingly efficient machinery/robotics (for physical tasks), and AI for information/services tasks.

Capital is increasingly producing greater returns than labour, and market pressure is causing businesses to invest in capital as a result... but what does the economy do when labour cannot produce or earn, and hence cannot spend?
This sounds insane, but what if spent rods were stored in a spacecraft, launched into space, and then controlled safely out of Earth's orbit, and on a path away to exit the solar system? Similar to the Voyager spacecraft, perhaps?
10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy
I don't know, I think it was more he lost the power struggle against Jony Ive, so he may have one more stint in front of him. Hard to top building iOS though...
People can only buy so many things, particularly people who aren't rich. The more robots that make our things, the less labor is needed, and the less things we can buy.

As long as we're focused on individual consumers buying things for themselves, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available or needed to make those things. While it may happen elsewhere, I'm very pessimistic about anything like a basic income happening in America.

But without basic income or a job, there's no effective mechanism to distribute cash. You need a job to receive cash.

Yet there could be many jobs available if we shifted the focus of our consumption from individual needs, and put some of that focus into community needs. Large projects. Infrastructure improvement and operation. Solar power. Transportation.

Just get it into our mindset that we're building and operating big stuff. Because providing for our individual needs will not provide jobs for most of us.
I was a contractor at Google years ago and hated it. In fact, it was the worst job I've ever had in tech. The Employees there are rude and very arrogant. Mediocre Management? That is an understatement. These people had no clue what they were doing.

I can also speak to the crammed cubicles. It's the only place I've ever installed 3-way Cat5 splitters. Ironic.
this is very unreliable, I tested it with 10 sites, 8 are incorrect.
FWIW I live in Chicago and in my neighborhood >1-2 a year is high and causes a commotion.

That being said you go 20mi south and it's a different story.
Looks a little easier to use the chocolatey.

Bookmarking this for sure!
"(And by the way: fuck theory and fuck words. I only look at what happens in directly observed and touchable reality anymore.)"

Heuristics have been shown to be highly effective.
Macbook Air (2013) support works better in 3.12.
Am I the only one who read the title as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge script?
Wow, the degree to which you're reaching to make yourself feel to superior to strangers on the internet is honestly pretty scary.

No one "has an expectation that their data is completely secure when they give it to a third party", you literally just made that up. Regardless, this statement is still different from the original implication that people were "stupid" because they would give their data to Google and have the audacity to be upset that the government stole it. But hey, don't let me disrupt your snarky, disingenuous bullshit? Hopefully you pretending strangers on the internet you assigned emotions to are dumb and you are smart helped your issues.

Looking forward to utterly insane snarky sentence that completely ignores that you are laughably incorrect followed with an emoticon! ;)
Heh, I didn't mean to imply he's the only individual involved in bug resolution. Rather, it's his job to ensure bugs are resolved, whether he or some entire division of engineers are working on the problem.
but what does the economy do when labour cannot produce or earn, and hence cannot spend?

The economy ceases to do anything for labour, and then people start to fight.
A page like this might be really useful, but it's very difficult for it to tell the whole story, and the story is always changing.

In my experience, China's government uses many methods to sabotage the Internet, and the methods used against specific services change very often. I believe change so often because it's more disruptive.

Some services seem "just plain" blocked, as in the connections are being sniped by RST or something. Others (e.g., Google services like Maps) are in what I believe to be a "degrade" mode, where perhaps half the page is allowed to load, but not enough to be functional, in order to make the service look broken and to be more annoying to the user. I met many people in China who hated Google services because they were so slow and/or defective--due entirely to the sabotage.

They also seem to mess up a lot of stuff via DNS. They also seem to disrupt VPN. They also inject ads into page content, e.g., ads in the lower right corner of espn.com or whitehouse.gov.
Can you explain to me the opinion here? I think it's very cut-and-dry telling like it is. SV needs customers and customers are in US, living US ways. Where is the opinion?
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