skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "growth-oriented," I'm referring to those companies who eschew any profit in deference to further growth (even if they could show reasonable profit at a slighter lower rate of growth). For these companies, they lack the immediate value to works of a profit-sharing plan, which, IMO, is one of the most valuable aspects of it.
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Thanks for the reply. I see in another comment thread you agreed with the sentiment, "From my experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL, it is a bit like the difference between python and php, one is a great work of craftmanship that is reliable, predictible, coherent, enjoyable to work with and minimise the wtf/mn rate (which is the best quality measure in software), while the other is a bunch of hacks knit together to make it work asap and its wtf/mn is skyscraping."

Makes sense. I guess I've always assumed that while MySQL has gotchas, so too would database X. They come with the territory of databases, being such a large part of any app, yet separate from it and usually infinitely more complex than the apps that use them. To that end, I think it's why some people end up writing their own simpler data stores or caching middleware between databases/OLAP and front-ends. Such written-from-scratch solutions can be easier to debug when things are mission-critical.

From what I've seen with databases, the really complicated part is "setting them up correctly". If you start out with most defaults, something will eventually become a gotcha forcing a schema rewrite or a database transplant using an SQL dump. But that's just been my experience: with databases, expect to not get it 100% right the first time (unless it's not your first time with the technology, of course). And from that perspective, the technology used is less important, it will equally have "gotchas".

That all said, I too will be playing around more with Postgres to see how it compares to the InnoDB/XtraDB I've a hate/love relationship with. ;)
> He simply proposed a tool for making the debate more concrete

No. it makes the debate less concrete.

The model is absolutely 100% meaningless. An equally valid model would be:

I assume that basic job has a cost of $1 trillion (+/- $500 million) and basic income has a cost of $3.25-3.5 trillion

How does that improve any debate?

This whole thread is really annoying me because it's just hiding bullshit behind "maths". There are no insights, no conclusions, nothing. Just some numbers. Most annoying of all is the stupid "write some fucking code!" counter-argument. No. I wont write code with bullshit numbers to try and convince people of something that has no data to support it

People are going to go away from reading this article actually convinced that basic job is better than basic income based on what is essentially this guys uninformed opinion. That is bad
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I'm fairly sure the free riders would be a tiny part of the population.

I don't.

And that's the problem with the whole discussion: a simple, critical tipping point makes or breaks the whole proposition, and nobody can sufficiently prove which way it will tip to the satisfaction & persuasion of the sociopolitical opposition. Doesn't help that the proposition, hinging on this vapid presumption (either way), involves ENORMOUS amounts of money: "oops, we were wrong, too many people became free riders" would prove disastrous. Humans have tried a lot of socioeconomic structures, and a "play if you want to" BI model hasn't taken hold.
Yes. Cooking multiple dishes simultaneously for multiple people.
Let's face it, being bought by Microsoft isn't what it used to be and has some downsides, like preventing Google from promoting Xamarin like they should.
30%, really? I've only ever known one family that has the soapy taste issue with cilantro/coriander.

(I only learned of the condition because one of the family members mentioned above was my college roommate.)
Having excluded the two obvious ways of solving the problem...
Ack, nevermind I just figured it out.

#table > tbody > tr:nth-child(2), #table > tbody > tr:last-child {
color: #ff0000;
}
I took part in consulting projects that decided on the style guide as the project infrastructure was designed.

It only applied to the source code for the project at hand.
http://www.amazon.com/Kinivo-BTH220-Bluetooth-Stereo-Headpho...

Sound quality is average, but battery life and ease of use is unbelievable. Plus, you can take calls on them. The battery will go for a week or two with heavy use. This is after using them a couple hours a day for the last 2 years. I'm amazed that I don't see more people with these things.
There's absolutely no performance difference whatsoever in normal usage. Really, none. Squat. Zilch. Zero.

GPU performance and memory bandwidth are waaaaaaay more important than an extra 2 cores that'll be turned off 99% of the time anyway.
Here's an explanation for some of the more dangerous stuff in it:

http://keionline.org/node/1825

By the way, they intend to maintain unlocking phones or other devices illegal with TPP. It's just that now it will extend to a lot more countries.
It's quad core cortex A7 @1.2 Ghz, that's not even in the same league as the 2 year old Galaxy Nexus (dual cortex A9 @ 1.2). This is in no way comparable to any modern flagship smartphone performance wise.
If scientists can build computational models and test ideas in a significantly easier way, then this is definitely an important project.

Wolfram has a large following in the academic world and improvements to his product line can turn into real results.
This code isn't particularly hard to understand, and that's one of the things I was impressed with about it. If it were more than a demo, it would need comments to explain its cleverer bits, but on the whole, it's pretty cleanly written.

But I disagree that writing short programs for the sake of writing short programs is a bad thing. Sure, you need to recognize that you can't take all of the habits you get from it with you when doing stuff for production, but it can be a good goal when creating prototypes. One big advantage is that it prevents feature creep.

I wrote a library a while back called DelayedOp for wrangling async calls in JS. Originally it was 5 lines of CoffeeScript, and I actually used it in that form for a while. It's much bigger now and full of features to aid in debugging. The key is that by writing it minimally to begin with, I got something I could use and see what features I actually wanted to add. And while I mourn the elegance of those original five lines, I also realize that what it is now is far more useful and reliable.
Okay cool, I get it. Thanks for the info.
Yeah I see these could be useful in a modern environment.
But nothing really beats (at least for me) the expressive way I can edit text in VIM.

I would love to see some of the more modern stuff implemented into VIM, like the whole page code scroll preview from Sublime Text.
Its not who you know, but how they know you.
What happened to sublimetext?
I am wondering if it still is under development or if it will just die quietly. The last tweet is from June - as well as their last release, which has been a beta ever since.

Does anybody have any insights on this?
It is a standard for the specific project.

Just a decision, like many other, that take place at the beginning of a project.
I imagine that working with data already in Amazon's cloud would be very fast when accessed from this virtual desktop.
TL;DR: Study harder
I was one of the "gifted" math students in high school, and I highly doubt anyone "bad at math" put in nearly the effort I did.

The ease of doing it in class or breezing through homework assignments was backed by hours a night of looking at high level concepts and talking about math with people more advanced than me, including teachers during lunch breaks and after school - a habit I'd had since late elementary school.

At the end of the day, they weren't "bad at math", I just put a lot more effort in to my practice - and it showed on game day, as it were.

Just like the guy in my school who was "gifted" at basketball spent hours a night practicing since early elementary school.
Conservative party deletes archive of speeches from internet
yes it is simple.

You are implying that there was a good vs evil paradigm with WWII which is completely a USA fallacy.

Both sides were being funded by the central banking cartel. Do you actually think there would be any difference if you were living under Nazi control or not?

Look at all the astroturfing of the phrase "6 million Jews" in WWI before Hitler even came in to power.
I'm passing these questions on to my cousin. I know he's in a meeting right now, but will try to get an answer for you ASAP.
Micro Python: Python for Microcontrollers
I'm a Wolfram science summer school instructor, so I'm in a position to see the kinds of trends there are towards NKS-style methods. It's slow, but definitely there. Some of it is directly inspired, some of it is 'convergent evolution'.

Here's a very high-level and eclectic list of themes and specific research directions I can remember off-hand: agent-based modeling in economics and operational research, game theory automata in evolutionary biology, lattice gas methods in fluid dynamics, tessellation-based approaches to solving PDAs, L-systems in architectural design, logic automata for programming array-based computers, cellular automata-based PRNGs for stream ciphers, program search for finding lock-free concurrent algorithms, rBMs as used in deep learning.

In fact, I used an exhaustive NKS-style search the other day to find novel data query primitives (i.e. what other functions live in the type-signature space that MapReduce occupies?).
> I've never had the impression that the military was held in particularly high regard; serving in the military is the sort of thing you might be ashamed to admit that your children do.

In areas where Republicans win elections (roughly non-urban America), military "service" is very often held in quite high regard. Sure, it's not like being a doctor, but I don't think parents are often ashamed of it. Parents, siblings, and grandparents are often quite proud that their family member is in the Marines, for example. People wear t-shirts advertising their current or past involvement. At American Football games they often have active duty military stand up and people clap for them.

As for some examples of military propaganda, here are some that come to mind (note I'm not the OP):

- July 4 and other holidays where the military participates prominently in parades.

- military jets flying over head of a sporting event or a parade, or an air show.

- school field trips to military bases or military museums.

- military bands performing concerts

- mentions to "brave men and women in uniform" in political speeches everywhere

- "support our troops," "my son's a Marine" signs/bumper stickers

- Hollywood videos that glorify the US military and lease military equipment/personnel

- Video games where the US military or US military weapons feature prominently. The US Army famously sponsored a very expensive game a decade ago.

- tons of advertisements on Channel One news, perhaps a couple a day, a TV station that almost all high school students were required to watch during the 90s (I don't know about now)
good, send HttpOnly cookies and solve that problem. window.location.href='http://www.redt*be.com'; -- if you think evaluating JS code, as-is passed by the client is a good idea go ahead.
Am i the only one who don't get it? Is there something not usual in the homepage?
You are now militantly misunderstanding Stucchio's point. I can't help you understand without repeating myself, so, best of luck, but I'm done.
How is that possible, when there were rumors they intend to pass it by the end of the year?
With Moto G phone, Google's mobile revolution now plausible
But Alpha is free.
Yep.

Dan Siroke, CEO of Optimizely always, always stresses in his presentations it is vital to test. The presentations on his SlideShare are awesome: http://www.slideshare.net/dsiroker
Why would they run the risk if they have enough warm leads from trusted contacts? The VC money to startup lead ratio is obviously one sided to present sufficient profit motive to invest in cold introductions.
If the VC market becomes sufficiently in favour of warmly introduced startups that there is profit motivation in investing in those startups that cannot garner warm introductions then someone will do it. But they will be assuming much greater risk.
Selling a side project for almost nothing..
I'd place a bet that someone will copy that code without understanding the risks involved, and then will hack together the ability to load and save data, and then complete the puzzle by enabling you to share it.

Voila.

People copy code, the defaults should be safer. I know that wouldn't make it so elegant as it wouldn't fit in so few lines, but that's how you educate others on the risks and how to deal with those risks.
Awesome, thanks! Will pass this on to them. I'm hoping to get them to join the conversation at some point.
You're welcome to say that based on the money, Mr or Mrs Airbrite, but I'll continue to use it to publish my comic books. And so will a lot of other people - I've seen statistics that the 'comics' category of Kickstarter is now having more money flow through it than the #2 publisher of comics in the US.

YMMV.

I also suspect that the people who make and maintain Kickstarter would disagree with this, given how they've taken steps to largely remove hardware projects from the site. They deliberately left a lot of money on the table by doing this.
It looks like the combination of TeamViewer and Virtual Machine.
Oh, and here you are! Great!
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Ehhh. Those companies and others like them (Aramco, etc) represent the heart of the modern industrial economy, for better or for worse. Are consumer companies like Apple even imaginable in their absence?
Foundbite's Data Model: Relational DB vs. NoSQL on Cloudant
Some of it is free...
How about editing csv files in a git repo?
Just curious - shouldn't the events be attached to the parent table and delegated to the children inputs so you are not attaching the focus and blur events to each individual input? Similar to something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/W3Stf/
Not on US terms, it wouldn't be.
Well yes, the idea is the sheet being open to a group of people for collaboration or whatever reason.
Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

Would that be surprising to you? I assume you might be an American - I was really surprised when I visited the US and noticed that most people use unlocked boxes located outside of their houses to get their mail. Where I live people either lock their mailboxes or they get mail through a slot in their locked door - nobody leaves their mail accessible.
After he's kidnapped you.
Anti-art
Legally, due to the EU Data Protection Directive. It's a legal obligation.
I still don't get your point.

You mentioned targeting the browser with C++ for portable applications.

For me the place of native code is at the OS level, and the browser should be left alone for plain interactive documents, instead of Frankenstein VM.

Hence my short reply with a list of native frameworks.

It has nothing to do with licenses.
I imagine he'd be tortured.
This article confuses statistics with (at least on my assumption) pure math. He talks about the use of math by journalists in data analysis and visualisation, when that's purely the realm of the statistician, who need not necessarily know any calculus. Similarly I've met super intelligent pure math PhD candidates that are working at the precipice of their (very esoteric) field but wouldn't know where to start with applying "data science" stats/ML techniques some interesting slab of data.
The problem with this service (or others like it) is the next eventual step is making your private snaps you've saved with the service public.

Snapchat itself faces the same problem. They are sitting the greatest trove of amateur porn ever, and eventually they need to figure out how to make money.
Then you probably have to worry about two legal systems. The company is still American.
The right to know what we're paying for. Probably the best way of putting it.

How can we call ourselves a democracy when money is taken from us and we don't know where it goes? It seems like we're voting for people, but there's no discourse about the secret stuff.
As someone who, like the OP, is often on the other side of that conversation (I've helped startups raise seed funding and get into accelerators), here are a couple tips:

1) Be specific. Which investor do you want an intro to, and why? I know my investors well. Some of them love meeting early-stage startups. With others, you are wasting your time unless you've already raised significant capital. Other times I can't help at all (recently got asked for an intro by a B2C company--I know my investors from a B2B perspective since that's where my company is, and I'm not sure who would be a best fit for a B2C company.)

2) Be real. If you don't have any customers/pipeline, traction, or even a working demo, you're not ready for investment. For some reason there tends to be a pervasive belief that a "napkin idea" can get funded. Maybe 1% of the time, that's true. But even with a previous exit under my belt, I still had to have some form of traction before I got investors onboard. If you have nothing except an idea, please feel free to ask for advice, but don't ask for advice on looking for investors, because I'm going to tell you to focus on traction first.
Do you mind elaborating on those nasty side effects? (I use with(context) for a small but important feature in the product I work on.)
BugHub - a GitHub issue tracker for Mac is now Open Source
got an unlocked LG L9 months ago for $179 with a 4.5 inch screen and LTE. It has been discontinued now, but I have been wondering why LG seemed to be the only company capable of coming out with decent spec phones at decent prices.
Legal concerns. I'm not a lawyer but there are quite strict rules. Here is an example based on Google Analytics (first Google hit): http://www.searchlaboratory.com/blog/2013/06/germanys-data-p...
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Except... just because you haven't observed it doesn't mean it isn't true. And just because you believe you're gifted doesn't mean you are. It's really easy to be a big fish in a small pond. It's also possible to think you're a big fish in a big pond when you swim in a pack with smaller fish.

edit: I just realized you said high school.
Timecapsule.io (http://timecapsule.io/) works exactly like this. It was built for the exact same reason, although I think the purpose and problem was maybe worded a little more clearly here.

*disclaimer - I built timecapsule.io
I just updated my Microsoft account because of the breech and learned they only allow a 16 character limit on their passwords.
Etsy grew quite quickly, after having been founded by people with little experience running a website at scale. Once an experienced and competent team came on board, I believe they spent a lot of effort recovering from poor decisions made by inexperienced people under duress.
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Come on, you know better than this. Microsoft has given everyone good reason to be skeptical of every other Windows version. XP? Solid. Vista? Nope. 7? Solid. 8? Off to a rocky start...
Very similar to what was proposed by Firefox/OTOY/AutoDesk [1]. OTOY is using Amazon so there appears to be some overlap there [2].
Wonder if Amazon licensed any OTOY technologies.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/11/05/mozilla-otoy-and-au...

[2] http://www.otoy.com/AWSPressRelease.htm
Yes because the market always picks the superior technology.
> And if so, that's useful information to have.

> That's very nearly the result we get here - note that the Basic Job estimates range from $300B to $1.5T.

The problem I have with this post is this. It is NOT useful information to have.

What is that range based on? Nothing. Your guesses. There is no known probability of the real-life result lying between those values, therefore the values are meaningless.

I'm all for models, models are great, but they need data. There's no point in a model based on assumptions, it's basically just a smokescreen for making your opinion look like fact.

> I would indeed tweak the model until I felt the probability distributions governing the assumptions covered all the plausible values.

Basically you would tweak the model until the result matched your opinion. If you had data of 100 similar startups and you calculated the distributions of their loans and sales growths, THEN AND ONLY THEN is your model useful

edit: I'm giving up on this thread now because I feel like this - http://xkcd.com/386/
I'm commuting 2+ hours twice a week for school, and I don't have time to actually eat (real) food in between work and school. Having a decent meal replacement for that is helpful, so that I don't end up eating garbage.
Tail calls, value types, and generics are the big ones.
Spot on, though outlook 2013 is a piece of crap over RDP
Sunray, is that you?
On top of that the proportion of code/development time involved with the UI or OS integration on a mobile client tends to dwarf the rest of the project, meaning reusing the guts is nothing like as big a net gain as it would appear.
What changes does HTTP/2.0 bring? What changes would it make that would want me to switch.

The one I would love to see solved is the state problem, cookies are not the best way to solve that problem. If there was a standard way to accomplish that within HTTP without all the mess that is Set-Cookie and the domain rules and all that fun stuff I would be very happy.
The short answer is that at the time this stuff was designed, it was assumed that a passive attack could trivially become active instead, so it was assumed that defending against passive attacks wasn't worthwhile.

Newer info about fiber splitters invalidate that assumption.
I aced all my high school math classes including calc. Because my school was small and rural they didn't have any more classes for me. So senior year I had no math.

Got to college, took a math placement exam and bombed out, so upset. Then as I was leaving knocked a chair down and everyone stared at me.

I ended up with a BFA in Drama.

Fast forward 10 years and like the author I worked my ass off to get into a top MBA program and not only that, major in finance.

So yeah, it can be done. Hard work, and not accepting the bullshit line "oh I'm not good at math." And without attacking my own gender, women tend to be let off the hook more easily with this excuse, as if we accept that girls can't do math.

Fuck that.

This post rocked. Thanks to the HN community for bringing it to my attention.
Managing/deploying patches and dealing with virus outbreaks (in theory) is now someone else's problem too. I'm not sure it's for me, but I don't think it's a bad idea.
If these can be rented by the hour, it could be a good way to get Windows machines for testing websites with various versions of Internet Explorer and testing emails with various versions of Outlook.

I know that EC2 and Rackspace has Windows machines, but only with Windows Server. When I have tried that, there is always something funny, such as IE security settings that are different from those of desktop Windows installs.

For now, I have settled on having local Windows installs (free licenses through BizSpark) in VirtualBox.