skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 2 T410S. Great linux support, terrible screen but can be had for about 300$ on ebay.
I like how your page reflows for different widths and full screen reading. Nice work!

edit: Sorry I think I'd accidentally clicked through to another page which did what I said above -http://roundedbygravity.com/colophon/
In the calculation,
F2n=Fn−1Fn+FnFn+1
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in third line, it is FnFn+1
No, I'm not going to read his article and drive his traffic up.

What stories did Gruber break this year? What exclusives? None! He has no special access at Apple, he has no insiders who give him the scoops, he's no different from any other armchair blogger.

In truth, John Gruber is an Apple PR stenographer. The sad thing is, he probably doesn't even know it, because he's so drunk on the kool-aid.
>>So the maximum Mickelson could pay in state and income taxes, payroll and other income-related taxes would be around 60 percent. But that rate is only if he did absolutely no tax planning or basic deductions.

So it's absolute worse case scenario then. Reading the rest of the article, it sounds like he can get it to below 50% with some moderate effort. Since rich people can afford professional accountants, I conclude he actually could get it to below 50% if he wanted or his accountants could suggest some tax loophole in another state to get it below 50%.
It's surprising how prone we are to forget that people act on incentives.
I'm loving GoW, thanks!
Look at ReactOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
I just finished watching BBS: The Documentary and noticed the same thing. It seemed like everyone they interviewed had an entire room full of old computer equipment. They had boxes of software, walls of hardware manuals, stacks of monitors, cabinets of capacitors and resistors, rows of soldering irons, and at least one fully-equipped workbench.

Up until the past decade or so if you wanted to be a serious computer enthusiast you needed an empty garage; now you just need space on your desk for a Macbook Pro.
One main reason is that the SSDs do not store the data where you ask it for, it maps that location to any other location that it sees fit. That means it has an address-to-physical-location mapping that it maintains. If the SSD loses that mapping you data is gone. You simply cannot find the order of things.

There are some recovery strategies employed by the SSD firmware but they can't handle all possible scenarios and you are likely to lose some data in case of an unprotected power failure.

Also, as mentioned before the write takes time and not finishing it on time will make the location being written to have unreadable data.
Probably not, because it's not worth their time.
Dropbox is still on S3. shrugs
Sure, that's just the start.

A further improvement could be to move from California to say Nevada and pay no state tax at all. The next step would be reorganizing the business structure to keep most income / assets in the offshore jurisdictions. So on, so on, so on...

See, you are starting to justify cutting the tax rate from 60% to 50%, but why stop there?

The problem is created by the government/public asking for 60% to begin with and creating the sticker shock.
If MSFT had marketing power of Apple then Zune would be surely alive today as one of the top media players.
I find a 37ft sail boat fits my needs completely. Some added benefits: relocatable, scenery and built in furniture.
Small dose of irony in the upper right corner of Lenovo Outlet: "Lenovo recommends Windows."
So ... I saw Katie's "Tire House" post. I've seen and read some of Mike Reynolds' work, but hadn't seen anyone specifically critical of the Earthship design. Is there a specific post which gets into the downsides of the mode of construction or do I have to read her whole blog to find out?

http://www.makingthishome.com/2009/05/27/earthship-tour-aka-...
Plus if you think about it, if you're in YC, getting PG or Vinod Khosla or Ron Conway (the YC VC people) to sign a letter talking about your "genius" will probably go a long way.
>If MSFT only had the marketing power of Apple

You mean if MS only had Apple's talent for turning advanced technology into compelling products, right?
There's that saying, you can have it done right, fast, and cheap... pick any two. Generally the construction unions go for right and fast, not cheap. Often, they won't even do fast, mainly because speed and safety are often at odds with each other.

Of course, the meaning of cheap here is different. Cheap in the general market is $10 an hour, and union is $15. Qualified is around $20 to $30 an hour for the more common things, and a lot more for exotic skills like building bridges.

The logic is simple, though. Because construction unions aren't involved in producing product, they aren't interested in increasing speed and productivity. What they can increase is skills and quality and safety. So construction unions own training centers - gigantic warehouses and lots with classrooms and vocational education facilities. They force their members to get training.

In industrial unions in factories, the dynamic is different. Everything is based on the assembly line, so it's a different situation, and the unions have different strategies centered around that.

Likewise, trucker unions and other unions in the supply chain are increasingly strategizing around the supply chain.

I think you mischaracterize the waterfall shops. What waterfall did wasn't create union-like conditions. Waterfall rationalized the software production process, and created a kind of "factory" for software. The union-like behavior you notice is really factory behavior; when people in a factory resist management, even individually, it'll end up looking like a factory union's resistance.

When a union in a factory decides to do a "slow down" or "work to rule", it's resisting by putting pressure on the factory's workflow.

Unions operating in other sectors have different strategies. In the service sector, they use public campaigns to gain sympathy in the community. Teacher unions tend to use the political process (being a public sector that is popular with the electorate).

Agile's strategy was to improve quality, and give the programmer more autonomy. A side effect of autonomy (and TDD) is to allow the programmers to leverage productivity gains of new libraries and even new languages.

We don't associate what agile did with unionization, but that's largely because the craft-guild style union is moribund. It hasn't really revived and adapted for the age of data and software. That said, there are things like FOSS, GNU/FSF, Creative Commons and other organizations that operate in the space. The PC revolution, and then desktop publishing, and the internet, and now 3d printing and open hardware have all created a kind of "labor movement" of individual workers. It just lacks a political voice and a labor strategy.
The point is that the government does not know you're staying illegally.
BBS: The Documentary is so, so wonderful.
a related kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-clo...
Yup. My thought as I read Love and Math a couple of months ago was "this would be great to give to a high school senior who is wondering whether to continue with mathematics." If you truly love doing math, you'll feel it when you read this book.
Haiku. Yeah, it's sort of UNIX-like, but it's APIs are phenomenal, and it's focus on performance is slightly different to other OSes
(Tax advisor here.) You don't get a 60% rate in the US. Anyone who claims otherwise doesn't understand the basic principles of U.S. taxation or is lying to try and make a political point.

State taxes are deductible for federal income tax purposes (meaning that they reduce your taxable income as determined for federal purposes). Also, Medicare and Medicaid taxes are part of payroll taxes (or FICA, for the self-employed), so you don't pay them both.

As every tax advisor in the CNBC article pointed out, Michelson knows diddly squat about taxes. He was taking every single tax rate and adding them together, but he should have been averaging them out. For example, the 20% rate on his capital gains and dividends replaces the 39.6% rate; he's double-counting some of the FICA taxes, and worst of all, he thinks his marginal rate (the highest rate he pays) applies to all of his income.
I think there are three clear parties that need to take more active steps to try to reign in these kinds of Shysters:

1) Google - Institute a "Reputation Rank"/or other algos. internally when selling Ads thru any platform. If there is some hint that an ad-buyer is into some questionable stuff yank their ads, ban them from buying any more. Have a dedicated staff that investigates fraud ads and make it simple for the customers to file complaints about specific ads.

2) Visa/MC/Amex - The central lynch-pin - if they cannot bill, they cannot cheat. Tune your systems to ban these shysters faster.

3) Govt. - Create a dedicated Agency to help consumers with Internet commerce related fraud complaints. The nature of Internet makes it a fundamentally different animal to conduct business on - you need a fundamentally different kind of dept. to help keep track of Fraud.
Photographer shoots stunning San Francisco images with an aerial drone
it's like BeOS
It's hardly a secret. In fact one of the worlds most renowned chefs, Heston Blumenthal, openly describes the practice.
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This is the first I've ever heard of hypomania, which I often have in conjunction with sleep deprivation. I also had never heard of Bipolar II disorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_II_disorder
When I think "Next-Gen OS" I think of boot-to-Erlang with a very high fault tolerance.
I think there is lots of potential for innovation in the file system area. There could be a content-adressable file system right in the kernel and serve as a base for the operating system. Or some kind of object storage. Or at least with much richer meta data (and Unicode file names!) than current file systems. And maybe with transaction support over multiple files/directories.
Not sure if I will have time to get back to it, but I plan to create a set of tools for working with Schematron [1]. I worked with it quite a bit at my last job (and actually enjoyed it), but it is a niche thing and I found it difficult to get started/productive. I plan to create a set of updated (Schematron is old) and interactive web-based tutorials and also create a command line tool to help develop, test, and maintain large Schematron rulesets. I define large as being in the 100s of rules per spec and having several specs which interact. I don't know too many groups which work with Schematron at that scale, but I have some lessons learned in terms of organization and maintainability which I'd like to share.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematron
Next up: lrzip?

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/best-...
Americans see everyone as equal in status (in theory); in paragraph two of our first document, we say that it is, in fact, self-evident that all men are created equal. Since we are all equal, titles don't really serve much purpose, as the whole point of titles is to distinguish yourself.
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Apples Tv spot for the holidays shows this beautifully.
Yes you certainly can: At my university they are building a new operating system from scratch with multicore/multi CPU systems in mind, their vision is that someday we might have 5-10 specialized "CPU"s in our machines for better parallelization.

Current OS have a hard time dealing with such heterogenous systems so they decided to start from scratch: The entire OS is structured as a distributed system with a dedicated mini-kernel running on each core of the processor and potentially also your network card etc. They even disallow shared memory between the core kernels and solely communicate through a message passing system.

If you are interested in their approach check out the Barrelfish website: http://www.barrelfish.org

And here is a great overview of the architecture: http://www.barrelfish.org/TN-000-Overview.pdf
I am still wondering how much Gruber gets paid by Apple for all the viral marketing he does for them. Or is he truly that passionate about Apple that it is out of free will?
Something is deeply wrong with the world in which a scammer who spams and exploits idiots and then over-charge their cards, the way porn industry does for ages, is portrayed as a new hero.
1. Simplicity will rule

2. Your screens are your life

3. Big data for the little guy

4. You matter

5. The power of "we"
Wow, who would have thought the Rule against perpetuities had actual implications in modern American law! I thought it was more of a trivia question that law professors might ask about in a property law class. Next thing you know, we'll be reading an article discussing the Rule in Shelley's Case!
1) Yes, but if you legally reside in California [edit] or continue to do business in California, you still owe California taxes. Indeed, California will treat you as having not actually left California--and the federal courts would agree with them. (These jurisdictional principles have basic tax law worldwide for more than a century.) If you don't pay your income taxes to the jurisdiction(s) in which it is owed, you've committed a felony, and you'll end up paying all of the taxes owed, plus penalties and penalty-rate interest. There's also the potential for jail time.

2) There are many tax-regimes that are specifically targeted to prevent the movement of business assets offshore. In the US, running afoul of these rules is a minimum of $10,000 per violation (depending on the circumstances, potentially meaning per asset), plus the possibility of criminal sanctions. Moreover, locating assets offshore doesn't eliminate tax jurisdiction--you still owe income taxes in the jurisdiction in which you earn the income. (Basic international tax law.) All you really accomplish is to make yourself subject to additional income taxes in another jurisdiction, and worse--you may have rendered yourself out of eligibility for tax treaties that would have eliminated the double taxation.

3) Stop spreading FUD. The government isn't asking for 60%. And that's besides the point. Before the Reagan "Revolution", the marginal rate was greater than 60%. Right now, taxes are at near-historical lows. If you would prefer not to pay taxes, you could always move to a zero-tax haven like Somalia. I hear it's a lovely place this time of year.
I've experienced similar, no matter the class start time. I think I'd agree with your assessment of "you're in the wrong place" not necessarily because of the subject matter, but because of the presentation and environment in which it occurs.

For example, in my high school AP Calc class, I often couldn't stay awake because I picked up on the concepts very quickly whereas my peers did not and I would quickly get very bored when being lectured on the same topics day after day. Contrast that with the amount of books on Mathematics I currently own, that my favorite language is Haskell and that I currently am employed writing software.

It was almost as if my body had developed a heuristic for how useful today's class was going to be and reacted accordingly. The same sort of thing happened through college (Psych, Business, etc) whereas I was known to read psychology textbooks for fun when I was very young.
Such generosity
I played a LOT of MTG years back and even bought several boxes to sell off individual cards in the hopes of making a profit. This site would have been insanely useful at the time. I lived on ebay and checked those prices against other individual sites for prices differences to get the best deal when building my decks.

I only glanced at the site, but it looks well put together. I am thinking about getting back in MTG, so I'll check this out if I start building decks again and buying/selling cards.
You do not need to be in the office 24/7 to make $300K/year. You do have to deliver significant business value to your employer. Usually that is more easily accomplished by working steadily but leisurely, keeping a careful eye out for what problems really need to be solved that nobody else is working on, and then solving them quickly and efficiently.
Thank you. I am so tired of seeing this 'federal + state income taxes are cumulative' lie. Not only is it dishonest, it's an insult to the intelligence since anyone who who has ever done their own taxes knows they're deductible just by filling out the 1040.
The biggest legacy of Unix is C.

With Unix, runtime provisions effectively end where C picks up. C is "good enough" to build applications on, and it can be written portably, most of the time. But there is plenty of reason to challenge the idea that we need a baseline of C. There are benefits to having richer data types built in, to having garbage collection, and all of those typical higher-level programming arguments. And if it's done at the OS level, the whole OS may also benefit from that - it opens up more options for organizing data, for configuration interfaces, and for communicating between processes. The system is likely to be more stable and more secure as well.

The downside is also known - losing lower-level control, losing lower-level performance. But each time our hardware situation morphs, there's an incentive to abandon the lower-level stuff to get better portability. So in time, as hardware usage changes(not just in terms of devices and their internal HW management, but also the increasing complexity of our networks) we're likely to incrementally adopt the higher-level paradigms.
Is Gruber's goal to break sweet stories or deliver exclusives?

Two days after a story breaks no one cares anymore about the breaking of it. But a smart and thoughtful editorialist is likely writing pieces that hold value for years.

Certainly not everything Gruber writes is gold or even worth reading, but he is trusted for his opinions and insight, not for how early or accurately he gives you some "inside scoop" (even if he occasionally trumpets his playing of that game).
Like apt/yum, but with multiple sandboxed versions and installable in users' home directories.
Silicon Valley doesn't give a shit what sort of house you live in or where you send your kids to school. The way to signal confidence in Silicon Valley tech circles is to always know your stuff when it comes to technology, to have a solid track record of delivering software that people use, and to be ready to walk if a better opportunity comes along.
Actually you're right, the one person I did talk to about it did think the Americans should leave.
Oh please. Your CA income taxes are deductible, IIRC there's a line on the 1040 specifically for you to fill in your state income taxes. And I say that as someone who has filed self-employed for several years and so pay double the payroll taxes (ie picking up the employer's part as well as the employees).
Planned obsolescence. How many HP printers are sold simply beacause of a lack of drivers in the new release of Windows.
Is that the one which comes with a touch screen ? Have you tried using the touch screen ? And I have heard that the whole thing is very flimsy due to the carbon fibre build, what's your take on this ?
With typical files, XZ Utils create 30 % smaller output than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2.

http://tukaani.org/xz/
There is also a PHP extension to use the V8 engine:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.v8js.php
FCC chairman and former cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler waffles on net neutrality
Indeed tax rates are out of control for those who work hard, smart and strive for a better life.

When your making say 50k the amount of taxes they take from you is no sweat. Though when your hard work pays off and you start making six figures you wonder huh I'm not making six figures and wont see six figures in my pocket until I start making north of 160K a year.

Ridiculous!
Interesting view of prolog. If you look at indexing and search as an alternative organizing structure, perhaps Wolfram Alpha would be the language which takes that paradigm. My understanding is that Alpha takes the "search" term and generates multiple programs corresponding to what you're trying to compute.
It's not possible to pay a 60% marginal rate in the US unless you're paying tax penalties for previous underpayments of taxes. CA and NY have the highest tax burdens, and the highest marginal rate you could theoretically get is only 55%.

39.6% federal rate plus the 13.3% CA state rate + 0.9% high-income Medicare tax = 53.8% rate on non-investment income. Since we're talking about marginal rates, you wouldn't include the FICA or payroll taxes, as these are capped at lower thresholds than the marginal rates. (The exception is the 0.9% high-income Medicare tax, which only applies to the highest bracket.) But since federal taxable income excludes state taxes, you can't actually combine the state and federal marginal rates; you get a meaningless number.

Investment income is subject to lower rates. The federal rates vary from 0-28% depending on the type of investment and the tax bracket of the taxpayer. For example, lowest-bracket taxpayers have a 0% rate on investment income; highest-bracket taxpayers have a 20% rate on dividends and capital gains and pay 28% for income on collectibles.
I'm hoping there will be one... in black colour and CUBE shape!
I would call myself European hippie, but I find it outrageous as well.
Paid by Apple? He doesn't need to be paid by Apple. Have you seen his sponsorship prices[1]?

Of course part of the reason he does what he does is because it's paid off so well for him through blogging as a business. His business has been his own creation, though, and that in and of itself is quite impressive.

I don't know if every word is genuine, but one doesn't have to be on an official corporate payroll to make money through coverage/praise of a popular subject.

To answer your question seriously, he has mentioned getting early demo devices by Apple (for a couple years, he's been in the in-crowd of journalists to do so) but I sincerely doubt he's a puppet paid under the table.

[1] : http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
What's good about windows:

* Explorer is better than Finder.

* Right click that works

* Start menu + Win7 taskbar is better than OSX Dock/Launchpad (can't comment on Win8 metro but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it)

* Maximize

* clicking the clock gives you a calendar

I'm not exactly pro-windows but I believe the GP's point is that OSX is not flawless (neither is windows by far) but there's a lot of dumb things in OSX that should've been fixed but weren't because MS did it therefore it is not elegant by definition.

I've been able to make OSX work for me only because I get my real work done on the command line. Finder is nothing but a source of frustration. Also I ought to be able to right-click the volume icon on the menu bar and get the same menu as option-click but I don't...probably because that would be too windows-like.
don't the minimum room size guidelines for apartments in the city prohibit such small living quarters?
You'd guess that evolution would have taken care of the genes that cause this.
This test really doesn't prove that at all. There are vastly different factors between power cycling in a single day and long term continuous use. You can't take results from one and get any meaningful information about the other.
What would it take for this guy to actually admit that Apple no longer makes the best phones?

So okay, two year old iPhones still sell for a lot. Does that really show that Apple makes the best phones today? Or does it show that they used to make the best phones two years ago? If people are almost as happy with a two year old iPhone as a new one, is that really an argument against Apple having had a "lost year"?