skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cynic in me is actually thinking it's interesting that the Scandanavian countries are left off the charts. They are usually touted as being amongst the happiest countries in the world, despite rather aggressive tax regimes to pay for it. Perhaps there is some cherry picking going on here? Either as propaganda to show that the US is the happiest, or to show that money equals happiness - which might not be true in the more socialist, high tax/lower net income Scandinavian countries.

I'm probably being too cynical though. It's just surprising given the reputation of countries like Denmark and Norway for being happy, that any study could possibly leave them out.
Thanks Julian! Any help you've got, I appreciate and am humbled by.
Sorry, I'm just being horribly pedantic, but I suspect that music pirates kill far more people than real pirates, purely because so many people are technically music pirates, wheras the real pirates are very few in number and are also quite likely to be pirating the latest sea-shanties, so there is a lot of overlap.
Yes. Perhaps a dialect difference. We'd say "pass rate" to mean "get less than this and you fail, more and you pass". We don't tend to use the word "grade" here for results in tests, to my ears it sounds very Amercian. ☺ We'd say "mark".
I was mugged earlier this year. I live in a neighborhood that used to be quite rough in Brooklyn but is getting better. It was 2am and I was walking around by myself and I got mugged.

He didn't take much from me: my phone (big deal) and wallet (easy to cancel credit cards.) Along with that phone he got a lot of photos - memories - of things and at that moment I wish I had automatically backed up to a private G+ album. But I didn't because I'm pro-privacy, I think.

When I filed the police report, the detective walked up and down the block with me, seeing if there were any cameras to see where the person went, or to identify them. Ordinarily I would be part of the anti-mass-surveillance crowd, what is this, England? but at the time I might've appreciated a few cameras along that block so to maybe deter my mugger.

I often think about this when it comes to discussions of surveillance. I, like so many hackers, want privacy, anonymity, and for the government to just go away and let us enjoy the ability to live private lives. I want Google to stop trying to save all of my personal emails, photos, text messages, and location data to the cloud.

And then I say "but it would've been nice if there were a police security camera on that block." Or "I guess I have principles about google plus but I'm still out my photos."

I don't think it's so unreasonable, in a sense, for someone to feel that, if in fact these efforts are foiling peoples' ability to do us harm, that they're fruitful. What is the essential difference between wanting a stronger police/watch/community force in my Brooklyn neighborhood versus the surveillance we're talking about here?

Obviously there is some difference. But what is it?
Interestingly, neither of the example themes are based on Bootstrap.

This is a good starting point if you're looking into Jekyll/GitHub Pages. (as the quality of most default Jekyll themes aren't that great)
...but what we can't say is for sure how bad things will get or if you are a stupid climate 'sceptic' - how they will stay the same.

Oh, I thought you called people that didn't believe in your religion "deniers".
Like Bender said: "Forget about the blackjack! And you know what? Forget about the Internet!"
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Hence why they hack it, and say "We'll give you money if your child is 'registered'".
Never quite thought about this way that Bitcoin could crash into the side of a mountain.
Haha, we'll put a request to Google to create a new app category for it.
It's an arbitrary choice, just like how Unix time is since 1970, or how UTC is timezone for Greenwich England.
Shh.. If we don't publicize this too much he might actually get to make his speech. But I think after this publicity RSA will probably figure out who Colbert _actually_ is and what he stands for and cancel it.
What you describe sounds a lot like the French Republican Calendar (linked from the See Also section).
Deserved or not, fedoras and similar hats have become associated with hipsters today. The public at large generally does not like to deal with hipsters, for a variety of reasons (their typical attitude is a big one).

It's really no different than how many people distrust others who wear extremely baggy clothing. Clothing like that has become, rightly or wrongly, associated with gang culture. Most everyday people do not want to deal with others who dress in such a way.

Had fedoras become associated with a more respected culture or group of people today, then they very well could have become more popular.
I'd put most of Computer Science under Applied Mathematics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_mathematics
It's not just the parents, but the "boomers," as well. Some analysts see two groups in the "Baby Boom": 1946-1955 and 1956-1964. I don't know where the break should be, but one of my sisters was born in 1963 and has never struck me as a "Baby Boomer." She doesn't remember very much of the 1960s, the draft, Vietnam, etc. An article in USA Today, a few years back, on these "Shadow Boomers" mentioned a woman born in 1964 and both her parents were born in 1946 -- all three are Baby Boomers.
>I don't really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point.

The article shows a logarithmic trend (i.e. doubling your income increases your happiness by a fixed amount), which is a straight line on the log plot. This insinuates (if the trend continues, which is assumed from the results) that there is no point at which increased income won't make someone happier.

The traditionally-held view is that there is an income (I've heard something like 70k in the USA) where the plot should become a horizontal line, i.e. increasing your income increases your happiness by zero.

These are very different conclusions. The plot isn't really falling "significantly towards the top of the scale". Log is the correct way of looking at income, because people consider changes to their income proportionately to their current income (for example, a 5% raise to someone making 1M dollars a year is about as significant to his life as a 5% raise for someone making 100k, even though the actual additive amounts are very different).
I can't recommend "UNIX and Linux System Administrator Handbook" enough it has definitely helped my burgeoning career as a sysadmin. Also I've learned tremendously from zed's C, Ruby, and Python. Thanks Zed for putting all of that together. Lastly RIP Evi Nemeth, so many Sysadmins are greatly indebted to your gifts.
Yes it's still a pub, it's called The Pommelers Rest . I doubt it the same name as it was then.

Street view here: http://goo.gl/maps/Ptb0v
Younger people should learn this long, long before they graduate college. By then they're already functioning adults.
satisfaction != happiness
The participants were not asked how happy they were, they were asked where they stood on a 'satisfaction ladder' with the best life they could imagine at the top. Many people may be perfectly happy, but they know their position on the wealth scale and imagine that they would feel more satisfied at the top of that scale.
Good theorie, but now i wonder how they got the water up.
There must be evidence of pump or large amounts of buckets :D
In a lot of cases, the "performance" people care about when making language choice is "developer performance". People choosing Python feel (perhaps incorrectly) that they will be more productive and able to build things faster with that language than any of the other ones they considered.

Contrived example: If it will take you 8 hours to write something in Language A that takes 30 seconds to run, or 30 hours to write it in Language B and have it run in 15 seconds, which do you choose? If raw performance isn't the thing that's valuable to your company, maybe Language A is a better choice (even if it's slower than Language B).
You might be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

I remember it still being used at Kodak when I was a kid and my father worked there.
Well we're still using liquid fuel rockets to get to space and those were invented in the 20s. We're still using coal, gas, and hydro as our main energy sources. They were all around then. Radio, Airplanes, Cars, etc all were around.

I think the two biggest difference are no plastics and no electronics in these pictures. The other difference is that people are more individualistic in their appearances. They don't all wear the same clothes.
Depends on where/how you live and how much "value" you place on money. I think one could also argue that money causes stress depending on how much you have and how you got/maintain it.

Here's what I think:

- If you're born into money, money = happiness if you follow & believe in what the family wants you to do.

- If you started a business that made you money, money = happiness more than half the time

- If you got huge amounts of money suddenly, money = problems.
They are usually touted as being amongst the happiest countries in the world, despite rather aggressive tax regimes to pay for it.

Or, according to the World Happiness report 2013: 1. Denmark, 2. Norway, 3. Switzerland, 4. The Netherlands, 5. Sweden. The US ranks 17th.

Source: http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/09/WorldHappinessReport2013_onl...
I honestly ask why?
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The trick is not giving a shit what people think with a healthy balance of trying to define your own style.
Please, GB not Gb.
Were the pyramids built inside out?
This is by far the biggest issue I have with any sort of international "happiness" scale. Some people like to complain a lot more than others, and culture-wide differences can be huge.

For example, the Economist had an article on the general malaise that hits the French (http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591749-bl...).
The study uses an odd and rather dubious measure of "happiness":

Gallup asked respondents [...] to imagine a "satisfaction ladder" in which the top step represents a respondent's best possible life. Those being polled are then asked where on the ladder they stand

What the results may show is that fantasies about happiness, such as "if only I had more money", lose power as one gets more money. If you run out of fantasies about how you might be happier, it does not follow that you are happy. It could be the opposite! Perhaps the article should be titled, "Money weakens the imagination".

In any case, studies that define "happiness" very differently should not be described as "casting doubt" on one another.

Edit: looking at the paper itself, the "imaginary ladder" was one of two questions asked; the other was (paraphrased) "how satisfied are you on a scale of 1 to 10?" I don't know how the data differs between those two questions.
I'd be interested in knowing more of some of the pitfalls you briefly mention in dealing with VCs and the world of startups in general. An article, somewhere, anywhere, would be nice.
I think you've missed a particularly oblique piece of sarcasm.
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There weren't even speed limits at that time. It was pretty much a free for all subject merely to the same customs surrounding horses and carriages :-)
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+1 for homakov. Dude knows what's up.

http://www.sakurity.com/
Actually, the author is rather well informed on the history and construction of stringed instruments. He simplified his loosely related analogy so he wouldn't have to write huge footnotes of apologia and exceptions in his mapping between domains.

In general, attacking the perceived inapplicability of an analogy is weak sauce. In this case, you allowed your pedantry to lead you to completely miss the point the author was making, both in his analogy and his thesis.
If it was done in 1870, the design is past copyright expiration. Would be a fun project to recreate this machine- specially with 3D printers making it more accessible to make. Anyone know where we might find the actual design?
Having worked at a software company whose internal date format was indeed based on days as the base unit, I suggest that this is an extremely bad idea. 0.75 may be 6pm, but what is 7pm? 0.7916666666666666 is as close as computers will generally come, but of course it's lossy; try adding increments of an hour and sooner or later you've got an irritating rounding issue.

This is solvable using arbitrary-precision decimal libraries, but relying on one of those for just dealing with general time stuff is a Bad Idea.
Money is like engine oil. An engine without enough runs poorly, but it doesn't take all that much to get it to run smoothly. More than that doesn't help or hurt, it just sits in a reservoir somewhere. You can get a bigger engine that uses more oil, but beyond some point it just doesn't matter much.
Target’s data breach MUCH bigger than thought – now more than 100,000,000.
Abstract of the cited article (http://www.nber.org/papers/w18992?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu...):

Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple datasets, multiple definitions of “basic needs” and multiple questions about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear-log and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it.
"Even more striking, the relationship between income and happiness hardly changes as incomes rise. Moving from rich to richer seems to raise happiness just as much as moving from poor to less poor."

That's misleading (to be charitable...). Doubling your income seems to raise happiness as much, whether you're moving form poor to less poor or rich to more rich, within the ranges looked at. Adding $5000 means a lot more happiness for the poor than the wealthy.
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people are actually pretty bad at defining where they are on the wealth scale. For example, loads of very rich Americans seem to think they're middle class (the WSJ once portrayed a middle-class family as earning $100000 a year, which actually places them in the top quintile).

This article describes how it is a relatively universal factor though (everyone thinks they're kinda in the middle)(http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/everyone-is-mid...)
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For those complaining about the verbosity of c#, here is an alternate c# representation:

public static void Main()
{
const int n = 21;

Observable.Generate<double,double>(1, x=>true, x=> 0.5 * (x + (n/x)), x=>x )
.Scan(new {prv = 0d, cur = 0d}, (prev, curr) => new {prv = prev.cur, cur = curr})
.FirstAsync(_ => Math.Abs(_.cur - _.prv) < 1E-10)
.Select(_ => _.cur)
.Subscribe(Console.WriteLine);

// this is just to compare values, so is not part of the solution
Console.WriteLine(Math.Sqrt(n));
Console.ReadLine();
}

That's is, everything you need to run the program (technically one line of code, line breaks are for readability). And its non-destructive, has no side effects and is pretty easy to read.

I would never argue that c# is a 'proper' functional language, but the poster above wrote in the style of idiomatic java, something a lot of c# devs do. I don't think c# has an 'idiomatic'. It is very flexible, and while never truly functional, can be also be used like a scala.
That's a beautiful explanation. It's one of my favorite things about the ARM instruction set.

That said, it also means debugging becomes a bit more painful. Let's say you want your (cheap) JTAG debugger to halt on the count++ instruction. You can hard break on that particular address in code, but you will always hit that address whether the condition was met or not.
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I was wondering too. This video explains in more detail how they used pressure to move the water up

http://youtu.be/C1y8N0ePuF8?t=15m20s
Depends on where you are. After all, living in a rich environment might get you better public services. And it's not like you exchange salaries with everyone you meet.
Or de-auth the app on Twitter.
Book, that's a very broad term. Are we talking textbooks, recipe books, short-fiction, novels, non-fiction or any of the other tens of genres?

You should rethink the whole pitch because it fails to deliver the main point.

Nice design though.
thats really cool. i have an old pic of my house here in portland oregon - built in 1924. im the 3rd owner which is kindof cool. every time i fix something i try to imagine the others who touched it before me - and built it to last from 1924.
when we renovated the kitchen we actually found scraps of a kids homework in ceiling/floor and some old match books from when the roof was replaced 30ish years ago.

we left a couple magazines and a kids toy in the new walls :)
Well in my wife's case, where work is a 30 minute drive away, there is no chance she will drive to work to shut off an alarm. Maybe a good override would be to select an alternate location close by that will let you shut off the alarm (e.g. her gym or Starbucks). That way if she's not working, she will at least do something productive instead.
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Well I meant non-fiction but I don't really read fiction.
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Questionable source imo.
great to see, digital currencies need each other.

who will step up next? Namecoin? Dogecoin?
I would rather know how many politicians they blackmailed
Here's a Google cached FAQ from Microsoft about the technology behind it. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_b9bZ5U...
What's an AMA? Did he speak about coding and its role in society?
Check out the video first. It is a fascinating theory

Other sources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2526467/Were-...
This entire website looks like a cheap tabloid.
> I don't really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point.

It doesn't - the title of the article and the interpretation provided with in is almost as misleading. They start off quickly by telling you about the 'Easterlin paradox' - that is what they have specifically found evidence against. i.e. 'more money makes you happier' is backed by evidence.

The fact that more money makes you happier does not mean that any amount of money can make you as happy as you want though...

This is not surprising - its probably common sense.
Similar projects:

Tor: https://www.torproject.org/

i2p: https://geti2p.net/en/

Gnunet: https://gnunet.org/

Freenet: https://freenetproject.org/
He who says he can and he who says he cant, are both right
A story about elephants who have been chained at young age. They remain chained as adult because they believe they cannot rip-off the chain. They have been convinced to believe so.
If he cancels, I'd understand.

If he decides to do it, it will be awesome.
The graph in the linked article uses separate lines for each country. The position of each line is different but the slope is surprisingly similar.
I agree. They so ruined it for us.
> I think you're confusing political parties

In the UK liberal refers to more socialist and inclusive policies (I think in the US it refers more to people being allowed to take care of themselves?).
Full Paper:
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2013/...
See post by wes-exp above.
I only remember to check in on freenet when stories like this one pop up, so I was very surprised to see that the project is sporting a healthy 5-figure bank account. I had been used to seeing it in the vicinity of $500 or maybe $2000, for years at a time.

It is great to see organizations step up and support a project like freenet, despite the realities of what a truly anonymous network could mean in terms of content and behavior. Maybe a separately funded independent security audit is in order though.
The paper is linked, available here (http://www.nber.org/papers/w18992.pdf?new_window=1)

The graph they have included the 25 most populous countries, and is already a mess (lots of overlapping things). The Scandanavian countries didn't even make the cut on that one, the Economist probably took the ones that were the furthest apart. Maybe if all the Scandinavian countries fused together they could have made it?
At first they are. This is different than the way I learned math as a kid. Today (at least at the elementary school that my kids attended), math starts out with relatively undifferentiated exploration, and hops around from one topic to another. It gains rigor more gradually.
It's a thought experiment. Assume that both neighbourhoods provide the same services.
Lots of things would be easier if everybody uses the same time.

It could stay the 24h/day time format, but timezones are a pain - I always have to recalculate them for local time. Why couldn't everybody work with UTC?

And by the way: when will we finally get rid of the daylight savings time?!?
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im with you brother! :) i have an Indiana jones-like hat and a fedora. my daughter ( 11 ) has 4 fedoras!

we're no hipsters either !
That would be because the mirror is a cheap tabloid.
This is straightforward: We've spent more than 5 trillion on the war against terrorism, homeland security, NSA, and other measures as a response to 9/11.

http://nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

If you want to talk money and not lives, then by your citation we're spending the equivalent economical impact of a large terrorist attack every month to prevent something that is more rare than being struck with lightning from happening.
I think you misunderstand the context of the article. It's not "here's interesting information about wealth vs. happiness".

It's "remember that theory about wealth and happiness that is generally accepted as true by everyone? Well, guess what, it's wrong". Which is a lot more interesting/important than the other questions the article raises, although they are of course also important.
Spying isn't just about saving lives, it's also about protecting national interests.
Interesting idea, and maybe one worth investigating further.
I've always liked the internal ramp theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68

In the end, lets all at least agree that it was human innovation and not alien technology that built the pyramids.
Well for a start they're misusing apachebench gnuplot data (which isnt time-ordered).

And "compiled to php" is kinda meaningless, it depends what it's compiled to. There is no "native routing" language.

For my two cents, if you're having to translate your solution into simpler code your solution is wrong.
Yep, Homakov is one of the best when Rails is involved.
Why not test this theory with a smaller pyramid replica. I think that a lot of people would volunteer to spend a couple of weeks of their summer working on a project like this.
Are you saying you would like an uncompiled option during development time?
I am a boring dresser because I visit many clients. A nice button down shirt, a black jacket, none-casual-pants. People say the hat goes really well with it.
Indiana Jones hats are awesome. I could never pull that off.
Your wife goes to work helping to save lives all day. I don't think she needs a device that will tweet "fart lmao i'm so random p.s. fuk u j-teen beeber" if she's 2 minutes late due to traffic.
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How much are you willing to pay per passive candidate for the opportunity to contact them?