skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This takes that into account - you don't spend all of your money until you have no chance of living another year.

(In this case, the assumption is that you might make it to 111 but will not make it to 112, which is not completely true but very accurate.)

If you assume that you always have a decent chance of living one more year, and you're not bringing in additional income, you essentially need to maintain a floor of savings and just live off the interest.

However (and unfortunately), this is a bad assumption. You can show that by calculating the distribution of ages for a human population that has nontrivial survival rates; they don't look anything like the actual human population.

(Explicitly: the survival rate falls off exponentially or faster. In other words, if you don't like 112 as a maximum age, you can assume 125 - that's 2 years older than the longest-lived human being.)
Facebook's appeal is largely casual entertainment. I say largely because there are some very practical features in the platform, like photo sharing and event planning/invitation. But it seems to me the bulk of its use is simply sharing links and anecdotes. Once the novelty of the medium wears off, people will look for the next entertaining fix.

I'm not sure how different it is from massively popular TV series of decades past, such as MASH or Dallas, where millions of people tuned in every week to see what would happen next. Eventually, all series die out. In the case of network TV, the medium itself, "what happened next" was cable TV, and then the internet.

I don't doubt it will be the same for Facebook (the product, not the company).
> all over the Net of game programmers teaching themselves quaternions

That's what I did too, but I didn't think of it as math. It seemed like a cool trick for working with arrays of floats — not math.

"Math" I knew from school was always boring and useless. I was told to memorize formulas that did some abstract operations on on other things I had to memorize — nobody told me I could be rotating spaceships in 3D!
There are ways to make this easier on you--for example, BitPay [1] offers to take on the burden of handling the BTC, and gives you next-day deposit in USD. Far better (read: faster) than Credit Card processing in most cases (no chargebacks).

[1]: disclaimer: they just hired me.
i wasn't even slightly referring to charity. Well, i was replying to one comment about social workers doing their job, but my comment was 100% about doing a job, regardless of field.

e.g. the baristas in the US will not pick up a napkin to you if you ask for the napkins, he will usually nod in the general direction of the pile of napkins.
Using an SIR model seems a shady approach for this model. The model inherently assumes an amount of time where a person is "infectious." They modified the traditional SIR model, Also, they never allow migration from the Recovered class to the Susceptible class again, meaning that once a person stops using Facebook, they will never use it again. It seems to not take into account age buckets (where Facebook may be more "infectious" with different age groups).
Man I'm the same way! I would kill to have access to my young teenage QBasic code. No idea how terrible it would be, but I would just love to have it for nostalgia.
I think the main point here is that one has to enable his luck. I mean, meeting somebody you'd fall in love with is luck. You can not use data for that. However, you could use data to enable yourself to meet enough people so that the luck had chance to happen. Of course, it is not the only way - it's just one of the ways. And, I guess, a way that appeals to the HN crowd :)
The pre-ipo trend at best looks flat, but really looks like it was declining. Facebook's emergence as an investment might actually be masking a decline in searches from people who are not investors.
I think the point was that even when you get 8 bits, it's closer to 7.7 real life because of the reduced range. Of course that's only in YCbCr, not RGB.
Well, that's unless you're looking for something that doesn't exist in the real world...
"Rooftop gardening is a fun leisure activity and not a solution to obesity, global warming, or world hunger.”

This is a straw man. Who, let alone the poor guy being protested, ever claimed that it was? He lives in SF. He most likely doesn’t have a yard. Is a roof top garden a net positive, or negative, to any number of things, including personal contentment?
No t-shirts this time ?
I recently found a forum I had started in 2004 was still "alive" (but empty). I'm incredibly surprised that the host didn't dry up and die. I was even able to get back into the admin account. For the curious(and with much forgiveness for my past self) http://hackr9483.proboards.com/
> Bullshit. Shoddy analogy at best, wilfully stupid attention whoring at worst.

how did you get so many karma points using such coarse language? It brings down the level of discourse.
I think the dependency irony starts hitting much further up the stack than the jquery library on the website, given the nature of a website on the public internet.
Khan Academy is great, but only covers through high school / engineering university math, last I checked. Having a good grasp of that is helpful, but if you want to learn real math you'll need to branch out. It depends a lot on what you want to get out of it.

If you want to get actually well-versed in mathematics (say, undergrad math major level), you'll need real and complex analysis, linear and abstract algebra, naive set theory and formal logic, and it couldn't hurt to get some topology and geometry in there as well.

On the other hand if you just want a particular subject (say graph theory), the prereq list will be much shorter. Or if you just want a general competency, just learning naive set theory and formal logic will get you to the point of at least being able to read the notation used.

So again, really depends on what you want out of it. I'm happy to provide specific advice re books etc if you do end up deciding to start studying.

edit for clarity: If what you want is just HS math competency (trig, HS algebra, calculus) then Khan Academy is definitely the way to go, in my opinion.
if you simply says "it is not here" instead of saying "it is not here, it is at window 7, down the corridor to your left", are you really destroying years of unionized workers fight? or just not being an ass at your expected job?

not saying that you should clean the office before you head home :)
Speaking only anecdotally, I notice that up until a few years ago, it was common among my friends and acquaintances to join Facebook. Now the trend seems to be to leave Facebook. Not in great numbers, just here and there, and more than seem to be signing up.
Perhaps you should just stop writing C as though you were using an OO language and accept it for what it is, not what you want it to be.
My comment does technically have correct grammar and stand on its own as a valid criticism of your comment, which to me is what makes it especially funny. Everybody posting "wow" as a response to you... not so much.
This is awesome! Except - I haven't finished the Matasano CTF yet! Too many flags, not enough time. :/
Translation: short the stock
Re: regulated markets

Pot prices are low because they aren't taxed according to your suggested system. Once you start factoring in all the perceived negative effects the drug has on it's users (ignoring the positive effects, as you said), the price shoots up. Silk Roads will continue to exist.

Re: glue sniffing

So under your system, substances that can be abused as drugs while not marketed as drugs (also "bath salts") will be much cheaper than the regulated, taxed alternatives.

Let my clarify my position: regulation and heavy taxation of drugs is ineffective, unjustified and will have bad outcomes. Society fares better if individuals are made responsible for their choices.
Head space: Finding a way to do 3D surgery on the brain
True, it is the very same I get in France. But french people does not sell themselves inconsistently as the americans. ;)
I don't think the goal is to get any random women to talk to you. This can be achieved much easier. The goal here is get the specific kind of women - ones that you'd enjoy being with - to notice you and talk to you. It's like "I want to meet a person, any person" (just go out and you're done in about a minute unless you live in a desert) and "I want to find a friend" (that may be a bit harder and may not just work by stopping random strangers and asking them to be your friend, they'd probably think you're panhandling).
So this isn't associated with https://trovebox.com/ ?
I find it quite reasonable to expect that all window belonging to the same domain would stop listening to speech once the user indicates she wants recognition to stop. the main window, which started the speech recognition, indicated that the listening stopped, yet it continued on a spawned window. is it a bug? not sure. but it definitely could lead to some bad UX, even if the window isn't spawned as a fishy popunder.
Is level 1 kind of a test of the computational power we can bring?
Developer and Social Activism
How small contribution using technology can makes big difference
You can just go to settings and search for "Microphone" (or look in "content settings"), then switch it from "Ask me" to "Do not allow".
I'm curious why people put so much effort into scaling Heroku when you could outperform the maximum number of Dynos with only a handful of AWS instances for a fraction the price. It doesn't make sense. We're literally working around a problem that shouldn't exist.
I'll have to take a look at the Hack language. I've always wanted to try PHP, but I've always been deterred by the cruft (same reason I avoid Java).
Even pg noted that top comments are largely awful. I find just skipping the first one makes reading HN a much more interesting experience.
I'm a former partisan of that sort of thinking, so I'm well aware of it -- from the inside, as it were. The trouble with it is that it only works on people who already substantially agree with you. When you're talking to people who don't, at best it does nothing, and at worst it actively impairs your efforts.

Failure to acknowledge this fact is taken as a sign of commitment, I think, in certain quarters, but I've lately come to hold the opinion that such failure evinces a certain basic lack of empathy which augurs ill for the ability of the person so failing to make an argument capable of convincing someone not already in agreement with him.
It's a very first world "not in my backyard" movement. Righteous indignation about someone with more money encroaching on "their place" in the universe. Get used to it little hipsters, you're not the first it's ever happened to and you won't be the last.
the topic doesn't warrant a high level of discourse
Basic remote desktop access, doesn't even need to support file transfer/clipbaord. Most important aspect is that it should simply setup without the need for a VPN access (same as LogMeIn)
The level of discourse was brought down to below zero by the article. I'm actually raising it, if anything. This is an appallingly bad "forecast" and I'm slightly ashamed on behalf of Princeton for allowing their name to be associated with it.

Also, if you look at my comment history, I don't habitually use "such coarse language". I only use it in appropriate circumstances - like in response to this article. The coarse language has little to do with the karma.

Edit: worth noting that the title of the article on Guardian is "Facebook will lose 80% of its users by 2017", not may. That has been editorialised by the submitter. The article is even worse than you may think if all you read was the title.
Here is Spolsky's take on what Bill Gates was like to work for:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

Certainly feared to some extent.
Navigational searches on Google from users going to Facebook are being displaced by direct access to the FB app on their smartphones, which is not measured in Google Trends.

That, and the assumption that FB is equivalent to MySpace circa 2006, make me completely dismiss their claim.
We'll see how long this lasts if Dogecoins become worth a lot more. BTC used to be like this, too, with many "Bitcoin faucets" dispensing coins at will just for entering an address.
They threatened to not let him or his family leave his house. If you’re that person, what is a reasonable threat level? Are they going to shout at you? Stare intimidatingly? Lock arms and try to stop you? Punch you? Draw weapons?

Because if I read that pamphlet manifesto, it doesn’t come across as logical and rational - it actually reads more like “borderline unhinged radical”, and who knows what level of “restraint” is acceptable to such a person?

If I’m kept in my home by fear of such - I’m sure there’s a word that captures that, perhaps “imprisoned”, then to me (and in the case of false imprisonment, to the law), the fact that noone or nothing has been hurt or damaged doesn’t make things “non-violent”.
How small contribution using technology can makes big difference? and we developer have major role to play in the society.
Hm? From the post: "If you complete all the levels, we'll send you a special-edition Stripe CTF3 T-shirt."
Did you see the same video as I? The current implementation is obviously very wrong. You press the button to stop the listening and the listening continues(!) and the browser doesn't even give any visual cue that it's still listening.

It's the Google answer that is suspect: 'there was an ongoing discussion within the Standards group, to agree on the correct behaviour - "Nothing is decided yet."' What, what?
As someone who spent a lot of time working with BTC in a professional sense, this statement rings a little hollow considering you're using Coinbase.

Can you elaborate?
You can't possibly know whether it has impacted you as a developer, because you don't know what "you with more math" would be like as a developer. You can say that you're doing fine in spite of no math background, but I don't think you can reasonably claim anything about where you would be if things were otherwise.

For myself, I have experience programming with no math at all, with high school math, and with self-taught axiomatic math (I've been programming since I was quite young). I can say with certainty that every time I've learned more math, I've been able to improve as a programmer as a direct result. This even applies to relatively esoteric parts of mathematics, like category theory.

I don't think anyone's claiming that you can't work as a software developer without a heavy math background. We're just saying that you can go a hell of a lot further if you take the time to learn the math.
OK, can it do secure connections without having to tunnel into the network without VPN? Same as LogMeIn for example?
Why do you believe this analogy will not apply to Facebook?

Social media is called 'viral' for a reason: because its spread is apparently analogous to infectious disease. This analogy certainly does seem to apply to other memes and social networks of the past - why would Facebook be an exception?
Wacky exterior paint
> using the AeroFS servers for authentication

I'm not sure this meets the definition of private cloud...
Jarvis - Intel's voice controlled earpiece
Case in point: in the 1990s, portals were big, and every popular website wanted to be a portal. Likewise, between 2006 and now, most popular websites integrate social features.

What people seek in Facebook, they'll start finding in more directed services. Facebook was made for a world where smartphones and affordable or free fast mobile internet access was rare. A shrunk version of the regular web version can be enough for adults who are already used to Facebook, but teenagers and children will flock to user experiences that explore the advantages and idiosyncrasies of smartphones.

Maybe Facebook the company will own some of these new services and interface ideas, but Facebook the old timeline/friends/profile service will get obscured by the new, shiny, more intimate new services.
That's only true if the investment was participating preferred equity (sometimes known as "double-dipping"); if it was convertible preferred equity then it's an either/or scenario (they choose between getting their liquidation preference, or converting to common equity and getting their pro rata %). Insight used to be big on participating prefered so I wouldn't be surprised if you're right, but things may have changed..
The nice thing is, that brunch automatically generates proper sourcemaps, so you can debug your application pretty well. Soooo, you have the little stuff catched instantly and are able to debug higher-abstraction code (!) without much hassle. Of course, this just works in my specific case that simple... :)
What are the options for us after the week is up if we want to do it?
Well, exhorting the choir is very satisfying, of course, and I can see the tactical benefit in so doing to the exclusion of any attempt to increase the size of the congregation. This does, of course, imply an abandonment of any desire to find a modus vivendi, but the impression I have is that such abandonment is more or less implicit.
In-app Notifications
Django vs. Flask for a long-term project
That is why I did the comparison with Google, Google is built into the UI of Android and it is also integrated into the Omnibar of Chrome (or whatever it is called) so there is also a displacement of search traffic too on Google, but it didn't see those declines. Now this isn't a perfect control, but it is something...
I like it how HN sentiment went from "let's ridicule Bitcoin" to "let's ridicule those who consider accepting it because now that everyone does it, it is stupid to make a big deal out of this".
Βίντεο από Γάμους - GrGamos
Android Pokemanager
As for the worry over 'addiction' and escapism, just let us go. The moment it becomes physically possible to get the hell out of this reality and take my chances in another one, I'm gone. Just stick an IV in me, store me in a coffin-sized apartment, and start the show.
Ups, my bad
Click the "forecast" button. Google disagrees.
What pain-point was Outbox solving and was it really that painful to get you to pull out money for a scanning solution...
remote: > We're temporarily out of available test cases. This probably means we're under pretty heavy load, but don't worry -- we're creating more right now. Please try again in a few minutes.

meh.
The rise in consumption of hamburgers follows an infectious curve-- thus we predict that humanity will be hamburger-free within 2090. /s

Agreed. Not everything is a fad.
Alan Watts said: (paraphrased)

Life is not a journey pilgrimage with an important goal at the end, it is a musical thing and you are supposed to laugh and sing and dance along the way.

For the full text, check out this cool youtube animation made by the Southpark folks from his lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4 (animation style is Southpark-like, content is Alan Watts)
Facebook definitely seems worried about smartphones. They tried to make their own phone interface, and (despite some good reviews) it was a commercial disaster: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57583557-94/heres-why-the-f...
Why is it hostile for a company to want customers to put their money where their mouth is? Anyone can say they want to pay with Bitcoin, but are those people actual customers? As a company you can't really tell that based on a bunch of internet hot air—especially about something that inspires the kind of fanaticism that Bitcoin does.

I'm not sure why this makes you so angry and where you draw your sense of entitlement from, but it's certainly not free to support Bitcoin just because you proclaim it to be.
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The argument isn't that it won't apply to Facebook. Rather, the assertion that the analogy will apply is unscientific. It is an assertion of the form: A and B have behaved the same so far. Thus, A and B are of the same nature, and will continue to behave the same indefinitely--an improperly drawn conclusion

"Viral" is just a word. The fact that we have repurposed it to refer to electronic media does not magically impart to electronic media the properties of biological viruses.
OK, I'm looking at it now. I will install and try it. Thanks for the tip!
Google employees will now organize to lobby to bring a "stand your ground" law in California. When that happens we'll see how many hipsters feel like threatening someone who can afford a semi-automatic weapon and has the skills to rig it up to a quad-copter, or their home security system.
Update three hours later: An editor at Fast Company responded and said they'll add a note to the story. https://twitter.com/JessHullinger/status/426050602984935424
Indeed, I think that one and The Thirteenth Floor are much better explorations of virtual (simulated) reality than, say, the superficial zen & mainstream action of The Matrix.
For the record, it wasn't all "rent-a-cops." Homeland Security's ICE division was there. See http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140121/15234325942/mpaa-i... .
> No digging around to see, "Is it VGA? DVI? S-Video?"

I'd definitely appreciate that like 8 years ago, but if a device is old enough to worry about that, it still might not even support HDCP, in which case a large chunk of modern media wouldn't play on it anyway.

I don't have an everlasting flame of hatred for it in my heart, but yes, I do find it inane and a bit annoying to have marketing labels for the thing I already bought on the thing itself.
"To get all the professional features, you had to pay money for your browser; a ludicrous idea today."

UK: Yup, I walked into a software shop in Birmingham's city centre just before then and bought a copy of Netscape for around £20 or so. It came on floppies in a box with a short manual, and I installed it on my Pentium with 16Mb of RAM. It has moved fast in 15 years.
> The main culprit after some rudimentary profiling seemed to be the jQuery's .html('') tag. Apparently it does some cleanup which takes awhile on a huge DOM block with lots of attached events. Replaced it with by looping through each child node in the DOM block and removing them with removeChild.

It's important to let jQuery clean up its event handlers, otherwise you'll end up with memory leaks.
Do you think adding something like this - http://github.com/axemclion/browser-perf into the continuous integration process would help over time ?

The project is a NodeJS implementation of the Chromium telemetry smoothness and loading benchmarks and the data from it could check perf regressions.

I could help with the integration if needed.
I have to disagree. In this case, the lump sum and the annuity are equivalent if you get a 4.2% return on investment. You aren't going to find a risk-free investment that gets a better return than that, so the only reason to take a lump sum is if you want to invest in riskier investments. The decision comes down to risk tolerance; there is no clear cut winner.
"[T]rigonometry and the like are still somewhat of a mystery to me."

That's a shame. Trigonometry was the most fun I had in a math class before college. I'd recommend you give it another try, ever - the trick is to relate everything back to the unit circle.
You never heard of overstock.com until they started accepting bitcoin?
(React does too.)
I've been trying to find the PERFECT '2d math' specifically for 2d game development.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Anchors look suspiciously like creating a new chain in iptables. Tables there doesn't seem to be any direct analog, though can be done similarly by creating a chain that matches the list of addresses you're interested in and forwarding the rules there.

That said both of pf's versions look better than iptables. nftables looks like it does a better job of this like pf does, which is definitely a good thing.
A question to all of your responses:

Are you guys basically living in some type of fear of your own government (if you are, as I assume, American and living in the USA)?

That would kind of seriously contradict the freedom that your leaders preach to the world.