skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguable. Being hungry, homeless or sick is an actual problem that causes people great suffering. Driving a Honda while one's neighbor drives a Ferrari shouldn't cause anyone any suffering (if it does, it's self-inflicted). The former is poverty, the latter is inequality.
FWIW, TeX is turing complete (as is PostScript).
It's the road I wanted. I couldn't live with myself by doing those things with I feel would have been selfish. I'm not rich, but I'm not poor by any stretch. I've done well.

And, to answer your question: no, society wouldn't be better off. It would be worse off, because those decisions would have caused other people distress while bring me more power or money.
Can I earn a living playing eve?
In the case of creationism, you're only vapidly correct. There's a geologic record, stratigraphy, and a fossil record that have to be accounted for. Simply put, no variation on creationism can account for all of those things. I don't see how some obvious creation myth, no matter how powerful the backers, can be taught with a straight face, much less in public school.

As far as intelligent design, I'll agree to teaching that, as long as we follow up on the consequences. First, what criteria can I apply on my own to decide whether a biological feature (the vertebrate eye, for example) is irreducibly complex? Second, what does the existence of intelligent design have to say about theology and the various hagiographies? Does ID make monotheism or polytheism more likely for example? Can we determine characteristics of God or gods based on examples of Design?

There are plenty of observational sciences, astronomy and geology and economics among them. What you wrote is hackneyed and untrue.
Even Akamai screws up their SSL certs
What are the available technologies to implement Distributed Computing?
Perching drone that lands on branches like a kestrel
Comparison of Coffeescript, TypeScript, DartLang (probably not the best term) and Asm.js:

http://www.google.ca/trends/explore?q=coffescript#q=coffescr...
Ask HN: Should I build this idea?
Hi,

I was wondering what some of you thought of this idea I am considering going ahead and trying to build-- so the general gist is that it would be a way to automatically keep your customers updated on the status of their site when it goes down. So what does that mean? Simply put, it would be a third party twitter application that checks the status of your website multiple times per day, and when it picks up a 503 status, it will automatically tweet out a preset message saying "We know we're down, but we'll be back up soon! Please stay tuned."(just an example) Then, it will continually check your site, and when it's live again, another tweet will be sent saying "We're back! Sorry about that folks!".... The point of this service is it will take care of customer service in terms of keeping customers/users updated on the status of your site, automatically.

Thoughts? Would you use it?

Thanks!
The scenario you outline is pretty speculative. Moreover, we're assuming that a pure basic income is politically unpalatable. Given that constraint, I'd rather take a half-assed version over nothing at all.

Also, if you keep the narrative simple and consistent, and the initial base is broad enough, I think it can maintain its appeal. The message behind Social Security is that you're entitled to payments because you put money in initially -- even if you ultimately get out more than you put in. As such, it's proven to be surprisingly resilient to attempts to impose restrictions on it.

Likewise, because the EITC is administered through the tax system, which everyone participates in -- regardless of whether you're a felon or not. Because it's framed as a tax benefit that everyone is potentially eligible for, it's also held up surprisingly well.
> No, that's not the point. The point is that lowering the tax rates on top earners changes the behavior of those top earners. I am not convinced that's true.

Why not? Do you think there is no limit on the amount a corporation would be willing to spend for each dollar they can remove from their tax declaration?
They seem to be aiming this at the server market: the volumes will be lower than tablet and phone chips.
@bent_rayner:

I was referring to the concept of building internally - not the actual device designs.

Chill.
I would use Medium, except that requires various nefarious looking permissions about my twitter account.
In order to take significant market share, AMD will either need to offer superior price/performance and/or superior performance/watt. Both are unlikely because at 28nm, by the time the A1100 hits the market it will effectively be two manufacturing processes behind Intel's 14nm. Manufacturing process size makes a big difference in production costs, as well as in power efficiency. The microarchitecture won't even be a factor with that great a disparity.
Rumor is that Apple's design team is bigger than AMD's at this point.
Tesla is definitely a technology company. They're doing innovative things with electric car technology. They're not a software company, or a web startup.

Uber, on the other hand, pretends to be a tech company, but in reality is a consumer services firm.
> Yet it's still difficult for people working low wage jobs to afford food, housing (meaning housing in an area that's reasonably safe to live in), and transportation (again, that's reasonably safe to use).

I think one thing ties these together (as a common denominator): land. There's a limited supply of land in any city/county/state/country/planet, so people must compete for it. Agriculture also requires land, and you can't even scale it vertically as well as you can scale housing (you may build taller buildings, but not taller farms).
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Because that one individual comprises 0.00000001% of the world's population but controls 0.003% of its wealth.

His net worth is 210,314 times what would be "allowed" in a world with perfect equality.
Ah, but there be monsters in that sea too. I used to subscribe to the many-focused-models camp, but depending on the relationships you're trying to model, that can become damn-near unmaintainable as well.

I've actually begun building out more "wide" models, that is, models with a great many fields set to allow null/blank, because mixins and abstract base classes are very hard to maintain 3-4 years out. Don't misunderstand me, there's a place for those, but it's easy to get lost on road to abstraction.

Of course, the lesson is that if you're representing complex relationships in code, the implementation is going to wind up complex to some extent.
"A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS"[1] is most awesome thing I've read this year.

California Style Sheets are a standard, meaning there is a group of people at W3Schools who come up with new properties (like border-radius and box-shadow) every year. For some time, they did not know that the Node group at W3Schools was coming up with ways to update the styling of a page without CSS. Recently, both groups finally met and realized the overlap in functionality and therefore opened a spec to deprecate CSS entirely. That spec became HTML5. The rest of the story is present day. More and more developers are using HTML5, but do not realize the redundancy of using CSS.

[1] https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/1f6430781393
This guy is easily the worst.

As a person who spent all his spare time the past few years to self-train his way to mere developer competency, I can genuinely say that I am continually blown away by Dewalt's accomplishments. Forget gender, she's plainly impressive, an exemplar for all the autodidacts out here.
Does AMD GPU hardware have a general advantage mining?

err, can you link me to the other thread?
That's zero-sum thinking.
You mean an ARM machine?
I too resisted the initial cargo cult culling that happened in yesteryear. I picked up coffee-script probably a year or two later. I was focused on learning other skillsets prior. After finally spending the time to pick it up it's been an invaluable skill. From learning to productivity, it's a win.
Very much appreciated. That's really helpful and feels very doable. :)
How about also comparing the power usage? At 25 watts, you can get three of these for one six core Intel CPU; so you're at 24 cores at 2 GHz vs 6 cores at 3 GHz (and probably still at a lower price). The GHz can't really be directly compared, though. Even comparing GHz across Intel product generations isn't useful. I have a 3.16 GHz Core 2 Duo in my desktop that I think (I haven't really benchmarked, but I've run a Litecoin miner on both for testing) does about half the work of the 3.2 GHz i7 in my laptop.

All that said, I have a 16 core AMD server in colo that is running at about 3% usage across all CPUs, and yet it is slow as hell because the disk subsystem can't keep up (replacing the spinning disks with SSDs as we speak). The reality is that CPU is not the bottleneck in the vast majority of web service applications. Memory and disk subsystems are the bottlenecks in every system I manage.

So, I love the idea of a low power, low cost, CPU that still packs enough of a punch to work in virtualized environments. Dedicate one of each of these cores to your VMs; would be pretty nice, I think.
Interesting points, but it's sold as a space action game. And, frankly, it could be a far more nicely put together whatever the heck it is.
How to be a Great Entrepreneur with Josh Kopelman
Isn't not paying yourself simply an amortized investment of your own money into the business? As long as you are getting a good equity deal on that, and you could make that same investment at the outset, but don't HAVE to - why not?
I just tried to test out its technical aspects, here's what I found:

> I like it, but noticing a few problems so far. Can’t tab while writing markdown. No live preview for markdown (may or may not be a problem). No confirmation of saving changes if you close the tab/navigate away. Drag and drop to upload images works okay, but Cmd+V doesn’t.

> Fenced blocks don’t do syntax highlighting (for Go at least).

> Can’t see invisible whitespace.

> The rest is good.

> Also, I don't see a way to export your content, nor a way to delete your account.
And where in that conception of things is the relief for the bottom 50-60% of the population? The main audience for this type of drivel seems to be wannabe entrepreneurs who want to believe they're on that straight and narrow to fortune, and deserve to be.
I think you're thinking of the wrong problem. The basic problem, of course, is simply that we want an easy way to pay for things without having to carry a lot of cards around. Google Wallet was an attempt to solve that, but it's got some flaws.

First off, everyone has a card reader, but not everyone accepts the NFC based payment method with Google Wallet from the phone. At the relatively few places that accept it, when I've tried it's been pretty finicky and only worked a few times. So, naturally, I was pretty excited about the idea of a Google Wallet card when I first heard about that because it was a card I could actually swipe. It would be accepted everywhere and not be finicky.

Well, as it turns out that only pulls funds from your Wallet balance, not your selected default payment method. I told several people, even long before the Wallet card, that I really wanted a Google Wallet card that could charge any one of my payment methods, but that had a screen on it so I could select which one to use.

So like I said, it seems like an obvious solution. If you want to have a payment method that works everywhere (including legacy payment systems), isn't finicky, and can replace all of your other cards then you obviously need a card with a barcode that has a screen and a way to select the payment method (or allows you to select the method on your phone before swiping - which is what I'd hoped the Wallet card would do since it's a virtual card).

As for your accusation of protesting based on who is patenting, I really don't give a crap. I'm opposed to most, if not all patents, but especially obvious ones like this because they stifle innovation. They're used for evil SO much more than they're used for good. As for Amazon specifically, I don't really have any major problems with them. I generally like them. I just hope they don't use this patent for evil because that would anger me enough to abandon them.
So I Got Sued By A Patent Troll
Not sure how this is going to compete with $50 to $75 Android sticks that will perpetually get better and more powerful by the year. Spend $199 or $250 for what benefit exactly?
The obvious drawback that jumps out to me would be bombarding otherwise happy users with reports of your site going down. For example that 3am DB backup might have caused a 2 second outage (just an example...I'm sure we all know how to do DB backups properly) but none of your users would have even been aware of it without this "service".

That said, it would be useful in an application that people are counting on 24-7. But not sure how much of a market that would be. Not sure how much of a market there would be in any case.
Especially with AMDs ability to throw GPU hardware on the CPU. ARM eats the bottom end on a $/Watt model, and the GPU eats the top end on a raw performance model.
> (It's a very good deal as a W-2 employee with someone else paying the employer half, though.)

I agree with everything you say here, except this last sentence.

It would be true if the money were coming from a truly external source, but from an economic perspective, this is no different from a "normal" sales or income tax. As a result, it doesn't matter who is nominally paying it - the "real" payer (the incidence of the tax) depends on the relative elasticity of the supply and demand.

As it turns out, empirically, about 95% of the incidence of FICA (if I remember correctly) falls on the employee. In other words, it doesn't matter if the employer is nominally paying for half - they factored that in already when deciding how much to offer the employee when they hired him or her.

For many people reading this thread, Social Security is a bad deal no matter how you look at it - for many people reading this, it will be literally impossible to earn as much back from Social Security as they have paid in (assuming a vaguely realistic life expectancy).

(This is not a political statement, by the way - whether or not one believes that Social Security is good or bad depends on how much value one places on transferring a bit of wealth in order to guarantee a minimum income for the elderly. I just wanted to point out a part of the Social Security calculus that is easy to overlook.)
Actually, they probably don't intend for people to use www.akamai.com with HTTPS. If you add an override for the bad cert, you end up getting redirected to a non-HTTPS site anyways. I don't see anything like a login link on www.akamai.com so this is probably OK. (Of course it would be nice if everything were HTTPS...)
Ouya's release was its KO blow. That or its miserable SDK.
Now just imagine in govt size/jobs had not grown by 40%+
in the last decade. Unemployment would be way worse.

Ugh. Please do some basic research before spouting off this nonsense. Government employment grew by 1.5% in the last decade. - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rs4

30% is a bit of a stretch, I admit - but don't believe
the Census Bureau cheaters.

So you'd rather trust a random site that confirms your biases? The only source for their 30% number is a poll by IBD/TIPP. The same firm that predicted John McCain would win the youth vote 74% - 22%. I'll leave that takedown up to Nate Silver: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/whats-wrong-with-this...

Of course there is only 250,000 jobs open, It's a declining industry.
You don't see the Sears, Home Depot, Dell, or HP (to name a few)
doing much hiring while they are doing layoffs (contracting)
do you? This was partially my point (thanks for backing it up with
sources).

You literally said Americans were too lazy and entitled to fill all of the open manufacturing jobs. Now you agree there aren't any manufacturing jobs?

My other point was that even when these jobs exist, people don't
fill them.

That's simply not true. The rate of unfilled manufacturing jobs is the same as it was in 2006, as it was in 2001. [http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rs6]. The overall rate of unfilled jobs per unemployed American is just coming off its lowest point in history [http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rs7].

Not sure how your post proves that my statements are ignorant and fairly abhorrent.

Your view that people aren't working because they are too lazy or the illegals took all the jobs is not backed up by any facts whatsoever. Please attempt to develop the slightest bit of empathy and respect for your common man.
"Fat" in this case just means they contain business logic. Many people use their ORM models _exclusively_ as a data layer with no business logic living in the object at all.
Why SCRUM Backlogs lead to bad Product Decisions
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>We're doing 2.5x the manufacturing with 40% fewer employees.

This is very misleading. The reason is because we largely only choose to keep the factories alive that we can almost fully automate. The goods that don't lend themselves to cheap, low maintenance automation are imported.

This makes the most economic sense from a business owner's perspective. Free trade from sweat shops that have little or no regulations (environmental or other) or labor laws... yeah that is easy to compete with.
Why do i keep seeing this on the Internet now i know why awesome
Let's use the browser as an operating system (for real this time)
Perhaps they are fabless for the moment, but that might not last forever.

See here:

http://m.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/06/19/daily53.h...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-1-Billion-In-NYS-Funding-For-...

http://www.saratoga.com/news/amd-chip-plant.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Forest_Technology_Campus

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20130904235756_Gl...
> This (rather Randian) model of things is so contrived. Focus on the individual, their achievements, and personal wealth as untouchable property are half-truths, mythology, and contrivances.

> The economy is a collective thing.

The economy is a collective of individuals, all of which must put in effort into making things work; people generally don't put in effort unless rewarded. For real-world examples of societies that put the collective above the individual, take a look at communist countries. Most of them failed, whereas the individualistic West still stands (I say this coming from Eastern Europe and seeing how much damage collectivism can do).
The dangers of someone getting a copy of your passport
Waterken has solved phishing/authentication/CSRF/clickjacking all at once by doing approximately nothing. It has existed for years.

waterken.sourceforge.net

See specifically:

http://waterken.sourceforge.net/web-key/

and

http://waterken.sourceforge.net/clickjacking/
:+1: is a good shortcut :)
Fair point and some excellent alternatives been mooted.

I think AMD are positioning this for the server market (though would love a nice cheap desktop with this chip. With that they are levridging there only real asset in branding and I feel it will not water down but help the Opteron range live on, given they are moving away from the x86 area.
AppleTV will expand to include iOS gaming support with bluetooth controllers -- if we can believe the rumors. The restructuring of the apple store to accommodate appletv as a standalone product category and rumors apple has a superbowl spot lend credence to the rumors. Also it's the perfect time -- microsoft, sony, and nintendo all just shot their wads and ate their loss leaders. If it happens it will be funny to watch.
You can already do that with Cordova.

This is still too early. "Note also that IndexedDB is not supported prior to Android 4.4, since it is not supported on the old Android WebView." This makes this pretty useless (at this time), especially since chrome apps don't support websql.
Hmm... I guess it could check, and if it's down, automatically check again in 5 mins to confirm. Or, you could turn it off at certain times, such as 9 pm to 6 am lets say...
keep me out of the market for credit. A good thing

Have you never wanted to get a mortgage?

For that matter, lots of landlords in Vancouver check credit scores in order to weed out potential bad tenants.
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I'm not sure this is really a good fit for a Kickstarter project. I love rockets/space/science/etc and fully support researching cheaper launch methods, but for most people to invest, they want to get something back. There are very few people who will/can donate to something on a purely altruistic basis. These guys aren't a charity and I can't even get a tax write-off. Pushing a button, while cool, is not really a return on investment and only rocketry enthusiasts with extra money (a rare combination) will be willing to pay for that. The cheaper reward tiers offer a "Master-Class on 3d printing and rocket science" which will have more backers due to the 3d printing information but probably not enough to clear their goal.

I think a better way to spur investment would be offering a reward tier that gives a portion of the company (i.e., a $x investment gets you a y% stake in the company). This is just selling stock in a company off of Wall Street and probably a better fit for a company that isn't offering services or a physical product to the general public. I'm not sure what kind of regulations you have to follow (or if kickstarter would even allow it) but it would certainly open up the field of potential backers to include the folks that know/care nothing about rockets but would like to make some money when the company is inevitably bought out by a larger space launch company like SpaceX.
> Health insurance companies can no longer deny coverage based on credit scores, although apparently credit scores can impact your rates

I don't believe that's the case anymore since they have to provide coverage. Smoking is the only thing I remember that affects your ACA compliant rates. It makes sense otherwise you would be forced to purchase a product that could be much more expensive for the simple act of not having credit history (something that's not so unusual, especially for younger people).
Because there isn't any type of x86 processor that beats a comparable ARM processor for efficiency. If you could make an efficient x86 processor Atom would be it, and it's less efficient than ARM.

The x86 ISA fundamentally takes more silicon to implement than ARM. More gates = more power.
> Maybe not.. a lot of marriages brake because of financial bankrupcy.. but this guy will have to face it anyway.. it will depend of how much the materialistic/spiritual type she is and how much she love him.. this will be definetly a good proof of love from her, if she stands up with him... (but these sort of people are rare)

Rare, but hopefully that's the case with her. A good person stands by their partner's side in times of trouble.