skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I also have doubts that the benefit is due to monogamy. Hell, I have doubts that the benefit is due to a relationship. It could merely be because the people have a close companion.

It could also be that those who are happy are more likely to end up in a relationship.
Using branding in SharePoint to improve user adoption
It is incredibly risky to release this unto the world without having tryed it internally. I hope they can iterate quickly enough to iron out the most glaring problems before the language is ossified by the amount of code already written in it.

Otherwise, we might just get stuck with something half-baked that never had a chance of growing up before widespread adoption.
Or it could even be that only happy people can hold down a relationship.
Your hypothesis would require evidence that we are investment locked ie. companies would like to expand but do not have access to the funds.

Unfortunately, the evidence is to the contrary.

Companies have no useful place to put investment to use since they see no useful place to generate extra demand and consequently are sitting on some of the largest stockpiles of cash recorded in corporate history.

The evidence is increasingly clear that the anti-tax brigade are wrong. This does not automatically make raising taxes correct (although evidence suggest that small increases are probably called for), but it does mean that cutting taxes is clearly an incorrect path.
Another lightweight stack would be Openresty. Scripting nginx with lua. Both blazing fast. Lapis might be an appropriate web framework to start developing with.
Sure, it might.

This whole thread is essentially absent of any information (to the extent there is any, it is far below the threshold for making any useful conclusion).

I was responding to the implication that a 3% tax reduction is "trickle down" and therefore "demonstrated to be false".
| This tiny print serves no purpose, but to make this book seem like an actual book. In printed books, one usually sees a large block of tiny print on the first or second page followed by terms like © 2013. All Rights Reserved. So and so. Printed in the United States of America. The publisher may also include prose to deter would-be pirates. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. That is typically followed by a line or two about the publisher, followed by a sequence of numbers.

lol
> I'd like to see a study comparing the happiness of close-knit, tribal, polygamous communities with close-knit, tribal, monogamous communities.

Not a study, but National Geographic did an in-depth piece on the Hadza people in 2009 that you may find interesting. It's available on their web site in full. If I remember correctly, the journalist described them as 'serial monogamists', having many monogamous relationships throughout their lifetime.
The thing is that phone underneath could be a SIP/VOIP phone running over a VPN tunnel(or tunnels to provide the MLS -- multi-level security) with a CAC card reader. It probably costs upwards of 10s of thousands if not more per unit.

A lot of that is the red tape and overhead related to having it certified and having as much of it produced in US as possible.

Also wonder if secret service or FBI will pay extra attention to the author for being a little too interested in that topic. Nothing too serious of course, just some visits to his workplace, maybe interrogating his friends, spouse or kids. (Has happened to a friend of mine, after making an inappropriate joke in a forum, and that was before 2001)
Csaba's book is the most up-to-date on RL I know of. Sutton and Barto is very old by now. For the POMDP side of things there are no recent books I know of, but http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/files/sross-jair08.pdf is a recent enough survey.

A related book is "Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems" which you can find at http://www.princeton.edu/~sbubeck/index.html

The bandit problem is very strongly related to the reinforcement learning problem, so you'll get some mileage out of studying bandits. Be aware this area is very maths heavy, which is good or bad depending on your background. If you like you like this stuff, also checkout "Prediction, Learning, and Games" which deals more with the "adversarial" setup.
DNSCrypt would be nice.

http://dnscrypt.org/
I recommend Apollo by Cox and Murray, an account of the Apollo program from the perspective of the engineers and managers, written based on hundreds of interviews and archive material. It's fascinating and explains how decisions like this were made in detail.
I think it is to early to call. It passed in 2012, it is now 2014. We will see. The business wheel turns slowly and cost increases like this have an effect on business decisions in the long run.
If they have hosting services provided in they US, or by a US company, they may still be effected by DMCA notices (or at least, the hosting provider would be).

Australian law is tricky when it comes to the DMCA. There isn't specifically an Australian DMCA, but through trade-agreements there is parity between Australian copyright law and the US', which may include similar provisions.
The billions who have heard the tapes and didn't hear the A?

People misspeak all the time.
I taught myself.

Started in 2008 with PHP/HTML/CSS for a friends existing website, initially unpaid and for fun, but it rapidly became paid and brought substantial income (within a month or two) because I streamlined and automated things that were being done manually. Tempting to call that an exception but if you create real business value that fast, get paid for it or at the least get a glowing recommendation out of it.

In 2009 I started learning Python, Objective-C, and C for fun, making things I needed myself. High level and low level stuff at the same time. A simple automated website "ping" checker for App Engine called AEServmon[1] I wrote for my own use was probably the first thing I ever open sourced. I also hacked together some C in Cardrand[2], again for personal use, to take advantage of the random number generator present in most smart cards to feed the Linux kernel pool (/dev/random etc) with entropy.

By 2010 I was fairly proficient in Objective-C and C, very familiar with UIKit and AppKit, started selling Mi-Fi Monitor[3][4], then later on Codepoints[5].

In 2011 I started doing consulting work on OS X and iOS projects.

If I set aside the initial PHP success, I'd say roughly 1.5 years between "day 1" and selling products, and about 3 years before feeling confident in taking on fairly significant projects for clients.

As an aside, Mi-Fi Monitor got me a phone call from an executive at Novatel (they made the original Mi-Fi hotspots), some discussions about rebranding it or working together, and several "good job" type emails from a few of the other execs there. They were paying attention, and actually using the app themselves.

[1] https://github.com/infincia/AEServmon

[2] https://github.com/infincia/Cardrand

[3] http://infincia.com/apps/mi-fi-monitor-ios

[4] http://infincia.com/apps/mi-fi-monitor-mac

[5] http://infincia.com/apps/codepoints
Sadly the business side of HN has completely evaporated in recent months. It used to be 40/40/20 business/hacking/other stuff, now it seems it's 0/50/50. There's too much miscellaneous other stuff these days, which is making HN into a generic jumpsite. I think that the guidelines need updating.
If I can code, you can code
http://drupalladder.org/lesson/c4b983ca-9900-472c-95b2-4b944...
You're welcome, I hope you find it useful. And just in case it's not obvious, let me point out that what you're getting here is free advice from strangers on the internet. So please don't blindly follow anything here without taking some time to seriously think through the possible outcomes and consequences.

--

The first, small, step is to realize that you are the captain of your career. Your boss might care a little bit, but is mostly concerned with his or her own career prospects. Your company is a legal fiction that doesn't care about you at all. If you want your career to be good, you either float along and hope to get lucky, or you take charge of it yourself.

Personally I think you're likely to be ok. Even if you need to make some career choices for long term strategy and taking the short term hit (like accepting a smaller, or 0, increase than you're happy with so you can continue paying your bills while looking for a better job)

If they are already planning to replace you then nothing you do is going to help and you might as well start looking for another job.

If they are NOT planning to replace you, then I believe it's totally reasonable for you to talk to them about level setting your salary to (at least) the high end of what they currently pay plus offsetting your commute costs (gas + wear&tear)...

AND start looking for another job. (Keeping in mind that you are not morally or legally obligated to accept any job offers.)

For negotiating, the most important things to remember are:

- What happens if you cannot find mutual ground with your boss? What are you going to do? Walk out of your job or start commuting for the same salary? Can you live with that until you find a different source of income?

- Your own goals (eg, how much money do you want? What other perks are important to you?)

For money, consider what you would reasonably expect to be paid if you were coming into it with your current level of experience from a different company (assuming no significant commute)

Separately consider how much someone would have to pay you to drive your proposed commute, every day, during rush hour. How much would that need to be feel like it's a worthwhile use of your time?

Summing those numbers gives you an idea of the minimum baseline amount you should aim for. If you can get that much, then you'll be reasonably happy. you should, of course, try to get a higher number than that. DO NOT GIVE THAT NUMBER TO YOUR BOSS

- Your boss's goals. What does he care about? more importantly, what are you in a position to give him that would make him want to make you happy?

The dark side to that, or course, is "what does your boss fear and how can you take advantage of that" though personally I am unwilling to go there.

- What other alternatives do you have RIGHT NOW in your hands? Do you have significant savings? Do you have other sources of income?

Ok... this is getting too long and I'm enjoying the sound of my mental "preaching" voice a little too much. Time to stop opining :)

Good luck! I hope you end up in a happier situation.
Tab Dump
Thank you for your comment. What are your thoughts on the adage 'time equals money.' Is the reverse true, doesn't money give you extra time? (ie, the ability to hire a maid, chauffeur, etc.) Do you believe that the time is still not recoverable?
The sideways scrolling seems not to work in Firefox (I'm using Linux/Mint).
> "I mean, who can you believe if you can't believe him?"

Well since we have a recording, I think that believing our own ears is a reasonable option.

I think that most of us have misspoken in the past without realizing it. It's similar to botching a sentence on paper, but reading it back to yourself correctly while proofreading it. It happens. As such, I think it is more than possible that Armstrong meant to say "a", thought he said "a", but did not say "a".
make your site a little beautiful will help you get more suggestion on your datepair.js.
Things to consider in mobile native advertising
Interesting ... now How detect if is it (or any other similar ) on our web servers ? And How remove it and protect against it ?
Then in 20 years people will convert everything under the sun to run in it and claim it's the new assembly.
HTTP Live Streaming at Coursera
That's not entirely fair. I mean it can be a massive time-suck of pedantry at times, but I've learned a great deal of very useful things about work and life here from articles and comments.

Humans are weird creatures; we achieve productivity in very unexpected and often unintended ways.
The AI Startup Google Should Probably Snatch Up Fast
I tend to watch lectures at 2x or 1.75x speed, and I tone it down for more difficult stuff, or pause, or rewatch. I think at 2x it's pretty even with how fast I can read, maybe even a bit faster. Modulating it isn't perfect but it's workable. Also, I struggle very hard to pay attention to almost any lecturer, my mind drifts very quickly and takes a while before I realize it's drifted. But at 2x I find my ADD is mostly defeated.
You seem to be missing a critical detail here. Using mount unsafely requires you to already be root. Mounting a volume with truecrypt does not[1] require you to be root. But it invokes mount for you, as root, in an unsafe way.

[1]AFAIK, based on the video, and knowing that it doesn't require admin on windows
IPv6 at Facebook [pdf]
We put men on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/business/05road.html
Do Radio Waves Bounce Off Each Other?
(1) "Trickling down" is not the mechanism by which a growing economy helps everyone, so you're attacking the wrong thing.

(2) No credible disproof of Ayn Rand's theories has been offered. (Most serious attempt is Prof. Michael Heumer's and it is a poor attempt.) Why don't you write one?
I would like to start my ML Journey in Python, then get to R.

How about learning things in python? Good recommendations?
Sounds like the Mad Scientists Club books from when I was a kid.
>Um, no, science doesn't work that way.

I'm hard pressed to believe you can apply any sort of "science" to macroeconomics - its way to hard too isolate a single variable.
The article actually states that all the API's are the old ones. And not so long ago most of the posts here were that Swift is "too conservative."

I claim that Swift is very good selection of more modern stuff on the tried and tested base. It doesn't even depend in GC and VM. It's great in its conservativeness.
Right but how long should one spend trying to make big money before humbly attacking their true goals? As another commenter said here, time is hard to recover
I like the book, especially images. There is one weird thing though - the text in images is written in capital letters except the letters 't' and 'f' - it was really surprising to me how distracting it was. Maybe it's just me but this made the text really difficult to read - every time I encountered one of those letters my brain just stopped.
> There's a renaissance in native-compiled languages now, mainly thanks to LLVM and the JVM

No, technology just goes in circles.

Like 30 years ago when people started to realize P-Code and other VM approaches were too slow and resource hungry to be useful targeting minicomputers.

Now mobiles and high electricity costs are making developers reach the same conclusions again.
> Tell me, iOS/OSX developers, why bother?

Learning Swift really isn't a big deal.

If you want to make something, then just make it. If you need to learn something that might not be permanently useful: so what?

Really, the knowledge you learn when developing an app is not "wasted" because the language is proprietary. The important parts will relate to design and architecture, not implementation details such as language used.

Once you are a competent programmer you don't really "learn" new languages, anyway. You just jump in and use them, then look up reference when you get stuck. It's a trivial thing in the scope of building an application or a game.

> Maybe the language will be a revelation and it'll be implemented by volunteers on Linux and what not. But until then, what's the point?

What's the point of developing in Objective-C? For practical purposes it is a proprietary language. Yet it is used by many people and used successfully. The point is to build something that will be used.

Your argument applies equally to many successful languages and development environments. I don't think Swift should really bother you, considering what it is designed to replace.
Both ;)
> Consequently, raising taxes is useful because A) the downsides appear quite limited (too small to measure)

Well let's be clear about that - one piece of evidence shows a lack of doomsday. Next trial could show something big that appears for different reasons (different set of circumstances etc.)

I agree with you in any case - but let's be accurate in our claims!
> typically it will go almost entirely to consumption, instead.

If your economy is suffering from a shortage of aggregate demand, as ours is, then promoting consumption is a good thing.

> Note that growing the pie lowers the cost of things, so it inherently benefits everyone. There is no such thing as growing the pie and only benefiting the rich.

Lowering taxes on the wealthy, or otherwise favoring investment over consumption, benefits the rich much more than it benefits everyone else. The "rising tide" metaphor is misleading, because economic policy changes that favor the rich raise their boats much more than everyone else's.

Other policies, that favor investment less, may benefit the less-well-off more than any potential indirect gain they may have experienced from investment-favoring policies.
I don't see the groups that the cartoons are insulting. Who do you see as insulted by the cartoons?
Thanks, this is an interesting idea that I had not considered.

Isn't it the case that those large stockpiles of "cash" are actually invested, though? e.g. I have heard of Apple sitting on a ton of cash, but presumably it is not literally just sitting in the bank. Even if it is, the bank is investing it and thus is able to pay interest. Though it might be the case that the interest only really amounts to inflation, and the bank is really just preserving the value by putting the cash into more stable assets. I'd be intereted in any thoughts of yours on this.

Another thing, off the top of my head. I think that if your point were true for the economy overall, the economy would not be growing and it would not be possible to get greater-than-inflation returns from the stock market overall. Both of those things seem not to be the case, any thoughts?
I'm usually not that guy but thought it might be helpful: the correct phrase is "mother lode."
See however the previous extreme plane shootings, around 370 deaths total, by the US and Ukraine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

"shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988," "All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, died"
"The Fogarty report stated, "The data from USS Vincennes tapes, information from USS Sides and reliable intelligence information, corroborate the fact that [Iran Air Flight 655] was on a normal commercial air flight plan profile, in the assigned airway, squawking Mode III 6760, on a continuous ascent in altitude from take-off at Bandar Abbas to shoot-down.""

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812

"shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001" "Ukraine eventually admitted that the disaster was probably caused by an errant missile fired by its armed forces.[1] Ukraine ended up paying $15 million to surviving family members of 78 victims ($200,000 per victim)."
It seems to have been used internally for some time. The public WWDC app was written in Swift, and many Apple engineers had moved to using Swift entirely by the time it was announced.

The most glaring problems exist in the IDE support for the language, not the language itself. There is minuscule risk of Swift not gaining widespread adoption amongst iOS and OS X developers.
Overall, the economy only grows and people only get better off when net production expands (or, equivalently, production gets cheaper).

You clearly are espousing some kind of nonsensical demand-side economics that contradicts the above law.

> If your economy is suffering from a shortage of aggregate demand, as ours is, then promoting consumption is a good thing.

There is no such thing as a "shortage of demand." It's a nonsensical idea.

> Lowering taxes on the wealthy, or otherwise favoring investment over consumption, benefits the rich much more than it benefits everyone else.

That is obviously patently false for the reason I already stated. More concretely: A rich person going without an investment (not even tangible) is less of a hit than a poor person going without better food, clothing, shelter, education, entertainment, etc.
>In a DNSSEC/DANE world, the Libyan government can successfully publish a fake certificate for BIT.LY.

They can also do this in a non DNSSEC/DANE world, at the crudest lowest level by hijacking the domain, and then buying a new cert and clicking the confirmation email.
Being the cautious type, I myself would reduce working time and start developing in my spare time until I have something to show potential customers.
It actually makes sense given the economics of the situation: time invested in high availability is a poorer use of resources than, say, adding features for most web sites.

We can make web sites that stay up, always. It's just that it costs a lot more and / or they do less.
Blowing on catridge considered harmful
Sure, things can be demonstrated to be false. I could make up an economic law or principle right now that would easily be demonstrably false.

I do get and agree with your overall point, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. There is certainly hope for economics to eventually develop to a better point.

> There is evidence to support pretty much every school of thought, and evidence to contradict it.

If there were evidence to literally contradict a school of thought, that school of thought is proven wrong. That is not the same as evidence that seems to argue against a school of thought, yet does not do so conclusively.
I'll engage you once more.

If you ship some software that wraps mount(8), it is expected that that something's defaults will be the same as mount(8)'s defaults. It is also expected that that mount wrapper will permit the user to pass along additional options to mount, so that one can override mount's defaults. Anything else violates expectations and, thus, is incorrect. In other words, TrueCrypt's mount wrapper does things correctly.

Every competent Linux system administrator knows that mount's default options enable setuid binaries, knows the risks of setuid binaries, knows how to pass nosuid to mount, and knows how to write his own wrapper to mount to be pretty sure that only volumes he wishes can be mounted suid. If one is a Linux system administrator, and one does not know these things, then one is, by definition, an incompetent Linux system administrator. Linux is a power tool, not a pair of safety scissors.

I notice that you didn't evaluate either answer to your challenge. Does my second answer contain an error? Why do you have no remark for my first answer?
"this book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning"

What I find in practice with these (quite popular) lists of logical fallacies, is that they are usually written with the assumption that the reader is already familiar with the fundaments of logic and is able to correctly apply them.

This work is no different. While I do enjoy the style of the illustrations, we already have a glut of these things skipping to the juicy parts. What we don't have is approachable, accessible works, free of unexplained jargon, that explain for instance, what exactly a "premise" is. How to decide whether a piece of writing or speech contains an argument. How to correctly identify the conclusion of an argument, and connect it with its premises. And so on, for all the list of things that are usually misunderstood about these lists of "fallacies" by people who are… reallly.. genuinely new to logic.
As much as most of it may be true, Russia's fault in the Malaysian plane shoot-down hasn't been proved, even the crash site hasn't been examined properly, isn't it too early for such conclusions?