skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh! Oooh! I see what you're saying. I thought you were asserting the mean _UNCORRECTED_ vision of an American Adult was 20/20. It's certainly much more plausible that the corrected vision is beyond 20/20.

I would recommend, for the sake of clarity, adding '20/20 corrected' or '20/20 rectified' to your original post. If I hear someone say, "I have 20/20 vision," my first thought is, "this person has perfect vision", not, "this person wears glasses."

I'll go back and add that clarification on my replies.

EDIT: It's too late to go back and edit my topmost comment. :(
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I'm skeptical considering that income and spending isn't taxed that way. And existing capital taxes (property taxes, estate taxes) don't work that way.
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All versions of Windows? I wouldn't expect their entry level offering to but having it on the pro versions would be nice.
I love when a company acquires a small app or startup in general.
Basically because it allows us to dream to build something that a big company can incorporate in some of its famous product or just it will become famous itself.

After an acquisition like that, I ask to myself :

Does Reddit have smart developers to build a mobile app like that?

Why do they need to do an acquisition to get a good app?

The questions seem trivial, Reddit has great developers,
but looking forward the last acquisition by Apple( that never done before), I think that in the next future the company employees will be no single person, but startups.
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What models are they using?!

When I was in law school, I heard a very interesting guest lecture by a law professor from another law school who has studied the history of Prohibition (of selling alchohol) in the United States. People who were opposed to Prohibition, that is people who thought that alcohol should be legal to produce and sell, pointed out that Prohibition greatly increased corruption of police forces in many places. People who supported Prohibition pointed out that alcohol causes many medical harms for many users. The historical record shows that they were both right. When Prohibition was repealed, corruption of local police forces to prompt police to look the other way and not enforce Prohibition went down, but deaths from cirrhosis of the liver and other bad health effects of alcohol went up.

I'm on record here on HN (I won't look up the links to previous comments just now) as being persuaded by Richard Branson's argument that decriminalizing marijuana in the country Portugal reduced use, and thus ended up reducing individual and societal harm from marijuana. That country still has court-supervised drug treatment programs (but without criminal penalties) for drug users. As far as I know, Minnesota's de facto policy is much like this. There is a federal law of the land in the United States that criminalizes sale and even possession of marijuana, but there is minimal enforcement here of statutes against possession of small amounts of marijuana. There is a big industry here of drug treatment centers, and people come to Minnesota from all over the world to get clean from drug addictions. If we can devote more law enforcement resources to more serious crimes, and fewer to enforcement of minor possession offenses, I'm fine with that. But I also hope that most people never start to use marijuana at all, and everyone who does use it is careful to get a reality check from sober people on how well they are really functioning.
Well, this does sidestep the argument of whether certain forms of philanthropy should be encouraged over others. I do think this is more of a cultural problem than otherwise.

I'm not overly fond of TED talks nowdays, but this one still sticks out as awesome. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...

Basically, I think the argument is more that we might be better off if philanthropy was viewed as just another form of consumption.
> Service like Taplytics allow developers to test variations of their app interface and code, and to make those changes without going through the App Store approval and update process.

The ability to change the app without going through the App Store review process is awesome.

IMO, support for iOS and Android is very important. I've recently been learning Swift/iOS and I find that having libraries that work on both mobile OS's simplifies development as knowledge from one platform transfers to the other.
It's interesting that you critique Taleb's broad generalizations, and then typecast him as a handy-wavy New Yorker at the same time.
In other words, "We should never have invented that damn cotton gin."

All evidence supports the idea that this kind of research will lead to improved quality of life for practically everyone.
Investment in what, though?

We do need investment in transport infrastructure, renewable energy, health in the developing world, etc; but that doesn't offer a direct return to the investor as the benefits are distributed. In those cases arguably the state can be better. Provided the money isn't siphoned away. This is more of a rule of law / public trust issue.
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Not all hungry people, no. But anecdotally, a person that lives in my household has a body temperature that routinely measures 96 to 97 degrees Fahrenheit, well below the 98.6 degF that is considered normal. That person is overweight, and frequently attempts to restrict calories. So I didn't pull it entirely out of thin air.

The point is that energy expenditure is a function of foods eaten. You already accept as given that energy input is a function of foods eaten. You may even accept that energy input is not exactly equivalent to the combustion energy of the food.

So you still haven't answered my question.

Is ( f(x) - g(x) ) less than or greater than ( f(x/2) - g(x/2) )?

You cannot answer it. You do not know how the functions f and g work. Likewise, you cannot say that cutting food intake in half will result in weight loss.

Turning down the thermostat and increasing exercise will actually work, as a couple of those thermodynamic inevitabilities. But they still don't address the psychological barriers of weight loss. People don't want to feel hungry, or cold, or exhausted. If they are required to do so to lose weight, it probably won't happen, as being too fat causes them less acute discomfort than the effort to not be too fat.

It is unwise to compare their perception of their discomfort to your perception of your discomfort, in the same way that it is unwise to compare the pain from that one time you got a compound fracture on your agony bone to the pain of a woman in labor. Even if you were objectively hurting more, you just don't do it. Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

Give encouragement, not advice. Most of the time, a fat person knows exactly what he must do to not be fat. He just doesn't want to change his lifestyle to something that is guaranteed to be subjectively worse and more difficult for months--or even years--before it even gets back to his current level of comfort. He may be angry and frustrated at himself for not being able to do it; that anger is all too easily projected onto other people or things. You really want to help, but there's really not much you can do, other than stand back and play "Eye of the Tiger" at them.
> However, if you cut taxes across the board, not just for the wealthy, the concentration of wealth does tend to even out.

I don't see any reason or evidence for this, that is, for the proposition that ceteris paribus and independent of the distribution of tax burden, reducing the level of taxation promotes a more equal distribution of wealth.

Certainly, to the extent that a given distribution of taxation itself promotes inequality, reducing the level of taxation in with that distribution will mitigate that effect, but your proposition is equivalent to the proposition that every distribution of taxation promotes inequality compared to the absence of taxation, which I don't see any reason to believe.

> The statement 'Limit the power the government has to control the flow of wealth' in itself does not mean slashing taxes only for the wealthy. It means the government has limited power to decide who gets what

IOW, the thing called government is less the actual vehicle through which society is governed and more of a distracting figurehead for the masses, and the powerful govern through other means -- and still for their own benefit and others expense (but without even the need to provide a show of public participation and concern for the public interest.)
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Not all of it is hoarding, but some of it is. The effects on the economy between letting your money sit in government bonds vs. purchasing a consumable cannot be even close. The worst is investing in foreign companies - that wealth completely disappears from the domestic economy. Stock options and commodities and currency speculation create no wealth, only move funds from one person to another. Even typical investments are mostly a closed loop where money moves from one wealthy investor to the next, never entering the general economy.
Vote for or against them in the elections provided for the purpose?
The job board is RemoteCoder but already looked at a Rails/EmberJS job posting and they are looking for candidates "hopefully" within 2 cities they mention and definitely within Australia. If a remote job board is to succeed, IMO, I think those posting should not be allowed.
That's Polyanna thinking, that an estate tax will benefit humanity. What nation do you live in? You trust the govt to spend your wealth, more than say a relative? I don't believe it.

And 'wealth' isn't all gold buried in the back yard. Its also investments in businesses (either stocks or directly) as a corporation or even a proprietorship. Who runs the restaurant after you die? The government? Preposterous.
The author of that piece on Nautilus also published a paper on the topic:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421
Node is going to be killed by politics and infighting, learn from what happened to craft bukkit.
I think its telling you omit non-founding CEO's who have been placed at the heads of companies in nearly exactly the same fashion.
Hi! I'm the CEO of HiveFlux, a new tool that lets you know what everyone else in your team is working on that very second. It's a new take on enterprise productivity so I'd love to hear your thoughts about it.
We've done all this before - in the early 1990s, George HW Bush passed a 10% luxury tax on yachts, private planes, furs and a few other high-value items. Maybe expensive cars, I don't remember perfectly.

The government figured these measures would bring in X dollars in new revenue. It actually brought in much less, about 0.5X, as the purchasers of luxury goods changed their behavior. After the cost of unemployment benefits to people - thousands in the boat-building industry, among others, lost their jobs - the luxury tax ended up being a net negative for the government. It was repealed a couple of years later.

The economy's too complex for us to experiment on without unintended and unanticipated side effects. That doesn't mean we should never experiment with it - as long as we do it cautiously - but we should at least learn some lessons from the experiments we've already conducted.
don't forget command shift 4 and then after hitting that combo hit spacebar.
The form factor of a mobile device? What you described is not mobile.
I'm still excited for the day when a 2 hours a week, 6 week bootcamp sets me up to easily become a pilot or an architect.
You utilizing the word "annoying" triggers me. I don't respect the underlying and implied racist/sexist usage that you created in your comment. Simply calling someone "annoying" is just a thinly veiled attempt at getting away with saying a word like "fag" or any another racial epithet. Just because someone annoys you, doesn't mean that you can strike them from the conversation. Just because you are a well-off, privileged male, don't forget that not that long ago African-Americans and Homosexuals "annoyed" you too.

Anyways, I just wanted to jump in and add noise to the discussion by nitpicking like jasode too!
Why did you make the name of the game "Monster Math - Grade 3 game for kids to learn Addition, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication mapped to Core Curriculum"

Why not save that for the description and just keep the name as Monster Math?
It's been a while since I found something immediately useful for me a this thing. Thank you so much.

I use Emacs but I hate with passion configuring it. Not anymore :)
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expected to pay for your own education, health care, and retirement

In much of Europe the first two and a good chunk of the third are largely provided as public goods. Establishing a reliable "floor" standard in all three makes it much easier for people to truly stand on their own merits rather than being handicapped by parental poverty.
"Don't use the phone so much" is good advice.

I have an active social life and my Nexus 4 still lasts a day and a half when I don't plug it in. The people having trouble must be texting all day long. When I chat I use social media or chat programs, both of which are available on my computer. I would assume many users of HN use computers so I don't fully understand where the complaint is coming from.

I, too wish that batteries were better than they are. But currently you just can't expect to use a device which has power unthinkable 50 years ago. The size of 10mm x 6inches, to run all day from off of an internal battery. It's unreasonable.
If this is what we come to practice as a species, we are in fact replacing ourselves with something superior. And unless you hope for your children to never be as successful as you were, that's a good thing.
Can this startup kill off the supermarket?
This is ethically reprehensible.
In 5 years, Node has had 3 BDFLs. Are there any other mainstream platforms with that kind of turnaround? I can't think of any.
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I have the greatest respect for intellect of von Neumann and also his general well roundness.

However it has been reported, that he really did not handle the realization that he was going to die very well.

How exactly that handling manifested I have been unable to find.
Thank you for your detailed explanation of why people should not make any attempt to apply their judgment, experience, or knowledge of the world to press releases, and instead accept them uncritically.
I hope somebody could improve dogs IQ, so she can talk to me or just understand me better.
I can't speak for OP, but in our case we "soft launched" our app in Canada to get feedback and tweak before releasing to a wider audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_launch
So what you're saying is that attractive women are all in on a eugenics conspiracy designed to wipe out white gamers who watch wolf sex cartoons?
That America's government does a poor job of representing American society is a separate problem. The way you solve that is by changing the voting system to proportional representation in both the congressional and presidential elections.

How can Americans be so upset at their political situation without even discussing ways in which to change it? Unconstructive complaints is just whining.
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Perhaps I'm just an old get-off-my-lawn skeptic, but the phrase "Learn To Code, get hired" really brings up bad memories.

I was in school during '97-'01 and when I got my BSCS our dean gave the CS department a special speech about how messed up it was out there and told us to consider just going back to get our masters degrees. My CS classes had plenty of cheaters and those who used their academic-powers to brute-force memorize enough to get through the course but you knew they didn't truly understand what they were doing. These are the people I think of when I give fizzbuzz(with a twist) in my job-interviews. I had classmates drop out of school because some company gave them 90k salaries and _an actual car_ because they had a webpage at csdepartment.myschool.edu~/studentID - by writing one HTML file, saved it as index.html and put it in the /home/studentID/public_html directory.

I too really don't want to sound elitist, but I've actually seen people get burned by this. I personally really respect the approach http://go.expression.edu/ takes to this. I was at an open-house back in '06, you could feel the energy of the people there. So excited to break into the world of 3D animation and land a job at Pixar or SONY. There were even well-known people from the media scene. I got to talk to one of the developers of Sonic the Hedgehog music team, a Pixar employee was there(Pixar is like a 5min drive from this college) and someone from Industrial Light & Magic(ILM) was there. One of the presenters was very honest about the possibility of job placement. She made it clear to everyone that the chance of landing a dream job is not high at all; that anyone who goes through this program is doing it for personal passion and internal drive. She set expectations properly. Having the skill from classrooms was one thing, but it was up to the individual to really breath life into their skill and it took some luck on who you know to really make it in. e.g., these are the people hoping to make it: http://galleries.cgsociety.org/

I just hope that the students of careerfoundry know that it's one thing to learn coding in school, but it's up to the student to really go the extra-extra mile and learn things on their own.... and a bit of luck as well.
It was stated that $5 million puts one in the upper echelons of society. This is a true statement. It is also true that a calamity can wipe out that amount of money. I do not believe the issues are related in that I don't think it makes for good public policy to make the taxation threshold for estate taxes to be at the calamity-proof level.

It appears to be possible from what you've said about your grandmother's situation that even if her inheritance was not taxed at all she would have still ended up using up all of her savings on care. If your point wasn't that you believed she should have been able to pass along the millions to her children while receiving care at the expense of society then I don't see how it was relevant.
I am a bit confused, MSFT IPOed in 1986 no?
Well done.

I'm using the Flickr API myself for photo annotations - be careful to honor the licensing of those images. Quite a few are copyrighted, e.g. those in the Josha Tree section. Linking back is not enough, explicit permission is requried.

Example:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/circleyq/8676353185/
repeated with every new tech platform, e.g. Balcberry and samrtphones

in this case PCs with GPUs because an order of magnitude cheaper than graphics workstations
> But do you really want FBI agents or other federal executive-branch employees to have that say instead?

Dear god yes. Law enforcement may need these enforcements from time to time, but you can not let a private company slap around their competitors at will using the same methods.
Why would someone want to limit government to protecting individual rights? This doesn't make sense at all. Is the minting of money protecting some sort of individual right? What about providing healthcare for the destitute? Are roads some sort of individual right?
Plasma Desktop users could also use Pastebin plasmoid in mix with KSnapshot.
Just drag the image from KSnapshot to Pastebin plasmoid and a few seconds later, your image is uploaded to an image hosting service and its url is copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted anywhere you want.
Already on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464304
And where is stored this master password then? If it's on your browser/computer, it's not portable. If it's online, it's possibly less secure (especially if you're not the one hosting it). A physical token might work, but it's usually too specific and not scalable.

Nothing beats plain old password as convenience, that's why they are still so wildly used despite lousy security properties.
Personally? You just listed one:

Section E: Patents (including genetic stuff)

I don't think genetics should be patentable. The thinking behind patenting genes is repulsive to me.
Well, the lack of a keyboard and mouse and the lack of an intuitive way to solve these problems in a mobile device. These comments seem to imply that I can add hardware and the problem is solved. If I add hardware, I no longer have mobile on the go development, I have a bag of crap that makes this less convenient than an air or ultrabook. Now if someone invents a way that eliminates the need for the keyboard, then I'll use it with glee. But this product is a desktop app on a mobile device and does nothing to really innovate in the space. I want this to work, but it isn't as simple as writing a desktop app on android.
Yep, a desktop. Thanks for the link to component reviews! I haven't had any luck finding Dell boxes online without an OS, though...
Great question. Some of our reasons -

1. Doing some experiments on the marketing side, especially keywords, before launching everywhere. The first week/month on the app store gives a boost to keyword rankings that can be leveraged to build good traction. Unfortunately it also requires some experimenting to get them right, so this initial launch in 1-2 countries can provide that data.

2. Building some traction and credibility so that when we launch on the other app stores, we can build on that (for e.g. #1 on the Canadian App store would have a nice charm to it, if we achieve it!). This again helps with point 1 (better traction in launch week/month).

3. Ensuring Support is not overwhelmed by unforeseen issues. We have tested a lot, but never know what kind of crashes or even minor bugs might be seen in the wild. We want to be awesome at customer experience.

4. Gathering feedback in general.
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Bringing this back to the slides, I don't see how this applies to most companies. At most places we are utterly swamped with work; the idea that we can go just build something to allow us to have a conversation is pretty mad. Most companies don't have Google's resources, and I don't see how this advice is remotely possible. I can't build the things I need for what we are already expected to do; I certainly am not going to put that further in the hole to build something that will also not have enough resources to succeed.

I'm not arguing with your position, just reflecting on the slides. They seemed to be saying 'this is how you (not google) should be doing it', ignoring the kind of cash flow that is required to make that happen.
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I think my concern is that if the power structure is an Oligarchy, it matters little if the label on the government structure is Communism, or Democracy. The worry from increasing inequality in the west is that we are approaching something like the strict power structure of an old communist country, only from the other direction. E.g. the legal system in America seems to apply unevenly to different classes of people.
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I'm skeptical that you read anything more than the headline and perhaps the first paragraph from the linked article before writing this comment.

Even if you did, I'm skeptical that you understood it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
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