skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another example of how taxing capital gains at less than 'ordinary' income has all sorts of weird and often undesirable effects.

Of course, I guess the argument for it is that it has the favorable effect of encouraging capital investment, that's what it's supposed to do right? I am curious what evidence there is of how well it does that.

According to wikipedia, capital gains were taxed as ordinary income in the U.S. until 1921, and the history since then have gone up and down -- but are currently at their historical low. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United....
First comment on NH ever for me - because I really think meditation can be the answer to your problem.
I read this book about a year ago - Search Inside Yourself (http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...). I started practicing meditation - maybe a couple of times a week only and more whenever i am stressed out. It has helped me deal with all kinds of stress and i am more focused then ever before.

This book was written by one of early Google engineers who has learned meditation and created a class that he has taught to thousands of Google employees. Unlike much of other writing or classes on meditation this one is written in plain language and cites lots of neuro research. It is not even that long.

So go read first half of this book, practice it for 3 months and then reevaluate.
Here is my view: there is a lot of information that is unnecessary if you know the basics. Take for example mathematics: if you learn well the basics of analysis, number theory, geometry, and combinatorics, everything else is noise that you can pick up if needed. Learn philosophy and you will see that most new ideas are not really new anyway. Read the classics. These are the basics that give you perspective so that you don't need to read every scrap of "new" information out there, and concentrate only on what you need.
Yes, I take your point, which is more precise and better argued than the author's. That is, I think your distillation of his argument misrepresents it by stripping out the logical inconsistencies (and the irony).

Montier's letter is rather more muddled than your comment. He suggests not only that optimizing returns in the short run is a poor strategy for creating long-term value for shareholders, but that the benchmark of share value (even over the long run) is a deficient measure of corporate performance. Everything Montier writes suggests that he believes companies did better (in some sense that he never quite articulates) in the era when managers ran their firms as they saw fit, before the idea took hold that they should try to maximize share value.

So the irony of his argument is the incongruity of demeaning the very benchmark he uses to suggest that J&J has somehow been a better managed company than IBM; the major arc of his argument vitiates the evidence he uses to support it. It is ironic, in the comedic sense, that Montier seems to be so imbedded in the culture of maximizing shareholder value that he invokes that criterion, seemingly reflexively, in the course of his argument against it.

But it's a logical and rhetorical mess, too. Montier's argument is analogous in your maze-solving formulation to claiming that the final distance from the exit is a poor measure of the performance of a maze-solving algorithm while at the same time maintaining that greedy algorithms are worse than random algorithms because it turns out that the greedy ones end up farther from the exit. If you accept the first claim, then the second is a non-sequitur, and advancing the second argument undermines the first.
Three Months in Kurdistan
> most of the United States efforts are designed to use persuasion counter radical movements

Reminds me of an interview with Chomsky where he talks about internal US policy:

> But there was a more serious and considered answer given by the National Security Council, the highest planning agency. They pointed out that there's a perception in the Arab world that the United States supports status quo regimes which, of course, are brutal and oppressive, and does so in order to secure its own interests in obtaining oil, and then they said, well, it's hard to counter this perception because it's correct. They said it's natural for the United States to link itself up with the status quo regimes and try to sustain them and to pursue its interest in obtaining oil. So the end result is that there's a campaign of hatred against us among the people who we're basically robbing and on whom we're imposing harsh, brutal, repressive and corrupt regimes, and it's pretty difficult to counter that campaign.

The notion that the US actively fights corrupt, despotic regimes and supports radical movements for democracy doesn't rhyme with US history of the past few hundred years. Look at support for Cuban Batista, or support for Chilean Pinochet, support for Iraqi Hussein, for Indonesian Suharto, Spanish Franco, Iranian Mohammed Reza etc. The list is very long.

Anyway I don't want to get into too much of a political discussion. But this notion that US foreign policy (or any country's foreign policy for that matter, by the way) is dictated by good will, trying to curb radical movements that sweep away freedom, rather than geopolitics, is clearly missing something. US has practiced realpolitik for a long time now, first under the guise of fighting ideologically different communists, now under the guise of fighting ideologically different islamic extremists. It's simply the enemy of the week now, the product of the whole neoliberal clash-of-civilizations movement. The real motivation has always been geopolitics. The US isn't unique in this by the way, it's just easy to pick out as it's been the most successful at this the past 200 years and therefore it has the most stories of supporting crap regimes for its own good will.
Now do video compression with it. Do the first frame just like this, then start with that as the first generation to evolve the next frame and so on. Maybe have a way to dynamically vary the number of triangles - especially when the scene changes, you may even want to discard everything and start over if the first generation on a frame is a bad fit. Resolution independent video compression at last ;-)
Do you have a public github repository with that ?
Ah - yes - but (to my eyes) there is a world of difference between artistic "tone-mapping" (Ansel Adams-style dodging and burning, I've done much of it myself) and algorithmic tone-mapping. The results are barely comparable to me.
Uber driver rapes woman in Delhi, India
That's about entirely backwards. Flinging a metal tube off of Earth is much harder than keeping a few apes alive in a can. The tolerances and requirements in rocketry are much more severe, the dimensions unfortunately super-human scale, and the ability to test the system limited by the scale, expense, and speed of the final product, not to mention the usually-100% chance of destroying your machine in the process. (Even reusable systems, which are rare, are expensive to run simply due to scale.)

The actual spacecraft part is easy in comparison. It's of reasonable dimension, you can test and fiddle with it on the ground, and plenty of common practice is available due to submarines and high-altitude aircraft as well as decades of continuous operation in space.

The history of manned space systems will present plenty of examples of the booster being the pacing element. But we don't have to look much further than the very system we're talking about here. Orion is ready and flying a projected 4 years (and probably longer in reality) before its booster. And that's not because they got a head start.

That's not to say that rockets and manned space craft are similar problem domains; they're not. Any expertise SpaceX will need in that area will have to be developed separately. But the techniques are well known (thanks largely to NASA, who make no secret of it) and are just plain not that hard. They're already flying a pressurized and temperature-controlled Dragon (which spends time as part of the ISS), and are in development of a crewed one.

It is true that SpaceX has yet to operate any space stations, which NASA has, and which are the closest analogues we have to an interplanetary spacecraft. But again, ISS systems are a known quantity, and SpaceX could easily replicate them. Or, if they don't want to bother, could contract with Bigelow, who is currently flying two (unmanned) pressurized space stations, with designs for manned versions ready to go and awaiting a way to get there. SpaceX and Bigelow have already announced plans to partner for orbital station operations.

A Dragon and a Bigelow station would provide a nice ride to Mars. Getting to the surface and back would be a bit of a problem, but a SpaceX/Bigelow team could possibly land on Phobos and return in the next 5 years. And on a darn low budget, too. If you want to walk on Mars without too much tech development, Dragon 2 should be able to land just as it does on Earth. Dunno how you'd get back up, though. Maybe you could land a Falcon-ish booster loaded with a storable oxidizer (like peroxide) on little enough juice that it could get back into orbit. Haven't looked into the numbers there; F9-1 is certainly single stage to orbit on Mars, but down-and-up on the same fuel load seems unlikely. It'd certainly work with ISRU propellants, but that's a nice can of worms.
thanks for doing my job for me :)
You don't get to be an Ace by destroying tanks, or artillery, or other ground threats. You get to be an Ace by defeating another pilot in a dogfight. That's why the Air Force is reluctant to support the A-10. They want to put all that money into their fighter jets.

Close air support really should be an Army responsibility, but the Air Force doesn't want the other services flying planes. The only reason the Army is allowed to have helicopters, is because they're not "real" airplanes.
Although in this case, to be honest, the code is not that great. Lots of repetition/noise-- plenty of opportunity for factoring.
It sounds like you've already realized you're drinking from a fire hose. There is no possible way to consume all information. It is being generated far faster than you could even hope to consume in many lifetimes.

Since you can't be informed about everything all the time pick a topic or two that you are deeply interested in learning more about (or keeping up to date). Then enjoy the fact that you can tune out the fear stations (CNN, Fox News, etc.) and concentrate on your specialty. Because most other people won't know nearly as much as you about your selected topics you may be perceived as far more informed than others.

I get a weekly business magazine and used to be vigilant about reading every article every week. Now I just skim the headlines and dig into something if it's interesting. I'll even throw out a previous week's magazine if a new one arrives. Anything important enough from the old issue will be in the new one.

The other advice that I can give is to pick the most important item/article and put 100% of your energy to accomplishing your goal by a specific deadline. Then move onto the next goal. My brain is much happier processing in serial instead of parallel.
"Its forgiving nature", like VB's "On Error Resume Next" and JavaScript's automatic semicolon insertion, is not an advantage. Debugging with cryptic error messages is better than having no idea that the program is silently doing the wrong thing.

Its standard library is no more comprehensive than those of comparable languages.

The only advantage left, then, is the same one all the sibling comments bring up: it's already installed on the server.

So the question remains: Why would anyone who has a choice and knows that other languages exist ever use it for anything?
Stop fighting.
You are right. The "DNA" label is inaccurate, but jal278 explained the reasoning perfectly. I'd be happy to hear suggestions for a better term though! ;)
HLS (http live streaming, .m3u8 rotating playlists of chunks of video) isn't supported by desktop browsers except for Safari. That seems to be preventing live streaming sites from migrating away from flash. Notably, NASA's videos of the Orion mission were on flash on desktop, but their mobile site (mobile browsers—iOS, and Android since Honeycomb—support HLS) wasn't using flash.
These jokes aren't funny. They marginalize an entire nation of people. You should stop making them.
When Chile did this with tech entrepreneurs instead of just giving it to local companies they paid for foreigner entrepreneurs to come there to stimulate the local startup scene.

I'm curious how effective that was? Anyone here part of that program? Was there ever a follow up by Startup chile on whether it was successful?
It's easy to prove that a cipher is insecure; just provide a counter-example to its security claims.

It's much harder to prove that a cipher is secure. You must exclude all possibilities where the security claims might be incorrect.
I'm impressed with the fix turnaround.
Stellar is not currently decentralized. The use of a single validating node is a temporary measure while they rewrite their consensus algorithm. This is obviously far from ideal, but the Stellar foundation has been transparent that this is a temporary measure. In the original design, and in their stated mission that they've never wavered from, this will be a open protocol where anyone can join as a validating node. But they needed a stop gap measure while they fixed this ledger fork issue. Again, far from ideal, but let's not jump to harsh conclusions either.
By stopping reading Hacker News.
The tunnel example was technically impressive, but I thought the woman driving video looked disgusting. It looks like poorly lit CGI.
My 365 day journey of becoming a Mozillian
There are many problems with this. As an uncle, I find the options for girl-toys to be so depressing. I'm sick of the excessive pink.

But I'm glad people have decided to rewrite it. Its a pleasure to hear Barbie tell it like it is:
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux"
https://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/view/118
Thanks for the links, very insightful.

As somebody who unfortunately is only a fairly recent GTD convert I was wondering if you could elaborate more on why Omnifocus wasn't for you?

I was thinking of buying it for both my Mac and iPhone but I am still undecided as I don't know if it really is the right solution for me. GTD to me most of all is about honestly taking stock of our own shortcomings as human wetware (and pragmatically be OK with it) so I'm essentially asking myself if David Allen would rather be for some organic, haptic "real world" physicality at least..
odd that the contributor's "similar stories" are all about the same billionaire with the same headshots.
Cmon, that was a little funny.
Great thanks. I'll look around. You're right.
Please don't turn off issues so people wanting to try your code are aware of bugs. Just say it's unsupported.
How to Hire Engineers: Step 1 (Sourcing)
Building lists for reading later is the same as having all the world's information at hand, which the internet makes very easy.
And it is literally unfiltered, too. It's of no real value to collect for later, and sadly, consuming information without need (practical use) might be entertaining, but won't be remembered by your brain, aka waste of time.

A tendency to consume for distraction might indicate a burnout as well.
In a certain age or after too much monotonic work this is a common auto-reaction, to keep us sane supposedly.
Do something different.

While meditating can be calming, I suggest physical activity, helped me at least, it is amazing what a little running (every day) can do.
And in general - ignore all the trash information, there is too much available these days - stick to what you need to achieve goals (provided you have set those already).
I agree.
If somebody wants just publish sources - zip archive is enough. And this format will be answer to questions "can I rely on that?", "will security issues be fixed?", "can I ask for more documentation?". With zip archive all answers are "No".
Publishing code to CVS repository means "welcome for collaboration, we expect your commits, PRs, issues".
Both are analytic philosophers.
She wasn't single handed. She had the huge resources and budget of Wikipedia available to her. She had the power to guide a team in the inner organization, and many thousands of people beyond. She had access to a huge PR platform.

She did nothing substantive when she had the chance to take action, so why should we take anything she says now seriously?
Security Explorations is a well-known security research company. Most of their research is related to Java.

See:

* http://www.security-explorations.com/en/SE-2011-01-press.htm...

* http://www.security-explorations.com/en/SE-2012-01-press.htm...

* http://www.security-explorations.com/en/SE-2013-01-press.htm...

* http://www.security-explorations.com/en/SE-2014-01-press.htm...
http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/044053-000/la-joconde-devoilee?a...
Taoism isin't too far. I once read the Tao of Pooh and thought the ideas were great. I think my conflict is that information allows things to change. Decisions can be made given a better understanding.

I'll check out the Tao Te Ching book. Thanks.
Not Everything Needs to Be an App
Sean wasn't making points. He was being obtuse and dismissive, and made repeated statements about the author and how much he was laughing at the idea that this was being read by anybody.

I read it: I enjoyed it. I didn't run into anything I didn't understand, but I did feel like the phraseology was chosen to offend rather than inform.

For example, "global variable" was used to describe any memory cell that could change from any point in the program, either directly or indirectly. Obviously any public function (setter or method) can change that value. If the instance variable is static or a member of a singleton, then it really is a global variable, but if the object is simply long-lived it might be equivalent with regards to the impact it has on debugging.

Given that this isn't the ordinary use of the term "global variable", one has to read the article to understand that this is what is intended, but at least the article isn't very long. However because the author chose to overload the term (rightly or wrongly), it makes extracting the essence from a few quotes very difficult.

However if you read the article: What part did you have trouble understanding?
I found it funny!
I do go on hikes but not anywhere near that length. Maybe that will be it. Thanks
I didn't see any logs for firefox, but did see a similar file for Google Earth...

"/tmp/CGLog_Google Earth_7790"

full of:

7629.0413465 (Google Earth): CGSGetNextEventRecordInternal: 7629.0410916 loc (90.4, 934.0) conn 0x34b5f MouseMoved win 0x4a0 (click 1)
7629.0581342 (Google Earth): CGSGetNextEventRecordInternal: 7629.0578892 loc (84.4, 929.0) conn 0x34b5f MouseMoved win 0x4a0 (click 1)
7629.0750728 (Google Earth): CGSGetNextEventRecordInternal: 7629.0749128 loc (70.4, 918.0) conn 0x34b5f MouseExited win 0x4a0 tArea 0x19494
7629.0750766 (Google Earth): CGSGetNextEventRecordInternal: 7629.0749338 loc (70.4, 918.0) conn 0x34b5f MouseExited win 0x4a0 tArea 0x19493
The fitness value represents the difference between the pixels of the "goal" image and the pixels of the current individual [1]. It will not necessarily reflect the perceived similarity between two images, which will change from person to person.

https://github.com/ChrisCummins/chriscummins.github.io/blob/...
Ah, I missed that one.

Some queues let you "peek". It's not common because it weakens the whole concept of a queue and tends to be difficult to implement sanely.
Defense in depth. Have another failsafe if your first line of defense fails (as it will).
Hi. How much Derrida have you actually read?

Like sat down, with a pre-existing understanding of the fields he is interfacing with (particularly phenomenology and structuralism and semiotics a la Saussure) and then begin reading?

Most approaches to continental philosophy I read on these pages are like someone jumping into a halfway point of a complex essay on functional programming, quoting it and declaring it nonsense. To people outside particular discourses, things often seem like nonsense. Within them, with enough background, one can see that these things are meaningful, while one might, of course, disagree.
Yep... it was created like: let's try this, let's try this, hey cool! And abandoned. No refactoring, and this means also that to try new strategies is boring because most of the code is not ready to change parameters easily. Should not be too hard to refactor it, I waited to do this before the release, and I waited 6 years, so I released it :-)
I'm pretty sure, if you published a "canary", it would be in the attackers best interest not to trip the alarm while they exploited any unsuspecting systems.
Don't suburbs have a negative connotation outside of the states? I mean, Europe they can at least be peaceful (well, except France), but in Asia its where the poor people live who can't afford an apartment in the city.
I'm getting downvotes here? Obviously, not from ohyesyodo b/c he does not have enough karma to allocate downvotes.
Sort of. Uber's profits are extremely lopsided, almost all revenues are generated from just 5 cities with NY heading the list with twice as much revenue as the next city.

Given that it makes some sense to try to brand a particular presence in NY. A bit like how a fashion store might want to have a strong presence in Paris. And given NYC alone has a runrate of more than $300m alone, it's not strange to approach this as its own market, just like a company might have a US, UK, JP, DE etc domain for those country markets. Only Uber is more city-segmented than country-segmented right now, each city has its own taxi ecosystem and legislation.

In any case, it'd be an easy redirect and for a company worth tens of billions, outspending a $3k bid to get a branded domain for your company's largest market makes sense. Even if you don't use it, grabbing it and redirecting may be useful. Who knows if its worth much in the future.

So I wouldn't say that grabbing a uber.nyc domain name is the best move ever but it's not strange given the context. I'd have done it.
The main purpose of Startup Chile was to put Chile on map as one of the tech hubs and it has been certainly successful in that.

The program in itself is not as involved in the success of the startup as other accelerators because it doesn't take any equity in your startup.

It certainly has managed to attract entrepreneurs but the success will be short-lived unless it can also attract investors which it hasn't been able to do so far.
If you are after fun, try reading this site: http://www.419eater.com/

"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."

The morality of what is done might be questionable though, especially for 'highly successful' operations that leave the scammer in another country's desert without money. Most just end with a photo of the scammers doing things like wearing a fish on their head.
My intent was not to marginalize anyone, I actually think Africa has a lot of potential for awesomeness. Read my comment minus the joke.
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The title as it currently stands is oddly worded. I believe the "10,000" in "10,000 African Entrepreneurs in 10 Years" is both relevant and necessary for it to make sense.