skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the GOP candidates are talking about "making America strong again" they are primarily talking about foreign policy, not domestic. American foreign policy under Obama has been haphazard at best, frequently angering allies and ignoring threats. They're focusing on that.
I think feelings of fun and agency are core human needs, and engineers sometimes take debts in those things during the day to earn money and open source software is a way to pay that back to themselves.

My recent open source work is partly a response to a frustratingly anti-refactoring employer. The money was worth it, but I needed to recharge my "you can actually make progress as a good pace on a project that is well maintained" batteries after work.
Another part of it is how technology and networking has made contributing to OSS so low-friction that even if there was no possibility of a perceivable return on investment, there's also little cost to the participants as well.

I did much less development than I did before Github came along...so I don't know if Github (which of course itself depended on the existence of other OSS and infrastructure advancements) is a cause, rather than just a correlation with my career trajectory. But I can't imagine having the same willingness to work on OSS if the status quo were SourceForge (even before its current bloatware incarnation) or even Google Code, which was a pretty good service.

It's not that free software back then was less free than it is on Github. It's just that the barriers for dilettante developers to take that first step into OSS are lowered in very important ways. Without knowing anything about a library other than the part of its API that I use, I can make what I consider to be useful addition to the library and have immediate and reasonable confidence, given a decent test suite, that I didn't break the countless other moving parts in a library. Sure, test suites have existed just fine long before Github, but at least I can _see_ that a library has a test suite before even downloading it.

My involvement with OSS could be done there, but I'm literally a short commit message and a couple of button-clicks from giving my work to the library's maintainer as a pull request. If it were any harder than that, I know I would put that pull request in my nice-to-do-someday pile of things and then completely forget about it.

On the mainatiner's side, not only does Github provide a pretty nice notification system and workflow for them to organize, browse, and comment on incoming pull requests...but the way continuous integration services have decided to hook into Github means that the maintainer literally has to do nothing to have a first-pass confidence that I didn't break the library in all the ways anticipated by the test suite. This obviously does not ensure that the feature addition is not-shit, or even completely safe...but the maintainer has more time and energy to evaluate those important questions.

And then on top of it, if the maintainer accepts the pull request -- within a span of minutes if not seconds, anyone in the world who then downloads the library or updates their copy has what I added to the library, without me having to do a single thing beyond submitting the pull request. Even besides the hope that rising tides lifts all ships...the instant gratification from the OSS process alone could be enough for otherwise disinterested developers.
While this might not treat tinnitus, it would preserve what hearing you currently have. Trust me, lose that and you'll learn about somewhat expensive head jewelry and never hear people properly in big parties or loud pubs again...

I was told that the ringing in my ears was a side-effect of the brain trying to fill in the missing information from lack of hearing. It's more a windy sound than ringing and I don't notice it when wearing the aforementioned head jewelry. YMMV
Sheriff – Detecting Price Discrimination
ah...finally, someone that gets it and says it aloud...if I would have found this comment before, I wouldn't have put mine further below. Thx!
I'm not positive they still use the Sharp brand, but I'm pretty sure the display technology is the same: LCD backed by SRAM in the display. You don't need to continuously update the display. Once you write a frame or part of a frame, the processor can go to sleep.
Security through obscurity is not a useful tactic.
Amusing but sadly apt. The most interesting aspect of this case was the extreme difference between how it was reported and what the jury found to be factual.

It went so far that the NYT ended up editing stories after they were posted and admitting to changing their strategy to no longer report "just the facts":

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2015/07/19/ny-ti...

So many outlets uniformly reported that Pao WAS the victim of gender discrimination and she WAS on a crusade to represent women in tech. Not an exaggeration, those thing were actually being said.

I have yet to see any of the outlets that reported this angle backtrack, even after the verdict came out against Pao.
I'll see your biased source and raise you another. This one has nicer pictures.
http://lexingtoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/aircraft-ca...

Let's weigh them and see which one is a duck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
That's the exact problem I'm talking about. Yet, there's so much great stuff that they make! Stuff I'd love to be using right now in something else I have. Gotta figure out how to solve this problem. It's why I keep thinking of creating a new resource that's an alternative to IEEE/ACM w/out their expensive paywall, links to Wiki's on the subject, and good search functionality. Get enough in there on key topics and on sites like HN might get it going.
> anyone that has worked in an office environment with women present can attest to the fact that women still are not in equal standing with their male peers.

This is certainly not true. I've worked in many offices with women who were treated with respect, excelled at their role and were recognized as such.

If you have problems in your workplace you should report them, not generalize them to everyone's workplace.
The point of this chart, or at least, the point of me linking this chart, is to demonstrate that the model of "the market grows 6% each year, so I can just expect (input)x1.06^years output if I invest now" is wrong. There's all sorts of ways to slice and dice what's really true. I wouldn't even know how to characterize the true truth myself, even just looking at historical data. But I know that the myth of compound interest is a myth; markets can be down for extended periods of time.

And I don't think it's a "flawed assumption". I think it's a presentation choice. Are you seriously contending that the people who made this chart thinks that anybody actually invests that way? It's a way of slicing the data. If you modeled it as putting in a fixed amount per year, that would be another way of slicing and dicing the data, not a "flawed assumption" since nobody invests that way, either. If you modeled it as people putting in fixed amounts tied to inflation, you get yet another view.
It usually get's NAT'd, just like a traditional IPv4 home network.
Afaik, nothing after .html affects the content. It's just for tracking, but it leads to a dozen variants for the same page.
> There's only 4,294,967,296 addresses in IPv4

In an internet-usable sense, there's fewer than that, too. The entire 127.0.0.0/8 block is for localhost/loopback, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Special-use_addresses
Draconian US copyright rules made it easier for Volkswagen to cheat
> have integrated on/off switches for passing smog tests and such. If we really really cared about it, that would be illegal, there would be much more stringent emissions testing more frequently.

Actually it is illegal.

And inspections in the US are supposed to check if there are any altered emissions components.

It doesn't help if someone removes and reinstalls it each year, but they do try to check for such things.
One Girl, 14 Voices
The city of Rochester, NY also plows its sidewalks, I suspect because it would be unreasonable to expect property owners to do it themselves due to the amount of snowfall. Still, it's nice to be able to walk around in the winter. Technically, the law says property owners are still responsible for keeping the sidewalks clear, but that's mostly to encourage people to disperse salt on sidewalk ice after the city plows come by and to shovel what the plows may miss.
That liver article is really a stretch. The two studies I've found which reference it simply say consumption of liver or vitamin A supplements should be limited to avoid excess exposure to retinol, although may be used as a last resort for nutrition in poor populations, and is also not teratogenic in pregnant women. Not very appealing reasons to take up meat-eating, in my opinion.

I think your assessment of Dr. Greger's position on antioxidants is flawed. One of his oldest videos (published 7 years ago) reaches the same conclusion as your Harvard article:

> The studies so far are inconclusive, but generally don’t provide strong evidence that antioxidant supplements have a substantial impact on disease.

> At the same time, abundant evidence suggests that eating whole fruits, vegetables, and whole grains—all rich in networks of antioxidants and their helper molecules—provides protection against many of these scourges of aging.

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antioxidant-vitamin-suppleme...

> With two notable exceptions we should try to get nutrients from produce, not pills.

In fact, he even comments on his own video:

> I’m afraid many millions of Americans have been bamboozled by the multi-billion dollar supplement industry. I’ll be posting more videos on this–stay tuned!

To affiliate him with the industry he so vehemently protests is a tragic misunderstanding. He is quite outspoken about corporate influence and lobbying, if you care to explore more of his ad-free web site.

Finally, your cited study on gluten-free, casein-free diets is several years newer than his video, which I believe is an unfair comparison.
$17M/year to avoid having to re-architect all the internal networking at a trillion-dollar company? Easier to just pay it, really.
Two words: compound interest. To those that have much, much accrues. In the absence of redistributive taxes, societies become unequal because math.
Good luck with that mate!
http://theaviationist.com/2015/03/05/us-aircraft-carrier-sun...
IPv6 is good for anyone who want to identify individuals... NSA, FBI, Apple, Google, advertisers, trackers, etc. So happy to see rapid adoption and my fellow hacker news readers are excited about this too!
"So an unequal economy is less robust, productive, and stable than it otherwise would be."

Given this is true and Stiglitz is correct, the inverse may also be true: An economy that is less robust, less productive and less stable becomes more unequal. This would create a positive feedback loop, which may seem dismal. However if thats the case then strategies and actions that break the loop by improving robustness, productivity, and stability of the economies of individuals, groups and organizations may prove effective. Examples include skills training to become more robust, infrastructure investments to improve productivity, and orienting choices to improve stability could be implemented from the individual up to global scale. Simple redistribution may prove less effective.
You also have to factor in QE. Low interest rates make bonds considerably less attractive, so a lot of the money that used to be in bonds has moved into the stock market chasing returns high enough to cover inflation.
yes it does. Alternatively hitting the backbutton also hits the backlight.

I've had some readability issues, but with the backlight I've never had any issues. The price to pay for a long battery life I guess.
Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
The HTTP/2 module of NGINX is (and has been) fully open source. https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-9-5/

Disclaimer: I work at NGINX.
Watson is cool and all. Don't get me wrong.
>The battery life has never been a problem for me. I put the watch on it's charger when I get in bed, and take it off when I wake up. I don't think I've ever hit < 40% battery at the end of the day.

as a comparison, I can take my pebble to a very long weekend and not bring the cable and still be fine. The battery lasts 5 days in pretty normal circumstances
The Guardian is doing very well. Thier articles/journalists have a left world view and do not pretend they are neutral.

I don't agree with a lot of their editorial opinions, but I can respect their strategy. It is refreshing compared to the NYT and other media organizations that pretend they are unbiased/neutral, while promoting some sort of specific world view.
>I'd like to see CEOs treated like true investors. Want to make 50 million if the company does well? Cool. Company loses money? You owe $60 million.

I'd like to see people not worry about what other people get paid. Unless you're a shareholder, what difference does it make? It's not your money.
Their budget keeps getting slashed. Calling the EPA the disgrace, when you have an actually good target for your anger right in front of you, is nonsense.
On Hiring Techies – Evaluate Potential, Not Accomplishments
LET'S CREATE a New INTERNET MEME
Let's help refugees in europe and do something really cool in the process!

Download and share this image - http://s30.postimg.org/vrcoygu01/T_Refugees.png - all over social media. It's a lie, but let's share it like crazy until T-Mobile or anyone else figures out how this small investment would make it the best telecom company in the world. We could make this lie become truth. Worst case, You lose 2 minutes of your life to participate in something of potentially epic proportions :)

INSTRUCTIONS:
Download the image and upload to facebook, twitter, ... wherever you want.

BTW:
I don't want to be the first one sharing it because I don't want to get any media coverage. This is the product of Internet (and some weed)... so, my dearest interneteers, unite!

JUST DO IT. MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE! :)

IMAGE: http://s30.postimg.org/vrcoygu01/T_Refugees.png
You misunderstood, I think. My organization name is in the ARIN registration database from the early days of the internet. Most ISPs require some proof of ownership to do the BGP announcement (address, name match, etc.) My /24 block is announced and routed to my home network, by the way.
God created everything. That's all-encompassing, but not comprehensive.

Another example might be, A correct compiler can compile any valid program. It's all encompassing. An optimizing compiler, that's can't handle template syntax is more comprehensive. Better answers in a narrower field. Finally the template aware optimizing compiler is all-encompassing and more comprehensive.
Whoops, this was our fault. We invited pschanely to repost this article—something we do when we notice fine submissions that didn't get much attention—but in this case it actually had had significant attention. Entirely our mistake, and thanks for pointing out the duplicate.
The Chess Problem That Was So Hard It Mad Garry Kasparov Himself Cringe
Autonomous Dutch minibus will start taking passengers in November
5.6M fingerprints stolen in personnel data hack, U.S. government says
It makes a difference when someone is paid several orders of magnitude more than others in the company because it massively increases inequality, which affects everyone.
America’s Top Mental Health Researcher Joined Alphabet
New title: "How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)" (I assume someone added the 2012 later.)

Old title: "How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill"

I think that the problem is that Algolia looks for results with all the words, the new title has the word "Spreadsheets" that is not in the old title.

I think Algolia has an option to allow variations and typos in words, but not an option to match most of the words (like 4 of 5 words).
That's not how memes come to be, mr anonymous tmobile marketing man...
Its been my experience that there's a second part to the TCO argument that answers the question of why companies allow their employees, on company time, to work on and contribute OSS.

Essentially, open source provides a mechanism to share the cost of the long-term maintenance of a project. By contributing back, you can leverage the resources of the community to ensure that your new features continue to work against new and improved versions of the software, without requiring future resources to re-implement and update any changes made.
Yeah, I read that part, I just don't understand it. They are obviously storing the contents of the image somewhere (in memory?) for an hour, otherwise there's no point prefetching it in the first place. At the end of that hour, they download it again. If the image isn't different, they would be better off not throwing away the old copy.
I change my username every few months
NB: the linked article concerns reporting about Pao's ouster from Reddit, not her court case.
HN and it's predictable level of antipathy is a constant disappointment. Hating is the norm, do better. Put more thought into your opinions.

Personal feelings of Javascript aside (not my favorite either!), I think this is a great business move (adoption, excitement, blog-o-sphere marketing, even if some users shoot themselves in the foot), and I think it opens up exciting possibilities, including creating Nginx+ features fo'free.
C'mon.

That's not bias, that's selective coverage. The term bias in the context of encyclopedia articles means slant, or to use the silly wikipedia terminology, "point of view".

SEP is pretty good about avoiding bias in that sense.
Yep. I'm not sure why the closest Bay Area Bike share to Google is at the Caltrain station.

Bike share also helps people get comfortable biking as part of a commute, so they may one day bike the whole commute.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10256170
有关 XcodeGhost 的问题和解答 – Apple (中国)
I've been a heavy procrastinator all my life, way back to elementary school (23 now). I've given up thinking that there is one simple intelligible cause of it, or that I will ever fully be "cured". It will likely be a constant struggle that I always have to deal with. The thing that comes closest to a cure is that I know I can win that struggle; things just take a little more self-control for me than for most people, that's all.

And I need to get the fuck off the internet. It's simultaneously the best and worst thing to ever happen in my life. I procrastinated before the internet, but there's no doubt that the internet is the main driver of my procrastination right now.
If your OS does proper address randomization, it's no more identifying than ipv4.
Can you patent something invented before by someone else?
Ellen Pao is not the figurehead any movement should rally behind. Between this and her husband's fraud, people who actually care about gender equality shouldn't have touched the case with a ten-foot pole. It was fishy business from the outset.

If MRAs see it as a victory, that's because their opponents made such a big deal out of this case. A little bit of foresight on their part would have made it a non-issue.
Worse: 224.0.0.0/4 and 240.0.0.0/4 are reserved, have always been reserved, and cannot in any practical terms be allocated, as there's huge amounts of hardware and software in production that's hard-coded to treat them as invalid. That's 1/8 of the entire IPv4 address space that's completely unusable.
The Perils of JavaSchools (2005)
Agreed. I would just like to see it go away for everyone, period. With options, it always feels like paper money, so those granting it do so in huge amount without proper consideration for its true costs to shareholders.

It's not just CEOs making obscene amount of money. Many ordinary executives are routinely granted high six, 7 figure worth of options on the backs of their employees and shareholders. 1/3rd of the top 1% are company executives.
Whose responsibility is it to erase america's shortage of skilled workers?
It snows in Boston and New York too.
> There's only 4,294,967,296 addresses in IPv4, so if you hand out giant blocks, you run out quite fast, whereas with 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 you could hand out huge IPv4 /8 sized blocks from now until the heat death of the sun if you wanted to.

Well, according to [1] the sun will stay white-hot effectively forever. But, given that it will continue in its current state for another 5 billion years, and that there are 2^96 IPv4-sized blocks in IPv6's address space, one could give out 2.5e21 IPv4-sized blocks every second from now until the end of the sun's lifespan.

So yeah, IPv6's address space is really, really, tremendously, amazingly, enormously big.

[1] http://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/39/sun2.html
No. The VWs in question would not have even passed 1981 CARB standards.
> I always use the names of economists for my machines’ hostnames. keynes, friedman, marx, fisher, ricardo.

Where is Mises and Hayek ?
Government Is Selling Thousands of Homes to Hedge Funds Witho Owners' Knowledge
In Honolulu I commute on a recently opened bike lane with this design, and have two or three near-misses every week from cars turning into driveways without checking the bike lane. It's exacerbated by the sometimes steep curb, so driver will turn left into the bike path at full speed, come to a complete stop perpendicular to bike traffic, and then slowly move into their parking lot or McDonald's drive through too avoid scraping their undercarriage. It's maddening how drivers seem to prioritize potential damage to their vehicles over the risk of killing someone.

The bike path is still new, though, so hopefully people learn to slow down and check their mirrors.
Apple is in China.
Twenty Years of Bitext (2013)
I know you were joking, sadly there are many people who are often saying seriously "we'd need a good old war to get things rebooted again".
Their news coverage is pretty decent. I read it daily. But their opinion pieces are laughably stupid. Just this past summer they did a piece about how air conditioning is sexist.

Every day Jessica Valenti writes something about the Pro Life movement and calls it the "Anti Choice" movement, which is a like Fox News calling banksters "Job Creators."

Syreeta what's her face did a piece the other day about how film stock is racist (she apparently doesn't know how to set her camera aperture properly and blames it on film not being designed to capture black faces).

It's a fucking joke.
Only about your initial question: one-percent is a terrible name. It gives the right idea initially, but if you ask a logical question like you did, the problem is far smaller than 1%. America doesn't have 3 million CEOs and corporate executives. In your life, you met over 100 people - does everyone feel like they met an insanely high earner? Even here, just on HN, I expect a large number of people are in the top 1% salaries. Yet, I don't think that's what the people are really angry about.
Oh, get a few of these[0]. They are pretty flimsy, but cheap (I've seen them for sale on eBay and various sites like aliexpress for ~20 euro-ish before. They sure hold a charge; I've had 9 hours of constant use before (of course, that was with a highly optimised Gentoo setup and mostly just coding without a graphical environment. I get 6 hours on average).

I don't know what expresscard I'm using, but it's an expresscard/54 that has 3 USB 3.0 ports. It's a generic Chinese card, and it works fine. Though, in order to use it to boot from USB you need install libreboot (there might be another way, I'm not sure).

[0] http://www.amazon.com/CBD-Hi-Capacity-Battery-ThinkPad-7800m...
Lego of the future
Take photos where your subjects aren't looking directly into the lens
In the garbage bin.