skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's How to Solve the Xkcd Velociraptor Problem with Code
All the web has to do is figure out why people will spend $1 at a vending machine for tiny terrible snack that is completely unsatisfying but won't spend $1 on a mobile app that they would use every day.
Foreign == non-Muslim? Because somebody is staying in those hotels and its not locals, right?
But dishonesty does hinder profitability. You can't get away with much of it for very long before customers leave, and you get a bad reputation.

> Given the obvious information asymmetry between the seller and the buyer we shall not expect that amount to be high.

There really isn't that much. You can't concretize this (i.e. give real examples) because it's easy for customers to do some research.

There is a lot of "theorizing" going on here that is no good because it is not empirical enough.
Apollo missions photo stream
>Being a Muslim is to bow one's will to the Almighty. There is no such thing Wahabi/Hijji/Cultural Muslims. This is cleared in the Quran, that the religion chosen for us is Islam, not Islam Version A or Version B.

Again, that's a black and white view of things, and violates the live and let live golden rule. Not just now, right after the death of the prophet Islam began to diverge. The Quran, itself was assembled into a book, after his death, during the 1st or 2nd caliphs time.

You should read up on Islamic history. The general populace has had several ebbs and highs in the nature and intensity of their belief, based on context and time.

Islamic history also has had a lot of free thinkers, even in medieval times like Al Ma'aari[1] and Ibn Rushd[2]. I also learnt, that there were liberal Muslims in 15th century Andulus-Spain, from a fascinating book by Tariq Ali[3].

I also read this recent article on 'free thinkers in Islam'[4]

Not sure if you know, the Turkish nobel prize winning author, Orhan Pamuk, also identifies himself as a cultural Muslim.

So you can't wish away the diversity and free thought. Currently we seem to be going through a phase of high tide in intensity of belief. You may be surprised to see it ebbing away in the coming decades. Just my view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma%CA%BFarri

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Pomegranate_Tre...

[4] http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/islamic-his...
Spinning Up an Apache Spark Cluster for Under $1: Step-By-Step
> EDIT: I was just quoting the article for discussion purposes. There's no reason to down vote.

Copying and pasting a quote without providing any further context is implicitly endorsing it.

People are downvoting you because they don't agree with the quote.
The market is large, but TI maintains their monopoly because their calculators are entrenched in education. They will fight tooth and nail against the college board approving calculators for any new competitor, Chinese or not.
Ha! Yeah, I think the real answer is, food. Food is different - we have a strong urge multiple times a day to get whatever food is in front of us, now.

If only apps were that way. "I feel a visceral need for a new app, and if I don't get it somebody is going to get hurt!"
The Scariest Navy SEAL Imaginable…And What He Taught Me
Again, I'd like to see some data. For most uses, people are perfectly fine with relatively low-res video, so although the technical capabilities of video keep increasing, I suspect the rate of growth in actual bandwidth draw is decreasing.
I wonder how many MW are spent on this border
Wow: The New York Times is very clear on its political preference: "Donald Trump has repeatedly castigated the Pacific trade accord as “a bad deal,” injecting conservative populism into the debate and emboldening some congressional Republicans who fear for local interests like sugar and rice, and many conservatives who oppose Mr. Obama at every turn."
Well, if all else fails, at least US citizens can fight economic tyranny with their numerous guns/rifles ... Pheeew!
No "micropayment" system has ever succeeded, and no such system will succeed in the future. This is not a technology problem. It's a matter of human psychology.

Every single example provided by the author takes one of two formats. Either you pay a monthly bill for "all you can eat," or you make discrete payments of $1-$2-$10. These are the models that work.

It's not that your article isn't worth a nickel, it's that it's not worth my mental energy to debate whether to spend a nickel.

It is not a question of whether it is built into your phone, your browser, or any other platform. It's what's built into your brain. "Pay as you go" is incompatible with the observed preferences of consumers.

I'm sure that most sites that rely on advertising would have rather been paid directly by consumers, such that they would not have to rely on ad networks or other third parties. But consumers don't want to spend a penny or a nickel at a time. It's not worth the mental transaction costs. Ad views were the only realistic way to squeeze a penny out of a page view.
Confused: who is staying in those hotels? They are free? The food is free? The travel? In one breath we hear how folks spend their life savings, and in the next that it is all a charity. Something isn't adding up.
A localStorage manager with expirable items and compression to save space
So basically, you are for sacrificing democracy on the altar of secrecy. "Clueless people" are always dangerous. And "every political player" can "rally them up". Yes! That's how it should be! People must be informed and have rights to organize and protest for or against something. All fan-boys of diverse trade agreements have only one thing to defend: Secrecy. (And, for the sanity of the discussion, throw out such words as "drinking the kool-aid")
Crazy flying pushups to uptown funk
How would you implement a fast diff that didn't involve looking at each text value anyways? Would there be a separate store in the structure that tracks changes, or something along those lines?
I'm going to spin this up today and see how it integrates with rsync.net.

We have 'gsutil' in our environment, so you can do things like:

ssh user@rsync.net gsutil ... blah ... blah ...

but if there is a google shell that you can use to manipulate those same items, then presumably you could do data transfer to/from rsync.net from within that shell.

Not everyone has a use-case like this, but some folks do ... so we'll see how it works ...
The Rise and Fall of the Operating System [pdf]
Maybe internet providers should pay fee to the website owners. Same as cable tv providers pays HBO or other channels. We could log the time each user spent on website and then similar to spotify pay proportionally to the website owners. For each internet connection we could pay e.g. $10 that goes to content creators.

Ofcourse Facebook and Google would earn most of this money.
> Hey, we took this perfectly fine content and made it worse by plastering it with annoying banners and spyware. If you give me $5.99 a month I'll make it not shitty again.

This is not a business model I want to support. I'm happy to pay for good content, but if the supposed "value" I would get from giving you money is not being annoyed and tracked then you'll never see a penny from me.

There are a few unicorns who have figured out how to have good free content, have no ads, and make money, like the Thrilling Adventure Hour, and Welcome to Nightvale podcasts. They get my money because their model is actually adding value with swag and live shows rather than making their content worse.
There is no way people are going to pay for individual articles, what might work though is letting people customize what kind of ads they see.

For example I want to see car ads, movie trailers, new gadgets and I want to see what's on sale at grocery and hardware stores with 10 miles of the zip code I give it. No video, no animation, no tracking, no targeting, no fucking Taboola. And if an ad pisses me off I want a "never show me ads from this company again" button.
It's amazing how many people implement Optimizely in a way that breaks the site if you block it.
Why it is crazy to work for anyone but yourself
The entire thing sounds like a more "efficient" version of what some people try to implement "manually" in the West. It's not just "high-status and influential positions". Speakers get disinvited from conferences. Comedians get no-confidence vote when considered for gigs in colleges. Professors get fired. Random people are targeted by stink campaigns on Twitter and fired as well. And this is just the stuff that happens in the open.
Yale launches an archive of 170,000 Depression-era photos
See also the South/North Korea border: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2725415/Nasa-...
Why is the "independent web" in all of these articles exclusively referring to people trying to make money with ads? I make software and put it on the web for free. There are millions of Github repositories like this, are they not the "independent web"? I post pictures on various sites, under CC0. In high school, I made games and put them on the web, always for free.

It's disappointing to see the web portrayed as so profit-minded :(
> I personally would feel privileged to be a part of a group that puts engineering excellence beyond anything

I wonder if other -- perhaps more minor -- achievements that displayed engineering excellence like the Apollo Program, invention of the transistor, the first compiler etc. espoused this same "enabling" culture.

> including my own hurt feelings

This is a meme that keeps coming up and shows a complete misunderstanding of this situation and others like it. This is not about hurt feelings. It is about marginalization, which is pushing (or keeping) qualified people away. Sometimes, the means of the marginalization is a hostile environment. Sometimes there are other means.

The author's feelings have not been hurt; she just couldn't stand working in an environment of assholes.

> If a team culture that delivers doesn't work for someone, the best thing to do is to move on

The best thing for whom? That person perhaps. But the best thing for our industry is that people speak up -- as Sarah Sharp has -- people listen, and people change things.
I am usually for open borders but pakistan is really an exception. They have too many problems - They in the past used to openly fund terrorist militias in both India and Nepal.

Until they sort themselves out its a good idea to create a donald trump style wall between them and India.
Because no central planner can have all the information about every aspect of the market in order to plan correctly. This is impossible not only because of the volume of information, but because the information in question is highly subjective (they amount to personal preferences). So the "optimization" has to happen in a distributed manner, with each agent taking in account his own preferences and the information available to him.

Finally, a centrally planned economy precludes the entrepreneurial function.
Because it used to be "free". People don't value that much their private data nor ads-free web. I always say to my friends that "if the product is free, then you are the product". They understand that fact, they just don't care - and why would they?

I would pay .02$ for displaying a news page (it's is still 4 times more than what advertisers give to publishers) and probably everyone would - but disrupting trillion ad business is not that easy.
To be a bit facile: circumcision.
I use Twitter every day and tweetstorms like that still seem like an utterly stupid way to work around a limitation in the system.
In reality I don't think ads are a problem, as long as they aren't annoying, are hosted by the webpage I am on, have zero trackers and are related to the content on the page.

Though the best system will always be free primary content with paid "premium" content. That way if you enjoy the content of the webpage you can support them, but you aren't required to pay to figure out if you do enjoy it.
Slightly off-topic, but I recently interviewed at Square, and I also have some long-time contacts there. I can honestly say they have some of the most brilliant engineering minds I have encountered working there. Whether it's a trickle-down effect from Dorsey or otherwise, they have succeeded in recruiting and retaining many extremely talented individuals.

I am curious if anyone has recent anecdotes in regards to the engineering talent at Twitter (aside from the talent that came in with Periscope).
Not interested in a discussion. You don't seem to have any regard for practicalities. Only utopia ridden dreams.
There were cases of fraud, of course, but the review system apparently worked ok (never used it myself).

However, dealing drugs that literally save one's life is kind of a big deal - one month's supply of a fake or impure medication could be deadly, unlike with shitty MDMA and meth...
A podcast for new Rust programmers
In some cases, the generics have to prove that they have the same effectiveness/bioavailabilty as the brand name. The brand names have been restricting the distribution of the drugs to prevent this from happening easily.
I identified with the "cycle of suck" a lot.

It's very good advice and I encourage anyone who's stuck on their tech advancement to work on side projects or look at the option of striking on their own.

One good thing is that customers don't care about tech, they care about results, it doesn't matter if you're junior or senior as long as you can deliver value (don't oversell).
What is Cost per Click?-Find the answer here
This seems like great advocacy for http://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/Roadmap/

My first concern is the lack of (popular) payment providers that enable microtransactions. If you want to pay $0.15 for a web page, and there's a flat 30 cent + 2.9% processing fee on every transaction, the model doesn't work.

Second concern is using primarily commercial payment providers nothing to break the oligopolies created by payment gateways, which is what makes these transaction fees so high in the first place. I would love to see cryptocurrency support baked into any implementation of browser payments, as microtransactions and user freedom are both well supported.
Amazing. Apparently crazy cat ladies have been a feature of western civilization for a lot longer than I realized.
That seems like a completely unfounded accusation. The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, which some consider to be the precedent for this agreement, was only 160 pages long and was quite readable. Here's the PDF of it:

http://www.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacif...

Furthermore, every congressperson has a whole staff devoted to dissecting these things, and there are numerous activism groups who will be doing the same thing.
Interactive graphic: Every active satellite orbiting Earth
I think what is needed is something that works for high school students. If you need to do serious scientific and engineering work, programs like Matlab and gnuplot, which you mentioned, work, and even learning Python will probably give better results than an old graphing calculator that isn't high-precision. As was suggested in the article, a cheap Chromebook is very well capable of running Python, and cheap linux laptops could run Matlab.
I enjoyed the first episode here, but I also _really_ like the aesthetic: they use rustdoc, our documentation tool, to do show notes! http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/
Yeah, guns are good... at least for something. :))))
As a Pakistani I feel genuinely sad that so much is being spent on enforcing borders when there's so much poverty on either sides of the border in the southern regions.
Unfortunately this only works if you let Google's javascript run.
Project Apollo archive
> there is a spiritual purpose behind it, not connected to money,

Religion, especially in what's pretty much a theocracy-lite, is very much tied to power and money.

SA is swimming in oil money, so it doesn't need to perform some crass commercialization (although I'm sure the restaurant, transportation, and hotel industry benefit directly), but maintaining and consolidating power is part of this game. Humanity didn't start religion because we felt unusually generous. Its a way to gain power and resources by exploiting various human desires like the need for meaning, the need for afterlife beliefs, etc.
i think my main point is that the display mechanism must be the least of the concerns with respect to introducing > 140 characters. that is to say- I don't believe anyone thinks it's an aesthetic impossibility.

it seems fruitless to dictate "how" without being part of the "why and why not" discussions.
Anecdotally this has not been my experience. Would love to see more data points in various geos at different degrees of surge. That said, this is reason enough to press notify every time now just in case.
lol I actually wrote PacMan in "DHTML" back then when DHTML actually was a thing... The source seems to be lost, it required IE4 to run anyway...
Rephrased and simplified, now you can push something no one likes except the advertisers if the advertisers pay for it, but in a future internet economy if you push something no one likes, you'd better be prepared to pay for it by yourself.

This is the most important point you're making.
I don't get it. Why are so many OK with the personal attacks, unprofessional language, and generally toxic communications within the Linux kernel development community? Is it because Linus himself is one of the worst?

While I appreciate the technical talent of the kernel devs, I have lost nearly all respect for these developers. This issue needs to be resolved before it gets worse.
In case anybody thought there weren't still a lot of people who get all het up about 'cuckolding' in two thousand and fifteen, Hacker News poster belorn is here to set you straight.
> millions of Github repositories

Every 'free' github repository is an ad/tie-in for their payed services. If you are not paying for something, it's because you are the product.
Netflix Doesn’t Care About Your Children
What made me giggle was:

> that doesn't force you to click a link to see the rest

(includes a link you click to see the rest)
> That's why more factors go into extending you credit (credit card, mortgage, auto loan), than your score alone.

Expanding on this: every credit card I've ever applied for has asked for my income on the signup form. They can easily get my credit score from any of the reporters, but they can only get my income by asking me for it.
The fact that the negotiations were done in secret probably means that most of the TTP content is being given to journalists by those officially authorized to speak about it. This isn't unexpected, but it does affect how the TTP is framed (even if you don't buy the Greenwald puff-piece-for-access argument).
That horizontal scrollbar is similar to the one on the Internet Archive's BookReader Web app. I find it appropriate there.

The NIH page suffers in that it doesn't scroll down, allowing for full-screen viewing on tablets such as the one I'm using. There's a permanently visible browser nav and tab bar on it, which I'd prefer to have go away. Many sites with persistent headers suffer similarly (e.g., G+).
>A better way to describe the relevant clauses is that corporations can sue governments under an international tribunal system if governments are failing to uphold their commitments to an international law

It's got jack shit to do with international law.

The wording in the agreement uses the term "indirect expropriation".

It's defined as "where an action or series of actions by a party (government) has an effect equivalent to direct expropriation without formal transfer of title or outright seizure".

i.e. lost profits caused by legislation. kinda like when Australia decided to put warning labels on cigarette packs.

Oh, and the supra-national court will be adjudicated by some corporate lawyers who can probably relied upon to interpret the wording of the above agreement in the "right" way.
Its not just women that are being put off. I'm a man, and when I worked for an IHV, I dreaded every interaction with the Linux kernel community due to the tone of the interactions. It was by far the most hostile community we engaged with. I often submitted patches through either junior developers in our company who were Linux enthusiasts, or through friends who were established in the Linux community just to avoid dealing with the people on the subsystem list.

By contrast the *BSD communities were far more helpful, as were the closed-source MacOSX and Solaris driver/kernel mailing lists, as well as the private interactions with folks from Apple and Sun.
Again, it's clearly a mockup. Complaining about the processors shown is like complaining Mozilla's going to adopt a light-grey-on-dark-grey color scheme because they show that too.

You can also get prepaid Visa/MasterCards, incidentally. No trackable information required.
This bears repeating, and I think may be quite unbelievable to Europeans:

Think of the biggest, most powerful truck (lorry ?) you've ever seen ... big enough to tow, for instance, 4-6 horses in a trailer, or a 30 foot boat.

Lots (and I mean lots) of normal, private citizens drive these vehicles as their normal commuter cars or to run errands, etc., unrelated in any way to business/work. It is not uncommon at all. A lot of these are indeed diesel.

Also the vehicles (for private, non-business use) are preferentially taxed.
Probably some method to help the people before they get to the point of doing violence. Many of which are experiencing some sort of distress that has not been addressed.
Nope, it's the same rebellion in China as the rest of the world.

No one likes the Confucian stuff in School, and it's just some gibberish text in the textbook, and you were required to recite it word by word after you 'read it aloud with strong emotion'. Yes, that's how most texts were studied by Chinese pupil and (junior-)high school students.

As showing off bad credit score? Once we were proud not to be a part in the Youth League[1]. Eventually they made everyone of us in, in the ninth grade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Youth_League_of_Chin...

Source: grew up in China.
Meanwhile, the right answers to the cost of content creation are [a form of communism].

Indeed, those dirty reds and their communist system of... voluntary patronage.

But, then again, maybe you're right on UBI. It has been espoused by known communists like Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman and F.A. von Hayek.
Czech Citizens Against the EU and Mass Immigration
"No micropayment system has ever succeeded"

This is wildly incorrect. $ billions have been transacted as micropayments in social games[1]. The key to their success was bulk purchases of intermediary "currency" that frees players from the mental energy of thinking about actual money (its a sunk cost because the currency can't be redeemed).

[1] Distaste for social games and the business model does not invalidate the financial success of their implementation of micropayments.
Note: I started a micropayments company.
and I wrote this in 2005/2006: http://www.harryguillermo.com/games/pacman/pacman.php

And this in 2013:
http://www.hg10101.com/games/jspacman/index.html

You can find the code in my github account: https://github.com/hguillermo/jspacman-canvas
The alternative at this point in the real world is customs, restrictions, and convoluted import and export procedures, i.e., what we have now.
I live in St. Louis and recently took a ride with Uber. Our driver basically gave us the exact same information. He told us that if we ever see surge pricing, to wait ~10 minutes and the rates will be back down to normal again. Its interesting to see that this is being seen from the rider's side as well.
The 2015 Nobel prizes: Physiology or medicine
'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts
In the TI-83, the graph does have several shortcuts you can use to fit the graph, one of them giving you a 1:1 aspect ratio and showing perpendicular lines as actually perpendicular.