skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing the map proves is that the author's data is phony.

For example, El Paso TX is shown in the map as almost ZERO days having a sunrise time before 7AM. This is utterly phony. In the entire month of June, for example, the latest sunrise is 6:03AM CDT... which is 5:03AM standard time. (Source: http://www.sunrisesunset.com/)

In fact, sunrise was 7AM CDT or earlier from March 28 through October 3rd... more than HALF the year!

Nothing is proven using phony data.
Distributed power generation would reduce transmission power loss & make the grid more robust; similar to distributed computing or the internet.

Distributed power generation would also create more community autonomy. Currently, there are large middlemen extracting profit from the users & altering local ecosystems; where the decision makers are not part of the ecological feedback loop.

Technologies like biogas use compost & manure to create methane. Biogas reactors are inexpensive, can be built DIY, & scale small to large. Europe has adopted biogas & has several large reactors. http://european-biogas.eu/. The compost can be used to create soil health in the local area. Compost can be collected using bikes in local neighborhoods.

Here's a coop called pedal people. https://www.pedalpeople.coop/

Communities becoming self-reliant with their energy production would increase neighborhood autonomy, keep money inside of the community, & would increase awareness what is thrown away.

Another underutilized resource is human poop. Millions of tons of nutrients & fuel are poured into the oceans as toxic sludge. Rather than devastate environments, we could utilize this resource to power our cities & heal our soil.
Perhaps that was a broader comment about Mozilla?
Is their management that terrible? As an outsider I would assume the opposite for their valuation/potential. They make reasonably good quality stuff that gets replaced almost annually.
I understand where you're coming from but the open source community as a whole has a reputation (though whether it deserves this is another question) for being a potentially toxic thing to interact with.

I guess I read it as implicit in the question that they're looking for a bunch of open source projects that will be supportive of their contributions to then select one that they find interesting in order to avoid picking an interesting project, working on an issue couple of days only to be told to go %&@# themselves because the PR isn't formatted correctly or something.
Anyone still not happy here should provide a detailed explanation on what they would do differently, instead of decrying the company.
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From what I've read it's generally considered to be a very subjective work, and intentionally so. That said, I really liked it because of this, as it leads to a coherent, 'fluid' progression.

I vaguely recall a chapter on one pretty important philosopher where Russell concludes with something close to 'obviously this guy is full of shit'.
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Hmm, they look like identical forms of wordplay, with GNU having the added advantage of being an actual word.
I don't really have any utopian visions because by definition they are impossible to achieve.

We have to be realistic and I think Udemy will get away with this and my comment above was basically me calling bullshit on their public statements. They didn't seem sincere to me, that's all.
Sounds like the $ that changed hands is minuscule.
To you it's hollow. To me, enlightenment is such a fluffy abstract thing. So I prefer the good things in moderation. And read the article pleasure can be obtained from worthwhile things too.
The MPAA would most likely go after supplier not the store, the MPAA would have to prove the store knew the products where duplicated/reproduced.
XINUL anyone?
How does DMCA work when the site watermarks the posted content with the site's own brand?
So GCD, WebKit, LLVM, Clang, etc do not count? Ot just don't fit your narrative?
> I wonder where people buy Xiaomi devices. They are not on Amazon.

I bought mine at amazon.de.
Super glue will be needed to hold the title together as well, since an Oxford comma wasn't used.
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Which has limits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
As a member of the Rust community, I value your opinion, however I am not at all sure where you've observed the above described behaviour.
The Rust community is the first one I joined without fears of being put down by the community because of my lack of experience.

The IRC channel is among the most helpful of any programming language I've seen so far, users.rust-lang.org gets multiple helpful responses to practically any question and the subreddit is very helpful for keeping up with the latest projects and take in community input.

I also observed that the Rust core team and community are very aware of its current shortcomings and are working on them with the community via the RFC process.

It's also very easy to contribute, you don't have to sign any CLA etc., and a member of the core team will even mentor you if you wish.

It would be helpful if you offered some concrete examples instead of being this generic.
Seconded. It's not for nothing that drupal has the catchphrase "Come for the code, stay for the community."

But as others note here, it's not that the support forum gets particularly snappy response for every contributed module. It's the in-person community that people talk about. Drupal meetups, local events, and conventions, are far and away the most welcoming and FUN environment I've seen in any OSS project. We do large, mentored sprints for first time contributors, the top contributors are always happy to help out random newbies... And the whole experience is so friendly that we write musicals about it (no joke!) . I've encountered other communities that are friendly, but none that go as far as Drupal in the personal connection department.
I still love and use Seamonkey. It's a mozilla-based product that is the modern heir of the old Netscape Communication Suite. You get a browser that is based on the latest Firefox but not dumbed down as Firefox is, an email client very similar to Thunderbird, an IRC client etc., all in a single package.
http://racket-lang.org/
I have just finished reading Ramez Naam's Apex trilogy and I wonder if this is a step towards the future described in that book.
Ask HN: How Does Appodeal (Programmatic Ad Mediation) Work?
I put ad banners in mobile apps and I use Admob mediation to show ad from Admob, inmobi, Mopub, MMedia. Recently I heard Appodeal which describes itself as the programmatic ad mediation. I read the official
Q&A: Appodeal’s Programmatic Mobile Ad Mediation Approach http://blog.appodeal.com/qa-appodeals-programmatic-mobile-ad-mediation-approach/ but still don't know how it works. The key things I found about Appodeal are:

1. Appodeal claims to choose ads with highest eCPM from Admob, Liverail, Applovin, Mopub, Avocarrot, UnityAds, etc.

2. The ad revenue from Admob will be paid to the app developer directly by Admob (Before you integrate Appodeal into the app, you have to own the Admob account and link it to Appodeal.). Ad revenue from other ad networks will be paid by Appodeal. You don't even need any account of these ad networks.

For #1, I don't know how Appodeal achieves it. As far as I know, in admob/inmobi/mopub's SDK, there is no option for me to set eCPM floor.

For #2, I don't know how ad revenue from other ad networks goes into Appodeal. When I use mopub, I need to have a mopub account, input payment info, add apps in the mopub web console, integrate mopub sdk and use the ad unit id in my app. Mopub will pay me. But with Appodeal, the app developer doesn't need to do these steps. Revenue goes into Appodeal directly. My guessing is Appodeal reuses an ad unit ID for all customers' apps. (Probably it is not correct.)

My questions are:

How does Appodeal work?

Can we trust it? Because Appodeal gets the revenue first and then pays app developers, if it takes half of it, nobody knows.

Update:

There is another programmatic mediation platform called AdtoApp http://www.mobyaffiliates.com/blog/adtoapp-officially-launches-its-programmatic-mediation-platform-for-in-app-advertising/
The two big things that I see in the release is GEGL support and better color management. The GEGL image process engine gives you lots of things but I think the most important is the ability to read and write 16/32bit per color channel data. I think this has been on everyones wish list for a long time. This release also upgrades to LittleCMS v2 providing much better color control and support for ICC v4 color profiles. :)
dx.com as well e.g. http://www.dx.com/p/xiaomi-4-quad-core-android-4-4-3-bar-pho...
He is pointing out that leaving out "is" in "GNU is not Unix" is pretty lousy way to make an acronym (if that could be called acronym at all), as "is" is as much word as "not" or "Unix" are and omitting it is arbitrary. It isn't a preposition or something.
The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynamic languages
Beijing residents told to stay inside as smog levels soar
Was Eich intolerant? Or were his views just unpopular? I haven't seen any evidence of intolerance from his side of things.
Awesome and all the best. Hint hint ICML is round the corner. I don't know much harmonic analysis btw, so wont be of much help, but very curious about what you have got. Will drop a line on email.
> cheap

This is the big problem that a lot of these discussions tend to ignore. Not only does our market tend to always pick the cheapest options, the real challenge is the developing world that is going to massively increase their power needs in the next few decades. This well have significant benefits for the world in general if we can pull it off. Unfortunately, given the economic realities of these areas that means coal unless we can provide a cheaper option. Unless some breakthrough happens with storage, that means nuclear.

> Idealists

It's easy to be an idealist when your lifestyle already benefits from massive amounts of cheap energy. As Hans Rosling[1] puts it,

When I lecture to environmentally concerned students, they tell me "No! Everybody
in the world cannot have cars and washing machines!" ... Then I ask my students,
"over the last two years, how many of you doesn't use a car," and some of them
proudly raise their hands and say, "I don't use a car". Then I put the really tough
question, "how many of you hand wash your jeans and your bedsheets, and no-one
raises their hand. Even the hardcore in the green movement use washing machines.
[...]
Until they have the same energy consumption per-person, they shouldn't give advice
to others on what to do and what not to do.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing...
I completely missed that. Now my OCD's thirst has been slaked. Thanks.
Is the source code package you receive complete?

If it is, then you must remember that sending a snail-mail request to get a snail-mailed set of disks in return, and being required to send the money required to cover the cost of making a copy of the disks along with your request is a 100% permitted way to fulfil the source code distribution requirement of the GPLv2.
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More important than the acronym is the effort itself. XINU is a really interesting project and probably the second OS I was introduced to outside of the POSIXy neighbourhood. It differs from a lot of other projects in that its goals (to my understanding) were very different to the usual approach toward providing POSIX compliance or a platform intended to support layering POSIX on top of a base architecture.

I picked up an old copy of the textbook and never read it. Maybe this is the kick I needed to pick up the newer edition and actually check it out in earnest!
WHY nobody say NO to fossil fuel?
It's easy: a DMCA takedown ought to require proof of infringement: the burden being on the license holder. As it is now, it's takedown first then the poster of the content must prove their rights. Many of my music producer friends have had their own content pulled on Soundcloud, despite them having both created the song and owned the label that released it!
I loved the quote by the founder of CU-SeeMe, good to see they are still around (chuckle):

http://www.wpine.com/
> Over the Thanksgiving holiday, there has been discussion online about POTENTIALLY plagiarized content on Udemy.

Integrity is just gushing.
Hi peedy

I can provision a dedicated server (baremetal) if you can't find what you need elsewhere. You don't have to pay. Email me at joeh whereDomain is unixy.net if you're interested.

Cheers
I don't know why you're downvoted, as this is a very real problem in many sectors with self-proclaimed "gurus".

Anyone who "gets it" will be measurably right often enough that nobody should have to take things on faith for very long.
IMHO it's a bit overkill to use docker for such simple thing.

It adds a complexity layer and hides nfs config parameters from the user. I.e. sync mode is assumed. These days though, I'm sure someone will find it useful not having to read "man exports"
In Italy there's a whole school type dedicated to it (along with other humanities-related subjects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liceo_classico
I'm not seeing this mentioned at the top level, so I'll say it. I'm impressed with the team and community of Go:

https://golang.org/

A few great points:

https://blog.golang.org/open-source

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/13073-...

It's the first language/open source project for me that I consider having "the" community, or at least one I care about being a large part of. I was mostly doing C++ before Go, and that didn't feel like something that had a single unified community around - there might've been many different ones.

But yeah, I've really been enjoying Go, its community and the project's future prospects.
Pleasure doesn't need to be sensual. To me, it inherently contradicts boredom. If it is boring, it is not pleasureful!
My impression is that Xiaomi is unapologetic about copying other products without licensing the associated patents &c., but is sticking to markets where they won’t be sued for it. Samsung, which did the same thing, has been embroiled in extremely expensive legal wrangling for years.

Moreover, most US phones are sold under the cheap-up-front-with-2-year contract model, something Xiaomi doesn’t do as far as I know. Getting phones sold through cell carriers takes a lot of wheeling and dealing. More generally, scaling out to new countries takes lots of work on regulatory compliance, advertising/sales, customer service, etc. which they might not be ready to tackle.
Yep. ESR has opinions, and reasonable people disagree with them sometimes.
I bought it as a Kickstarter package with some extras like the upcoming pocketCHIP. Also, I live in the EU.
If you want to build a REPL in the browser I'd highly recommend checking out replumb

https://github.com/ScalaConsultants/replumb
That the OP implies an ordering on priorities.
The first not what I want, it's the future I think this article is actually predicting (as opposed to IE round two), and I'm saying it won't be such a crying shame.

Also not "possible ever" is pretty hyperbolic, considering the lock-in when IE had a monopoly was far stronger than it would be if Chrome/Blink got a monopoly. At the worst we'd have a permissively licensed reference implementation, which is a lot better than trying to be compatible with a closed source blob like IE.
Aww man. I used to be the type of nerdy kid that would barge into my friends house and be like "I'm violating yo third amendment rights, what you gonna do punk" while proceeding to eat out the sustenance in his fridge and quarter myself on his couch. I never thought I'd see this amendment referenced outside my joke.

Anyway the 4th amendment really covers the whole searching and seizing thing pretty tightly. The federal government didn't care. Finding more ways in which the surveillance state is unconstitutional will just be a waste of breath.
Removing one and two letter words from acronyms is commonplace.
Yes, his work has directly influenced key projects at Apple (iPad, Swift), Chris Granger (Light Table, Ada), and his work has inspired countless other projects, initiatives, and people interested in UX.
This article is worse than useless without taking into account the cost of living. Yeah, people in San Francisco + NYC make a lot more than people in Cedar Rapids - but it also costs a lot more. Take that into account, and then tell me if there's a big difference

It would be much worse if people in NYC made the same income per capita as people in the midwest - even though it would be more "equal"
what did they actually use to achieve this?
According to Ars Technica shipping starts at $6 to the US:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/remember-that-9-comp...
I haven't thought of it this way before. Thanks for changing my perspective.
Birds that seemingly commit suicide
These claims are from a well-known anti-nuclear organization (Union Of Concerned Scientists).
Genuino is not UNIX
Can blockchain help the cards and payments industry?
um that's essentially the argument any software copier er "pirate" (i have a real problem with that term) uses.
to call the forced redistribution of someones software or content "theft" is also intellectually dishonest, as the original has not be altered, nor have any physical goods been taken. there may be a case made for debasement of value of the original item, with which counterfeits would also be included...

but yes, i think this particular issue strikes me as passionate personal illogical over-reaction due to being the victim, which is why victims don't often get to mete out punishments: they are biased.
i read the original thread yesterday, and while i sympathize with the victim/claimant, I find this letter from the CEO to sufficiently address concerns of deliberate malfeasance.

now, i have no problem with the suggestion that perhaps he could lay bare the financial details of those roughly 150 takedowns they deal with annually.
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Since you live in the US, and benefits for parents are almost non existent and letting people go if things don't work out is cheap, I wouldn't think anyone at Google would fail at attracting talent because of a pregnancy.

I don't think they'll even ask, and I would feel offended and would never answer such question regardless of my state.
Hacking Morality (1995)
Greater awareness of nefarious, unequal contracts is required. Often you agree to such terms in the small print. This applies to work contracts, car hire contracts, etc. Even if you pay for insurance monthly (in the UK) you're agreeing to a credit agreement most of the time.
If you inspire people to follow through and experiment with your ideas, go ahead.

Don't discount the difficulty, even after coming up with a brilliant idea, to communicate that idea effectively and in a way that influences people to see its potential.
a: http://addic7ed.com/

b: bitmetv.org

c: http://csbruce.com/software/utf-8.html

d: http://dub125.mail.live.com/

g: gmail.com

i: inoreader.com

k: keep.google.com

l: last.fm

n: news.ycombinator.com

p: passed.pw

r: reddit.com
I get the feeling that students would be heavily short changed via this program.

I realize that there are issues with the traditional university model. However, students need to learn about system architecture, theory, algorithm analysis, etc.

I get the feeling that this is nothing but a training program for a particular job. (Also, it may be a way to keep labor from leaving and/or over leveraging salary negotiation [fixed training program])
If this is the game I remember the pieces were attached to drink cups and fry containers, so staff wouldn't have to consciously think about handing out pieces at all.
You are right that only time will test, if Bret's ideas are long-lasting and it might be a bit premature to put him on a pedestal. But it can be said that he has already inspired a lot of people with his work, which to me is a sign that these ideas have been bubbling under on other people's minds too.
Poco a credit card supercomputer powered by raspberry pi
Check out Elm [1], it had hot-swapping and a time travelling debugger even before React.

[1] http://www.elm-lang.org
Thanks for this. That PG article was sobering for me. All the while reading it, I had Shawshank's "Get busy living or get busy dying" playing in my head. :-(
Ubuntu 16.04 ships without Python 2.7
There is no real reason for the state to enforce debt collection to this extreme. If you don't want to lose money, don't lend it or at the very least have a secured collateral. That should get us rid of this entire problem of debt collection and exploitation. Would also encourage people to live within their means.
The ideal learning model in my experience is apprentice/mentor working in a close relationship.

The student can learn by observation and have their many questions answered very quickly, or at least be guided in the right direction.

Lazy learning is applied where you only learn things when needed, rather than in advance when you don't have a use case yet.
Is there a document or video that gives an overview of the XINU architecture?
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She has a friend (Anna Morales) who's won a number of smaller prizes too[1]. Seems a fairly unlikely co-incidence.

There's the Canadian statistician who found a weakness in the algorithm producing "random" scratchie tickets[2].

[1] http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/How_lottery_l...

[2] http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/
Open Source and the expectation of free labor
Why would a "fraudulent instructor" not charge for the lessons he's 'stolen' from someone? Otherwise what's the point?

It doesn't make sense, which means it's probably not true.
I'm an entrepreneur, my current project is TimelyPick. I like my job, because it it challenging, and I do it with passion. My current challenge is to promote http://www.timelypick.com/play-solitaire - a new way to play online solitaire card games, and I find it fascinating because it's not just doing seo, it is also understand the world of solitaire players, what they like and what they don't. When I tried to understand their world, I thought why not share my findings with others, and then started to write about it, and writing is also challenging for me.
They have horrible brand recognition in the US. To most American consumers, they may as well be a no-name brand.

I think it is safe to say that you are an exception of sorts. You've surrounded yourself with products from a company most people don't even know exists.
"This is a very odd question for the article to ignore."

It didn't ignore that question. It said that blacks have much lower net worth than whites, so they have fewer resources to draw on to pay bills than whites.

"why can't some greedy person go collect these debts and get rich?"

Because the debtors have little money to collect. You can't squeeze water from a rock. However, the article does point out that many of the plaintiffs have purchased the debt and are now collecting it, which would seem to qualify as the "greedy person" looking for the "business opportunity" that you mention.

"I don't quite understand what this article is attempting to claim. Can someone clarify it for me?"

The thesis is stated right in the headline and sub-headline.
The same applies to Mazlow's hierarchy of needs and the addiction study involving mice that is referred to every time an article on addiction appears on HN (which seems to be a weekly thing almost).

I see these things as little more than memes at this point. I suppose the purpose they serve is to question commonly-held beliefs, which is not all bad. I just wish we'd question these things based on valid information.

(to be clear, it's not so much that the two examples I'm using are considered 100% bunk. It's rather that they're generally accepted to not be too well-supported, and definitely not well enough to cite them so much)