skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, I'm not sure the math is simple enough to say that definitively.

Its pretty well studied:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/americas-f...

> People from those states are disproportionately represented in the military, for example, and there's no way to add "deaths in overseas wars" to help balance the books.

Who weren't drafted, and voluntarily went.

> There's also a tendency to count infrastructure projects for states as being for those states. But good highways through the Midwest, for example, are also used for shipping goods coast-to-coast. The locals in Podunk, WY certainly wouldn't choose a superhighway as their first infrastructure project if they were handed 10 million dollars.

Goods can be delivered to New York and California far more efficiently by water than over the continental US. Flyover country influence continues to wane as citizens continue to migrate to major urban cores.
> Don't Load tabs until selected.

For me this seems to not work - yes it doesn't refresh until clicked, but it seems the tabs consume the exact same memory when "not loaded" (after restarting firefox with a bunch of tabs from the prior session).
I suspect I might know at least a partial answer, but how come?
No, those are mostly by users. And in the case where an article is falsely flagged to death, the new vouch system corrects that.
This is an arbitrary wishfulness. I'm not even sure why you're debating Wordpress vulnerabilities -- if your point is that PHP is a secure application development environment, then even if WP was riddled with 9.0 severity exploits, it shouldn't matter. It seems to me that by correlating your product's security with WP's, solely because they are both PHP apps, is conceding the ponit.
Great doesn't the describe the WAY it is supposed to work. I asked HOW like IN WHICH WAY.
Hi all -- Patrick from Superpowered.com. We're working on an update to our Android 10 ms Problem article with new data --- quick question: What's not clear about Android latency? What questions would you like answered that you haven't seen answered online?
Show your SaaS architecture: TimeSeries.Guru
They are energy collectors, I would assume you use some of that energy to heat the air in their balloons.

I'm more interested in how you optimally position the solar cells, would a sphere really be the best or would a pontoon dragging in the wind give a better chance for the solar panels to receive optimal light? You probably don't want that 20km tether to be twisted too many times either.
> I don't. A huge chunk of social traffic and the ad spend it feeds to YouTube/FB/etc only exists because (mostly) younger and (often) more creatively inclined users have been sold on the idea of making money from a "personal brand."

So if I'm understanding correctly, your claim is not that these channels don't trivially provide a fulltime job, but that they're somehow heavily marketed as doing so to kids? I suppose I can buy that.

On the other hand, kids are precisely the ones who don't need a full-time job. A kid with an extremely successful YouTube channel has an awesome hobby, not a full time job. This is further reflected by the fact that almost every single person who had money issues in the article is in their mid 20s at least (The 18 year old who quit IG modelling did so because it was fake, which is pretty much the opposite problem of "this is not lucrative enough"). I don't think it's too much to expect from people in their mid 20s to be realistic about how much money they can make adding another photographer to the Instagram hordes.

Hell I've been traveling for a while and have been posting random pictures, and I've had several people tell me that I'm one of their favorite feeds. I am decidedly not particularly good at photography, and somehow my random "hey look at my pics" is providing an amount of utility to some users that's roughly the same as the "professional" IGers they follow that have branding deals and stuff. Any market where supply can be increased at all by an untalented guy deciding he should post photos of his trip on a whim is not going to be one where suppliers can trivially demand large amounts of money, and for good reason.

> The reality is that you always make more money from being the farmer than from being the livestock. Perhaps the farms have an interest in not making that too obvious.

Perhaps, but this is one of the cases (as opposed to the usual analogy to owning capital vs productive labor) where the relationship is substantially less exploitative. The job of the farmer is substantially more unique and useful than any given "livestock" (though a lot of this is due to network effects, which always suck a bit).
The Siege of Miami: As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels
Your experience with fiberglass reminds me of http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnionInTheVarnish
Do you know how to go from a message to the message's "parent" (the message that the message is a reply to)?

I can't figure out how to do that in gmail.
You can find a lot of testimonials from people who have appeared on Shark Tank, and all the ones I've seen say "I was surprised by how real the show is". The only major change is that there's an hour-long pitch/discussion that gets edited down to 5 or 10 minutes of interesting TV. Nothing is scripted, the sharks don't know what's coming, the negotiation is real, etc.

I guess it's possible that these people were paid to lie about the show, but it seems like Shark Tank is one of the most realistic reality shows.
Jaco – Creating a tool that records user interactions
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims to Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking
It was in response to the parent question about what to do about alternative remedies.
I believe you are describing http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html and particularly http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AssetCapture.html
TL;DR: it's mostly rigged by some users with privileges.
For the first time in awhile I am stuck on an old version of Firefox 41.0.2

It is the last version with gDocument which was removed in 42+ and breaks several extensions that have not been updated.
Well, that's what happens when a powerful and controlling company gives lip service to open source.
I wouldn't call the "cost of abandoning global coherence" to be "high." Outside of data structures that depend on typeclass instances (like Set), it doesn't especially harm my ability to reason about my or others' code in my experience. And the data structures issue (what happens when I join two Sets with potentially different Order instances) can be solved with Scala's dependent type features I believe.
I recommend Angular CLI for new users: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli

It is based on ember CLI and helps a lot scaffolding new projects.
Use Modernizer. Then you can "gracefully degrade".

.no-flexbox { // fallbacks }

Or you could do the inverse and style with .flexbox { // enhancements } for browsers that support flexbox. Then you can "progressively enhance".

I hate both of the scare quoted terms.

E:

Or if your layout isn't too complex you can use standard fallbacks. Flex rules will be ignored by browsers that don't support them so using Modernizer is a bit overkill.
I found this mostly amusing. When did fame automatically equal income (nevermind riches)?

This is a business. Doing anything for free and expecting to magically get paid = bad business.

This article highlights the silliness of it all by quoting things like subscriber and follower numbers as if that means anything. So what if you have 1M subscribers? The internet has democratized and made content distribution much easier, faster and cheaper. It hasn't somehow changed the economics behind selling content itself.

This is basic pricing research - do your consumers care enough to actually pay for what you have? If so, then how are you going to capture and convert that? Ads? Subscriptions? Donations? Figure it out and put the plan in place. There will always be some people to whom it's not worth it - just because they're vocal about it doesn't mean you need to go into depression. And you don't need to be homeless to continue your "art" either. Neither option is healthy and it's what sets apart those who can actually succeed at this.

Perhaps the funniest line in this whole article is this:

> Aspiring vloggers may want to think about getting business degrees, because that’s what being famous online is: It’s protecting your assets, budgeting, figuring out production costs, and rationing out money to employees—whether that’s yourself or a camera crew.

Yea right... except that a business degree would at least teach the basics of having an actual business model.
Co-founder of Faqt, mentioned in the blog post. The lack of good options is what drove us to create our own solution, with our primary/religious focus being on simplicity. At the risk of self-promotion, we have been quietly beta testing with several organizations a collaborative/team version. If you'd like to try it, there's a free signup at https://app.faqt.co/team/signup

Let me know if anyone has any question: hello@faqt.co
I ask them to Google what a "ring species" is. If they have a technical education, they usually don't bother me again. :-)

(There is an idea of the "species" concept as a fixed constant in creationist theory.)
> I feel that this strengthens my point rather than weaken it.

To the extent your point is "people don't like to be monitored", sure.

Your point seemed to be, at least in part, "avoiding ID-based memberships is an effective means of avoiding monitoring", and to the extent that is the point, the fact that stores are (subtly or not) employing techniques like facial recognition weakens that point.
Can't you just fork the project and work on your own from there?
Permission to Fail
This is the first response to my comment that I've found compelling. My only disagreement would be the idea that if the tradeoff is really that bad, you could quit and your fame would dissipate pretty rapidly relative to other media. Also the idea that being famous is an unalloyed negative; there are many, many people for whom fame itself is a desired outcome. I can't imagine this population isn't overrepresented among performers (esp YT).
ICANN security advisor predicts “hundreds” of new gTLDs will “go dark”
Asking for upvotes does not work on HN, and using shennanigans like mass voting from /newest doesn't work either. (the points register but they will not be used for ranking)

Product Hunt, in fairness, has the same do-not-ask-for-upvotes clause in their FAQ, but given the amount of people blatantly asking for upvotes on Twitter (https://twitter.com/search?q=product%20hunt%20upvote&s=typd) I am doubtful that policy is actually enforced. It's free publicity, after all.
A quasi-polynomial time algorithm is one which has a worst case running time of 2^[O((log n)^c)], for some fixed constant 'c'. Polynomial time (PTIME) algorithms are a special case (where c=1).

"Greater metropolitan area" is a way of saying that Babai's proposed algorithm while not exactly in PTIME, is still very close. Indeed, in a certain sense it is now "closer" to PTIME than EXPTIME.
Software works like this too, the author is confounding different aspects.

To see how software is like milk, you have to compare writing custom software for each and every client vs. writing one product and deploying this same program to all clients.

The analogy of mass production for software is when the same operating system runs on millions of machines.

However, the author of the article suggest that the equivalent of mass production is when a piece of software takes on a lot of responsibility, and gets bloated with features. But that's a totally different issue. When you compare ten cartons of 1 pint milk vs one carton of 10 pints, then you are dealing with indistinguishable ten cartons.

If you want a real world metaphor that's like software complexity, you could rather use recipes. Elaborate, complex recipes don't scale; just like software. There it's not trivial to put the non-indistinguishable ingredients together. With milk, it's just pour all the milk in one big container. There is no additional thinking required.

TL;DR author compares apples and oranges.
Some would say that's a really good strategy. Keeps you on your toes...

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
An Organization’s Agile Health Indicators
Uh did Angular not get the memo that people hate the new syntax and typescript?

This is how you turn the most popular javascript MVC framework to nothing.
I'm not sure why the intelligent would be immune from finding that particular thing a super-stimulus.
I believe github windows client is going that route https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows.

I also remember some blog post going into sync/async details of git.exe vs libgit2 stuff. Will try to google it.
And then you'll have to edit CONFIG.SYS (sorry, I couldn't resist)
As pointed out in the blog post shaving off bytes is one of the priorities before 1.0 release. We've got many tricks to play here, so expect those numbers to be much lower in the final release.
Would a map of college density line up to those maps pretty well?
Yep. I'm aware of it, and glad it exists. In fact, I did some work with a few different folks on projects out of 1776.

Of course, you end up having to pay the inflated cost of living driven by the Government/Contractor drones.
Returning True Color to B&W Photos
Ah, okay, that seems like an important distinction.
Although your other comments are fine and often excellent, all of this religious flamewar stuff is off topic here. Yes, this is a loose use of 'flamewar' but justified by how inflammatory the material is. Please don't bring it into HN threads.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10731716 and marked it off-topic.
http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

I'd suggest just using modern CSS.
Telepresence toys
The universal checklist for calendar change: http://qntm.org/calendar
Tell them they are exactly right, only exception possible would be if there is some massive energy source pouring energy into the system. This is best done outside on bright sunny days.
Explanation:
new gTLDs = new generic top-level domains = new domain extensions

The article means the new gTLDs introduced in the last couple of years
Dear god you were serious?

> Some links:
http://www.voicesofliberty.com/article/a-beginners-guide-to-....
http://www.peakprosperity.com/forum/keynesian-vs-austrian-ec....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-22/illustrated-guide-k....

A few of the Austrian strawmen:

> http://theaustrianinsider.com/infographic-keynesian-vs-austr...

In this infographic, on the 'Austrian' side you have a chart that looks remarkably similar to the IS-LM model (Investment and Savings - Liquidity preference and Money Supply) which is a mathematical representation of Keynes' macroeconomic theory...

It also mentions that interest rates are key - well they aren't exactly ignored in the IS-LM model (it's perpetually on the Y-axis), nor in present day 'Keynesian' economics (pretty much every move the fed makes is described in terms of the target interest rate).

As for the cause of recessions, Austrians blame inflation, or asset-price 'bubbles'. Again, not exactly ground breaking. Why do you think central banks generally raise interest rates during times of high inflation? Today however, we barely even have inflation. And then another link is pedantic about the definition of 'inflation'.

The 'cure' for recessions is apparently to let them happen. This isn't a bad thought, however there IS a human cost. The region I live in Canada right now is going through a recession, what are the symptoms? Increased crime, increased domestic violence, increased suicide, higher poverty. And this is a country with a social net. It wouldn't get any better with 'laissez-faire' policies...

Anyhow, while so called 'Keynesians' are busy actually trying to be economists (both in industry and government), 'Austrian' economists are basically just whining about how they're marginalized, without offering up anything more than empty rhetoric and no answers.

And then the best straw-man of all: "Why did no one predict the housing crisis and subsequent recession?"

For the same reason "no one" predicts the crashes of individual stocks. Because people get caught up in the frenzy, ignore the voice of reason, and the smart money has already exited... If no one predicted the housing crisis, why did Goldman Sachs bet against it?

BTW, Keynes was a fairly successful investor, far more so than Hayek...

Speaking of investing, one of my favourite quotes: "Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs just get slaughtered!"
Phantom vibration syndrome
mass uprising
I typically debug with chrome, but the if I want to hunt down an event attached to an element I pull out fire fox dev.

It really seems great for developing I personally just have too much inertia to switch.

What are your specific problems with it?
Tramchester UK's mobile deployment process Q&A
But in a Postgres + PostGis it is more than 300GB, and you can add a tile cache or it will be too slow.
very helpful, thanks.
It is beta still - this bundles the test utils and a bunch of other stuff that will be split off closer to RC/main release time.
Educate them and turn people into scientists, engineers, doctors, medical researchers, lawyers, computer programmers, etc?

China's population growth is slowing. Doesn't sound like they'll have the extra people. Better to educate them and move upmarket.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2010/09/china-pop...
Most large subreddits run AutoModerator to pre-filter submissions.

In terms of submissions getting to the front page and disappearing, that's a different issue entirely than insider privilege (namely, highly selective rule enforcement). The subreddit /r/undelete captures these incidents.
Indeed, and if they want to make these claims why aren't they applying the same logic to Coq, Agda and Idris? These languages are often lauded (correctly) for giving up Turing completeness in exchange for improved static safety. But they all can implement rule 110.
I believe this is called "marriage"
Right, that point is a good one. The costs of fame are possibly out weighing its benefits for these people.

The thing is, they have a hobby that brings in a fair amount of money and the cost is fame. Given that they could stop at any moment and their fame would dissipate pretty rapidly, is it "sad" that these channels provide the opportunity to make this trade off? All these channels are providing is shifting the opportunity boundary so more people who are extremely passionate about their creations (and think it's worth the time and the fame) can indulge in it. Earlier, only those who had the luxury of chasing after major labels or distributors had this chance.
Your Face Is Covered in Mites, and They're Full of Secrets
I just reran it. I don't have access to the 12x Xeon now, but:

8x i7-3770K: 1123 cpu-seconds (wall-clock: 144 seconds)

4x Cortex A17: 3196 cpu-seconds (wall-clock: 963 seconds)

I just wish it had more cores, but I suspect that Rockchip are raking in money from these things, and I expect we'll get more cores next year.

The 12x Xeon was my work machine. I might have to have a word with them about it.
Beat me to it, this article completely disregards the lost wages for employees. Perhaps China will become the first country to begin wage replacement. As technology, robotics and automation grows, more will find themselves with out jobs and perhaps unable to start anew.
The rigging that goes on in Reddit isn't done by the Reddit staff and their friends is the major difference.

Reddit is reasonably resistant to that sort of thing by its userbase as well. Reddit is not resistant to marketers with budgets who can produce quality content masquerading as users. And tbh, such content creation/curation by such people is beneficial to the community precisely because it contains a certain level of quality.

The only place I've found that not to be true is in smaller subreddits where a single digit number of votes is enough to push content up.

Hacker News does function similar to PH tho but [unlike PH] its both open and obvious. [i.e. Everyone knows who the list of YC companies are]
We're playing with all manner of tooling here. Our CLI (broccoli based), Webpack, SystemJS / JSPM, Rollup, etc - we'll also be focusing on HTTP/2 as we move forward.
Dude, get off that high horse...
PH's algorithm tries to discount upvotes that seem to be stuffed... eg by counting votes that come from front page more highly. community managers sometimes scold people on twitter for begging upvotes.
I'm not familiar with the Git project's inner workings, but their website git-scm.com tells me they are hosted on GitHub, which has a public issue tracker: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues

GitHub, however, only allows issues to be reported via private mail. I'm not aware of a 'public' issue tracker for GitHub anywhere (even if a mailing list).
It also doesn't need much air conditioning. And when it does, it's because the sun is out.
Fair enough but https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*reUE0OYzV119seobZY... really feels like the only real takeaway I have from that post.
Because you are predicting precisely how much better can be accounted for by the placebo effect, no more, no less (of course within error bounds).

The get-better-anyway effect is too vague. Say theory A predicts value x is in the range [3.1,3.3] and you observe x=3.36 +/-.1. Also, there is a theory B that predicts x>0. Theory A has been much more severely tested so is supported by the evidence. Theory B, meh.
There are simple rules, like "Don't show the same bookmark again within X months", where X becomes progressively longer the more times the bookmark has been shown. I can also flag the best stuff so it shows up more often.

I did my best to group the text of the urls, using first kmeans in php (which is a very stupid idea) and finally settling on LDA. I'd like to use hierarchical LDA to automatically discover topics within my bookmarks, but that's "Future Work" for now.
Given that these are used for peering between different independent networks -- pretty much the definition of the "public internet" -- there shouldn't really be much expectation of privacy. At least not if you're smart about it.

(Network taps aside, at that level traffic can often get redirected through hostile networks via BGP spoofing.)

Hopefully any important information going through them is already encrypted.
Double clutching makes downshifting at high revs much smoother, and reduces wear&tear on the clutch & transmission. (I have a pretty grabby clutch, yes, it's aftermarket.)
You would like this:

"How 'oldschool' graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfh0ytz8S0k
> The reality is that you always make more money from being the farmer than from being the livestock.

Well, yeah, livestock can't own property, and is chattel. A more relevant analogy would be "label" and "artist".
Shaving? Not enough. They need a serious regiment of diet and exercise.