skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because value is a combination of human labor AND the means of production and the means of production aren't owned by working people. I can start making cheeseburgers but McDonald's owns the efficient equipment, the marketing, the good locations to sell them, etc. such that I can't possibly make profit outside their system. So I'm forced to essentially rent space in their kitchen in order to be compensated.
>As a white person from a white family in the middle of the US, no one that I care about values me based on my salary.

I cannot say the same.
Here's an example from my trip to Paris. We speak to the concierge at the hotel explaining we need a lift to the airport at 8am the next morning. They call us a taxi service which is actually more like a long van. The van stopped at various hotels along the way. Old technology..
I don't think it will. Even though most providers offer IPv6 addresses in /64 blocks, the services you might want to scrape will consider any request coming from the same /64 IPv6 block as coming from the same user.
It's about an hour and 45 minutes to Grand Central, not an hour. I live near there and have taken both the Metro North and the Amtrak (from Rhinecliff) many times.

At least the trains have internet (or at least Amtrak does). If you can spin "they have wifi so they'll be part of my work day" into your job and work a virtually eight hour day including the commute as part of your time, that could be doable. If you have to commute on top of a normal eight hours, that's a non-starter.
I wonder what the lifetime earnings of a new software developer/engineer would be, compared to other careers, especially for those that turn out to be non-rock stars in the medium to long term, which would be most. I suspect that the great earnings initially would plateau and be overtaken by careers where time in the game and cumulative experience are primary drivers of experience.
Between the two I'd pick Slack, hands-down. Lync is awful, and I have to use it—so I use the Adium with the OCS plugin instead. It doesn't do audio calls or video, but it is stable and fast. (For video, hangouts are much better anyway.)

Slack? I use it, but I don't see the attraction. It's just another chat client with a couple of cute features. I'm really not clear on why the world seems so enamored with something that's really not much of an improvement on something we had in 1995.
Adium has a plugin available (OCS) that lets you connect. No video or audio, but if you just need IM to work, this'll do the job.
Finally, things predicted in the 60's are coming true. Now I'm waiting for my flying car. Seriously though, this is awesome.
Is anyone, besides open source projects, investing significantly in desktop consumer software?
Sorry, I thought the smiley face would've been enough to give away the sarcasm. For some reason the /s felt like it removed the infinitesimal amount of comedy from my post.
The Glaring Evidence That Free Speech Is Threatened on Campus
What I was trying to imply (and obviously failed) is the traditional (interview based) hiring process would remain an option for those candidates.
The story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan
Why is the internet flat?
I can relate to author's opinion on block chain VC hype, but not so sure about comparing Bitcoin to the Internet, at least yet...
Angular 2 in Java and Python: the first multi-language full stack platform?
> Crucially, a user of GPL software is allowed to do whatever they want.

Except develop the software however they want.
Not really. The fictional world is used only to contrast it with how badly it mirrors the reality. It's invoked merely for the author to have a chance to say "mea culpa" (and maybe to help illustrate that these wrong ideas are seductive).
You hire the best? How come your offer package for a full stack developer is 100,000-115,000?
Well duh; most of what Silicon Valley builds are not productivity tools. If anything they build anti-productivity tools like social media and entertainment.
Why huge gains in drug discovery tech have led to longer drug development times
This is actually something that I spent a lot of time trying to get right. Currently when a user selects their tickets and clicks 'Checkout', all other sessions they have open will be cancelled and their reserved tickets released.

This still doesn't stop people from completing the checkout process and then starting again though. It's a tricky thing to prevent as most preventative measures are easily circumvented by users.
What cloud provider currently supports IPv6?
All looking pretty good for cloud accounting products like Xero.com - the desktop is dead!
Trolls made 2015 one of the biggest years ever for patent lawsuits
I read the paper, thanks. It is mostly concerned with events from 1916 on. The Wrights had earlier demanded and gotten 20% royalties, and had a history of liberally and repeatedly suing other aircraft manufacturers. It is also pretty clear, despite the paper's claims, that the leaders in manufacturing and innovation were in Europe.

Note also that current patent litigation hasn't exactly retarded the computer industry, but it has imposed huge costs on it, and it's hard to see any evidence that such patents have promoted the arts and sciences in any way.
What's cheap?

My cousin bought his first foreclosure for 33k during the south Florida housing bust. He has two more now, all from waiting tables and being extremely thirfty.

A 140k two family amortized over 30 years at 3.5% can be free to live in for the owner occupying one unit. That can be done in Connecticut for example.

This is how some of my non colege educated millenial friends are getting by quite well.
You can't limit the liability on penalties for breaking laws.

Some laws are clear and unambiguous, for example no one uses a corporation to shield themselves from a murder investigation.

Others laws can be fuzzier, like the laws that separate harassment and real intellectual property lawsuits.
Building a Full Featured Translation Service
A lot like today. Half-in, half-out at most.

Applications are the key driver. I could see this if IOT really takes off - autoconfiguration and unique addressing are the attributes that would make IPv6 the only compelling choice. That said, IOT still has a ton of challenges.
This is likely not in 2016, but then again we never know. Looks its really becoming a platform, with the whole Native Script thing, lets see where this goes.
I think you skipped the part where they could eventually force everything to be sandboxed. Maybe not ideal, but it is definitely the direction things are headed.

Also you are technically wrong. Part of the large uproar is that these apps prevent overlays and other features. So they do in fact keep some things out (even currently as implemented).
The full webcast is also available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muDPSyO7-A0 and the technical webcast (without commentary) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkPP2LM8DU
It's a great system in commonwealth countries. It discourages litigation from larger companies precisely because the judge has discretion to award costs. In some cases the judge can even award in favour of the plaintiff, and then award costs against them as well. Yes - you should want this.
Step 8 is inaccurate. JC is not the author of Wiring, he's a faculty member of IDII [0]. Banzi was saying that IDII should not try and get credit for Arduino as they did not help them with the funding (beyond ordering 50 boards).
[0]: https://interactionivrea.org/
Cool idea! Does it try to connect based on interests or other filters?
The CEO of Coinbase is a fraud who sells Coinbase coins and not Bitcoin. Coinbase coins only are allowed to go to certain addresses as ordained by Coinbase.
> I don't understand what you mean. Why is drawing attention is bad in this case?

The vast majority of ROMs are not licensed from the original authors, and are used in violation of copyright. Many people use emulators to run games they don't own; that holds even more true for arcade cabinet ROMs than for home game consoles. And most emulator authors have a passion for the games and systems, and don't actually want to see harm done to those companies; they often build emulators out of the desire to see games and systems preserved and made available to a new generation.

On top of that, many arcade machines already had commercial cloning going on; unlicensed or modded arcade machines with clones of the hardware and copies of the hardware were common.

So, developers didn't want to do anything that would come across as encouraging commercial use of unlicensed game ROMs.
The Early Adopter
FWIW, one of the authors, P.W. Singer is a leading expert on future military technology and its applications.
Just do yourself a favor and include one more week.

It doesn't matter what kind of project, always include one more week.

Don't be upset if you can't stick to your plan, allow yourself an extra week.

It's not your fault, that's basically software engineerings nature.

You should get out daily, for at least 1 hour.
Simply because that one hour is for recharging your brain, which again leads to better performance.

Also what I try to do, when I'm doing a hackathon, is that I'm looking for templates from themeforest or wrapbootstrap.

There are also a lot of good templates for your framework, where auth/register/signup/signin/roles etc. is already done for you.

I don't like reinventing the wheel, I'd rather focus on the business logic.
You touched on something I've always wondered about: what's up with all those different transaction data formats? What's wrong with simple CSv files?
>iOS makes by far the most revenue per user for developers

I dispute this claim heavily, especially as free versions of games tend to dominate, whereas on other platforms $60 games being bought but tons of users is the norm.

Does the average ios user of a free app really spend $60 on Itchy and Scratchy money? Doubtful, whereas every user of $AAA_GAME here does.

Note, even making the "whales" argument where some users dump inordinate amount of cash on things isn't very convincing because there are similar situations going on with say valve games and hats.
No, that's not quite how Sesame Credits work in China.[1][2] The system computes a social score for each citizen. But it's not run by the Government or a bank. It's run by Tencent and Alibaba. It tracks what you say online, what you buy, and who your friends are. Having a low-scoring friend brings your score down. New feature: Baihe, China's largest dating service, now uses Sesame Credit scores in matching. It's voluntary now, but will become mandatory in 2020.

This is the successor to the Dang'an, a permanent record kept for each citizen of China since it went Communist. The record was typically maintained in a book by the employer, in conjunction with the Public Security Organization. The Dang'an system became less relevant as more non-state employers appeared. Now it's getting an upgrade.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
> > Crucially, a user of GPL software is allowed to do whatever they want.

> Except develop the software however they want.

I don't know where you got that idea from. You can develop the software however you like. That's a technical question. The only requirement is that people you distribute your software to must also get the source code.

The GPL's job is to protect user's freedom. The developers don't get any special treatment.
Agreed. I didn't get into electronics as heavy years ago because of cost and lack of solid information, and this site has changed that for me.
I'd like to know what people think developing something like Slack should cost, and why MS thought $8e9 was a potentially reasonable valuation.
/56 seems to be the most common, with a few people still advocating for /48s for all connections.
It's not a free software license, nor is it copyleft. So it's nothing like the GPL. It's just another proprietary license (like the first license Linux was placed under before Torvalds relicensed it under the GPLv2).
To me it looked like this:

- I've got a new modem from aaisp.net and didn't have to do anything.

- I've checked an "IPV6 (BETA!)" checkbox in my hosting provider's control panel.

- I've copied & pasted my new IP and added it to AAAA records for my domains.

And to my surprise, everything just worked. My mobile phone used IPv6 even before I knew. I didn't have to troubleshoot anything. The biggest snag I ran into is that `ping` has a separate `ping6` version.
Thanks for bringing Cluetrain up, and for the HST comparison.

When we wrote Cluetrain, I am sure we felt the same "sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world” as did HST in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (We certainly wrote Cluetrain with the same high degree of hyperbole.) And I know the tech counterculture of the late ‘90s is as gone today as the ‘60s were when HST wrote Fear and Loathing.

The main difference is what we were hyperbolic about: the Internet: a hacker invention that put everything and everybody in the world a functional distance apart of zero, or close enough, at costs that veered in the same direction. It was clear that this genie would not go back in the bottle of business-as-usual, but it was hard making sense of it. So we tried.

It's still hard. That's why last year David Weinberger and I wrote an addendum to Cluetrain called New Clues: http://newclues.cluetrain.com/ . It's no less hyperbolic than the original, but at least it's more current. (FWIW, I also visit the zero-distance thing here: https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2016/02/03/the-giant-zero-2/.)

Over the years lots of people have credited Cluetrain with influencing them, including countless marketers who totally misunderstood or ignored what we meant by “Markets are conversations,” “Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy” and "We are immune to advertising. Just forget it.” Thousands of books now mention the word “cluetrain” as well — a word that didn’t exist before 1999, and still gets tweeted at least daily. Does either fact do any good? I think so, but we might need to wait another couple generations to know.

To me the most troubling error in Cluetrain is not any of its 95 numbered clues but in the one that comes above all of them and rarely gets quoted, perhaps because it’s a .gif and not copy-able text. It says, “we are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. we are human beings and our reach exceeds your grasp. deal with it.”

It’s a great line, and I believe it will come true in the fullness of time and tech. But in fact our reach did not exceed corporate grasp then, and still doesn’t today. In the 17 years that have passed since we wrote Cluetrain, much of the Internet's commons has been enclosed in the walled gardens of Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google and the rest. Closed silos have also proved far more attractive to both hackers and users than many of us would like. (For more on that, see http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/giving-silos-their-due .)

But the geology of the Net hasn't changed. TCP/IP is still there. So is the absence of distance it creates in our midst, and the sense of possibility it opens up. Without that sense, none of us, nor our our many forms of conversation-based cooperation, would be here.

What really matters is that there is work to do. That’s it.
Except that is the problem in Bitcoin. None of the money, none of the participation, none of the market are in alternate blockchains. They are in the bitcoin blockchain. That is fine, like the article says, when you have BDFL steering the project and keeping the original vision absolute, but that is not the case with bitcoin. Development is hijacked by those in a small insular group who refuse to adopt extremely popular reforms despite the userbase dramatically demanding the change.

This has happened before. It happened with ffmpeg when it was forked into libav. Up until the fork happened the leadership of ffmpeg did not yield - only after the competition was real did they change their behavior and then they made the smart decision of obsoleting libav by merging back in all changes made.

I'm not sure how you think Bitcoin Classic is failing. They already have a majority of hashing power pledged, and last I saw they had around a quarter of nodes running Classic or XT a week or so ago. If Classic wins, it simply demonstrates that the current project leaders of bitcoin core are not acting in the interests of a supermajority of the community as a whole according to their desires, and free software never works like that. If everyone wants change, someone will provide that change - it has happened so many times in the past they are near innumerable to list. I do not see how, if 75% of bitcoin users want 2MB blocks, it will not happen.
That claim is in no way backed up by anything linked, everything talks about using windows store, and zero mention of third party stores.
We are, of course, paying for those services, just indirectly. We buy from the companies that advertise with them.

The 1% of GDP ($106 billion) in the study refers only to the chunk of the value that we are not paying for in this way.

You are confused because you are considering both numbers together.
Specifically, the hover text: "You can do this one out of every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback."
Most big productivity increases have been in the manufacturing and agriculture areas. Those have been so successful that they now employ only 9.5% of the US workforce. The areas with strong productivity increases shrink, while the ones with low or no productivity increase come to dominate employment.
>I was as nerdy a kid growing up as I am in adulthood, and I while I had virtually no problems with girls, I had a whole fuckload of problems with cliquish and bullying boys.

I'm going to jump in here and second this. I also had a fuckload of problems with cliquish and bullying boys, and none with girls. It would have been nice if girls had been more interested in me, but I finally figured out much later that much of that was because I never took any initiative and approached them or socialized with them; once I figured that out, and how to be more outgoing with them, things changed rapidly. Boys were always the source of real misery in middle/high school.

I've heard (in more recent years) of girls being vicious little back-stabbing bitches to each other, and there's movies that reinforce that stereotype, but as a boy that got picked on, I never saw that myself or had any problems with girls that weren't my own fault.
I believe our bank just stopped accepting stuff from the version of quicken that my father uses to do his financials. To this day he runs quicken on a 2005 (!) iMac G5, which is his daily driver.
SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast
Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Is Actually Happening (and Making Progress)
True Americans should defend their liberty from Government and yet not fall int trap of overlooking the fact that they are better off than most people in the world and certainly better than China or India.

Having said that if China's actions can be used to hold mirror to American government I am all for it.

Civil forfeiture laws in my opinion are a good example of pre-crime.
They're aiming for 6:35 ET, from the page:

We’re targeting today, Friday, March 4 at 6:35pm ET for launch of SES-9. The window extends to 8:06pm ET. The SpaceX webcast is scheduled to go live here (on http://www.spacex.com/webcast) and on YouTube about 10 minutes prior to launch. For rocket views, launch countdown audio and telemetry info, use this link for our technical webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkPP2LM8DU
>By all rights, Millennials—people born between 1981 and 1997—should be the highest-paid generation in American history. They are, after all, the most likely to hold a college degree and are working in a period of unsurpassed productivity.

"By rights"? This article goes off the rails right there in the first sentence. It's hard to know where to start with how wrong this is.

If the demand for your skill doesn't change and twice as many people have it, in aggregate the people with that skill are going to make less money. The idea that we're going to educate ourselves into prosperity as a society is daft - if we could all do brain surgery it would be a minimum wage job.

The over-schooling of the millennials is a massive misallocation of resources, fueled by debt, cynical college administrators, weak politicians, credulous bureaucrats, and parents doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. That's not the kind of thing that makes you wealthier. Quite the opposite.
You don't need the desktop clients as far as I'm aware.
Being that 'geek' kid taught myself everything through all those sleepless nights and fried boards, and the only outlier branded himself as 'programmer' my whole family social circle ever know of, I do not have plan on teaching my son any programming language. The last thing I want is taking away the fun he discovering his talent. If he shows a great interests in what i am doing everyday, I will just show him how to write in the programming language I am using for work.

as you probably guessed, i'm not a native-english speaker as well :)
Performance in terms of model accuracy. How accurate will be those models.
I'd like some way to write music like a piano roll or a pad system, or just some alternative to Western classical notation, which I find hard to translate to sounds in my head.
An eavesdropping technique allows scientists to instantly find and classify whales
Stephen Hawking's Lectures on Black Holes with Chalkboard Illustrations
Cool! I did something very similar to this a couple of years back: https://github.com/osandov/asmase. Instead of assembling to a file, I used the LLVM libraries to assemble in memory, then used ptrace to get a child process to point its instruction pointer at that machine code.
Honestly, is this a good thing?

I run quickbooks for a small business - if I wanted a Xero equivalent, I have to pay $70/mo?! That's crazy!
Your belief that people who don't share your opinion are "willfully-blind" is grossly dehumanizing. You are not the keeper of the one correct mindset.
It's also true that we entered into this period after simple ICs plus some wire and analog components (or Heathkit) let you do interesting things when you started to need a lot of expensive gear to do interesting hardware. That's still true in some cases. But gear like Arduinos and Raspberry Pis (and BLE devices etc.) once again let you do practical but interesting things at home.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who has studied game theory. The rational move in a prisoner's dilemma if you know (or control) when the game will end is to defect. This is also why term limits don't work.
Reviving the lost art of hand-writing HTML
WordPress plugin comes with a backdoor, steals admin's credentials
Do you believe the numbers about how the average workweek has gotten shorter over the past 100 years?

Table 2 and 3 in the article below contain info like what I'm talking about.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

I generally consider myself a pro-capitalist rational optimist, but we are a lot richer than we were 100 years ago, and my workweek is still 50+ hours a week. I wonder when we will get those 10 hour workweeks...
A New Breed of 'Kat
I wonder what the Gini coefficient of karma scores is. (In the sense of "legitimately curious" rather than "attempting to make a joke which will further concentrate karma in the hands of the 0.001%.")
I never thought of that, but that's a really cool point. Then again I'm a native English speaker so I never really had to think about it.