skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that's true, you can also say the same about the preinst/postinst in that .deb package hosted on someone's PPA. Also, while every .deb/.rpm must be installed using root privileges, many (not all) shell script installers don't require root and just perform a local install, making them less dangerous by nature.
It's going to be a huge bummer if Spotify goes out of business -- I pay for Spotify Premium, I absolutely love it, and their clients for Linux and Android are fantastic. I have a strong suspicion that Apple is not going to let me listen to music on the devices I own.
Why green though. Green is actually the color human eyes are most sensitive too. Blue is the color we see the worst, and usually given extra compression by image compression algorithms.
How a web developer geeks out his wedding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373841
and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level.

I can accept that it has flaws, but on the fundamental level? It seems pretty solid at that level. The creators thought through the problems and difficulties of government more deeply than most.
My friends, family and I have had a completely opposite reaction. We have all ditched Spotify for Apple music because it integrates with our apple tv, and other devices so well. Beats radio is also pretty good for music discovery, with Deadmau5 and Pharrell having their own DJ spots.
I agree with you on Gentoo. I loved the project from the rolling distribution standpoint and had run it for a while but long-term maintenance of it was a mess. I'd reserve a few hours for doing updates since every emerge would have me validating via diffs every configuration file (which it, unintelligently, wanted to return to the "sample" state).

Tumbleweed struck the right balance for me. Bleeding edge, rolling distribution with a mix of easy maintenance and configuration (and at the time all of Gentoo's emerge operations involved compiling from source, so you could add "faster maintenance" to the list).

I have a side-project I'm going to start this weekend that'll have me checking out Gentoo again, is it still this ugly or has that part improved?
On your sieve project

"Below is a screenshot of the time it takes to produce all the prime numbers from 0 to 100,000,000 (100 billion, in other words!)."

100,000,000 != 100 billion
One of the most annoying cliche arguments in American political discourse is that money is the universal 100% effective solution to all problems.

We just had a nuke plant melt down? That's going to just cost a lot of money! We want to provide universal top quality free on-demand healthcare for everyone? Just quadruple spending and change absolutely nothing else! We want to colonize mars in 10 years. That will just be a few trillion. No problem! Nine women working together to have a baby in 1 month? Just a few billion in government R&D bucks and we'll have it solved in a jiffy!
There's a couple answers here - as you mentioned, marketing is a huge cost, and they have to support a massive global ad sales organization as well to support the free tier.

IMO, what's really more problematic and complicated is their economic arrangement with the major labels, which, while ostensibly "70/30" is actually way more complicated than that. The article does a decent job of explaining it:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/19/8621581/sony-music-spotify...

TL;DR: to induce a major label to sign, Spotify had to give them a sweetheart deal, including minimum per stream payments, minimum % of ad revenue, and free ad space.

The really tricky things to consider are: usage-based and per subscriber minimums. Hard to determine exactly, but it's highly possible that Spotify is much worse off than the 30/70 spotify/label split.

Also, note that there's a good chance the contract is already re-negotiated since that was published, and given Apple Music, likely not in Spotify's favor.
We won't know for sure until they file for IPO and release their financials, but remember that Spotify doesn't own any music. Every stream they play they have to pay the artists/labels for, so their margins on subscriptions are probably slim to start with. LinkedIn also tells me they have over 2,200 employees, which to me is insane. Even if their salaries are merely market average, that is a huge chunk of change they are paying in labor costs. Add in office space, marketing spend, server/bandwidth fees, etc. and you get to where they are today.
This was a pretty amazing presentation on the above project if you're interested in stylometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMa04HovKfs
Not kidding! "Try it and see" is a legitimate problem-solving approach.
FAA Doubles Blanket Altitude for Many UAS Flights
Not just nowadays, it's literally had that meaning for hundreds of years: http://blog.dictionary.com/literally/
If we ever need any reminders:

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

http://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/

http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/10/koch-industries-plant...

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/6/yes_men_hoax_on_bbc_re...

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

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

and plenty more

The moral of the story is libertarian idealism (sans facism/authoritarianism) is simply the mirror opposite utopian extremism of communism... ever-refined balance is needed, which tends towards democratically-elected, semi-socialism: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." - James Madison
Dots are allowed in the package name, so there's nothing stopping someone from having a package named "com.sandra.stickman", if they are really inclined to do that.
It might not be well known, but this is one of the premier courses on Haskell in a university setting.
Any chance of getting GNAF and some other Australian datasets up there?

http://data.gov.au/dataset/geocoded-national-address-file-g-...

A CKAN->BigQuery connector would be interesting (think of an "Open in BigQuery" button)
The Animatrix is also a work of fiction.
I've always found it to be a pretty sane scheme. What problems do you have with it?
> This money is not simply sitting under a mattress. It's being reinvested, often in low risk treasury bonds, lowering the cost of borrowing for the government. A small fraction of it might be allocated to equity, and a smaller fraction of that might be allocated to startups, etc.

Reinvesting cash in low return investments is not what a company should be about (unless it's an insurance company). It's basic company finance that if you can't reinvest into the company to increase earnings at a greater rate than a bond, then you should get rid of the cash (pay dividends). I'm not talking about apple here, just pointing out that reinvesting into low risk treasuries isn't much different to putting it under a mattress.
On the hardware side, the product development cycle for a car is about 5 years, which design lockins in stages along the way (there's a mad rush for a "land grab" for engine compartment space by suppliers many years in advance to the actual launch of the car).

It wouldn't surprise me if the software had a similarly long development and lock-in cycle.
A technique I learned years ago once Outlook starting broadcasting availability is the notion of "defensive scheduling". Basically schedule work time the same as you treat any other meeting. If a meeting request comes in and it conflicts with your previously scheduled work time? Decline.

I've used it pretty successfully, but it requires a little bit of discipline to make sure you have scheduled yourself out a few weeks in advance and that you don't start accepting meetings during that time.

(note: some people will figure out what you're doing when you have 6 hour blocks of time every Thursday. Schedule lots of smaller 30minute and 1hour meetings and people trying to invade your calendar won't know the difference)
Unwinding Uber’s Most Efficient Service
From what I was able to find, brakes last between 240,000km - 2.5million km, depending on the material used in the pads. I would also guess that terrain and weight play a big factor.

source: http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/rolling-stock/a-life-cy...
No. You are comparing something that we know is possible, to something where we have no idea if/when it will be possible. So for all we know, it's infinitely easier to become a president. There have been 43 individuals in history who have become US president. There are 0 individuals in history who have built devastating AI.
This is well out of date (2009), electronically controlled brakes have already proven their worth, at least for our customers [1]. For example one of our customers, Rio Tinto in Western Australia, deployed ECP which allowed them to reduce headway [2]. Along with driverless trains, operations optimisation software and other innovations allows them run more trains and get more iron ore to port with the same infrastructure.

[1] I am CTO of a railroad operations software startup http://biarrirail.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headway
I think the other part here, is that IFTTT is making it sound blackmail-y...

IFTTT to users: Weeeeelllll, we had great integration with X service, but they refuse to play ball with us any more. And now, their connector broke, and they refuse to fix it!

It makes you look bad to the users. And if you refuse this faustian 'deal', you're slandered and stuff breaks. And that break isn't because software rot, but because they broke it. And then blame you for it.

Yeah, blackmail is the right word.
Ahoy, moderators! Could we add a subtitle so that there's some context for the headline? He Always Had a Dark Side: How a multi-millionaire international arms dealer wrote the code for TrueCrypt
Japan considers giving away money to boost consumption – RT Business
The destruction of the town I grew up in during that war was only really surpassed in German history during WWII. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Magdeburg

The interesting 1632 series of books is set just after the sack.

(Thanks for catching the typo.)
Sorry.co....
"C is a systems language from the ground up"

It was actually an extension of BCPL, which wasn't designed: just what parts of a good language compiled on 1960's hardware. Proof below.

http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG

"with decades of successful use"

It actually had decades of failures with all sorts of bugs and hacks that safer, system languages dodged by design. Only the best coders got successful and secure use out of it. We praise OpenBSD quality for a reason: it's not easy.

"Rust is the new kid on the block with everything to prove. "

This is true. I have a rule against using anything new for security-critical coding if its in the TCB. Takes time to discover all the issues in things.

"With only two holes in the default install in over a decade"

Propaganda I've called out plenty. On the other systems, people finding bugs often weaponize them, declare a vulnerbaility, and add that to the count. OpenBSD treats bugs as just bugs then fixes them while assuming their mitigations stopped any attack attempts. It's easy to say you only had 2 vulnerabilities when you're not counting vulnerabilities. ;)

"C has proven its worth with billions of lines of code, something Rust will likely never achieve as a niche language."

It does have proven worth. After billions of lines, you can be sure you'll be fixing all sorts of things and doing breach notifications if you rely on it. Unless you pay extra money for top coders. Rust already beat it on app-level safety w/ effects of low-level interactions and compiler risk being next to assess or address. Ada and SPARK beat both for systematic safety with many empirical results from case studies and field use. Safe versions of C like Cyclone and Popcorn outdid C, too, in security but nobody invested more in them. TAL and CoqASM are even doing safety/security at assembler level.

And so we have a language proven worthless for quality or security the mainstay of quality or security focused UNIXen even with decades of alternatives empirically shown to be better. Sounds like a cultural thing to me. Drawback too.

Only advantages: lots of people know it and lots of existing code/tooling. Valid reasons to choose it for existing BSD code but allows it was inferior on other angles. And that rewrites to safer languages for it or new projects should be ongoing.
>"You" constantly threaten, pressure and influence politics and sponsor lackeys in Venezuela.

Do you have any evidence for this, beyond the crazed rantings of the late dictator?

>The west has meddled in Nigeria since forever -- search for Shell (the oil company) and Nigeria. (Hint: on the mainstream media you'll find 1/10 of the stuff reported on independent ones without big oil corps as advertisers).

So we went from "the US bombs countrise to oblivion" to "The West meddles in countries' affairs". That's quite a step down. Here we were talking about something interesting, namely bombing, and now we're at nebulous "meddling". All countries "meddle" in the affairs of other countries. What do you think OPEC countries are doing throwing around cash in Washington?

>Russia? Are you kidding me? You had a full blown cold war, and tons of "proxy" peripheral wars with Russia for half a century.

Which had absolutely nothing to do with oil.

>Mexico? Heck, California, Texas, etc were part of Mexico. And you don't need to bomb it, since you've controlled the place, and had friendly lackeys in power for decades.

Sure, California and Texas were part of Mexico before oil existed as an industry. And again, do you have any actual evidence we had "friendly lackeys" in power in Mexico? As far as I can tell, the Mexican government has a lot more influence in the US than the other way around.
Don't make case-dependent URLs that humans have to type by hand.
> ... [out of] €1.08bn of revenues, €882.5m (£636m) was spent on royalties and distribution costs.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/11/spotify-fi...
It gets pretty crazy when you move into middle/upper management and your day gets consumed by meetings with teams waiting for you to make a decisive decision about some minor point of conflict.

It gets worse the more people end up under your hierarchy and delegation becomes a major priority. But then your life is consumed by synchronization meetings so you know what your delegates have been doing on your behalf and can answer for them/find connections and opportunities across delegates.
I think we can say that the "lost decade" has extended itself to a "lost 25 years"
Sadly, working on your calendar is non-capitalizable, so you are frowned upon for doing it on company time.
Yelpers deserve all the boogers and cum they have coming their way...
As long as this doesn't go the other way. If Microsoft garbage starts getting 'deeply integrated' into Ubuntu I am switching to some other distro.

I am looking at you Cyanogenmod/Cortana.
I had the same problem today - what a mess! Likely good business if you're a browser app vendor. I tried several browsers I'd never heard of - Puffin worked.
"Lying to border control" is a pretty good way to get kicked out of all sorts of countries.
It’s time to stop hating and start learning
I closed my account about 3 months after they changed the desktop app. Haven't tried since. May give it another to.
What words, exactly, is he putting into your mouth?
Not a great analogy, because during the Space Race, hundreds of technologies were invented. Google would be hard-pressed to patent any of the specific component technologies in AlphaGo, if they wished to.
That also shouldn't be true in the latest npm, which uses a global node_modules and a bit of trickery for different versions of the same library, instead of recursive node_modules.
In the limit it is hypocritical to select against someone who wants to select against people. This is where moonconf falls short - in the limit, they would kill in the name of empathy. Complete hypocrisy.
Brute force to a certain depth is still brute force.
> NNs have shown a lot of promise in the last few years.

Which is interesting in its own right, since ANNs have been the subject of research for more than half a century. If anything, all their ups and downs should make people more cautious about bold predictions.
Is there a plan to add other language implementations (or C implementation wrappers)?

I’d love to see a nice format of this type that can easily be written/read from Javascript in a browser [e.g. to get the data into a D3 visualization] and from Matlab, in addition to Python.

I looked into trying to implement an HDF5 codec in Javascript, but that looked like a large task for one person unfamiliar with the format.
> I don't think other system require "playing the game" in the same way as approval voting.

You must be joking? Almost no one ever votes their true preference in first-past-the-post. People usually vote for the lesser evil of the top two candidates, because any other strategy (like voting for who you'd actually like to win the election) just wastes your vote.

In any case, check out eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting for other people's thoughts on the system. There's much more online about all aspects and pros and cons that we don't need to rehash.
english grammar strikes again
The Vacheron Constantin 57260, the Most Complicated Watch in the World (2015)
SurvivalVim – Get in and Out (BrainBloomer.com)
And in approval voting at least your strategy is very close to honesty.

Your strategic consideration only consists in choosing a cutoff.
Has IBM/Google/etc attempted to plug Watson or any of the other advanced knowledge AIs into the SAT/ACT yet? I would be curious to know if they could consistently score a "high" score on tests without having previously seen the material (obviously excluding the essay portion).
What was the outcome on overseas real estate from Japanese investors? Capital flight from China is impacting US real estate prices (particularly in the Bay), so I'm curious what we can learn about possible real estate scenarios over here should China implode.

My current thinking is that capital outflows will increase the worse the situation gets until China cracks down in a major way, or they are tapped dry.
The Conspiracy Behind Slysoft’s Resurrection
There's a difference between outing details of someone's life with salacious or hostile intent and telling a story.

The fact that this guy on one hand built an incredibly high quality application that had and has a major positive impact on the world is a story that needs to be told.

The fact that he's a damaged, amoral man who is allegedly a career criminal and drug dealer is a story that demands to be told. He represents the Id of mankind -- and personifies the paradox that perfect security and privacy benefits society at large, and that society also includes the bad guys.
BigQuery is cover by the Google Cloud deprecation policy: https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation

Google is required to give at least a 1 year warning on shutting down released Cloud products.
So what's the failure risk of the new model vs the old model? It seems like the old thing used straightforward physics and mechanics. Whereas the new thing is more complex both in implementation and types of things it relies on. I'm sure they might have insurance that negates this consideration but I still consider human life. ;)

Note: It might also be worth considering how many of the braking events are safety-critical.
It helps but not as much as you'd think. Lots of great/superior products have failed in the past. Waiting for your competition to fail is a great way to go out of business.
It's mildly amusing:

> SELECT sum(length(text)) FROM [bigquery-public-data:hacker_news.comments] where author="jrockway"

4830955

That's almost 5 MB of comments I've written.
If you care about audio fidelity, as opposed to the "vinyl-ness" of the sound, vinyl is worse:

http://www.mcelhearn.com/do-vinyl-records-sound-better-than-...

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_%28Vinyl%29

Obviously, if you want the most vinyl sound around, vinyl is the only way to get that. However, if you want maximum fidelity to the original audio source, vinyl has inherent limitations later formats do not.
It isn't gone, but you can at least recover from it now.

https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/application-management/post/Tx1...
Thanks. So the best strategy is even simpler!

So you do vote above the cutoff. But the optimal cutoff is really simple to find from the polls.
I think most people in their 60's will be long gone before they have a chance to buy cheap gigabit fiber with phone service (whether from Google or another provider).
Soft disagree. There's generally nothing wrong with case-sensitive URLs when they're rendered in a font that makes commonly confused characters easily distinguishable. The only problem I can see is when you have to speak such URLs.
Israel passes law to cap bankers' salaries
Mark Cuban did this when selling broadcast.com to Yahoo. It's a pretty amazing hedge: http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...
I don't understand where you're saying that employees aren't also going for a home run or bust outcome. That's exactly what they signed up for when they took that job instead of with a more established company.

"Bust" is the most likely outcome when you sign up to work for a startup, so unless their goals/wants have changed I don't see why they'd want to jump ship now.
Is there any noticeable impact on the residential rental market though? My assumption now is that demand will still far outstrip supply.
This is very cool, I'd love to know how someone remains motivated to keep going with a project like this; It's no small achievement.
It's just a matter of someone implementing the protocol. It's not a huge amount of work for an experienced js/matlab programmer.
I copy-paste something different from stackexchange. If that doesn't work in the first 10-20 tries I post a question describing my problem as abstractly as possible
Spanish Drone Will Drop Insects Over Ethiopia to Fight Disease
Any luck in getting it to work with sas... Maybe in a 10.12 future release?
My daily grind is SAS to csv to R, because not everyone else has seen the light.
> won't call the police because you're black.

[Citation needed]
What about something on the scale of Bhopal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster)?
> The only people who care about software licences are people who write software.

This is not true in any way - people who use and sell software, such as BMW, spend a lot of time, money, and lawyers on licensing issues.

Corporations care about anything that affects their bottom line, and a distinguished hacker who raises a small ruckus could ultimately build into disaster. It's simply responsible to have your front line know who to refer people to when they ask if you're in compliance with the law.
http://thatsthejoke.net/
I have a VERY deep problem with this that has nothing to do with the views of anybody involved.

The problem I have is that this is a mob turning its power on someone with FAR LESS power than the mob in question. It is one thing when the mob attacks someone of greater power as greater power can defend itself. It is something else when a mob expresses itself with positive support for the downtrodden--that's still okay. However, attacking someone unable to match with equal social defense is NOT okay. We have a word for that--it's called "bullying".

The people involved may feel righteous, but that doesn't change the fact that they are bullies. And, I am disappointed that a conference of geeks can't seem to identify social bullying when it occurs in front of them.

As always, people only seem to be able to empathize when they are on the receiving end of the pointy stick.
Whatever slack is created by tech workers no longer in the residential market will be picked up by Chinese buyers searching for safe asset havens.