skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's check out the federal budget!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fy2010_spending_by_categor...

19.63% for generational theft, which I pay into but will never see a penny of.

18.74% chiefly for killing brown people on the other side of the planet, generally people who were not a threat to the U.S.

16.13% for programs that are like basic income except that they create awful incentives, are vulnerable to fraud, and have high administrative overhead (mostly people trying to stop the fraud?).

12.79% for health care for the elderly. This program is actually pretty effective, if we ignore the bit where health care providers dramatically overcharge people who do not use it to make up for being underpaid by those people who do use it. It's also questionable whether it will exist in its current form 40 years from now.

It makes sense for me to look at the federal budget because I pay very little in state and local taxes. People who pay more state and local taxes generally end up spending it on paying CHP staff $400,000/year or ensuring that teacher pensions return 8% year over year when no investment on the market does that.

Given this state of affairs, it's not unreasonable to think that you could make some substantial savings when purchasing the services you would use through means other than an annual mugging.
How do you quantify whether someone is solving a problem the wrong way, just because that way will score better on the metrics?
I think you are spot on. I've been searching, and mostly coming up with PDF's (that do give the overall numbers) with very little break down for cities.

It's a pity that with all the hand waving over Open Gov initiatives that things like this are still buried, while I can easily find out all the different colors of street lamps implemented for the past 10 years for xyz neighborhoods…
Status Boards and Company Culture
ProTip for Patch employees:

I've heard this speech a couple of times personally and I've heard of it happening dozens of times from other developers, and I can't think of a single instance where this speech was delivered and the company existed as anything but a shell entity a year later.

Polish those resumes!
This looks fantastic.

One small thing I'd suggest is to show errors in the editor. I changed some things which worked great then I tried some other syntax I thought might work which didn't. The line with the editor went red (good) but there was no way of seeing the exact error (bad).

Another request: a mailing list for updates on the project. I'd love to be emailed when new stuff comes out as I'd like to keep an eye on the project but will probably forget...
Yes, but because everyone wants their local government to be independent from big bad state and federal governments there's almost no consistency in the format or publication requirements.
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Super Advanced Python‬‏ [video]
...I thought mplayer was media player classic...
My experience with embedded systems allows me to be fairly certain that this bugfest is due to an electronics engineer writing the software for the card. Way too often small R&D teams, especially working on new products, have EE people being assigned to part-time-embedded-programmer roles.

This is especially scary as some of these teams work on internet-facing pieces of hardware - home routers/gateways, etc. One cool weekend project to have is trying to get hold of an image of the firmware of your home router, run binwalk on it, try to extract the filesystem, and count the number of remote exploits you can spot in the CGI perl scripts (like they are, in 99% of the cases) found there. Yet another reason to run OpenWRT ;).
Concerns are just geography, they do nothing to encourage single responsibility or domain design.

[edit: rereading the parent, your reply was to where to put the code, and app/concerns is as good a place as any I guess, but I stand by the idea that concerns themselves are a bad idea.]
It is interesting, I am just puzzled that people think such zombies are conceivable.
Good way to get a random opinion, why did he blow it up? Now everybody will be expecting PM taxi driver :-).
IBM was big into quantitative code metrics in the '60s through '80s, but the practice ended up developing a bad reputation, since the metrics inevitably created perverse incentives to game the metrics themselves, and sometimes got in the way of doing the right thing if it didn't fit the rigid model's idea of the right thing.

This is basically a version of Campbell's law, from a 1976 paper by Donald T. Campbell: "The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

Lines of code per unit time (LOC) is probably the most notorious, but there have been dozens of attempted improvements. Function point metrics were a late-'70s approach (also out of IBM) that tried to fix some of LOC's shortcomings as productivity metric, but turned out to be highly correlated to LOC and also problematic. There are dozens of books from the past 50 years with titles like "Applied Software Measurement" and "Measuring the Software Process", but they've become associated with bureaucratic bigcorp software engineering.
Suggest an alternative.
Can you do this easily with three.js? Can this library work with three.js?
Glad to see him think that strong static typing is the way to go.
thanks for then input.. working to implement em.
I don't agree that tablets are terrible for e-reading. I love reading on my iPad, and hate my e-ink reader. The page refresh times are terrible in e-ink, they really slow me down and are disruptive.
I'd tear up the memo. Ignore, demolish or be persuaded by a conclusion by all means but don't define who may or may not contribute it on the basis of a fitness-to-participate filter.
We need technology convergence so that systems work collectively rather than in isolation. Once momentum favors the collective, ease-of-use will follow. I too am frustrated by the lack of PGP adoption.
Private companies are beholden to private interests. Government is beholden to the public at large. Sure, a private company could design the infrastructure behind the municipal water system, but are they going to design it and price it and service it in a way that serves everyone or are they going to design it so that they maximize profit even at the cost of, say, making it really hard for poor people to get running water? If Comcast ran the water system they'd make basic service very expensive for poor people, they'd constantly try to upcharge you (you'd pay the same price for hot and cold water taps as you would for the triple-play bundle of hot water, cold water, and carbonated water) and they'd return the profits back to the shareholders rather than investing them in improving their infrastructure.
I think hovering over the line number will give the error message. I just stumbled on that by accident.
We handle all the major web image formats, with a single API. That would be the major difference. We also offer more features like image resizing, WebP compression and SVG optimization. Again, with a single API.
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Agreed. Title should be "If it seems too good to be true (Jaw dropping improvement in bounce rate) then it probably is."
Judging from the mentioned 2011 paper [0], it makes everything smell like CO2 to the mosquito. So, it can't track anything at "long" distances. While DEET works by neurologically making things "smell different" [1].

[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7349/full/nature1...

[1] http://phys.org/news/2011-09-deet-insects.html
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I am writing this in part directly to gizmo but also to the rest of the HN readers. First of all, I didn't think it was necessary to call this 'crackpottery'. Coming entirely from a scientific perspective one could write this off as completely philosophical and almost non-sensical. I would like to say that I've definitely gained some new insights or nearly a moment of eureka from reading certain words of the article.

Of course, I can't describe exactly what is it that I've felt. But I can sort of provide the environment into which I've felt that feeling to try to find that common denominator which may exist in all of us.

I've been a big fan of Buddism, I can't say I'm a Buddist but I definitely try to take elements from Buddism that I concur with to better define my own experience with the world. Buddism has a notion which is identically described by the author - observation of the world without egos. Buddism suggests that being able to achieve this allows inner zen. I'm here not to advocate nor prove anything related to Buddism, I just want to use it for a setup leading to where I am at.

Through schooling an education, one thing we've learned is to be objective, and unbiased. This means innocent until proven guilty; do not accept any claims without facts; discounting scientific discoveries without proofs etc. That is, we come to be capable of being objective with things that do not 'directly' connect with our consciousness. Now, entering the consciousness, can we still be objective? Can we observe our own failures just like how we observe the failures of others without emotional attachment? Can we connect to what others say to comfort us when we experience a rejection, a breakup? Can we understand that the past cannot be adjusted and therefore NEVER experience the feeling of regret and ONLY gain experience of what could be done better next time if the same were to happen? In general, can we completely deattach ourselves from our emotions and just observe the entities, whether it be you, him, or I, it's all the same.

I can't speak for others, but for a brief moment while reading the article, I've felt a weird out-of-place sensation where I'm just a being, and I am not I. It's almost as if disconnecting my consciousness with my body, it's almost scary.

Just food for thoughts.
That doesn't work for me, not sure why...
This is awesome. A few years back I originally wrote an open source EyeFi server in Python (http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-fi-standal...). I could not actually hack into the card though and get root which is what I really wnated.

These memory cards are super fun and I've been meaning to pick another up to give it another go.
https://www.shadertoy.com is a nice community to share ideas about shaders...
Social Darwinism is a misreading of Darwinism to draw the conclusion you just stated, as applied to interactions within the human species.

For example, "murder" is nearly always defined within the context of human-human interactions, but "apex predator" is usually thought of on the species level, as in "humans are apex predators" not "David Hasselhoff is an apex predator." It's disingenuous for you to change contexts like that.

Darwin discussed the idea of kin selection, and how it applies to sterile honey bees. Why should a sterile bee support the group when it passes on (in modern terms) none of its own genes to its children?

Under your thesis, why don't those bees take the 'virtuous' route and attack the other bees, eat the honey, and otherwise destroy the colony? What's in it for them to not do that?

I am not so reductionist as to say that human actions can be mapped directly to kin selection, but I think it's an important factor. We also have cultural biases which have an influential effect. It's generally easier to have a civilization where you aren't worried all the time that people might murder you or your family, so energy that might otherwise go into protection and defense can be used for other things.

If you disregard the reasons for why a killing might not good for an organism, then you disregard a vital understanding of Darwinism.
> Really? Look around and tell me how that's been working out for you lately.

Well, it's far from perfect, but you've got clean water, highways, research grants, gay marriage in some states, a national healthcare plan that's a good start — all in all, it's pretty good. I don't see why regulation over private data aggregation would be any harder than healthcare. Sure, Google's lobbyists would work hard against it, and would probably succeed in watering down, and I don't have high hopes for breaking-up Google just yet, but it would do to raise awareness.

> In the US we have generations of fat & happy sheep, living off the short-term benefits of inflated currency and credit bubbles, blissfully and willfully ignorant of what goes on around them, so long as they don't miss an episode of American Idol.

All the more reason to try and educate people on how they're being exploited by corporations.
Such a wet blanket you are! :-) Ok so the actual research doesn't live up to the press release, I for one wasn't particularly surprised by that.

I was pleasantly surprised though that they managed to get cell/oxygen transfer in bodily fluids without hemoglobin. One of the challenges of heart/lung machines is the variability of the oxygen absorption leading to variable oxygen levels during a procedure that have post operative effects. So if its even possible to replace the current oxygenation in a heart/lung machine with an injector/cleaner of oxygen laced nano-particles it seems plausible it would improve outcomes.

We will ignore for the moment that a "bad guy" would love to mix up a Malatov cocktail with a shot of this stuff for a bit more punch.

If this stuff was shelf stable one could imagine and AED that would be even better than the current setup, both keeping oxygen levels within spec and shocking the heart when needed, of course we still need to work on robo-insertion of IV needles [1].

[1] https://www.stanford.edu/group/sailsbury_robotx/cgi-bin/sali...
yea, blurry illegible screen shots.
try to dive a little deeper into usability / conversion rate optimization. I am just writing my thesis about web usability evaluation. there are tons of easy applicapable methods out there, do get a "customers view" on your own project.

Think about which questions a skeptical client could have and try to answer them.

e.g. what if my something is washed-out? satisfaction guarantee?
I laughed out loud. Thanks. :)
In my opinion it won't help you, because it is just an illusion. If it would help you understand yourself, it would also help you build a robot that is similar to you.

But OK, that is just an opinion, I lack the energy to write more atm.
Because benchmarks are usually just useless. It is like what has better acceleration on free fall? Race car or truck?
There's only so many times you can get an error in your programs before you begin thinking that static typing might offer non-trivial benefits.
You should edit your post then, mplayer is completely different. It plays tons of formats, and is my personal favorite media player.
On a side note, what are the current stats for the Matasano crypto challenge? How many have finished all 6?
Is the video self-made?
The motivation of the law is to raise revenue for transportation, not close a legal loophole.
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Looks beautiful and easy to use.

This is what Linux needs!
Actually, only one was MIT AI lab. The other was an economics major at the University of Michigan. But, same result nevertheless.
I had a problem similar to the one you described, but it went away when I moved backwards to VLC 1.1.5. I think 1.1.10/1.1.11 was just a very buggy release, as mkv playback is also broken on that version.
I don't think yet another institution which selects life's winners based on who they were at age 16-17 is really the solution to the country's educational problems.
I have publicly blogged about my dislike of them as well. But they do at least demonstrate there's more to an app than MVC, and that those directories go in app.
http://tent.io works right now, it's not a concept. I find it to be pretty neat.
Nop. 2.0.5 here (2.0.8 is the latest) and f works just fine. I guess barrkel had enough time to whine on a forum but not enough to look in the program's preferences.
I'm saying the error was unforced because the effort the OpenSSL CSPRNG went through was duplicative.
http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/ offers courses with respected accreditation and (limited) study materials. the cost is tiny compared to tuition in the usa. no real STEM courses though.
Here on HN we've seen some sort of quasicrystal fabric distributing the prime integers and providing a possible entry onto gaining headway proving the Riemann Hypothesis:

HN search:

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/06/quasicrystals_an...

http://fadereu.posterous.com/knk103-the-crystals-of-mt-zeta

So OP ca98am79's suggestion of a common consciousness we -as I vaguely understand it - be as transceivers(?) of/with(?) merits some similar consideration, for those still cycling among these perennial questions.

Rowing to City Dock everyday, a recurring observation of complex wave crest interference's semi-chaotic patterns with discrete natural nos sub-wave-train symmetric `beats', share the same medium of all semi-uniform distributed diversely scaled and chaotically asynchronous impulse sources afloat upon all of Eagle Harbor and beyond.

Thank you ca98am79 to boldly post here.
You must be new to Linux. Knowing which distro and version it is built on immediately tells you a great deal about what "user-centric features" are available in it, without having to list and explain them all.

And this is HN, man. For the average poster here, "technical" features and "user-centric features" are one and the same.
Gnunet isn't a new tool but a very old one. AFAIK it still provides the best P2P filesharing experience, which is good for mass adoption. And by participating in that users fuel the rest of the network, which exists and gives you the upsides of something like freenet at the same time.

You're right that the UI is dated. But the code is good, with a clean, well-documented library interface. It's probably the best starting point available to build a friendly-looking layer on top of.
nPool - A platform independent thread pool add-on for Node.js
I would say it is a bit silly to throw that argument around as a blanket statement, but there are plenty of cases where people have been sent to jail for not paying up (who probably wouldn't associate with what people refer to as "libertarian").
Personally I'm still on paper books, but I can't remember a time when I didn't have at least one book I was reading, and usually more than one waiting to be read. I regulate my book purchasing to stop the unread book stack getting out of hand. So in my case buying rate approximately equals reading rate.

I guess it depends on how long it takes you to read things, and how easily you can find things you want to read :)
I think in California you have to go public over certain number of employees. Facebook had problems with that.
Not only is WebGL not declarative, but how do you handle rendering text and having the browser know that it's text?

While HTML/CSS has serious compatibility and expressive issues, it's moving in the right direction very quickly. WebGL will be fantastic for gaming and visualizations, I think it is very much inferior for web pages & applications.
That's because as you descend, the partial pressure of oxygen increases. You require somewhere north of 0.10 Pa02 for consciousness; at sea level you have 0.21 Pa02. So you can consume enough oxygen at depth that when you rise you grey or black out; it's common enough that if you take a breath-hold diving course they will train you to 1 - know how it occurs; 2 - dive in pairs (always one up, one down); and 3 - make sure you are weighted so that your body is buoyant by 20 ft or so.
with private IP "https://10.68.19.70", fail
Yup, I feel the same way. With Instapaper and my Kindle I'm spending a lot more time reading articles.

If you're interested, I recently started curating my picks here: http://esd.io/worthreading/ Some I got from longform/longreads, others I "discovered" on my own.
I think it's a relative of/inspired by Freenet.
yup...even features some of our own Ninjas
David Chalmers is an expert, and you sir are not. Keep it classy.
So simple it didn't even have package signing until a year or two ago. No thanks.
we are big optimizely fans. New site should be release soon with much improvements. new web app and iOS coming soon.
Help me find tech people with a mental illness willing to talk about it
have a look at their github page, incl. working screenshots:
https://github.com/zynga/zperfmon
This is a Haskell insider-joke. As is the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest. You wouldn't judge the value of the C language for writing, let's say, a unix kernel based on the code from IOCCC, would you?

Don't take it so seriously.
Elementary bring xubuntu alternative that beautiful but stay fast. Kudos for elementary dev team!
No. Same issue. They had over the legally allowed number of shareholders
We use your eyefi server at our local hackerspace (hackerspace.pl). I haven't really touched the card myself (the setup was done by a fellow hacker), but I'll probably take a look at it some day, if there is at least some vague promise of RCE hidden somewhere.

Thank you for your great piece of software.
Good promo video. I clicked through after I saw the cookie. Nothing like eating a cookie while someone else does your laundry lol.
That was also based on the number of shareholders, not the number of employees. Facebook began issuing RSUs, which don't count towards the limit, to employees when they started approaching the 500 shareholder limit, but I believe trading on SecondMarket pushed them over 500.

Also I think Facebook was originally a partnership and then converted into a DE c-corp. I don't think they were ever a CA company.
I want to congratulate you for the formatting of your post. It's very easy to skim through.
thanks for the update :D
Can you provide some examples of the ideas you bumped into? I'm curious since I've never been in a multi-discipline env like the one you had @ Green.
I believe elementaryOS is based on Ubuntu 12.04, it just uses a different window manager and has a few custom applications.

So as far as I can tell, any hardware that's supported by Ubuntu, should be supported in eOS too
Really great. Struggled to get the last one on the same chapter. Might be useful to have a hint feature.

Loved the demos, especially the webcam ones.. I'm still surprised by what is possible with 'javascript' now.
It's not the nodes. It's the inevitable distance between client and server.

The post I was replying to wants casual browsing that's secure, anonymous, private and encrypted AND indistinguishable in speed from what he does without all these features. That's impossible, more requests are needed and every single connection adds noticeable lag past a certain minimum distance.
GreenPower for Android turns off your wifi when you're not using it. It's meant for battery life. Now it's also good for privacy.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gpo.greenp...
I took the comment as meaning "go public", somewhat confusingly, in a colloquial sense of "not be stealth" or "go public with their numbers" rather than "becoming a publicly owned, stock-market-traded company". The latter is indeed not the case in Canada; you can have a large privately owned company. But above a certain threshold you have to at last disclose annual revenue figures.
It's too old to edit.