skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so the FOSS community consists primarily of people in already privileged groups (white English speaking men), and they are best suited to be able to take advantage of it.

So, what's to be done? Is the solution to give up on FOSS? That's what this article seems to be arguing: "All it has done is shift the details and, indeed, done a much better job of disguising its exploitation of people. All while presenting itself as a ‘solution’." The article seems to argue that FOSS actually causes more oppression than it solves, and I have a hard time buying that.

One thing that it completely ignores is class distinctions. One of the things that FOSS allows is for anyone to produce a product without substantial investment of capital. Proprietary software is an owner's dream; invest a small amount upfront in developer's salary, and be able to reap unbounded rewards, as there is no unit cost for sales. FOSS allows anyone, without capital upfront, to create a competitive business, opening up opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist for people who are middle and lower class.

Now, those benefits can be most easily reaped by people who have social capital in the community. But it seems that rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater, it would be better to figure out why there are such barriers to entry to people who are underrepresented in the community. While there are some cases where there are clearly people pushing others away, I feel like there's a lot more of simply a lack of awareness of what it is that is keeping people from joining and contributing to the community, and being able to build up social capital that way.
The prices of most commodities have been relatively stable in USD over the last year, while the prices in bitcoins have almost universally changed greatly. Until that changes, it makes more sense to consider bitcoins volatile and USD not volatile, rather than the other way around.
AngelList: VCs in sheep’s clothing?
Appcelerator cannot use v8 because v8 has no non-jit mode. Ios apps cannot jit...
AFAIK they will never allow JIT. It isn't so much banning JIT as it is the kernel providing no way for applications to mark memory pages executable. Marking memory executable is how JIT compilers function, but it also prevents other uses.
It is all about markets, there is a huge market for selling an appliance which has 'Apps' which can entertain you, inform you, and help you remember stuff, there is a much much smaller market for selling a device you can program to do interesting things.

Most (and by that imprecise measure I mean > 50% but less than 75%) of the people who own an Apple "computer" have no interest in programming anything. Nearly all iPad owners are not interested in writing iOS programs, and easily 99% of iPhone owners could care less about writing code for them.

That's ok, but it means there continues to be opportunities to sell programmer's cool gear. The down side is that programmers can't always leverage the benefits on price that mass production brings for their tools.
> The only LEDs that are more efficient are either lying to you (they claim the light is more directed so it "counts" as more, and they uprate the bulb), or they have worse color accuracy so you are not comparing equivalent bulbs.

Let's exclude lying vendors.

Worse color accuracy is annoying for those who care, but as far as total energy output is concerned, it shouldn't matter. A watt is a watt no matter what frequency it is radiated at.

> The heat source is not larger - it's in a different location, it's in the bulb part

Sure. And the bulb of a typical CFL is hundreds of times larger than the die of an LED.

> That doesn't explain why an incandescent that makes 6 times as much heat can manage, but an LED can't.

As I mentioned in the great-great-grandparent comment, glass tubes (CFLs) and tungsten wires (incandescent lamps) are much less sensitive to heat than tiny pieces of delicate electronics are. 85'C is child's play to glass and tungsten but deathly to silicon.

> incandescents and CFLs make their heat in the form of infrared light that is sent into the room.

The "sent into the room" part is definitely correct. LEDs overheat more easily because the heat is generated and trapped in the base. But even if you dangled a bare LED in mid-air, I doubt you could make it as cool as a CFL because the heat source is concentrated in such a small area. I'd also be surprised if those LEDs didn't generate a lot of infrared ratiation.
Commenting on the last paragraph;

Bitcoins are limited and when they run out miners will start getting bitcoins from fees.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
OS X Hardening: Securing a Large Global Mac Fleet
Nice, will become battle with Foursquare.
cool tribute, but yeah... missing all the stuff that made winamp actually cool.
What Tim O'Reilly, Lady Gaga, and Marissa Mayer All Have In Common
It sounds really cool, but at $5k and two months time, it's way out of what I could manage.
Ah, for some reason I was thinking the site was for video and not images. Probably because that's what I think of when I see the term 'media'.
I think there is much more depth than your're giving it credit for - you can work on developing your own conventions, and there are many advanced play techniques - ever heard of a mandatory false card?
Isn't bitcoin easily manipulated? Let's say I have 1% of all bitcoins. I sell half of them, wait for the price to fall, and buy back to have 1.1% of all bitcoins.

Repeat each few weeks, and let's say there's 20 people that realized this and have enough bitcoins for this to be feasible.

End result = currency that's mostly owned by a few people. And when everybody realize this - bubble collapses.

At least that was my train of thought when I first learnt about bitcoin and now I hate myself for being too risk averse :)
Here are further details on how Red October works and why it was created:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/red-october-cloudflares-open-sour...
"I made an assertion and now it's my "job to support it"?! How is that for an assertion. "

You made a bare assertion about the law. If you are going to simply assert things as true, yes, you get to support them. As a lawyer, you should know you can't just walk into court and say "bob is not guilty" (or the reverse, depending on where you live). You actually have to support this thesis.

I pointed out your assertion was quite incorrect in several countries, and specifically asked you for some caselaw to the contrary, in the hopes of getting some that may be directly applicable. Rather than support your assertion, you just pointed out these were not US rulings, which was kind of besides the point.

" Stating that everybody is not entitled to get a free copy of copyrighted material is hardly an assertion in the first place "

????
There are a very large number of situations where a a lot of people are entitled to free copies and use of copyrighted material, in both the US, and Europe, so yes, it is quite an assertion. It's also the case that there are a lot of situations where such material would become uncopyrightable, again, in the US, and Europe.
So it's not "hardly an assertion in the first place".

The rest does not seem to be quite on point, which is the question of whether or not what Carl did is going to be found to be a violation, and not about who should bear the cost.

The only thing I see here that answers the question I asked directly is "As for court cases, I don't know of any on this subject."
I take it then you don't have any legal support for your assertion? Cases, laws, etc, that would say that what Carl is doing is illegal, rather than policy arguments?
I've been CouchSurfing quite a bit a few years ago, in particular when I was in Rio. Because of an unfortunate sequence of events I found myself having to hop from emergency couch to emergency couch for the first four weeks, usually staying at one place for a few days, and occasionally staying in a hostel to get some relative privacy.

Every host was nice, and even if we didn't 'click' it was still a great experience. And after four weeks of that I realized that I'd stayed in many corners of the city, knew a lot of the best places in those areas because my hosts would show me around, and felt like I'd lived there for much longer than just a month.

I can definitely recommend it as part of traveling, or even part of relocation. The occasional discomfort is offset by really getting to know a place quickly.
I want to try an experiment that goes like this:

1. Block all network traffic, inbound and outbound.

2. When I decide that I need a specific network resource, enable it in a whitelist (i.e. enable traffic to/from news.ycombinator.com on port 80)

I wonder what that Internet would look like.
Well, as I said, some self service checkouts do that as well. Coinstar probably doesnt like that though.
"He basically suggests that you have to specialize in an industry vertical to get beyond the early adopters and into the masses"
I think that pretty-much sums it up!
I'm not making excuses, I'm pointing blame at the right person. (The tagline describes my cofounder or a fictional person, probabilistically. Haven't updated it yet. )
Agree with your comment mostly except for the android remark. I found iOS and cocoa terribly hard. Xcode is unusable and honestly the terms used in programming g like first responder are arcane. Android was much more approachable for me and java is quite sane compared to obj c.
I got 2 coins off a guy in a coffeshop about 1 year ago for $20. I sold them today for about $1600. About 2 years ago I almost dropped $1000 on bitcoins but was talked out of it by family and friends. It feels weird. I can't connect bitcoins to social or economic value. The "china explosion" of btc price won't last imho. And while I like bitcoin, it's just a currency and not an investment, as in it doesn't generate value itself. I have a hard time connecting stocks to social or economic values too. I'd like to think we can invest in actual businesses where it's a better connected to reality. I don't know how to do that however. Not yet anyway.
As Customers Seek Privacy, AeroFS Emerges With Stealthy File Sharing Software
The syntax is sensible, the language allows real OO and FP abstractions, you have easy access to basic data structures like lists and hashmaps, and there's a huge ecosystem of third-party libraries to build on

Other than the last one, all of these are available in Matlab and R as well; and all three have a huge set of libraries -- the difference is about the focus of those libraries imo. Python does have more general-purpose libraries, just as R has more statistical packages.

I have certainly run a lot Matlab on a cluster, in fact, I'd say safely about 70% of code I see running on clusters around here is Matlab. I've also seen a few production systems in (mostly) R -- I actually suspect that at least on Windows, deploying an R system may be easier, since you just install R and then use internal functionality to get packages you need; python (with all necessary extensions) seems relatively tricky to get running.

All that being said, I do agree that if you are building a production system where most of the code is related to interfacing with other systems, or GUI's etc., and the data analysis is a small and non-interactive part (ie. no data exploration), Python is a very reasonable choice if you can keep the whole project in it.
I disagree. Microsoft is a company who makes most of their money selling software, and hardware and services play a small part. They do almost no advertising.

Google is a company who derives about 99% of its revenue directly from its advertising business, of which utilizing user data from free services is the crux of the data-based approach that drives their success.

It seems like false equivalence to me. Same reason why I trust Apple way more than Google with data. Because Apple makes all their money on the hardware, not on the future use of your data for advertising purposes.
I am interested to find out why they use MS products over something on linux combined with other open source options.
I have tried to explain how computers work to people who were determined not to understand it. Once I had ditched any mention of numbers or maths and described "the toilet paper game" where you get a marker pen and make marks on a roll of toilet paper, then I found they had no problems.

Personally I reckon that you can teach programming to anyone who can learn a card game.
The holy trail: using Trekker, Google's edge in the next mapping war
These little exercises that "were not possible 5 years ago" were released... about 5 years ago.
Sounds to me as if Mr Branson has a bunch of Bitcoin and would like to cash-in early next week.
That strikes me as unlikely. I might just be naive, but I can't imagine being sued for filtering candidates on their code portfolios.

This is a genuine and non-rhetorical question: how does it differ from academic qualifications? Both are unpaid work that a person undertakes [partly] in order to prove their value to potential employers, but nobody is getting sued for filtering candidates based on academic qualifications.
Really you think you are super smart and everyone else is "startup-fellating" retard? Solve a real problem for once in your life and then start to say crap.
I felt the project was useless and didn't solve anything. I am entitled to my opinion.
Apart from "Masturbating monkey" like you who get exciting at anything that comes at #1 on HN, for once use your mind and think if it really helped you or did you learn anything new?
didn't know about Jaccard index. great code examples
I find it strange that some people see computers-as-appliances as an existential threat. (I'm thinking of things like tablets, smart phones and consoles.) Yes, it is difficult to tinker with the insides of such things. But we gain stability and ease of use. Such devices do not magically make other kinds of computers cease to exist.

Computers that can be tinkered with still do exist, and it has never been easier to use them to program. Microsoft and Apple both provide free access to rich development environments. And it's easy to install many other kinds of programming environments onto such machines.

In fact, the combination of a web browser and JavaScript is perhaps the most ubiquitous programming environment, ever. And it is available on damned near everything.
Marissa Mayer hasn't saved Yahoo yet
Aren't most pre-rolls 3 seconds before you can watch the video?

And it's funny to me to watch people smugly use AdBlock. All you folks who use it understand that Google could detect that you AdBlocked, and then refuse to show the video, right? I mean, you get that, right?
I saw a woman as author
we used it to replace rabbitmq for our django->celery communication. rabbitmq had given us some configuration challenges, while redis just dropped in and worked out of the box.
Sounds like whatever "resistance" they may have, is all at the interface.
Almost all were but increasingly a lot make me wait 30 seconds or more.
1,000,000 coins is ~10x the top person in that rich list i.e. 840 million USD going by that page's prices
Works for me. You could try a different adblocker, but it should work. Did you try turning it off and on again? ;)

I don't even find the option anymore to not block the pre-rolls, which was an experimental option for some time. Seems to be on by default now (or even integrated into the filter lists?)
Correct.

And this is one of many reasons why it will become increasingly important to beef up the security and robustness of the Bitcoin network and ecosystem. It has some of the same failure modes as traditional bank/government-backed currency. But it also has a set of a different kind of failure modes that should also be minimized or mitigated.
Read the image alt text...
The best marketing takes a stand.
How is this better than Leaf.ly, Stickyguide or Weedmaps ?

http://www.leafly.com/

http://www.stickyguide.com/

http://www.weedmaps.com/
What I've learned about creating meaningful work
There's this great small village where everyone makes stuff and buys stuff from each other: good ecosystem, works well and popular stuff makes more money than less popular, as expected. Someone comes up with an idea to make money off the stuff by giving it away for free but putting some ads on it. People don't mind much: the stuff is free now and the people making popular stuff make good money from their share of the ads.

What happens next seems to be some kind of bizarre need to make more money. This is the part I don't really understand. So the people giving away the free stuff with the ads put more ads, which starts to put the people off watching it for free. The people getting the free stuff start to try and find ways of getting the free stuff without the new annoying ads, which makes the people making the ads want to make more ads and make it criminal to block the ads. People stop making stuff because they aren't making as much money as in the hey-day of free-stuff-and-not-too-many-ads and people stop watching stuff and maybe go outside and watch the sunset (still free) or play card games and charades (not yet patented) or make their own stuff and put it on FaceGramSnap (which has ads but not yet so annoying). The people who put ads on the free stuff scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong.
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Developing An Eye For Design
How easy would it be to port a quite complex app from AngularJS/Bootstrap to Ionic and would it make sense?
No, not everyone does. Physicists, for example, are sometimes known to maintain that math is only human models approximating underlying physical substrates, and that pure / theoretical math is an artificial construction whose validation depends on finding physical manifestation of the theory. That would put experimental physicists to the right (above?) the mathematicians.

But even if you did believe the mathematicians claim, by the same logic you would philosophy above them.
Holy cow, that map is beautiful.
Again, you speak of a con of Bitcoin, but I don't see how any other system solves what you complain about.

Please explain to me (or refer me to material explaining) how USD can possibly be stable when used by billions of people. Just because it's been stable from my point of view, doesn't mean it's stable for everyone. If your explanation relies on trusting a single person or organization, you see why I favor Bitcoin.

> The only reason Bitcoin users don't complain is because they're mostly hoarders/traders & the general trend is up.

The only reason fiat users don't complain is because from their perspective it looks like it's working.
A couple of month ago my browser update( or an incompatible addon ) glitched and I can't see youtube comments anywhere anymore. Its great actually. If I'll want quality content I'll read Hacker News( and equivalent ), otherwise I'm interested in the video itself and i don't need others to form my opinion of it.
Does crawlspa really crawl sites? Or is it just yet another "prerender-like" SaaS? Why should someone use your service instead of existing ones? What is your added-value compared for example to seo4ajax.com?
> i'm confused. how can they be efficient if they get hot?

The reason is due to the balance between heat generated and heat dissipated into the environment.

The bulb could convert 99% of the input electrical energy into light, and only 1% into heat. So for a 100W bulb, that would be only 1 watt of heat.

But if the heat dissipation system (i.e., the cooling system) can only dissipate 1/2 watt of heat into the environment over the same time span that the bulb is creating 1 watt of heat, the excess 1/2 watt of undissipated heat will build up over time, making the housing hot to the touch.
Nowhere in Washington or Colorado is selling recreational weed legally yet (although many businesses are partially through the licensing/application process).

fwiw, Leafly seems a bit easier to use than this site.
Ugh, I kick myself all the time for not investing in bitcoins. I did end up buying 30 of them back in the earlier days of SilkRoad... Wish I saved them instead.
Ask HN: Social commerce with a hyper-local spin. www.reppio.com
It's my first startup to launch. Would love to get HN's feedback.

www.reppio.com
I heard that later in the day. I guess an example of newspapers first information coloring what the true situation is. The runway needed takes into account many factors (weather, load, fuel considerations etc.) Obviously it was entirely possible to get this plane up in the air. But knowing that upfront wouldn't have made it as interesting a story.
When broken, absolutely.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
Very nice!

Would like to see it feature a ToC so one can easily move between the koan categories.
The funny thing about mine is that it's a pretty standard [name]@gmail.com, yet I get an awful lot of stuff claiming that my address has been signed up for various things - often in the 'youth social media' vein. I'm never sure whether people are just entering a random email address, or if this is spam.
How I'd build an IT infrastructure today vs how I did it 10 years ago
It's simply because that's the stack we know and can utilize the best. We do have some non-MS stack things running but the stack we use is the one we know how to optimize and manage the best.
Operation Glasshole
Congrats Magnus Carlsen! You finally unseated our beloved Vishwanathan Anand and made the beautiful game even more beautiful.

Allow me to go on a tangent to let me tell my personal story with chess. I began playing at age 7 when my elder brother borrowed a chess board from a friend. It was a nice break from the physical altercations between us(read mat fights). My maternal grand ma called it "Satan's Game". And my mother toed the line. Why? I don't know the exact reason, but I guess it was an amazing time sink. Or maybe they both had watched this Hindi movie by Satyajit Ray: The Chess Players(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076696/). When the game s between my brother and me became violent(You moved it when I was off to the toilet...) it was banned from our home. But we didn't give up. Our summers were spent playing chess in a nearby mango orchard or the graveyard a mile away. The chess board made out of paper with plastic pieces was the only "toy" we never broke. Those were the best days of my life. And it's still safe 20 years later. With every piece intact. What a game.
yeah the fact that the Bitcoin scam is spreading raises eyebrows. Companies want to accept it to sound futuristic but they should really be shutting it down.

Notice how none of the tech-giants want to get involved with it. Bitcoin isn't for the technologically advanced who are "being rewarded for being sooooo smart and adopting early", it's a scammer platform.

I heard a suggestion for a gold-backed digital currency once. That makes much more sense to me. Instead of getting into magic bean territory with monstrous gains/losses, just put 100k into gold, design a system with 100k "eGoldcoin" or whatever u wanna call it then just trade the coins. The platform would never tank because people know roughly what it's worth. It would be way less exciting, well... because it's sane.
Well, if you take a look at the code. Most of it is doing things in CSS what could easily have been done in JS.

Doing something to make a statement and doing something useful are two different things.

I have two questions for you though i agree with you on couple of points:

- Are you ever going to use this in near future(say 1/2 years)?

- Will you ever be able to maintain or write something of this sort when complexity arises? CSS is a domain specific declarative language. A lot of cool things could be done with it.But for game development? Hell No!

You might find some sense in these arguments, i hope!
It works in Firefox 25 for me.
why I get a "-1" on this? Have anyone compared processing text between Perl and Python? I really cannot agree that python is superior to Perl at this task according to my daily work.
Some language is popular doesn't mean it's good at everything.