skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Absent large barriers to entry like economies of scale, network effects, or legal/regulatory hurdles"

Key supposition there. Because of the economic profits enabled by monopoly, corporations and individuals will disproportionately attempt to lodge themselves into niches where there are economies of scale, network effects, and legal/regulatory hurdles. Or lobby to legislate them, or create products that generate network effects and economies of scale.

Of course, not all markets are susceptible to any of those threats. But as a result they're open to competition, which quickly eliminates economic profit and makes companies occupying those niches much poorer and much less powerful.
> "Don't try and dismiss entire movements with the acts of but a few extremists."

You're mistaking my argument for my political stance. I am quite far on the left, thanks. The violent actors that are attracted to just about any cause do not represent the cause, but they are an easy scapegoat to be used by the opposition, and this scapegoating works.

Short of changing human nature, this is the limitation we have to work with. Every violent act in the name of some cause directly works against said cause, even if its perpetrators are themselves a minority. A single violent actor in your midst cancels out the credibility of hundreds, if not thousands, of peaceful participants.

We can whine all day about how unfair this is, but tough, this is the way public perception works. This is why as supporters of whatever cause you believe in, it's of critical importance to root out the violent elements within your group.

> "OWS are terrorists? Now I know you're a shill. People should really take note of these type of subtle propoganda, and get informed."

Jesus, go back to /r/conspiracy already. Look at my posting history, you think I get paid to write this shit? This is what I hate about talking to people like you, I express one thing you find disagreeable, but no, I can't possibly hold that opinion in good faith, I must be paid, I must be a planted agitator.

OWS aren't terrorists, but their protests around the country (outside of NYC itself, which remained relatively peaceful) were mired with rioting, looting, and violence. It made the movement completely toxic to any support from political moderates. Over time it became largely associated with crackpots and extremists, and they never gained the support of the undecided everyman. OWS died because of its violent internal elements.

You think people didn't identify with OWS? Nearly everyone I know identifies with the core complaints of OWS, but very few ever participated in their protests, because they were known to be violent, because nobody wanted to be in the same crowd as black bloc assholes smashing windows. There is a reason why MLK Jr. preached heavily for non-violence, because every window smashed, every store looted, erases the hard work of many, many more people.

> "During class warfare, your poor and disenfranchised are AT WAR with the rich and wealthy. Of course these people have no recourse for representation from the elite, nor do they have police protection."

Really? Really? That's the best you can come up with, after bringing up single-payer health care in Canada? One of the greatest (if not the greatest) achievements in Canadian history? The one that was won without a single bullet or a single bomb? The one that was hard-fought by people in the political process, by shrewd leaders?

You brought that up and now you're saying that there is no recourse other than violence? No recourse for the everyman except to take up arms?

Jesus.
You have to be careful with this though. Benford's law only holds for certain types of data, such as growing populations. It has to do with the nature of the decimal system.
RIP Winamp
> It should be pretty obvious by now that capitalism is not sustainable in the long term, because it encourages, or even forces the ever growing consumption of natural resources and the increasing environmental destruction.

The same is true of the universe and evolution. Especially evolution has the exact same problem. In practice though :

1) 4.1 billion years and counting

2) it has overcome every obstacle either humanity or anything else has thrown at it (same can be said for capitalism, and the same cannot be said for any form of collectivism, unless you want to call organisations like Christianity collectivist, which they sort-of are. Christianity is a lot younger than capitalism though)

3) it is always using exponential growth and competition everywhere

> (And it will require a huge increase in energy use to recycle, which will probably come from more nuclear power as it is more Capitalist - renewable solutions can't be monopolized.)

Aside from being "more capitalist" (?) nuclear power is also just plain "more". Furthermore, I'd argue that nuclear power plants are much more communist. They're the sort of thing where everything will be hammered down by regulation, including monopolies for the companies.

And the argument about which is more sustainable renewable or nuclear, is not settled. Due to oil-based production of renewable generators, for which renewable power provides no alternative at all, consumption of non-renewable resources is going up, not down.

> It's hard to say whether socialism would work, because it hasn't been properly tried yet. Whatever system we come up with to organize people, it needs to be based around sustainability rather than "wealth creation".

No offence, but the last few attempts at socialism weren't exactly environmentally friendly, or sustainable. Nor were they anywhere near equal. Why would this time be different ?
I think it's super suspect that ICANN, a non-profit organization with a purpose to maintain "the stable and secure operation" of the Internet (as described by Wikipedia), can allow this to happen.

Do these additional generic top-level domains bring any benefits - beyond being a license to print money for the tld sponsor&registrars?
These domains appear to be going for $30/year, at least the ones operated by Donuts (ie, most). See http://www.101domain.com/domain-availability-search.htm and then search for foobar.bike
The R console should be up again, we just added some servers to R-fiddle :-)! By the way, we came up with the idea for R-fiddle while working on www.datamind.org and www.Rdocumentation.org.
HN has an amusingly childish policy of hellbanning individuals it deems inappropriate or otherwise objectionable--hellbanning hides the banned account's comments to everyone unless you set "showdead" to true in your account preferences.

Some users have started kindly informing the hellbanned posters that, for whatever reasons, don't seem to notice that no one ever responds or upvotes their comments.

If I may get on my soapbox (if I wasn't already), I find the whole thing symptomatic of Silicon Valley's culture of networking hell and reputation management. It's a policy of elitism; a policy that disenfranchises in the name of some fictional notion of quality; a policy that demonstrates just how rotten the tech industry is at heart.

Why do I go that far? Because community culture is indicative of so many things. This is the community and atmosphere that pg set up, that pg creates, moderates, and maintains.

pg may not be formally 'responsible,' but he's certainly at the head.

Because I'm an asshole, but not enough of one to get hellbanned (at least on this account), I am in some state of suspension: an artificial delay imposed on every request.

(That's what I don't get about HN's moderation: what, did you think I wouldn't notice that you're essentially trying to herd me like chattel? I stubbornly keep this account kicking out of simple contrariness.)
The least likely button is my favorite part of this, really your killer app. Finding all kind off stuff I like from the opposite of Kid Rock.
There's no reason to have a separate namespace though. .com in other languages should just map to .com domains.
Ultimately, the whole thing comes down to trust.

My point was that power corrupts, and that centralizing that power will only serve to expediate the process.

That said, if you trust your government, then the whole thing is awesome. Central planning leads to tough decisions being made to benefit the collective as a whole.

The problem with this is that I see this collective force being used to subvert the populace putting it's time/money into it. I know you're probably coming from a different perspective, but I'm talking about Western Politics in general.

I understand the goal of trying to make government work, but I just can't see people having any effect on the government's decisions in Britain and the US at present time.

Again, I'm mostly speaking in economical terms. The people do get social progress from time to time with protest and reform. But all economic policy since the labour uprisings of the 20's/30's/40's, the upper most classes have been tearing down all of what our (again general Western politics) ancestors fought for.
NASA is testing iPads and PowerPoint to train astronauts to handle disasters
I think the point is more that "heavy" is relative. It feels heavy in his hands, not that it's heavy compared to a bunch of stuff that he doesn't know about.
There are essentially three types of equality discussed in politics. Equality before the law, equality in opportunity, and equality in results (aka income/wealth equality). Equality before the law is liked by most, but few would say affirmative action wasn't just when it was enacted. Equality in opportunity is liked by most, but few people would say it's unjust to allow people to send their kids to private school. The problem I think most people have with gross wealth inequality is that it definitely leads to inequality in opportunity (by most peoples' definitions of opportunity) and some would argue even inequality in law (bankers get their congressmen buddies to bail them out).
Some more sophisticated (but very readable and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny) articles about detecting fake data can be found at the faculty website[1] of Uri Simonsohn, who is known as the "data detective"[2] for his ability to detect research fraud just from reading published, peer-reviewed papers and thinking about the reported statistics in the papers. Some of the techniques for cheating on statistics that he has discovered and named include "p-hacking,"[3] and he has published a checklist of procedures to follow to ensure more honest and replicable results.[4]

From Jelte Wicherts writing in Frontiers of Computational Neuroscience (an open-access journal) comes a set of general suggestions[5] on how to make the peer-review process in scientific publishing more reliable. Wicherts does a lot of research on this issue to try to reduce the number of dubious publications in his main discipline, the psychology of human intelligence.

"With the emergence of online publishing, opportunities to maximize transparency of scientific research have grown considerably. However, these possibilities are still only marginally used. We argue for the implementation of (1) peer-reviewed peer review, (2) transparent editorial hierarchies, and (3) online data publication. First, peer-reviewed peer review entails a community-wide review system in which reviews are published online and rated by peers. This ensures accountability of reviewers, thereby increasing academic quality of reviews. Second, reviewers who write many highly regarded reviews may move to higher editorial positions. Third, online publication of data ensures the possibility of independent verification of inferential claims in published papers. This counters statistical errors and overly positive reporting of statistical results. We illustrate the benefits of these strategies by discussing an example in which the classical publication system has gone awry, namely controversial IQ research. We argue that this case would have likely been avoided using more transparent publication practices. We argue that the proposed system leads to better reviews, meritocratic editorial hierarchies, and a higher degree of replicability of statistical analyses."

[1] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/

[2] http://www.nature.com/news/the-data-detective-1.10937

[3] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2160588

(this abstract link leads to a free download of the article)

[4] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850704

(this abstract link also leads to a free download of the full paper)

[5] http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.338...

Jelte M. Wicherts, Rogier A. Kievit, Marjan Bakker and Denny Borsboom. Letting the daylight in: reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 03 April 2012
doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00020
I think what "went wrong" can be summed up in a sentence. The player was never built to be a publishing platform or had any other monetization angle built into it.

As soon as it started getting features that would support this, the technical audience saw it coming a mile away and never adopted the required usage patterns needed to leverage such a monetization strategy. And not just because they wanted to avoid paying for music, but because the service model is just a pain in the ass compared to the self-service model.

"It could have been Pandora" ignores the fact that Pandora basically sucks and people just tolerate it. People want to be in control of their software despite what the business fucks running "IT" think now, conceptualizing a "service" where none is needed, trying to pull infinite profit from such trivial functions such as routing packets correctly or parsing compressed audio and routing it through hardware to a speaker without pointless and pathetic DRM algorithms trying to detect time-skewed copyright audio.. sigh. by setting the bar so low that people think that shitfuck-suck software is what you have to put up with unless you have "long term support" or other wedges into your conceptual/computational sovereignty to do something as simple as publish a document and expect it to be readable on another computer in 10 years, a problem that was solved 200 years ago is now the cutting edge of business technology and development, fueling well known multinationals such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

Computing never was meant to be a platform for economic revolution, it just abstracts away paper work. You still have the exact same problems as with the internet as without it. I won't say the internet bubble is over until the world is actually simpler with computers instead of way, way more complicated and outright retarded in many aspects.

NO, WINAMP DIDN'T FAIL, in contrary, economic motivations failed to make Winamp suck, failed to steal a public resource and public work. Failed to co-opt the direction and passion of artists. AOL failed to capitalize on selfless engineering that actually solved a problem the correct way, it failed to corrupt the best solution with advertising indicators and economic feedback loops built into a market, shoehorned into an audio player. It failed to take us back instead of forward, like technology is supposed to.

I think the clearest indicator that WINAMP is a success, is the fact that XMMS exists, the fact that people use version 2.x without AOL's "support", 10+ years since release. It's a simple idea: a media player that supports plugins via a standardized API. (a real standard, not a "living standard" business-oxymoron) People still use it, for business and personal usage, and it doesn't tax them to do it, any more than a screwdriver taxes you, but not like the way a "service" taxes you.
Can we have this TLD:

.yetanotherkindausefulbutmaybenottld ? :)
I use Winamp since version 2 when it was released in 1998 (I was 8) I think, my dad started using it and I still use it everyday, nothing can be compared to it, the simplicity of use it's just insuperable, it's the best music player out there and I'll continue using it. I tried AIMP, Foobar in Windows but the just don't... and in Linux the only thing comparable is Audacious but of course it lacks all the development that Winamp carries from all its years, it's a sad day, AOL was the worst thing that could happen to this great piece of software.
To nitpick, "gtlds" are generic top level domains (.com, .net, .etc), while the reserved two-letter tlds are ccTLDs (country-code top level domains).
How about "Alexander's Law", named after NSA director General Keith Alexander? Seems fitting.
I agree, but ideally they'd be wired in. Perhaps new homes at one point will have Ethernet ports behind your stove, microwave, etc.

It's interesting that you chose 6 months, because that's how often you have to change the time. :D
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Very cool, though I can sense clearly the stress the server is experiencing.

I typically use RStudio[1] to setup a R server on EC2 when I am on Chromebook and mobile. However having a fiddle for R definitely helps a lot when I need to do something quick, saving tons of time signning into AWS and boot up my rstudio instance.

[1]http://www.rstudio.com/
most real datasets apparently have outliers... you should not remove them if you want it to look real (I heard this from this course: https://class.coursera.org/dataanalysis-002/)
the autorotation requires a highly trained pilot and it is an emergency situation. Failure of 1 motor/propeller out of 16 is like a "low gas" warning, time to think about where to conveniently and casually land, instead of immediately autorotating down to whatever lake or heavy forested mountain you happened to be flying over.
Hmm could be. I didn't think either option would be hard, so it must have been an innocent word selection error, and I have immediate family who go into repetitive detail how its cheaper, apparently along with everyone else, making rural retail go out of business...

I've seen combative, and its looks a lot different than suggesting a different word and giving some back story that's shared experience for two people from cow country of course, but the city slickers in the audience would need significant background to understand. Maybe an analogy for urban people, would be imagine if the subway suddenly changed price to $20 per ride. Or adjusted for inflation of incomes and expenses in urban areas, if the subway changed to $200 per ride. Sure, its easy driving, nice scenery, no legendary California traffic jams, but its still very expensive.

Have a pleasant day
It's Wednesday!
Interesting that the fully-qualified (with a dot suffix) URL http://nic.diamonds./ brings up a 404...
That's the rub, isn't it? :)

It could create a market system for search terms, similar to NameCoin; it could allow "mining" by providing rewards for validated indexing. I could see there being huge incentives for a 51% attack, though.

Alas, I'm more of a UX guy than a crypto hacker, so such things are out of my ken. But I definitely see a market for a Distributed Autonomous Corporation that provides search, and it would have a much easier on-ramp with users compared to competing with DNS.
Can we replace the ICANN?
Straight cash, homey.
The two most common methods, md5 and sha-1 are
both susceptible to collisions, or birthday attacks.
As of writing this, I would recommend using
SHA-3-256 which has no known attacks.

Don't do that. Hashing algorithms without salt and iteration counts is a bad idea. Thankfully, languages and frameworks are starting to take this responsibility away from the programmer (or at least they're making it easier) – consider using has_secure_password in Rails, password_hash in PHP 5.5, etc. Don't use standard hashing algorithms.
Judge Chin Reimagines the Fair Use Doctrine for the Internet Age
When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price
Growth Hacking Mastermind Group - Ground Floor
Sometimes, sometimes the kid sees the commercial and just annoys the hell out of their parent until they buy it; specially in Christmas because is socially expected.
Looking at this, I see the reference to a couple of different dates. There's the "Sunrise Open" and the "Sunrise Close" dates, then there's the "General Availability" date. What does each mean?
We all need to eat.
Girls worse at math? In US yes, in Sweden no.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-learning-brain/20121...

If you think the cause of girls being bad at math is biological you must conclude that swedish girls are more biologically different from US girls than from boys.
Why waste time with useless and long TLD's and not introduce a single-letter TLD's, such as .a .b .c ...etc ?

Or .js - to make Silicon Valley go orgasmic?
Let's clarify some things here, before the comment threads take off too much:

- This is a prepaid card. It does not proxy other cards, unlike previous rumored versions of a Wallet card.

- It only draws from Wallet balance. Funds can be added to wallet balance via various means (bank account [free], receiving a GMail P2P payment [free], credit cards [2.9% fee]), but this does not happen automatically.

As such, it does not appear to be trying to achieve the same "card replacement" that e.g. Coin is. No, it is simply providing another way to get at Wallet balance that doesn't involve transfer to a bank account or NFC payment. Could be useful for people who make use of GMail P2P payments.
Do they have any meaningful costs?
Tumblr for iOS 7 sharpens a great design
Guitar Players wanna win a 2013 Gretsch White Falcon
After 3 years, it seems the base iPad should have moved from 16GB to 32GB to 64GB. Why didn't this happen?
It is nice to read about this in plain language. But, can someone explain what the X and Y axis are meant to represent in the graph?
Download Blackberry Messenger BBM for android phones
Link: Fast integration of Gmail login to your application.
Actually I was of the impression that new gTLDs wouldn't be accepted unless they were generic enough and available to the public. (so no buying ".google")
http://www.donuts.co/about/team/

Do a ctrl+f for "ICANN" and you'll see how well-networked the Donuts.co team is. Can't be sure if this is true cronyism, or whether they just really know how to play the game. Not sure it's terribly different either way.

--Edit--

per chrisacky's link above (http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/05/technology/donuts-domains-fu...), it looks like Donuts.co submitted 307 applications at $185k/per, for a total of $56.8 million. That's a hell of a way to earn favors with ICANN while ostensibly just trying to get more picks.
That's not accurate. Absent a state, I can still create property rights, and enforce them through the personal application of force.