skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can receive RTK corrections over IP (via a cellular connection). Government bodies across the US push the data over IP to you if you register for a free account.

http://igs.bkg.bund.de/ntrip/index

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked_Transport_of_RTCM_via...
nternet_Protocol
The arguments in the linked email of some Ilia Alshanetsky regarding the shorthand array syntax are incredibly dense...
Well... The new one is not exactly the same. He's a former felon with multiple convictions for violent crimes who, judging by the people he installed in key positions all over the country, still has connections with the organized crime.

Makes quite a difference.
Does it say somewhere that this is targeting an MSP430, or did you just recognize it? I thought it must be something with a real compiler targeting it, but I couldn't figure out what it was...

In any case, thanks for the link!
The only legitimate use case to me seems not displaying possibly sensitive information.
If you break BC you might as well just another language, because that's what it will be.

The correct approach is slow and steady improvements. I suspect standard library improvements will come not by renaming existing functions but by adding new API.
Influence of taxes in wealth distribution
Imagine a society. A society where all the wealth is distributed among its population. In this society, every exchange of wealth occurs between pairs of randomly chosen individuals. On each of these exchanges, more skilled individuals have advantage in relation to the less skilled ones and some individuals are more willing to make business than others.

I thought about a simple model to simulate a society such as the one described above. Considering that skill is randomly distributed, I was hoping that, after some simulation runs, about half the population would prosper while the rest would be in debt. To my surprise, the society rapidly converges to an inequality scenario where 90% of the population ends in debt! Then, I decided to check the influence of taxes.

To simulate the influence of taxes, suppose that on each exchange a tax is collected. The amount collected from the taxes is then homogeneously distributed among the entire population.

Experimentally, I verified that a tax rate of about 20% is needed to guarantee a stabilization of the society where only 50% falls in debt.

Simulation code is as follows: http://pastebin.com/N4g6ATuW
May I suggest two other narratives that don't involve politics behind "the problems being solved ... are typically addressed at other geeks, upper-middle class consumers, entrepreneurs, and the startup community."?

Why geeks, upper-middle-class, etc? That's where the perception of easy money is, and you see a lot of it here because this is one of the target audiences.

Why startup community or fellow geeks? There is a mantra to solve a problem you have, which means there are a lot of geek- or startup-related apps.

I would also ask you to believe that there are many people who are working on products outside of the "consumer app" space that doesn't advertise, per se, on this site.
A history graduate learns how to analyze disparate sources of variable quality for a specific purpose and argue a conclusion. They should be masters of long form report, able to select relevant information from a huge library and be able to defend a position cogently. I think its some of the most transferable skills there is.

I'm not sure my comp sci degree was particularly useful. The vast majority of what I learnt turns out in retrospect to be "industry focused" aka completely obsolete now.
Obama proposes new limits on NSA phone collections
Post-newtonian terms and the secular increase of the astronomical unit [pdf]
I think you hit it on the head. Think what scribd and slideshare did for .docx and .pptx

I am constantly searching for datasets from Government websites, market data, etc. Wolfram alpha has the data but its not free. The federal government data is bloated and takes forever to parse. Why couldn't someone post an excel sheet of the data for everyone to use?
Mars does have wind. In fact, dust storms have been known to last for weeks and encompass nearly the entire planet.

However, I don't think the wind is a likely culprit. If the wind was strong enough to knock over a rock, it would also be strong enough to blow a lot of dust around. That would be very noticeable to anyone watching the rover's feed, and would surely have been mentioned in the article.
> I see you've added portability off Linux. That's a very small concern, and certainly lower than 'deep Linux integration' for most Linux users.

It didn't help systemd's popularity that the people behind it have tried to do disgusting stuff like convince GNOME to make GNOME dependent on it, which doesn't just effect "portability off linux" but the portability of GNOME. (I don't believe they got that one through)
The atmosphere is very thin, so even a fast wind doesn't push much.
We are running a pyrolysis plant for recycling used car tires, and pyrolysis is also used for recycling municipal solid waste.

It's quite profitable, just the required amount of upfront investment is high.
No, it's still a piece of crap

"Human centric" is a false advantage. And it's not even human centric, the temperature of 100F is wrong, and what does brine have to do again with the human body?
In agriculture, it is not uncommon to get correction data over mobile data connections, where the static receiver is provided by a third-party service provider.
Yeah, there are lots of options.

The $40 wifi-included board featured in this story sort of has a nice installation story though (maybe fussy setup, but one less cable).
The author knows nothing of geeks. Clue: we didn't get our (programming) educations in school. We got it in our and our friend's bedrooms hunched over BBC Micros and Atari STs.
JsPoker - PokerBot Tournament written in Javascript
Sounds like it will be a JV with Panasonic. Panasonic has strong IPR and manufacturing processes in the field and since they are almost totally withdrawing from the consumer market and embracing B2B relationships where the customer takes on the consumer-marketing role, this would be a perfect fit.
I think this more reflects the rise of an industry to help high schoolers get into college. Taking AP tests is pushed as a means of increasing your acceptance chances. It's also pushed by local school districts to show they're raising their game as far as getting kids into college.

The increase has come in certain tests because those tests a) require less new infrastructure expense b) are easier to teach, and c) are of greater general interest.
A Fun Little Crypto Problem
Ah, how I envy the freedom available to political protestors in the former Soviet Union.

In NYC (during the Occupy days), those mirrors would have been swiftly confiscated as "potential weapons."
Airpush Has Two New SDK's To Help App Devs Earn More Money
What a bizarre document to see on the front page of HN. I clicked the title expecting an interesting story about actual hacking. Instead I got a poorly written, dully presented whitepaper explaining HN. Perhaps useful to an enterprise CEO trying to learn what HN is, but I can't imagine regular users here getting much use out of this.
Has anyone visited the site and looked at what it is about?
It wasn't at the forefront all that much, but he did say it and talked alot about how he was protecting our rights where Republicans weren't.
Link to the image directly. I also had problems with the gallery.

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/blogs/dnews-files-2014-01-myste...
For the average homeowner, Nest becomes unjustifiable if you need 2 thermostats.
I recently got a My Basis watch for this, works pretty well, and soon there should be more advanced sleep tracking as well. Really interesting to have an continuous heart-rate tracker, you can tell how much impact having a cold can have on your entire body for instance...
Safecast: sensor network for collecting radiation measurements
REST Dissertation Overview
The Recovering Kanban-ers
This is probably what you're recalling: http://sivers.org/zipit

The article argues that the satisfaction prevents us from actually reaching our goals.
http://gpstracklog.com/2007/08/whats-a-gps-mou.html

The term "GPS mouse" refers to the shape and size of the device, and has come to mean any wired or wireless GPS receiver that doesn’t come with any sort of interface. It merely outputs position data to a laptop, cell phone, etc.
Even today it makes my blood boil how companies like RM and Viglen sold junk to schools at vastly inflated prices - and yet somehow managed to push out the superior machines, the BBC Micro and the Archimedes, in favour of their ridiculous bullshit. It had to be backhanders and sleaze. Who in the real world even used the 80186?! No-one...
Depends on what you mean by "these libertarian types". There are more philosophies on Earth, Horatio, than are things in your dreams... er... can't be fooled again.

The article is by a geoist, or Georgist. Those people are no more true libertarians than they are true Scotsmen. Or at least that's how it is according to the libertarians that do not agree with their principles.

If you're looking for social justice and community-based governance, you would be better served by hanging out with an-soc (or socialist anarchist) proponents, and then the an-caps (capitalist anarchists) will mock you for your beliefs.

If libertarianism seems like a narrow perspective to you, you might want to examine it from a different angle. Freed from the bonds of actually having to agree with anyone to accomplish something, libertarians can and will believe in almost anything that sounds even remotely plausible, then defend that well past the Godwinning of the thread. The end of a libertarian thread is actually when Somalia comes up, not Hitler.

In any case, the ability to argue endlessly over an irrelevant topic and always be correct, regardless of any findings of fact is strangely attractive to people with an engineering temperament. You see, the more government looks like a problem, the more tempting it is to try to solve it. And with more solutions proposed, the more tempting it is to argue over them.

And how many times have you heard a naive younger developer say, "Wouldn't it be easier to scrap the enormous messy kludge we have and start over from scratch?"

So I don't think you will easily find such a community unless you go out of your way to create one yourself, and police it rigorously with a NO POLITICS rule.
6 Things That Will Kill your  Call Center in 2014
Learn how another call floor reduced attrition rates with ClearView with this case study
Since low level systems programming in involved, they wouldn't be able to test it in a VM.
By the way, this might have something to do with the new laws: http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-protesters-charge-police-lines...
How does this differ from Ghost?

https://ghost.org/
The toy burned up!! It was obvious because my mom just turned on the oven so she opened up the oven and saw a smoking half burned toy of my sister's. My sister was so upset. She didn't know better though, she was very young, probably 3-4 years old.
http://commandcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/esmereldas-imagi...
Small explosion: Render graph without edges
10x engineers wouldn't read this because they're busy doing something
Use mouse wheel to zoom :)
Space is open source (https://github.com/nudgepad/space) and MIT licensed.

JSON is great. And critical. I think it's worth it to investigate whether or not something in such widespread use could be improved, don't you?

Are there any features or pain points you currently have with JSON or API integrations in general?
> ... Mr Obama said he would not apologise for the effectiveness of US intelligence operations, and insisted that nothing he had seen indicated they sought to break the law.

"...nothing he had seen..." -> The usual word plays.
On the Reign of ‘Benevolent Dictators for Life’ in Software
Please re-read the article - the 75% or so of the poor the article concerns itself with are not unemployed.
Uh, more info needed.

What do you like to do? Party? Go to the theater? Hike? Surf?

Lots of places with good software vibes, so then you go to secondary factors: cost of living, family and amenities.
The cards are already showing stale information, including Apple's own apps: http://d.pr/v/NuY5. As for background updates, there are some ways around through iOS7 background modes, but the situation could certainly be improved. I agree there should be an Apple provided "AppSwitcher Kit" framework.
Sweden vs United states?
Don't do this. Try and leave you code working at the end of the day. What I do instead is leave a bunch of @todo comments in my code when I'm done programming. This does two things: It gives me some obvious starting points tomorrow and leaves those tasks fresh in my mind as I go through out the rest of my day. I often come up with really great solutions just from writing a very simple @todo sentence.
Viddme - Imgur for video
Ioc container solves problem you might not have but still helps
> simple, clear and very understandable init.d scripts

At best, init scripts are 5 lines of actual functionality and 100 lines of boilerplate, and in my experience very few init scripts are at their best. With systemd, the config file contains the 5 lines that actually matter and nothing else. I'd consider the latter to be much more simple, clear, and understandable.

First example where a project maintains both - a particularly verbose service file, compared to an average init file; compare not just line counts, but complexity (variable-filled function calls, branching logic, etc, vs a set of key=value pairs)

https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/blob/master/redhat/...

https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/blob/master/redhat/...
The dirty secret of the blog-o-sphere.
Tony Colston-Hayter: the acid house fraudster
Well, if you assume both a peerage and a divine-right monarchy, then the divine right of peers seems more or less implicit, since they're created as such by the Crown, and a monarch anointed and guided by God would not fail to recognize who among her subjects is worthy of elevation. Subordination doesn't seem hard to handle in such a system; a duke's word, for example, would be God-given law save where it happened to conflict with the dictates of the Queen, an earl's likewise in relation to a duke, and on down the line, and presumably such conflicts could be handled by any noble of higher rank than the one found to be in conflict -- an earl, for example, might censure an unruly baron.

…come to think about it, given a few global string replacements, haven't we just more or less reinvented both the British peerage and the Roman Catholic Church?
How to Steal Your Competitor's Social Media Followers
Like most of you here I'm skeptical and disappointed, but what I'm most sick of is their campaign to paint Snowden as a traitor and enemy of the people. An enemy of the government (especially one this corrupt and over-reaching) is not always an enemy of the people, and I hope history remembers Snowden as the brave individual who shone a light on this travesty and forced them into this discussion.
the geo clarification makes a huge difference in the article. An article about land ownership and "geo"libertarianism requires a definition! I was totally lost without that...
In both examples, the lives of the under-privileged were bettered by government intervention in the "capitalist" countries.

Edit: And until the collapse of European communism, the answer to your first example is North Korea.
Spark.io hackers make an open source Nest thermostat
In many ways. This is a wordpress theme set essentially, designed for people writing narratives to easily include media in an immersive and striking way, but with little to configure. Ghost is a paid blogging platform with an emphasis on having little in the way of backend or plugins.
I see your concern over the impoverished and unfortunate people. I assume you consider that their problems are, at least partly, a consequence of poor wealth distribution and poor governance of the powers that be.

Libertarians, as much as most other political thinkers (of non-Machiavelli type) care about roughly the same thing: well-being of people. It just so happens that the libertarian discourse is usually concentrated around rather deep root causes: unjust property laws, the seizure of power and wealth by the elite, obstacles built by elites that prevent people from producing their own subsistence.

This is a bit different from, let's call it, philanthropic discourse that usually concentrates on more immediate problems, e.g. providing hunger relief or better education in affected regions. These problems can be very serious and long-term (like elimination of diseases that may take decades) but usually are not about principal changes in the structure of the society.

There are, of course, other schools of thought that offer deep social changes to help people live better. But a significant number of geeks is attracted by libertarian ideas because they are so minimalist (as compared to e.g. socialism, as seen in much of Europe) and so pro-freedom (as compared to e.g. corporate etatism as seen e.g. in Singapore or Russia).

On topic: unfortunately, I don't know about a philanthropic geek community hub. My philanthropic activity is limited to monetary donations. But you could ask IT people from philanthropic projects, e.g. watsi.com; probably they know where like-minded people congregate.
As a father of a child with autism myself, I'd hesitate to leave the prevalence of libertarian and anti-authoritarian tendencies in tech to such a simple explanation... but I'll admit there are parallels.

The "theory of mind" is a known challenge (not an impossibility) with those with autism [1]. This is basically the degree of awareness a person has on the fact that other persons have their own thoughts, prejudices, levels of knowledge, etc. Essentially the idea, can you put yourself in the mind or worldview of someone else?

With the types of libertarianism followed in the U.S. there is simply no need to care what other people think: The idea is that the rules are simple and easy to follow, and as long as they're rigidly applied anything that happens must be fair.

When you combine the difficulty of understanding why other people feel the way they do, with the very real awareness of how intelligent and knowledgeable our prototypical tech libertarian is, it starts to make sense why they believe that the outcome of these rules are fair. They are able to motivate to work, they are able to produce good work (at least, in their opinion), they follow the rules that respect others' things; why can't you?

When you scale that up to the idea that a society of people all trying their best to do good work and live by the rules must obtain the ideal outcome, the appeal is more understandable, if not actually obvious. Why should the government tell a person how to live or what to do, when that person obviously knows best what's good for them, especially when government in general has long historical examples of failure. Even if you point out successes of regulation, the rejoinder is simply that such successes could be replicated with the simple set of rules, if people would only follow them. And either way, how difficult could it be to make rules that are good at an individual level also be good at a national level?

The problem with the failure to understand the theory of mind is probably most pronounced with that last question... a difference in scale has always been a difference in kind, but how can you perceive that what's best for society is not always what's best for one person, when you can hardly understand that other individual people are not mirror images of oneself, let alone understanding societies at a macro level?

All the same, this is all just a bunch of supposition. I am sure there are better explanations (though I should hope that it's not considered surprising that one's ability for empathy, sympathy and theory of mind may play a role in one's natural political tendencies).

[1] http://www.autism.com/index.php/understanding_theoryofmind
probably not since all the other rocks (many an order of magnitude smaller) are still in their same places.
"Regardless of how we got there though the task before us now is greater then simply repariing the damage done to our operations or preventing more disclosures from taking place in the future. Instead we have to make some important decisions about how to protect ourselves and sustain our leadership in the world while upholding our civil liberties and privacy protections our constitution requires."

Regardless of how we got here?

It’s Martin Luther King day on Monday. A day named after the person that got us as a country to make ‘important decisions’ about how to ‘sustain our leadership in the world’ and ‘uphold our civil liberties’.

Mr. President we don’t disregard the individuals that make us examine our weaknesses in order to make our country better, we embrace them as heroes, even if that self reflection is uncomfortable and difficult at the time.
This question was asked and answered at Nuremberg: It is not a valid dense to say you were "just following orders."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Orders#Nuremberg_Trial...
They do when the outlet pipe gets blocked.
> I'm not really sure why Canonical doesn't just GPL like everyone else and leave it at that

That is about copyright, not about the license. Organizations who requires this includes the FSF and Mozilla for example. See:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
Get rid of that s-t ligature. It's distracting.
While not presenting anything new, article does incredibly good job of summarizing on how to profile followers of target handles on few popular social media platforms.
Blocked outlet pipe.
Just wait 'til we start rolling our buses through there.

(Sorry, I don't usually make such Reddit-esque comments on here, but I couldn't resist)
Why southern China is the best place in the world for a hardware innovator to be
how do you define "land"? is it, "the limited resources of the Earth"? or what? because if the "resources of the earth" are common property, that might say a lot about say, what people put into the air, in the water, in the ground, etc.
I agree-- the title on this post is wrong and should be changed. It should be "#727708 - tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian. - Debian Bug report logs"
Plausible deniability is not intended to protect you; it is intended to protect the data. If you know that giving up the key (or all the keys) will not make them stop torturing you (as you cannot prove that you have given them all the keys), there's no incentive to give up any keys in the first place.

At least that was Julian Assange's vision when he invented the Rubberhose filesystem[1] in 1997.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29
Here’s an iPhone Screen Doctor That’s Cheap, Efficient, and Makes House Calls
Yes. Decorators do not provide a monad at all, not even in Python. The very dim relation between the two is academic at best and completely irrelevant at worst.
They mentioned meteorite impact ejecta as a possibility.
Doesn't the rover have seismic sensors they could reference?
Rolls Royce - A Ghost Theme
I was provoked. Did you read the article? It's all about Nazis and not invoking their name, enforced by law rather than manners. I'm contrary like that.

So are many others. Expect a Streisand-like increase in Nazi-calling if this law gets passed.
I started to read this article, but I gave up about half way through.