skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until housing prices fall 1% before inflation and wipe out your gains for the year.
It turns out that if you want a species to completely take over the world (ie: build civilizations), extreme K-selection works better, because civilized beings can avoid increasingly large subsets of the normal disasters that wipe out r-selected creatures. Consider what happens to rabbits, say, in famine conditions: the population is decimated. Now consider what happens to humans nowadays: we ship in food from somewhere else.

For an alternative view, consider that the most important invention we ever came up with for beating Malthus was probably birth control. The genes keep doing their thing, but you don't end up getting babies out of it, which exerts an even further pressure towards K-selection: parents decide when to birth children according preparedness for the K-strategy lifestyle they themselves live.

Of course, that does leave you with the problem of how to have a heavily K-strategizing civilized society deal with deliberately r-strategizing sub-populations. But this is a very rare problem that tends to sort itself out via economic recession long before it reaches Malthusian crisis proportions.
The Forgotten Technology
Dell's new display is the most affordable 4K monitor yet
And what about the current owners? The state can't afford to buy them out. Disown them? Massive loss of international trade and investment trust as could be seen with other african countries (Zimbabwe is the most prominent example).
And udev, which was folded into systemd.
Sure, I happen to have programmed a discount into the billing system for one of the affiliates which I can repurpose. This link's good for 10% off any subscription for life. https://www.improvely.com/signup?perk=hn
Reminds me of layer.com (yeah I know, with more privacy an all)
This is awesome! I'm teaching myself Obj-c now and would like one day to take it further. Glad to hear that it's working out for you :)
Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS
That looks so cool. I'm glad it brings in a good amount of money.
Historically presidential pardons have been constrained enough so that it is in the spirit of the rule of law. The law uses it as an out in the cases of laws needing correction, same as the constitutional amendment system.
Tango PC: Worlds most powerful Pocketable Dockable Gameable Officeable PC
Heard about this app when it first launched, such an original idea.

Would you feel comfortable telling us the number of sales in 2013?
Yes, but how i would outsource interacting to still do nothing?
I created the app 3dweapons for Android about 2 1/2 years ago. (http://www.3dweapons.net) The free version was downloaded >1.7 million times. The paid version around 8k times.

I added adds from multiple sources (mopub, admob etc) and in app purchases.

For the paid app: In the top months (2 years ago) I made around 800 euro. But it dropped to 90 euro per month currently.
For in app purchases: I am making 30 euro per month currently.
For ads: Making about 200 euro per month currently.
Best part of this article, the phrase "For the hard of thinking"
Reading all the comments made me think the only passive income I ever had was my blog. Trough my blog I've got all the consulting opportunities and made quite a lot.
JOII: Simple object inheritance for JavaScript.
Serbia begins talks on joining EU
But it's plain to see that on Day One of the new bridge thing, airfares will adjust so that now it costs exactly $12-$19 less to fly out of Tijuana vs San Diego (adjusted based on whatever silly fee they put in place to walk across that bridge). No more $1,000 savings.

This is true, there will likely not be $1000 savings for Tijuana relative to San Diego. But that's not the relevant counterfactual.

What is likely to happen is prices in San Diego will be $500 cheaper than they would be without the bridge and in Tijuana they will be $500 more. (The $500 number is taken from oversimplifying and assuming the airports are of equal size, and it might be more or less. The point is price will drop in SD since supply increased and will rise in Tijuana since demand increased.)
This is not the fault of unix, it's well suited for static systems. It's the fault of implementers trying to use something that was designed for an entirely different paradigm.

Future apps will need to copy themselves and their data to other devices, perhaps even suspend on one device and wake-up on another.

Making changes for one use case at the expense of another without knowing the history is an ignorant change for churn's sake. Churn is not productivity, but the appearance of doing something.
I agree with most people here: stay healthy and keep learning new things. To me the learning process is quite fun every single time. And often you'll find while learning that you don't like some kind of technology, but at least you can reason why. But the few times you do like the new tech, you might expand your options to whole new horizons.

Currently I've learned:

- TI Basic (when I was very young, for the TI-99/4a)

- LotusScript (ancient tech, yay!)

- Visual Basic (the horror!)

- Objective-C (cool language)

- C# (sweet language)

- Java (yuck! - the crappy version of C#)

- a bit of HTML / JavaScript (hate browser differences)

- Python (pretty nice language, except for the indent requirements)

- Django (pretty cool framework, but eventually didn't "click" with me)

- C (cool language due to very small library, still need to figure out some pet project to use it on).

- Xamarin (very nice to build iOS / Android / WinPhone apps with 1 language but still optimised UI per platform)

- SQL (I know enough to get around databases, but don't particularly enjoy this)

Hoping to pick up Lua in the future, perhaps in combination with a C or Objective-C program. Dabbled a bit in OpenGL, would like to make a real game with it one day, not just the very lame Pong clone I created.

If you don't enjoy learning new stuff, better move out of software development I think. Cause you won't invest your free time which means you'll get behind on other software developers who take their job more seriously. This in turn might make you much harder to employ.

Also: put stuff out on Github, be active on StackOverflow. Since I've put several (mainly abandoned) products om my Github this week, it seems a lot more recruiters have shown an interest in me. Though maybe it's just coincidence, I'll have to see how it works out in the long term ... Anyway, having some pet projects in different languages that interest you on your Github, might make it easier for you to pivot into new areas.
Is there any site for collating workflows?
I believe in the "Rule of Law" as a general concept necessary to a functioning society. I do not believe in it as a dogmatic application of The Law Über Alles, where the text of a law takes thoughtless precedence over the moral principle it was meant to establish.

You imply such a thing as prosecutorial discretion does not exist. It does and always has.

When one breaks a law to bring light to greater wrongdoings, the only just thing to do is pardon the original transgression.
It's a circular argument though. Of course if you think you're right you think history will side with you.

It's a silly argument I keep hearing more and more. Pro-life people are on the wrong side of history, pro-choice people are on the wrong side of history, anti-gay marriage are on the wrong side of history...
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Store up to 50 GB for free! :)
You have a point if implementers choose to use cairo code instead of re-implementer it, but in the other case they don't need to follow any license at all since licenses are valid just for code, unless they have patents on it (which I don't think is the case in libcairo)
That isn't the argument at all. The author is not saying "in the future Snowden will be a hero, therefore let's make him a hero in the present to align ourselves with history". That is not a good argument because history is not moral, and just because things happen it doesn't make them right.

What he is saying is that society is currently evolving in a direction of openness and transparency, and of holding those in power to account. This trend is visible right now; it's not a prediction.
In a world where your "foes" have shown a willingness to torture, kill, and use every sneaky, subversive tactic in the book (c.f. pvt. Manning) across all borders to annihilate those it's decided, wrongfully or not, are enemies, what good do you think would come of Snowden returning to the USA?

Does it take someone being tortured to sate your moral compass?!

Further, him "standing up" as you and so many others seem to want him to do would undermine the whole reason he leaked the NSA stuff and took off in the first place. He'll disappear into some military (or worse) prison somewhere and never be heard from again.
Oh man, you should be making more money. Great fun app!
Mobile phone landscape - 2013
Quad-core processors, Large screen devices, 8-13 MP Camera phones have become the new norm. Ultra-thin phones, Unibody designs, High-precision sensors, Fingerprint scanners will become main-stream this year. Octa-core processors, Curved displays, Wearable technologies will see more action in the year 2014.
He should be buried with honors.
Great idea!

What percentage are paid users versus free anonymous submissions?
How long have you been in business?
What are you profits like?
Thanks
Awesome, congrats.

Just putting this out there: if you're generating that scale of value for agencies, you can often get them to agree to an arrangement which sounds like "$X per account you rep". Mental comparison for you: what's the largest agency you count as a client paying you? Would $250 times the number of accounts they rep be a substantially larger number than that? They probably make substantially more than that.

My brother works at a PPC agency. Typical client: a company you've never heard of in Chicago which does, without loss of generality, weatherproofing. They have a PPC budget of $IT_WOULD_BLOW_YOUR_MINDS_HN. Like many PPC companies, they charge (WLoG) 20% of spend every month. $250 doesn't make that account meaningfully lucrative and if you give them 1 extra conversion a month to brag about it's net profitable for the client.

I am aware of other marketing software companies which get into very cozy relationships with their favorite marketing agencies, to the tune of four to five figure checks monthly. That would, presumably, lift your average from $70 to an even happier number.

Bonus points: if you do it right, you can pitch this as a straight moneymaker to the agency, on some model like "You add a line-item to all your invoices of +$500 for $FOO_SOFT, so after we get our cut, that's $12,500 that your agency grosses which is totally free money to you."
Sure, but the site is in Swedish: http://rakna.net
LOVE improvely. Actually used it to show conversions on my site, which i recently sold on flippa. Needless to say, it got a very good response: https://flippa.com/2963324-pr-3-app-templates-site-with-10-4....

I'm sure it sent you a good one or two customers too! :)

I've been a subscriber for roughly 6 months and am very happy with the service.
Are outgoing bandwidth costs ever going to drop? It just seems crazy that DigitalOcean can provide you 1TB of bandwidth in their $5 plan while 1TB on AWS ($0.12/GB) is $122.76 (first GB is free).
I've been living in France (and driving a diesel Peugeot 206) since 2006; diesel (gazole) is always cheaper than standard petrol (and that's part of why I bought this car). See: http://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/

You do seem to be correct about the UK, though -- diesel is a bit more expensive than basic unleaded petrol.
In Defense of Humanity
this is the obverse of the idea that just because you succeed does not necessarily know why you succeeded. You do not have the full view in either case.
Well, I've seen several screeners of movies with equally bad technology -- especially when a movie first comes out in the theaters. Things that look like someone just put a compact camera on a tripod.

That there are high quality rips for most movies doesn't mean this doesn't also happen.
>>What kind of work do you do?<<

I develop data processing software.

You are right, ESA usually oversees the projects and hosts the main data archive. Esa also takes care of the launch vehicle and interfaces with Arianespace for example.

The hard- and software development for the payload is usually done in numerous science institutes, part of them also universities. They usually have subproject-leads, while they again subcontract to external companies, as needed.

A complex structure that has to do mainly with the way how European projects are funded.

What did you do for Esa? What is your view on these projects? We always had the impression, the companies are under a lot of budget pressure during the missions.
I work in an office where actual use of paper is very much in the minority. So much so that when someone actually hands me a piece of paper, my first thought is "well now what do I do with this thing? Isn't this on our (insert share mechanism here)?".

It just evolved to be that way, I don't know of any single decision point where we said nope, done with paper. Obviously won't work for every type of organization, but I'm quite happy not having to deal with physical paper. Feels very... quaint.. to have to do so - like staying at a B&B without, say, electricity, where you must churn your own butter.

Now all that said, there is one huge downside to this type of office - everyone looks at their laptops or tablets in meetings. People are constantly distracted. I haven't been in a meeting in months where everyone is focused (though I can't say that was true of paperful offices either). Is it better/worse? I don't know, but if I had to pick between the two, I'd pick no paper every time.
Traditionally we as a society have moved towards more inclusive policies. There's a clear pattern. Women got basic rights, slavery was abolished, women got the right to vote, blacks got basic rights including voting, homosexuality officially no longer a mental illness, slowly the rights of LGBTs are being recognized. (My history sucks, so I probably got some of those out of order, but anyways.)

Opposing equal rights does put you on the wrong side of history, meaning you oppose this socially progressive pattern. It takes time, but the pattern is still there.
Contrary to John Rawls philosophy of civil disobedience, in which disobedients have to accept the legal consequences of their actions, Snowden evaded authorities.

But willingness to accept punishment can be viewed as more of a strategy to bring attention to the cause, instead, and not a qualifier of the disobedient.

For Snowden to reenact the "classic account of civil disobedience" would mean silence of himself in the mean time of his trial.

Why must Snowden throw himself into the system where he is almost certainly going to be crushed, with the inevitable jury make up in the district where charges were filed?
It's just math, not even a very difficult one. You need detailed data about trajectories and properties of celestial bodies, and then it's just Newtonian dynamics.

Play a little bit of Kerbal Space Program if you want to get a feel of it :).
Have a Perl script written to handle it.
>Windows XP has the NT security model

Which it enforced badly, since the user was 99% of times the "full blown do anything without any password" administrator.
In the 19th century, the Kodak Brownie was banned from beaches and the Washington Monument over concern of camera fiends:

"The appearance of Eastman's cameras was so sudden and so pervasive that the reaction in some quarters was fear. A figure called the "camera fiend" began to appear at beach resorts, prowling the premises until he could catch female bathers unawares. One resort felt the trend so heavily that it posted a notice: "PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THEIR KODAKS ON THE BEACH." Other locations were no safer. For a time, Kodak cameras were banned from the Washington Monument. "

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande13.ht...
Small typo on the bottom of the page here:
https://www.improvely.com/features/click-fraud-detection

Yo'uve

Btw the product looks awesome.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about Romania. You can read more about this here http://business-review.eu/featured/rcs-rds-offers-highest-fi... and a reddit discussion on the subject at that time here http://redd.it/1nz2ig (many comments)
I also have an iOS game that still sells a little after 3 years online. Plus the extra income when you buy after following my affiliate link: http://www.nemoidstudio.com/download/dinorush :)
Ever thought about rewriting parts of the book to work with other languages, as a separate product?
I can't help but roll my eyes at these "turing completeness" arguments. The obvious way to prevent auto updating is to simply disallow an extension from modifying its own storage and to prevent it from running any code it manages to download. We don't operate on abstract turing machines, we can impose whatever limits we want on the code we allow to run. Now, I'm not saying this is easy to accomplish, but impossible it is not. If Google can manage to allow machine code downloaded over the internet to run securely like it claims, I'm sure it can handle a little javascript.
A quarter of 20 to 34 year olds in the UK now live with their parents
I know this sounds strange, but what about tablets instead? No keyboards, so people can't get too easily distracted. But something to view shared documents, etc.
Not everyone will use ALL 1TB. So DO will able to save some bandwidth.
And remember you're not allowed to lie to them. You'll be charged with obstructing justice or interfering with a police investigation. With such lopsided rules its foolish to "play the game". I really wish there were laws saying government officers and officials may not lie otherwise they too would be charged with obstructing the truth.
Rails Testing Antipatterns: Models
From the reviews, it sounds like the high quality of your explanations has made a small geeky niche far less small, geeky and niche. Bravo.
that's amazing. and for anyone who is curious about what they actually look like: http://www.militarysystems-tech.com/military-gallery/electro...
I like this - it made me chuckle :)
Can I ask who you used to print the stickers?
'Sharing' is more than just 'caring'. Here is why.
I present, The PiBoy
Wow, very good job. Did you think much about SEO when you set it up?
Ah the "terrorism" card. Remember that its been shown found a number of times (including by the president's own 'show' committee) that the operations in question were not important facets in discovering or preventing any terrorist plots.

It also stands to reason that most of the 'terrorists' (People the FBI setup not withstanding) were aware of the faceless wiretapping and ability of the govt to get data from google/yahoo/att/etc in the first place. Given that there were stories about such things (to a limited extent) since around 2006.
I think you're missing the point of the article. Having slaves used to be legal in the US, but slave-owners still happened to be on the wrong side of history. Many people knew it then already.
I try to read as little code as possible. If I have to read the code of somebody else (other than code review) it is usually because the code contains some flaw; only rarely because I genuinely don't know how the code does what it claims to do.

Don't read code. Read papers. Build a model of your algorithms etc. in your mind. Describe this model in a wiki. Translate the model into interfaces. Then write the code that implements those interfaces.
Non-ionizing radiation will change the temperature of water (or your body) if it's in the way. And testes need to be closely temperature-regulated, so this could be a real issue.
I understand 'passive' to mean 'charging more than once for the same piece of work'.
However, given what we know about the current state of the things you list in your last paragraph, it would be incredibly naive to expect the Rule of Law to be upheld in the case of Snowden (and most likely also Assange).

Also, I'm no American, but doesn't your president have some leeway in deciding who his administration will go after and who walks free? For instance, I'm sure they would go after any intelligence agent that lies to congress under oath.

Haaaaaaaaclapper!

Gesundheit.

Thank You.
Yep. Language and payment processor variants are something that I've thought about a lot and will probably start working on at some point.

Edit: autocorrect correction
Yes, my criticism of the RPi is that it is too powerful... You might as well just use a desktop PC. For learning purposes, something like a FIGnition is much better.

https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition
Jaime Medin'a
The president is also bound by his oath to protect the constitution... Which arguably he is not doing. So either the constitution is out the window already for him or it isn't. Or you can have your cake and eat it too... Either or.
I'm pretty sure CIA is protecting him very carefully, preventing him from having conversation with any non-US intelligence agencies, and preventing him from getting killed (which might trigger some "insurance" mechanism that would release the documents).
> "The extracted information will contain NHS numbers, date of birth, postcode, ethnicity and gender."
> Yikes! Date of birth AND postcode? Pseudoanonymous that is not.

I suspect the article is sensationalising things. That information won't be passed on to anyone by HSCIC it's only used to link all the information about a patient into a single record:

"Your date of birth, full postcode, NHS Number and gender rather than your name will be used to link your records in a secure system, managed by the HSCIC. Once this information has been linked, a new record will be created. This new record will not contain information that identifies you. The type of information shared, and how it is shared, is controlled by law and strict confidentiality rules." - http://www.nhs.uk/caredata
Agreed on the first part, but,

> King stood up to his foes, Snowden ran.

really stuck with me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but M.L. King didn't do anything illegal, whereas Snowden did. Snowden ran to avoid prison sentence which makes perfect sense, and his cause also wouldn't have been helped by his incarceration, whereas King would probably be considered a "martyr", since his stance more requires a physical presence.
HSCIC Privacy Impact Assessment 2013:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/12931/Privacy-Impact-Assessmen...
No, there's nothing noble about the idea that a dissenter should voluntarily submit to be punished. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who benefits from spreading that idea, though.
In my experience, paperless doesn't work unless you also eliminate/greatly downscale your printer (no more hundred-page-per-minute behemoth, trade that in for a slow $50 inkjet MFP from the local department store, and spend the year's maintenance budget on tablets for all) because people still have that ingrained habit of printing all the things.

That way, you can still print/fax if you need to, but now there's an opportunity cost to it. Using the computer is now unambiguously quicker.

And if everyone is "distracted" during a meeting due to tablets, you should probably be asking yourself if the meeting is essential to have. Is whatever topic you're discussing really worth having X people paid Y per hour drop everything they're doing to hash something out that couldn't be done over IM or email? (I find this tack works great with convincing higher-level management who think in dollars and cents)
Clapper even admitted to lying to congress and there will be nothing done about it. So much for 'rule of law'
Yes, it's two different scenarios:

0. Civil rights of African Americans and others in the 50's and 60's.

1. Digital rights of everyone in 2010's versus a state apparatus.