skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a non-solution to a problem that doesn't even exist. The real "problem" as I understand it is that some people get information sooner than others and can profit from it, creating incentives to get information faster and faster even though there is little benefit to the rest of the economy for doing so. I doubt the total cost is that huge though.

I'm not sure if it's possible to fix that, but one idea would be to do trades in discrete increments of a few seconds or whatever. Similar to how exchanges close overnight and companies can release important information, and everyone can be prepared by the next day when they start trading again.
Isn't Navalni widely considered/painted as a paid US shill in Russia? I've seen him on TV and he didn't strike me as someone who'd put his life on a line for betterment of Russian governance, just in principle. His true motives are far from clear.
I would not be surprised at all if this was already in the making. With that in mind, I'm surprised there hasn't been a ton of clones for Papers, Please yet - like how Minecraft and Terraria clones are all over nowadays.

Also, instead of feeding your family, the object of the game should be to keep your EFF-friendly colleague from going rogue, :p
A few things so far:

Be careful who you trust. Expect the worst from people, most probably that's what you're going to get.

Most people have no clue what they're doing and are simply reacting to situation.

As for the more technical:

Best practices are mostly bullshit. There is no such thing as doing it right.

Analysis paralysis is a silent killer. I've spent the first decade of my professional life learning how to be a better programmer. Seems like I am going to spend the next one learning about compromises and getting shit done.
Debugging Software on the Macintosh
All Is Not As It First Appears.
I use a Kensington Expert Mouse (it's actually an optical trackball, despite the name) which fits very well with the finger arrangement you describe. I use my little finger for the right button, though; I don't know if that's a deal breaker for you.

http://www.kensington.com/kensington/us/us/p/1444/K64325/exp...
Hey, I want the last three hours of my life back, and that's from just reading the dev journal!

You are correct in his way of dealing with people, really suggests a level of maturity, confidence and open mindedness about him. I like the way that he seems to seriously consider people's ideas, and is not afraid to incorporate me wines into his game. The fingerprinting for example.
DEAR PHONE MANUFACTURERS:

WE DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIN PHONES. WE WANT BIG BATTERIES THAT LAST MANY DAYS.

Sorry for an all-caps comment that is only tangentially relevant to this particular article/phone, but I am goddam sick and tired of NO mainstream phone manufacturers getting out of this "We'll compete on fractions of millimeters that you'll never notice, we'll tell you what you want, we'll condition you to plug in your phone every chance you get like some kind of direct-current junkie"

Ugh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trendelenburg_position
It was Dominion: Storm over Gift 3, from Ion Storm.

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-d...
Online CloudFront Invalidator
Grouplet: Payment gateway for processing shared wallets and group payments
The future of programming is somewhere in the field of dataflow and (functional) reactive programming. It brings easy state to the declarative programming world.
Big doesn't have to mean particularly heavy, and it's ridiculous of you to suggest that a couple extra feet of crumple zone isn't going to make impacts less forceful.
Indeed.

The company makes money from advertising, so advertisers are its most important readers. This is true, to a greater or lesser extent, for any media that sells ad space. Some organizations maintain "Chinese walls" between the ad side and the editorial side, but these are businesses and they ultimately have to answer to their bottom lines. That's true for Fox News, the Washington Post, or a Financial Times supplement – they are all chasing money with their brand and curating content that conforms to the expectations advertisers have of said brand. Rolling Stone is an 'edgy' magazine, so they publish articles that critique America's rapacious capitalism, but they still run full-page adverts for Apple products.

So, speaking as an editor, I believe it is possible to address some of the questions about truth above with an algorithm, but not all. There isn't a substitute for reading with a skeptical eye, doing one's own research, balancing views from experts, and filtering that against the influence money has on the source's position. A computer could make some of that easier, but if someone offers me a digital product that helps me verify the truth of articles
I read, for the low, low cost of only $2/month, I'm still going to doubt the veracity of what I'm getting.

I heard a story once that sort of speaks to the issues you describe. A group of American journalists went visited Moscow in the late 80s to visit the former Soviet counterparts. They discussed life in each others' countries and shared perspectives on working conditions in their trade. One American asked, "What was it like, being directed by the communists as to what you could and could not print?"

A Russian journalist responded, "Much the same as being directed by capitalists."
Thanks for the name of 'heist' - never heard of it before and it looks interesting.
>If cities keep expanding, how are we going to feed everyone?

They vastly underestimate the amount of land on Earth.
That's /The/ Bunk, thank you very much, :p.

As for not everyone looking at series like the Wire the same way, that's just natural. I'm sure a lot of people think Papers, Please is a shit game too. Can't argue with taste, can't steer people's priorities when it comes to TV shows either. The Wire for example needs a lot of attention and concentration to watch; a lot of people have some TV show on in the background, and only pay attention when something (or someone) draws attention to them.
PayPal's new policies are more crowdfunding friendly
I have this hunch this guy is just hussling his way through.

I think (don't know for sure) that bloc.io is his website (paying for courses). "I'm fortunate to receive... from bloc.io" + "Bloc is probably the best way to make this happen".Also his portfolio are all clones from existing websites and on bloc.io = learn from copying reddit, ...

This guy is not serious, he wants to promote his startup in disguise :)

Next time, just say when you want to promote something instead of "this"
What happens if someone chops up binary data such as a copyright movie file BASE64 encoded into DNS text records? Does all the DNS operators with that in the cache become illegal file sharers then?
what about the ability to create user friendly, customizable shortcuts in the UI of certain products? I really enjoy customizing my android phone with shortcuts that are intuitive to me, such as double tap back arrow --> jump between last open app, and long press menu button --> pull down notification bar from top.

I wish I could define or remap buttons on physical appliances, granted it's an advanced mode common users would not be burdened with.
No. Correlation doesn't make causation more likely. This is something you have made up.
Which Links Get More Clicks?
Which reminds me of : what are the current realistic alternative to facebook as of today ? I'm thinking of some tech that would let me remain in control of the data i show to my friends.
President's time is limited, so it's better if just representatives of bigger groups of people call him directly.
I think we can say that in some sense Mark represents larger group of people.
Who is “we”? Please speak four yourself.
I reeeally hope so but I wouldn't count on random people giving me money at all. Hope you are not saying that to make me feel guilty about not giving $$$ to you.

"Even as I sit here and look at what happened with this today I am torn between actually using the donations to pay off our housing and transportation debts along with my final resting place or just giving the money to someone else who needs it more than I do."

Yes, you should be.

If you are really in a dire situation maybe you should look into getting money from the government by participating in research and stuff like that. That's what I would do if I were in your situation.

Hope your last time on this planet is good. This is a process everyone will have to experience eventually I'm afraid. No matter if you are young or old. Crazy thing is that everything will just keep moving on, your kids will grow up, maybe have kids of their own and eventually, in a long time, themselves face the same situation. It's an endless cycle these lives. Even if we can't recognize that because we're stuck in the middle of it trying to make money for our future or something else we aren't sure about.

This is a really good book by the way. Helped me get through the hard times. Although im not sure the english translation is that good.

http://www.amazon.com/Inger-Christensen/dp/0811215946

Good luck. Hope your funding goes well and that it will make you happy.
Yeah, we had these Sun ones in the lab at university back in '96(ish). They'd probably been there a few years even then.

'Course they were reliant on the special mat, and the mat had to be oriented correctly. I suppose you might say they weren't really a consumer offering though, which the article mentions. The price of Sun systems kept them in business ajd education facilities.
YouTube Gives UK Gov't Broad Powers To Censor Videos It Doesn't Like
People trade after hours.
I do see a big difference between a government that has a huge cache of information about everybody that they rarely access[1] and a provate company having information about its users that it accesses regularly.

Also, facebook collects information about people who have never had a facebook account and who don't want one.

[1] the GCHQ cache was accessed less than a thousand times, for example. Google trawls my data many times a day.
It is bureaucratic, very much, but the plus side is that everything can be done online.
It definitely is true. In a collision the vehicles absorb the energy of the collision inversely proportional to their relative masses i.e. the lighter car takes the brunt of the crash.

Safety researchers are responding by using active protection systems: in vehicles equippped with v2v transcievers will stiffen or soften their crash protection systems based upon the relative masses of the vehicles.
Facebook collects data about people who are not its users.
It had already been done : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386557
Indian wearable device Fin gets huge pre-orders
Some Context: in 2010 the 121,000 annual US accidental deaths are roughly evenly split between vehicles (35,000), unintentional poisoning (33,000), falls (26,000) and other causes. Collectively accidents are the 5th leading cause of death after heart attack, cancer, respiratory disease and stroke.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf
I have sent you an invite
This is dangerous to use. The code sends my secret access key over an insecure HTTP connection to Yahoo Pipes servers. (God knows what they store.) I will never use that.
> I would not contribute if companies (e.g. Google) could just take the data and not give back to OSM.

Why not? OSM still remains useful and authorative.

I see this in photography circles with Creative Commons. People choosing 'No Commmercial' clauses so that companies 'can't make money with my work'; but there is no negative impact on the photographer if a company does so, so why care?

If Google makes $100 million with my photograph, or with my OSM contributions, then that's dandy. It doesn't affect me and it doesn't undermine OSM.
ok, I concede that point, but none of my friends are giving my info to the NSA, either.
Oh shut up with half-baked emotional arguments, if a 'few people' dying in accidents was always a good enough reason to slow down traffic there wouldn't be a road in the world faster than 20mph.

At any rate, speed limits are set extra low with the expectation that people will go faster than the number on the sign. Trying to 'eliminate speeding' by itself is a nonsense goal.
Hey, partner here. I'm in Melbourne.

I've set up more vanilla cos here in Aus, but I'm (we're) pretty confused about all the tax implications of selling eBooks to domestic and international audiences, and my accountant doesn't seem to be much more clued in.

Any advice you can provide would be highly appreciated.
Uh, well, I like thin phones. 18 hours on a charge is enough for me.

What I would like is to have an external rechargeable battery to come with my phone instead of buying one from a third party, as I find that a great compromise.
As a fact I know 10+ European citizens that have had no problem coming to the US to live and work... you're a techie, we both know anecdotes are not data.

No one challenges that US visas are difficult at times to get. But if it was such an issue, I've gotta ask -- how is your software company's offering and positioning so unique that only you could manage operations from the US?

Also, to note, B1/B2 visas are for "temporary" visits for work or pleasure. There were multiple EB-* visas for permanent relocation. Even so, B1 visas are granted by the millions and are valid for Europeans for 10 years...
What?? Russia has quite officially kept at least 10k troops in Crimea for the last 200 years, give or take. Maybe you can cross-check your breaking twitter news with, I dunno, wikipedia maybe?
> If guilt can't be proven for sufficiently to assess which driver's insurance should pay for the costs of an accident, how can guilt be proven for the much stricter requirements needed for manslaughter?

Guilt could be proven for more cases but the cost is prohibitive. It is cheaper for all concerned to just say "we know what happened, let's not bother finding out how and just split the costs of repair", the drivers pay higher premiums for a while, they probably share the blame anyway and both will drive more carefully from now on.

When one of the parties could go to prison for life, society decides to accept the burden and does a full investigation.
> unless you're naively doing inefficient things

This counts for anything including your original jquery example.
R, Pandas (python) and alike will do a good job IMHO. I've been working with Matlab before (not really statistics, but more general), and now R is really delightful with visualizations and quick analysis.

If you're looking for a rich programming language with basic analysis function I would recommend Pandas. Not as diverse as R, but works pretty good. (Just watch out for that steep learning curve in the beginning).
I know you meant that at 'pcx but while AOSP is functionally complete in terms of it giving you a base to work from, most would consider the lacking services, etc that it's missing to mean that it's not what most consider "Android". Of course, I love hacking on AOSP and it doesn't bother me, for a ROM that replaces the "missing" Google services, Replicant is the way to go.
Who knows? I didn't click it.
I for one just want a regular sized phone. One I could put in my pocket. But no, manufacturers decided that they will push being huge (and being thin as you mentioned) as something people want. The phones that I might consider buying are now labeled as mini or compact. And they are still huge.

(this is mostly about android market)
Him and me. I think that is already enough for we ;)
Bitcoin has a lowercase "c".
>> How do we make our economy grow without having to borrow money? Simple, make less restrictive policy.

That went well the last time we tried it. But I am probably missing something fundamental.
> Does anyone know of studies that test whether improvements within the normal band of reading speed are possible?

Isn't this trivially true? Did you read 600 wpm at age seven?

I'm not sure I'm willing to call 200 wpms (spending more than a minute reading your ~260 word (according to wc) comment) being "proficient" at reading. Barring any fundamental problems (dyslexia, possibly poor sight) anyone should be able to improve beyond that. If you're reading 200 wpm (with good comprehension) increasing to a rather modest 400 wpm doubles your efficiency! That seems like it should be a worthy goal of any student (because it makes them much more efficient students).
Michel Thomas is excellent - I learned enough French from his course (having never learned any French before) to have some basic conversations with people I was staying with in France. Nothing groundbreaking or deep, but general basic chit chat about the weather, what to do, where to go, how to get there etc.
Good point. I have to admit I never actually raised this point in a retro. Also because it's pretty subtle, and the planning meeting is always after the retro, so I forget about it by the time we get to the next retro. I focus on the content of the sprint itself, not the meetings around it.

I hope to address this next time. Or maybe I should just point it out before then.
It just looks like an elaborate way to market FusionTables. But it's a popular move for everybody these days, and even a couple of MOOC's have been used to spread the word about some professors pet-project/platform.

But putting that aside, I don't see why they didn't support any of the other free/open platforms (like R). (I'm expecting "but it's too complicated to that user-segment" argument)
How long does this thing last on a charge? I see lots of air bubbling out the sides. Doesn't that eventually run out?
Intentionally releasing poisons is a hell of a lot closer to murder than performing an activity with risks (aka any activity). Factories are a poor leading point, because I could see a world where they are required to capture toxins to the point that only uncommon accidents release non-negligible amounts. But driving would still be okay in comparison.
The Humble Border-Radius
You're ignoring the word 'just'.
The general audience ( that includes me ) thinks that high frequency trading makes easy money out of nothing. But for someone to make money, another's got to loose. So has anyone heard of hft firms going bankrupt ?
There are such alternatives out there and you'll find it if you look for it but you shall not migrate to those service because your friends are not yet there. Everybody stays thinking the same.
I'm not making any arguments. Is it ok to go 90mph when the speed limit is 75mph? Even if its straight I90 freeway in the middle of Central Washington? I'm not sure, but today we have that choice as enforcement is choppy.

Anyways, we'll be into self driving cars in 10 or 15 years regardless, the question is almost outdated.
Ah. I recently bought a used iPhone 3GS for $40 on eBay because my old Motorola Atrix's screen is sort of broken.

I didn't want to get a new phone until I have a budget. I thought about getting ZTE Open but two things pushes me away from FxOS.

1. ZTE Open's spec is many times weaker than my Atrix's. I already find Atrix slow. Spending $70 on a phone in that spec is still not affordable for me.

2. The FxOS ecosystem is still a lot smaller than iOS and Android. I know it is new but that a number of popular apps (Instagram, Gmail, GMap) are not yet available on Mozilla Marketplace.

I understand that the initial launch is targeting at countries where smartphone usage is low. But what people need is a phone not buggy and laggy.

I want to see a phone with powerful spec so #1 goes away. I can then still rely on the web interface to do #2, provided that the phone is powerful enough so I won't lag while opening multiple web pages!

I like FireFox OS and I really want to own one, but right now I am going with iOS (I will avoid Android) given how rock solid iOS is in my experience.

Keep up the good work, FxOS team.
I'll just wait for the 4096 AI version to play...
We did not learn that Microsoft "datamines IM conversations". All we know is that Skype (like other IM services) has a URL checking service. It's possible that only the URL is sent to Microsoft outside of whatever normal encryption Skype uses.

There may be some technical questions we might like answers to (why do HTTP URLs apparently not get scanned; why does it only do a HEAD request), but the most obvious answer is that it's some detail of MS's anti-spam/phishing system.
What I find most intriguing about Papers, please is that the game forces you to make moral and ethical choices. During the course of that boring chore you'll have to decide whether to take bribes or help the revolutionaries. Or should you try to save that girl from being human trafficked for prostitution or just do your job to feed the family.

What is even more chilling is that this was day-to-day business in many European countries less than 30 years ago.
Why don't they set the minimum trading interval to something larger to unencourage HFT?
What startups can learn from Amazon
You are assuming the market is a closed system, but it's not really: you aren't gambling with other people, instead the capital invested should be put to productive use. HFT helps with liquidity, though there are probably better solutions to that problem.
I created a very basic automated tool in PHP for displaying my accounts balance and transferring money between my accounts in Nordea in Sweden [1]. I happened to put it on github just yesterday.

Had they a real API I suppose I would use it rather than this. I have a couple of accounts for different purposes and like to avoid moving the money manually every month.

[1] https://github.com/pfyra/nordea-php
Money and other dirty words
I don't know, I mean what is "speed reading"? Whenever I "informally" clock myself, I read at around 600 wpm +/- 100 wpm or so. If that's "just reading" surely "speed reading" should be significantly faster, say 1200 wpm at the very least?

[edit: Hm, that might have been a bit optimistic, reading the article I clocked myself at ~420. I've never really tried to time myself on a dense paper -- say the first time I read Fielding's dissertation[1] for example. I doubt I'd have read that at the same speed as a somewhat vapid article on speed reading (as the author suggest, although I'm a little taken aback that email is grouped with news as things not to read carefully -- I guess it's a sadly accurate picture of the current state of most peoples online discourse. Sinser[2] would like a word with you! ;-)

[1] "Architectural Styles and
the Design of Network-based Software Architectures" (aka that ReST thing):

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

[2] "On Writing Well":
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti... ]

I'd say 1200 wpm is below skimming speed -- and there is something in-between -- but I'm not convinced that it's terribly useful as a skill. Being able to skim an article at great speed can be useful, for deciding if it's worth reading or not. I'm not convinced "speed reading" is very useful. The very term implies you speed through material at a speed greater than comprehension (which I'll loosely equate to "regular reading speed").

I do think it can be useful to train oneself to read faster -- by reading more, and occasionally by "forcing" oneself to read faster. For those that already read at reasonable speeds (~500 wpm?) -- it's probably useful to pick up tricks for skimming, and "backwards reading": starting with the conclusion, and reading articles backwards (conclusion, discussion, introduction -- or: conclusion, introduction, discussion -- and either way, probably conclusion again).
Most countries (the U.S. included) follow fairly similar standards when it comes to taxation of stock options - if they have a vesting period, taxation is proportioned accordingly with where you spent that vesting period. So, if they vested over 4 years and you spent 2.5 years of that in the U.S., it doesn't matter that you moved back home for a year to exercise. 2.5-years worth of stock options are considered U.S.-sourced and you owe taxes to USA when exercising them.