skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No model is perfect. If it is a better model than the current one (which is the argument), it should be used as a replacement. Economic systems came from biological systems. As a result, they share some fundamental characteristics and the "false analogy" carries significant weight.

I suggest you read this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics
Google Down?
No google services are responding right now. Could this be possible? Is the world ending?
Surely there must be some difference between a co-op and a private company without shareholders (i.e. funding can't be the only difference)
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It does sound harsh. There is a lot of material online about the case in question.
There's one thing I totally disliked: I hate when I need to login as the very first required step. I (may) still don't know what the app does and I already have to login or create an account. To me, that's a bad user experience and in general I uninstall apps that do that. Very few apps really need the user to be logged in from moment zero. I would suggest to let the user see what the app is for, so he feels by himself how cool it'd be to have an account to use the app at its 100%.
it's because the angle you mention has been covered plenty of times. watch a few episodes of Drugs Inc. and you'll see.

this covers the end we rarely hear about and is far more interesting as it's far removed from the street.
Clean break with the new protocol NATing the old protocol. IPv4 addresses not behind the NAT are not accessible on the new internet. Exploit the asymmetry inherit in services vs clients.
My favorite example of a solopreneur game development is Chris Sawyer writing RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly language in 1999 [1].

The game series (along with Transport Tycoon) sold an estimated $180 million worth of copies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon
Thanks! Note taken. I'll try to add a few more colors to it as soon as I have some free time.
OnePlus launches the One, priced at a Nexus-baiting $300
The OnePlus offers the specs of a Galaxy S5 for less than half the price.
Its one thing to certify a doctor and another to certify software.

There are formal proofs for software. FIPS doesnt work with software, it takes 6 months just to pass the process??

What does FIPS mean if after the 6th month another heartbleed is found? FIPS remains but the product is useless.
I was born in Russia in 1984; it was pretty great to me, because a) young kids don't notice as much of society's ills, and b) I'm the grandchild of a well respected academic.

Life was pretty good for me and my family; not so good for my friend, who had to share a two bedroom apartment with two other families.

(I feel that books, movies, etc. are pretty subjective - I like the flood of post-modern shit we live in. You might have to dig a little harder to find diamonds, but there are more of them.)
There is one huge difference - it is far easier to internationalize the first one. The second one is impossible, and the third has ordering issues.

What is the Go best practise for i18n? A google search seems to provide various solutions but not one best practise.
The network front-end is key here, especially since the goal of Redis is -- in spirit and in actuality -- to act as a network front-end to in-memory data structures.

It's damn good at it too, but disassociating that network front-end may make sense in the future.
Exciting to see this finished. I remember his comments in Write Code Every Day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569108

Super excited to see that his writing strategy worked and it is released. Nice work Bob.
Meritocracy? Really? Then explain Lysenko, for example, who single-handedly, thanks to his political clout with Stalin and Krushchev, set Soviet agriculture, genetics and biology research back several decades. For severall years, going against Lysenko's theories was actually illegal.

And you can feel free to arrange your own little Soviet state. For my part, my marxist views would most likely have gotten me sent to Siberia or worse, so I'd much rather stay clear.
Yes: Google + GMail + Google Apps for me.
That is odd. Working on it.
As a Jew born in the USSR that soon emigrated, I've thankfully avoided the harrowing experiences my parents and grandparents had to go through. Comparing favorably to a kleptocracy that used Capitalism as a false flag just as much as the old oligarchy used Socialism isn't the sort of glowing recommendation I think you intended.
Curious though that the OnePlus One could be abbreviated as OPO. I wonder if that's an intentional dig (or nod?) at Oppo, considering that the founder is ex-Oppo.
He's right. I don't know about openings where absolutely nothing is being done, but I see opportunities for simplifying and bringing costs down. A lot of farm machinery is geared towards large producers with prices to match, leaving smaller farms to either DIY or do without.

I have/had a few ideas I was researching and at least one I plan on testing on my own acreage this summer. Figuring out how to market to a population that doesn't seem to have a big online presence is the hurdle I haven't crossed yet.
Just because it is an introductory book doesn't mean it isn't difficult. It was written as the course text for an MIT course which was known to be quite challenging. MIT has since dropped SICP as the required intro course. It is now an elective. I think the book may not be the appropriate difficulty level for a college freshman who has never programmed before. I got a lot out of it by doing the programming exercises after I had a few years of college coursework under my belt. I don't think I would have gotten a lot out of it had I not had that experience.
“Russian Facebook” founder flees country after being forced out as CEO
You may be able to pick up a board based on the Atheros AR9331, Alfa made one called the Hornet-UB [1], although I can only find them second hand (look for wifi pineapple mk4 for on ebay).

If you're looking to design your own hardware, there are plenty of ICs with dual NICs. For example the TI chip on the BeagleBone Black has dual ethernet NICs, but only one is used on the board.

[1] http://www.alfa.com.tw/products_show.php?pc=99&ps=50
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Andreas-MacBook-Air:Source ajf$ brew tap caskroom/fonts && brew cask install font-comic-neue
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom-fonts'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 3465, done.
remote: Total 3465 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (3465/3465), 496.33 KiB | 280.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1974/1974), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Tapped 0 formula
Error: Unknown command: cask
What's wrong with installing Mail-in-a-Box on a machine that you physically control in your home or office, then?
Through licensing, taxation and regulation.

We don't limit alcohol to minors terribly effectively, but we're very good at nearly universally collecting excise tax revenue.

States can aggressively police liquor licenses and enforce regulations with respect to sales to minors and get better compliance there. In my state, they clamp down regulation of kegs and made the traditional keg party much harder to execute on than it was in the past.
CDN down as well.
That's exactly the detail missing from this article!

The other bit of information that I would really find useful as a lay person is how temperature distribution varied during the "greenhouse" climates. For example, was it linear to todays differential, implying that if I can directly apply an increase of 20C to today's temp and say that the avg. CA temp would be 34C from the 14C referenced currently or is it more even and the jump at extremes will be significantly larger or smaller than at equator?
Ciks, not down
Well, I'm a Dropbox customer, and I've just upgraded from a free account to the $100/year plan. If they fire Dr. Rice, I doubt you'll resume paying for Dropbox, but I definitely won't renew.
Uber is now in 100 cities around the world
tldr;

During an npm install of the tar module I received this:

npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar
npm ERR! registry error parsing json
npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token y
npm ERR! ny-leone-porn-sex-scene/Sunny-Leones-deleted-sex-scene-from-Ragini-MMS-2/photostory/33010796.cms"})^@9"},"�������

Followed by the rest of the package.json from the module.

Something or someone injected data into the response I got from npmjs.org. The fact that it was Isaac Schlueter's account is particularly worrisome.
I certainly feel some symptoms of burnout - quality of my work went down, development is no longer interesting, all projects look the same to me. But this is not something sudden, it's been there for years, slowly changing my life. Sorry for such an useless comment, but I'm realizing it will be difficult to recover from this creeping apathy.
I have an older 4GB RAM MBP and it feels smooth to me. The scrolling is janky because of parallax, not from performance problems. After that site loads it's fast and usable.

I've seen ad infested blog posts give this MBP way more trouble.

My main gripe with the Designer News site is the main and comment pages are not well designed. Huge amount of space between headlines and comments makes it hard to skim. This statistic page looks and reads much better.
Very nice, better hardware than Google Nexus 5 [1] at better price, though larger, slightly thicker and heavier.

http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
Possibly DNS related. I can get to google.com on my cell phone, but can't get to anything google related on my computer. (Google.com, GMail, YouTube).
This article seems to me to completely misinterpret the Experian study.

My (and HuffPost's) reading of the Experian graph is that 18% of households with Hulu or Netflix have no cable TV service, while cabletv.com reverses it: 'only 18% of “cord cutters” have Netflix OR Hulu.'

I didn't go through the sign-up form to download the study itself, and the graph appears not to have been made by Edward Tufte, so it's hard to say for sure. Anybody read the actual study?
If people really need FIPS mode, somebody will fork again and
create libfipssl.com and charge a million bucks for it. And then the
ones who need FIPS mode can pay to get it, but they won't pay us. The
OpenBSD Foundation will gladly take donations to improve libressl, but
some money is just too expensive to accept. Sitting on (or more
accurately, under) a million dollars in custom contracts creates what
I will charitably call a priority inversion.

Donate here - http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Doesn't Samsung spend the most out of all mobile makers on marketing? I would assume they're also paying additional costs for Google Services, patent licenses and other things, which also cut into the actual margin.
Oh, very well. Thank you for proving that the scientific community disagrees with me, and proving evidence for your point. I can't say I actually agree with those criteria; especially since one is wholly impossible: there is never a possibility that there's 'no fear of reprisal' when the reprisal can take the form of conflicting with one's self-identity. To be honest, to accept a self-report I'd have to see the following:

1) A study which shows that the questions themselves do not introduce bias. An actual study, where multiple groups of participants were asked the same questions in different forms so as to prove the language of the question cannot influence the result. Of course, this would cause every questionnaire and interview study to fail, because the language does indeed affect the results and is thus a confounding variable (which cannot be controlled without pretending that some language "just doesn't affect people", and yet still functions as language).

2) A proof that the demographic of the sample was controlled for all controllable factors other than those measured. For instance, in this study it wouldn't be good enough to test for the correlation between gender and friendship satisfaction by just getting a bunch of men and women: they'd all have to be the same class, race, wealth etc.

3) The study cannot draw conclusions, nor interpret its results as causative. This is really quite self-explanatory: correlation does not imply causation. Yet, especially in sociology and psychology, this logical maxim seems to get forgotten amongst the excitement of having produced a study.

I'm sure there's more objections, but you've already put up with me arrogantly berating the scientific community for 3 points now. If I were allowed to edit my post to state that the scientific community disagrees with me regarding the validity of the 2007 study, I would.

As for an experimental methodology for studying friendship, I can't say that I can think of any studies which would do so and get past an ethics committee (bloody ethicists), but making the study longitudinal over childhood through to young adulthood would help, as it would show what age-bound variables affect the output. It might just be that young adult men are, for instance, too busy developing a career to have friends, or too busy drinking beer to have friends, or whatever; either way, making it longitudinal would allow some of the uncontrollable confounding variables (such a life experiences) to become more apparent.
Cable TV is idiot-proofed.

That's where streaming/torrent/pirate solutions keep failing, and not understanding why. Nirvana nailed it: "here we are now, entertain us." The cheaper the price tag, the more technical know-how is involved. Popcorn Time came close, but still requires geek skillz. We're talking people who don't quite grasp "enter key" or "space bar" (much less "grep"), people who just want a limited linear list of what's available right now, who want to pick a channel generally filled with content they'll like, and who just want it to keep going without involvement.

Netflix is great - when you know what you want and are inclined to find it. When they finally get a consistent flow of new content, and set up "channels" inclined toward specialization with a good mix of shows, with some live content thrown in, then cable TV will have reason to panic.

Drop-dead idiot-proof simple. No wonder it took Steve Jobs to "crack" video, and we still don't know what he figured out (akin to "I found a marvelous proof, but this margin is too small...").
"Capitalism in the 21st Century" sold out on Amazon
What I found most striking about this article was how different the industry it is talking about seems to be from the one I've been working in. In their industry, Java, .Net and ASP are "new", everything else is "legacy", and Perl and Coldfusion are (admittedly minor) players, but Ruby, Python, and Javascript don't seem to exist, let alone "new" things like Scala, Clojure, and Go.

I'd be interested in knowing how representative the "30,000 websites" they surveyed are of the web as a whole.
"The last six months? I did some exploratory projects, but decided against productizing them."
> On the other hand, Google's corporate goals are very much against end-to-end encryption and strong privacy

If there's money in privacy, I don't think that would be the case. If Google made web-of-trust and key exchange easy, I'd pay to use it. I already pay for other things Google can't monetize with ads. So it isn't as if Google fails to see alternative monetization approaches.
Unless that was an excuse for a pun (and I have no problem with that), you are underestimating how much work has gone into farm automation. All the industrialized countries have worked on this for decades, with some successes (GPS-guided tractors with pesticide spay patterns guided by aerial photography, good old milking machines, etc). This is a multi-billion dollar business in most countries and also a strategic issue of food security.

Israel in particular has spent a fortune on research into robotizing fruit production, since they have money but have complex relations with neighbours that make cheap labour immigration unreliable. They are working very hard on all the literal hanging fruit.
This is really great but I think a cross between this and Treehouse would be best. It's close. But if there was some way Codecademy could have a plugin for Sublime Text and have it be connected to the courses it would be pretty amazing.
Their use as index to arrays sounds reasonable. However in this case it may be wiser to give them less friendly names than those for the 32-bit and 64-bit counterparts. To not have portability issues, it is important that the programmer understands when int and uint should be used (index to arrays, the sizes of which could be machine dependent) and when specified-size integer types (when representing application-specific data).
Crunchbase is building the business graph
Crunchbase is now positioning itself as the business graph. What does it mean?
This is impressive: http://developer.muchdifferent.com/unitypark/
Consider a ubiquity networks edge router lite. It is $99 and has 3 gigabit Ethernet ports and dual core MIPS CPU and hardware packet forwarding. Runs Debian Linux. Active community.
Co-founders wife who doesn't even work for GitHub was running the show and had argument with another woman there who happens to work for GitHub. Ada Initiative conclusion: SEXISM!
LSD and Marijuana increase IQ.

I have smoked and dosed for 20+ years and only notice my mental abilities sharpen. Alcohol and cigarettes are the real issue, but they are legal of course :).

Perhaps the title should be renamed socially marginalized friends have to break the law to help people get what they want. The government and police should be removed from the equation, and let the shock commence when violent crime actually dwindles.

>2014
>still war on drugs

SMFH
New York Police Department Twitter campaign 'backfires' after hashtag hijacked
The newly-cheap aerial photography with drones is going to have a big impact. It's starting already.
Science has become sclurotic. Teams that are funded outside of state science system are going to be able to take risks and try things that would be unthinkable in academia. Each of these teams in an experiment in a different way to do experiments. All of science will benefit from the results of these meta-experiments.
I don't think it's possible in this case. And, yes, I think it is a sufficient reason that such comments shouldn't be made. Not because it's exclusionary (although discrimination is an awful thing, I don't think homosexual people would mind being excluded from the implications of the premise we're discussing), but because it shows how wrong the comment is. The implication is that specifically heterosexual persons have the sex-friendship issue, or if not, then all humans have this issue, in which case the "men and women" part has to be thrown out.

Is there any evidence that friendship, sexual and romantic relations work differently among homosexual people? And to such an extent that the negative tension between sex and friendship exists only with heterosexual people? I don't know of any. Has anyone ever made a comment: "Gay men can't be friends because sex always gets in the way." or "Lesbians can't be friends because sex always gets in the way."?

I'm not implying there's homophobia in this kind of thinking, just very bad, shallow "analysis" of interpersonal relationships (of the kind you tend to get from "women magazines" and "men magazines", no surprise there) and, in some cases, a lot of rationalisation by people who only want infantile sexual relations from persons of desirable sex and don't even try to make friends, although they try to fake it to get sex (i.e. by people for whom friendship was never actually a motivating option).
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Feature Driven Development for Ruby gems
It's great, but as you have both domains now, you should really just run with codeAcademy.com if at all possible (which is what everyone remembers it as) rather than orienting your branding to deal with the name confusion (box around the code etc).
This one's pretty easy: just be up front about it.

"I had an idea. I went out on my own to try it out. It didn't work out, but I learned a lot along the way."

Then just be prepared to talk a little about the things you learned, and how they helped you grow as a professional.

No employer worth working for is going to ding you for taking a risk like that -- even outside SV! Seriously! -- as long as you can make it clear that you really were working on something during that period, rather than sitting on the couch eating Cheetos.
Which is great to me. I think there is a time and place for sites that are inspirational in creativity and those that focus on functionality.
> I haven't read SICP (shame on me!), but I didn't think it had a reputation of a "hard book". Isn't it designed to be introductory textbook for freshmen students?

The two categories are not mutually exclusive; indeed, I'd expect the core textbook of any not-expressly-for-students-of-unrelated-majors introductory class in any field at a top-tier school for that field to be something of a hard book.
Quip releases an API
This reads like a prejudicial post, based on a biased interpretation of unclear events. Not what I would expect from an organization whose goal is to fight against prejudice.
Next Ubuntu will be the "utopic unicorn"
This is a great read. It goes into detail about the practical application of design patterns- when to use them, when not to use them, and some gotchas that are not mentioned in other books. I'd pay for a downloadable PDF version of this!
Just be upfront about this situation. Come up with a cap table that includes everyone that brings in non-zero value, and fairly allocate equity based on what each individual brings to the team. There's no reason to split 50/50 if 2 people are not contributing equally, might be closer to 95/5. Make sure you can defend any equity amount based on objective reasons.
shot contact over linkedin + twitter. Let's chat!
Back in the late '60s, I worked at a place that had an IBM mainframe, with a big refrigerator-sized expansion that contained some add-on memory: an entire megabyte. They got it on sale for less than a million dollars (not much less, but less). What's that, about a factor of 100 million in cost, and probably a thousandfold increase in bandwidth? It's mindblowing to contemplate.
Here, two from personal experience:

"I worked on a mobile startup, right before iOS got big; J2ME games. Yeah, I think we sold maybe 50 games once? Anyways, stayed in college, no harm done."

"I tried a startup. After a year, it imploded in not-quite-glorious fashion. Still dealing with the fallout from that, but I learned a lot about business and product development."

There's no shame in failing, and anybody worth working with will appreciate your experience--that is, if you learned anything.
I understand this argument but I don't believe it is a slam dunk. On the web, a user has invested nothing other than a click or possibly typing a url. On mobile, a user has already downloaded and installed the app. They have more invested, so you would think, are more likely to create an account.

That being said, you are certainly making the "funnel" smaller at the top but possibly the slope of the edges are more forgiving to the app developer as the user progresses down the conversion funnel?
All private companies have shareholders. The shares they own are just not publicly traded shares. "Shareholders" is, in this context, the same as "owners," and all private companies have owners.

So, what's the difference between a coop and a private, for-profit company in which everyone who works for the company owns the same portion of the company and gets an equal say in decision making? Not much practical difference, really, although with a coop, those things are enshrined, whereas with a private company, they're optional.