skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grow enough fruit and veg that I barter some surplus with other local growers, and the only resources I use are wastewater and composted kitchen leftovers, and the occasional bag of potting soil (like 1 a year). It's not especially efficient but I'm happy with a sub-optimal producer surplus, given the minimal investment required. The opportunity cost is likewise minimal - the space used for growing food would otherwise be filled with decorative but unproductive plants, which don't have any particular economic value for me because I'm not into flowers or having a well-manicured lawn.

Admittedly it's easy for me because living near the Oaklnd/Berkeley border I enjoy great weather, major pollutants were phased out earlier here than anywhere else in the country, I don't need to work the soil intensively to produce more than I can eat, nor am I dependent on selling food for my income. You're quite right that commercial food production involves large comparative advantages. But getting several hundred dollars' worth of food a year out of the garden suits me fine and I'm pretty sure the resultant carbon footprint is too shallow to measure.
I am surprised, and they are technically correct.

My only alibi is no one in my wife's scrapbooking clique could handle creating their own dxfs or pirating any kind of files off the internet, making me correct in practice. There surely do exist at least some scrappers who have CAD skills. Just not many of them.

When circut was new the carts I bought my wife for gifts were all like $60 and have steadily dropped in price over the years. Now they're mostly like $20. When diecuts at the local scrapbook store are only $1 or even 50 cents a cartridge is a luxury but not really economic, but at $20 its hard to justify buying diecuts instead of a cartridge.

Is a ripoff a good deal if the alternative is technologically impossible for most and the ripoff is really cheap? A good analogy is a buck for a two minute .mp3 top 40 song, I don't think its worth a buck, but its more convenient than filesharing or ripping, especially for people technologically incapable of it, and its not a lot of money so, ok fine whatever, even if I'm not smiling while I pay my $1.
Awesome Redskins 2014 Pump Up Video
Macarthur foundation. Most famous as being givers of the "genius grants". Founded by the people that owned Bankers Life Insurance.
But I see on some I can download data - couldn't I just port away by copying the data over?

Anyway, this is wonderful. One more question - web2py?
they need to start optimizing the shape of nacho cheese jars so that i stop getting rim cheese all over my knuckles every time i dip a chip
No, because what the user expects can be customizable, app developers can't just guess it.
There would be some pretty vast ecological repercussions. Fish habitats and coastal ecosystems, would be immediately affected. Then, connecting rivers will cut deeper, unforeseeably altering each and every environment they affect.
> I wasn't around for either Evolution or Creation

You are around for evolution.
Did you try the random beacon to see if God talked. Yeah, you might want to go ahead and do that, dumb fuck.
this is history in the making right here fellas!
How so?

People accidentally leak password in source code. Instead of telling HN everyone come look at this embarrassing source code, first thing to do is to contact source owner to remove it. Yes, there is cache and Internet archive, but don't publish that until resolved is the proper interpretation of responsible disclosure.
Doesn't work for me either. It does nothing.
Question: the internet has been a boon for shaking up entrenched incumbents. What happens when the internet gentrifies? Will we have even more hideous incumbents with no new tech on the horizon to generate a disruption event?
There's Scala 2.9 (and older) code out there in production. Maintenance for older versions can be had.
For the first five years, it was myself, alone in my home office at night and on weekends. My wife went to bed early and I'd have 10pm - 1am every night to hack around - plus random times on the weekend. After I went full time with it, I toured a few co-working spaces in Nashville, but most of them were either geared at MBAs who co-work for less than eight hours a week, or too expensive. So, even after going full time, it was still just me in my home office. But my working hours changed to a normal 9-5 routine. My wife also works from home, so I never went crazy from lack of human interaction.

As for business partners - never really considered one. I don't think there's enough work to go around. But I do partner with two designers, when needed, and have a few close friends who also do Mac development I can bounce ideas off of throughout the day.
So imagine the police response is this: "Silly prank, we could certainly identify them if we tried, but it's not worth taxpayer money."

All it takes is one person to then point out that if security had been good enough to catch actual terrorists, the suspects would have been caught before or during the act. Then not only is a chunk of the post-9/11 security apparatus exposed for the security theater it is, but the cops look lazy and stupid too.
I've been using <script type=”text/html“> to hold bits of HTML I want to quilt together client-side.

I build all my templates in HTML, and then store all the different content to populate the templates in script tags. I can then use JavaScript to swap it out, and even hide/reveal unused templates.

It's 100% valid though, handlebars are not valid HTML, at least not until processed and rendered.
I've been reading about ClojureScript/OM and mori. What example apps are online using either of them? This is what I've found so far.

ClojureScrpt/OM:

https://github.com/swannodette/om (several examples linked)

http://rigsomelight.com/2014/05/01/interactive-programming-f... (flappy bird clone)

React+Mori:

???
If anyone has a chance of making it work, it's a company like Amazon.

I spent a bit of time last year trying to work on a a 3D model sharing site: http://www.fabfabbers.com/ - as a personal project rather than a viable business. In the end I found the idea of providing 3D development tools online much more interesting, and spent a bit of time converting OpenSCAD. I got a bit fed up with it in the end though, so it's just bit rotted since.
It is without question the motivation.

This simple act has embarrassed an entire industry, including countless highly-paid public officials; the very same people who determine how much resource is dedicated to soothing their bruised egos.
Teespring at least is doing very, very well.
Their affiliate program is incredibly successful, allowing people to procedurally design, test and sell t-shirts through various channels.
Well, this certainly blows my yo-based Pomodoro Timer out of the water.
you don't need this expensive box to track people's cellphones, all you need is an account here:

http://www.loc-aid.com/

You will probably need to be a corporation to get one without opt-in restrictions, but that shouldn't be hard for big brother.
Nice! I love The Fountain references :)
Cool, thanks. That's def the type of insight I was looking for. It's surprising that someone as credentialed as Paul Buchheit has had such "modest" success/returns on his investments. $1.2MM also seems like a very conservative sum for someone of his net worth.
There were no copyright issues here, only trademark / impersonation. Those rules are extremely fuzzy, and the usual method of mentioning a trademark you don't own, practiced even by mega-corporations, is by attaching a disclaimer that it's not their trademark.
A demo of some fonts for programming
Medium screwed up their best feature
If it's a standard nobody "owns" the plaform.

Nobody "owns" RSS for example.
I reported this issue a long time ago. Got the same messages back from facebook as everyone else in the thread. I've reported other issues and always get the same thing back.

It sounds like Facebook Security gets a lot of pushback from the developers. Certain things like coffee shop attacks and a lot of other REAL ISSUES get no notice for a long time. It took up until last year to get a damn HSTS header.

I actually reported an issue today about a security practice they implemented completely incorrectly. I got a response back that it was not meant for any actual security.

In theory it's unacceptable, but in practice this is a big company with thousands of employees and a lot of moving parts. Small changes can be hard to make....which to get back to my original point is why facebook seems to just ignore a lot issues but keep the pipes open for the occasional big one.
I think it's easy for dominant players to sit back and let revenue stream in when there's no much in the way of real competition, which can lead to devs leaving for greener pastures (where green is either more interesting or pays better because dev is de-prioritized at the current company). Then some real competition shows up and the company is woefully unprepared. I think it's an important lesson, just because your competition doesn't appear to be forcing you to innovate and expand, doesn't mean there isn't someone silently lurking ready to upend your world.
Fluxy has an example of using React + Mori - although it's still a work in progress as Fluxy is developed.

https://github.com/jmreidy/fluxy/tree/master/examples/todomv...
We sold a house last year. I had read Freakonomics so I thought I was going to outsmart everybody (which I knew was a stupid to think from the start, of course). Turns out most real estate agents (the ones we talked to at least) weren't even financially literate enough to even understand the concept. At some point I tried to explain to one the Freakonomics theory. He always kept saying 'the more I sell, the more commission' - the concept of 'time value' was completely foreign to him. Maybe he was just playing dumb, I don't know.

Anyway, in my experience, most agents are happy wasting a bunch of time on a sale - having coffee to discuss 'the status' (2 viewings scheduled for next week, the one from last Monday seemed genuine - could have send me a 2 line email. But hey, he could tell funny stories, so I don't mind having coffee); spending 45 minutes on discussing 'the strategy' on how to deal with an offer, ... I never got the impression they cared about a house being a few months longer in their inventory. It filled up their website and office windows, made them big and professional, and as long as their cash flow is OK, anything listed for under a year was OK (much longer than that makes them look weak, of course; also, the market is bad in my area anyway).

I have since reconsidered what I once thought was a plausible argument about real estate agents. Maybe it's sample bias, I don't know, but the ones I dealt with, weren't 'rational actors' in any sense an economist would need them to be to make their models work (and I work with economists and their models a lot).
> "would probably be astonished by the number of developers who are building ffmpeg from source"

> Its a do-ocracy and if it took two or so years until > Andreas packaged it up, I'm not thinking the claimed demand actually exists. All those devs going to all that work to compile ffmpeg, and yet none of them could be bothered to run dpkg-buildpackage... nah just not seeing it.

I have only been using ffmpeg for 8 months for quick track mixing so I don't know much about its history but going on ffmpeg.org always led me to some ready to use and out-of-the-box binaries hosted there http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/ so I don't really see the need for a deb package. (unless the environment is minimal and many lib are missing ? I don't use minimal debian anymore so there's that). Am I missing something ?
I wish there were more discussion about why they did this rather than how.
So how do I deal with supporting both Android and iOS from a single Beacon?
Believe it or not, you're covered there too: https://www.codementor.io/mitchellh
Finally Google Begins to Think Big (Big History, That is)
> They haven't updated their blog since April 2011.

I think that's around the time they were bought out by Match.com .
But that's true no matter what they say. Overreaction can't negate the original foolishness.
I have not found that attribute to be significantly different in Scala than in other languages. That is, it seems to be a central problem with all of them.
You don't know that there's not a human being at the other end curating the list, do you? It's plausible that there's manual selection involved in each day's playlist.
Oh, maybe I misunderstood. I thought your question was about porting code, not data.

It's actually incredibly easy to move your data between Sandstorm hosts. Unlike, say, Google apps, Sandstorm apps are not tied to the hosting, so you can change hosts while still using exactly the same app. You can also run Sandstorm on your own machine if you want (it's open source).

Porting data from a Sandstorm version of an app to a non-Sandstorm version is also relatively easy. If you click the "download a backup" button, it's just a zip file that contains the app's database in whatever format it uses. But, how exactly to set up the app outside of Sandstorm depends entirely on the app.

Regarding web2py: I don't know much about it, but I assume it runs on Linux so it should work fine for writing a Sandstorm app...
We do take compatibility seriously. Others have given examples in this thread how we do this technically. I don't think any design process can guarantee perfection at first try, hence we prefer steady improvement over stagnation. When we decide it's important to change something, there's advance warning through deprecation.
It was crystal clear within 6 months of the fork. Additionally, the fork itself was an attempted hostile takeover - with git "push -f" (or equivalently, pointing to a different server with a different history), and other lousy stuff. If you were following development weekly, it became clear within 3 months or so.

The main reason debian (and hence ubuntu) packaged libav instead of ffmpeg is that one of the libav guys is also a debian guy.

The libav guys apparently had genuine criticism about ffmpeg development that they felt were not addressed within the prevailing ffmpeg development model at the time -- and thus they had to fork. For all I know, (as an involved user), they were completely right, and perhaps ffmpeg would not have been as good as it is today had they not forked.

However, neidermeyer et al seemed to have responded to the fork with a significantly improved development process. before libav, ffmpeg improved slowly, and tended to reject contributions. Since libav, ffmpeg is improving rapidly, and when code is contributed, they bring it to their standard rather than rejecting it for not living up to it.
It is still true, and even before they wrote the blog post, that used to be my answer to friends' question, "which is better?". I would say, think about it: Match makes money the longer you stay in the system! Then it would dawn on them that they were the product.
It takes longer than you think.
The point is that is that you can precisely calculate the (negative) expectation value of investing in lottery tickets. Or even the expectation value of lottery tickets.

But you can't calculate the expectation value of startup investments. One outlier skews the whole sample, and there is no limit on how high.

Taleb explicitly placed startup investments as those that are antifragile.
Fully completed small projects trump unfinished grand designs.

Also: drop everything and read SICP.
Another small attempt using just backbone: https://github.com/shaohua/todomvc-react-flux-backbone
I just don't see this happening. Most mass market parts are made using methods that are very inexpensive and fast in large quantities: stamping, injection molding, and the like.

3D printing takes up a good amount of time on an expensive machine, plus operator time, electricity, shop space, etc.

Think about what your time is worth to an employer. The cost of a replacement part is probably relatively low compared to the cost of your time to fix the machine. Not to mention the opportunity cost of not having the appliance working.

You're talking about a situation where you'd like to get a price down to $8. It's very tough to make money selling physical products at $8 a pop, let alone things that must be custom made.
Your comment suggests that there is an expectation that police should have the ability to catch these guys. I find that ridiculous. Have you all really become that paranoid that a harmless prank needs to find justice because 'what if it was a terrorist'.

Listen folks, you can't stop terrorism. A determined attacker will just find an easier target. You can't guard everything all the time.
I believe that would be https://twitter.com/jddarcy/status/493137546814042112
You can see from this image — http://perfectionkills.com/images/minifier_benchmarks.png — that pages under 100KB are all under a second. But then it grows. I suspect regex parsing (not catastrophic but close) to be the culprit. If you have time to look into it and optimize — that would be super helpful, of course!
How would you compare Terraform to something like Razor? I think it might be a good one to add to your "vs Other Software" section:

http://puppetlabs.com/solutions/next-generation-provisioning
Is this just Al Pacino's speech from Any Given Sunday, or is there some commentary buried in here about the offensive name?
Note also what I consider a spamming by "Cathcart, R.B." who probably added to the article himself the big list of his texts as relevant for the subject and even a clumsy attempt to the citation.
Much easier to berate than create.
FB seems to be doing some amazing work trying to make the web a more tolerable UI platform.

Once we finally have a good, solid, stable UI building consensus in HTML5/JS, it'll not only be possible to use it for the web but for the desktop too via node-webkit / atom-core.
"While very good algorithms exist ... or are not fast enough to run in real time."

As a research scientist at a company whose main product is face recognition software I have to disagree with this part of the statement.
oh wow, the demo setup 'just works' and is instant to install apps. this just keeps getting better and better.
Shameless plug: WNYC is experimenting in this space as well with Discover [http://www.wnyc.org/mobile] - contains our local, national content but also others': NPR, PRX, etc. It works on the subway, while you're offline.

We're really excited about NPR One, too and glad to be part of it as well.
So the answer is yes??
> Eich was CEO for less than 2 weeks (March 24 to April 3rd)...

But he was hardly a newcomer to Mozilla, having been CTO for years. I believe I read that he had also participated in the drafting of Mozilla's diversity policy.

And as far as him being "allowed" to remain CEO, I was really speaking about public opinion, not about the board's actions, though I am extremely unimpressed with the way the board handled the whole thing. He claimed that he had initially been uninterested in the position, and they talked him into taking it. Given that, they should have supported him a lot more than they did, although they might still in the end have felt their hand was forced.
<3 so much creativity out there.
Yo is useless and IMO anyone that has or will put money into it no longer has any credibility as an angel/VC. Yoauth actually is comparatively useful, but unfortunately Yo does not and never will have the critical mass to make anyone want to implement it as an authentication scheme. Twitter is a distant second to Facebook in the authentication space, and Yo is no Twitter.
It lets you log into websites using Yo.
That's great you're going to open source it. I think the plan is a bit expensive right now ($300 yearly). Maybe you could add a $10-15 a month plan? But if you want to keep up your service you might release an app (like Cactus has) as a GUI to the command line — but that only will interface with your servers.
Designing for Word of Mouth
I'm hopeful that Trulia won't get worse. I'd like to see the best of the two sites available in one site.
Mine negotiated the price down another 5% (5%!) from what we would have put in as a first bid had we done it without an agent. (so if list price was 100, we would have been OK with paying 95, we would have started bidding with 90; with our agent, we closed at 85).

We did structure his fee in a way that he would get more commission if he got a better price for us. We ended up paying him 2x or 3x what he makes on a normal sale, and yet even if we had paid him double from what we did, we still would have made thousands using his services.

(This might seem to be in contrast with my other post in this thread about agents being financially illiterate, but the proposition of 'more money!' was so simple in this case, that it did seem to help. Anything more complex (opportunity cost, time value of money, ...) went over his head.)
If they could dump the phone's content already then why even waste the effect? Just perform a full backup, factory reset it, and then restore only the user's contents you want access to.

However if you have debugging disabled and no third party bootloader, you cannot access the filesystem while the phone is locked. So being able to crack some kind of hash is a moot point.
I don't have anything against the beautiful Chinese people or their culture. I was just stating what I see as a well-known fact.
Drop me an email and we can chat (I didn't see your contact info in your profile).
FWIW you may have been able to restore the deleted folder using Local History.
I, too have found the type system to be a bit tedious at times, especially with Carbon. It also doesn't help that SourceKit crashes often while doing crazy things with types. I've just been reverting back to ObjC for these specific things (plus better error messages and tooling).

But looking back, the first versions of ObjC were also kind of tedious (no @property declarations, no blocks, etc) and it's gone a long way.
How is this any worse than normal dam construction, apart from scale?
Even more important given heavy gov't intervention driving house prices up 20+% annually in market markets. Renting for a few months can now do more harm than good overall.
Looks nice, but I foresee usability issues with that -H flag.

The last two examples on http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/examples/ seem to indicate that -H adds output headers, but it also requires input headers, and there is no way for the program to discriminate a header line from a sample. So, if your FILE.TXT doesn't have headers, the tool will silently ignore the first sample in the input file.
Reminds me of the MIT pranks http://hacks.mit.edu/
http://www.reddit.com/r/icc2k14/comments/2bziiu/
> How does this differ?

Fundamentally, it doesn't.

AltBeacon (as far as I can tell) exists simply so Apple has a harder time using their bullying legal tactics against people.

Specifically, the folks behind AltBeacon (RadiusNetworks) previously made an open source Android library that allowed Android apps to easily detect and use iBeacons.

Apple threw their lawyers on them, and they pulled the Android library. Presumably, Apple will have a harder time being a bad citizen against AltBeacon.
"Or as we say, Recycling is Bullshit."
This article is poorly written and filled with a lot of half truths.
One argument against glass bottles is that it takes a lot more energy to create them than for instance creating a container like tetra pak.

I'm not sure what their motives are, but articles like that scares me.
Fragmentation is also choice and the potential for new and better things to emerge.

I think the user facing side of RSS and the other metaphors and conventions around podcasts are broken. Discovery is broken. So, I'm ok with fragmentation. Maybe there is a better way out there to be discovered.