skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I submit that the world is no bigger than our bank accounts."

Sure, but even in that world view ever-increasing developer salaries is sacrificing your long-term interests for short-term ones.

A tightening of the ability for people to start new companies will mean fewer choices in employers down the line, and it will mean less diversity in work environments, cultures, types of work, etc. All of that works actively against you.

Increased investor influence means less authority for businesses to run themselves as they see fit. I'm sure I don't need to explain how that works against you.

An elimination of smaller businesses means consolidation of employment into fewer, larger employers, who now wield more and more power over you personally.

> "Also regarding founders giving up large amounts of equity to VC's so they can afford developers: there is a very simple solution. Give employees more equity."

Equity isn't magic. The amount of equity you have to give to make a $10K discount on salary make sense is a lot.

If you crunch the math you'll realize that even if the founders themselves are perfectly altruistic and literally take no equity, the size of team you can afford to hire with equity, at these current salaries, is very small.

And will continue to get smaller as compensation increases.

The effect is ultimately the same - categories of businesses, types of ideas, become uneconomical to explore because the cost of hiring - whether in hard cash or in equity - simply doesn't add up.

As is often the case, the common good is good for you because - surprise - you don't exist in a vacuum from the rest of society.
With such a large group compromised at the same time I would guess it was not phishing.
Which is why I took a lower paying DevOps job at a startup. I make less, but the people I work with are incredible, not just in their talent, but as a whole. I'd rather not swim with sharks.
What makes you so sure that the problem wasn't the quality of your link?
If firstlook.org isn't the only place they intend to publish their stories, it makes perfect sense. After all, why present a single target to those who wish to censor you? I think FL wants to reach out to other journalistic entities to use their platform. In that vein, The Intercept is one channel in a network.
No, :nth-last-child(n) has the worst performance of any selector.
I don't believe Google wants to turn GMail into a data broker service, especially one that powerful. Why? Besides the obvious (spammers use it to learn how to beat the system, and other companies use it to compete with GMail) you'll be creating an insane amount of workload in having to deal with all the complaints. The current system of "spam is what our users say it is" leaves very little for debate. As someone who's run large email systems this appeals to my laziness.
if you mean the same exact IP address, you can do that if you click the pi icon at the bottom of every page then click change subnet.
You still have to study. You just don't have to memorize.
There's nothing wrong with a valid SHA-1 certificate.
A personal principle I have is that you cannot contain secrets because they inevitably leak. So the starting assumption must be, can you deal with a leak?

I imagine that they would have had similar conversations when the corporates joined the "club" for getting information. What is the downside to participating in this? Maybe you get shits from media for a bit and then everyone forgets and you carry on in your business.

Having come from another country, I am truly glad that US residents are far more sensitive (therefore downsides are higher for US corporates), Chinese people for example, don't care as much and as a result corporates can get away with more and consciously choose to do more
Anyone who has dealt with bank protocols will tell you that "organic" is certainly an apt, if perhaps too kind, word. It's not like it's all designed by committee.

The difference is you don't get to see the haggling and back and forth. Ten years from now, when a large bitcoin institution has a mission-critical legacy app that depends on some facet of the network, we're likely to see similar shenanigans.

I would venture, at least. Simplicity is probably the product of a) abstraction, or b) a small number of stakeholders.
My first thought after reading the OP, was to link to your blog post[0]. It was a real eye-opener for us, and we stopped using this `if Rails.env.production?` (anti)pattern in favour of configuration. Much cleaner.

I think a key aspect to make this successful is to make configurations 'inherit' from each other (as you explained on the post, using `require Rails.root.join("config/environments/production")`). It really makes our staging environment configuration only very slightly different from production and is very DRY.

[0] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3535-beyond-the-default-rails...
You can also watch "The men who built america"
Marc Newson to Join Apple’s Design Team
Where I work, we sometimes have Meatless Mondays where a group goes out for a vegetarian lunch. It's a habit that has the capabilities to become viral and I fully support it.
It won't break if you sit on it.

Car driving over Moto G:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzI-Cd3SYVE

30 minutes under water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVaTKG5q4YI

Under water and scratch test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wzY4v1a0c
>A client-server database application I wrote in 1998 (Tcl + Postgresql) is in constant use and continues to run flawlessly, though I haven't touched the Tcl code in >10 years. "It just works" is not just a slogan in this case.

Similar situation here. A ~10 year old Tcl/Tk utility is still being used weekly by users at our organization to process text files. The users are still happy with the utility and it took me all of twenty minutes to write.

I would love it if someone applied Tcl/Tk's pragmatism to web development. Greater than 90% of the use cases for utilities, scripts, or simple programs I've written can be handled with Tk's stock widgets. Perhaps a transpiler that compiled Tcl/Tk to javascript would enable developers to throw together web pages without getting bogged down in the web's aesthetics or technology fads.

For examples of the ease of non-OO GUI development see the following tutorial on developing modern Tk:

http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/

...in the Tcl examples the programmer just heaps up widgets and he's off. The workflow is more like developing shell scripts than the quagmire that web UI development has become.
Tomato tomaato. You formulate equations of motion s = ut + gt^2/2 by essentially ignoring air friction. You formulate kirchoff's voltage law L(di/dt)+1/C(integral(i)dt) + iR = V, by ignoring voltage losses across the rest of the circuit. You formulate the heat equation du/dt = laplacian(u) by assuming no lateral heat loss across the rod. Almost all equations in stochastic calculus in finance make the assumption that trading fees are zero & there's an unlimited pool of equity derivatives so you won't move the market when you buy & sell. Including real-life considerations like weight of the pizza & the specific toppings it has & so forth only leads us away from the beautiful math that underlies this problem. As you know, Gauss was so thoroughly impressed by the theorem he called it "Theorema Egregium" - the Remarkable Theorem! It is consistently voted one of the ten most beautiful theorems in geometry[1].

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1eoo1p/q_what_are_the_...
VPN client bug in Yosemite?
Yosemite seems to have a serious bug, causing VPN client to break when using static IP (works with DHCP). Can you confirm?
How do you know if no-one is there?
Not exactly what your'e talking about but you should take a look at Word Lens(which google just bought).

Basically you hold your phone up and position it over a piece of text using the camera. It then OCRs the text, translates it, and replaces it in realtime in the camera feed. It's pretty remarkable.
okay people, that was awesome to see it on the home page !

so far I got several great ideas from you for the to-be v2, including:

> easy menu for switching subnets at the nav bar, including to wider subnet classes.

> showing how many users are online for subnets (including the widers ones)

> a quick link to see top posts in wider subnets, without having to change your default subnet.

> HTTPs (mainly useful when accessing wider subnets)

> Open source (once time takes care of showing any obvious problems in the current code).

> Show post dates on comments (like its already done in threads).

> Rick roll script kiddies posting all those XSS posts :D (or atleast prevent those from showing up)

I'll let you know when its ready !

On another notice, the number of people trying to exploit the site is too damn high ! (nothing seems to be successful so far, I was expecting this in advance and did my best when doing the database queries).
We're using it for a basic responsive grid on some Envato Market pages: https://themeforest.net/make_money/become_an_author
It is not true that any education solution that works for Bill Gates' family will work at scale across a hugely diverse population. It's possible --- likely, in fact --- that it's impossible to effectively (and cost-effectively) deliver the education Gates' kids get to the entire country.

With that in mind, I'm not sure how Gates' own school selection impacts his ideas about education. It seems rather like it has nothing at all to do with his ideas, in which case the appeal to Gates' own actions is fallacious.

Where do I have this wrong?
> ... psychology is way, way bigger than clinical psychology, yet clinical psychology (and stories from it) seem to be the only thing that is ever brought up in these conversations.

Yes, and there's a reason. The ground truth about the medical field is what happens in clinics. If clinicians are shaking dried gourds over patients, that tells us about medicine itself, from top to bottom -- the only way something unscientific could happen in a clinical setting is if there's no reliable science anywhere in medicine.

In the same way, if someone builds a bridge by guess and by golly, without any consideration of loading and stresses, this calls into question the scientific basis of civil engineering.

So when I hear a psychologist complain that clinical psychology isn't representative of the entire field, I have to say that kind of compartmentalizing doesn't work anywhere else -- it suggests that psychology isn't unified by a respect for science, or by reliable, falsifiable theory.

>> Consider the example of Asperger Syndrome... recovered memory therapy.

> They are not my domain of psychology.

This sounds increasingly like one of those joke conversations about which kind of Southern Baptist you are. Religion works that way, science doesn't. In science, evidence and tested theories forge a consensus that unifies all legitimate fields, at least until someone produces a better theory, then the process repeats.

Do you suppose that a doctor could say, "I don't care what biologists are doing, it doesn't affect me of my practice"? Do you suppose that a geologist could say, "I don't care what the physicists are doing in Earth Science, that has nothing to do with my work"?

This is not realistic, because the example fields are united by a common respect for the primary role of evidence and the scientific method. I say this to remind you how you sound then you try to describe psychology as though it's a bunch of disconnected pieces. Not that that isn't so, but it provides us with a measure of the significance of science in psychology.

> ... but you should not accept those as archetypal representations of all psychological and social science research.

If that's true, then psychologists lose the right to describe themselves as scientists, or to receive funds earmarked for scientific activities. Taxpayers are willing to contribute to physics because (a) it's a science with an enviable track record, and (b) physicists are on the same page -- they don't say things like, "Don't listen to the particle physicists, they're not the real thing." Only psychologists say things like that.

> The last part of your request is unreasonable - proving that there is no utility whatsoever in old theories is unnecessary.

Then you do not understand science. When the existence of the ether was disproven, to save limited resources the falsification was accepted by everyone -- opinion played no part. When the Phlogiston theory was disproven, it was disproven for everyone, everywhere. This kind of certainty and consensus is what makes science science.
$4-$5 at Costco or Walmart. In Provo / Orem, UT.
One of the affected sites will be LinkedIn. I think they tried SHA256 once before reverting to SHA1.
What is wrong with Comic Sans?
It's very strange. The newscientist's articles says that this Higg's boson analogue gives the mass to the photons inside a superconductor. The problem is that the photons are related to the U(1) symmetry group. The real Higg's boson gives the mass to the W+,W- and Z particles, that are related to the SU(2) symmetry group. The problem is that the trick that produce the apparent mass don't work with the U(1) group because it's abelian and with dimension=1. (SU(2) is not abelian, and dimension=3).

The original research article is linked at the bottom: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6201/1145 I couldn't rear the complete article, so I read only the abstract. The abstract talks about pairs of electrons, but it doesn't mention photons.

Anyone can explain more about this?
Do you review your own changes, or someone else's? Asking because the former is unusual, but the latter works much better with OxygenXML's built-in change tracking. It's fantastic for working with editors (in combination with, say, Subversion).
5 trends that will redefine great service in 2015
You can get a 256GB MX100 ssd for $105. Those prices for mobile storage space is ridiculous.
can confirm; wifi configured with static ip, l2tp doesn't work.
I cannot help but find it funny that domain names are such as a rare commodity that many startups have domains that are different from their names like:

joingrouper
getsomething
getsomethingapp
... you get the point.

I don't think this is actually a good idea to name your startup this way. Paul graham had a good blog on startup names (see note). SEO space is polluted, people naturally can't remember what your URL is. While it might be ok for mobile apps, I certainly don't think this works for webbased apps.

Thoughts?

Note: http://aux.messymatters.com/pgnames.html
Isaac Asimov's nonfiction often took the historical, chronological approach to explaining any topic, from chemistry to Shakespeare. It becomes a story, and people are really good at understanding (and remembering) stories.

Maybe it shouldn't be framed as a "history class" though. It's really not "history, expanded." It's more like "The Big Picture, of Everything You're Learning."
I watch PBS regularly (I enjoy news hour and frontline a lot) and occasionally there will be a preroll commercial for BAE Systems and it feels like the kind of commercial you'd see for the malevolent megacorp in cyberpunk movies like OCP in RoboCop.
this is my point though. i recognize there are latency and timing issues but they seem related to playback.

but at any given point, you know what sample is being output. you also know if MIDI is being captured. isn't quantization just an exercise of mapping the input to a quantized sample? which is just a matter of rounding assuming you know your samplerate.

ie. if there are 1000 samples in a measure (entertain me), and you quantized to 1/4, and you capture MIDI while sample 700 is being output, you just map the note to the 750th sample. what am I missing?

just want to be clear my curiosity is genuine, I don't have a deep understanding in dsp or signal analysis or anything. my only knowledge of this stuff is just barely making it work for me. so I'm wondering what I'm missing :)

phon2 is definitely worth a try but I just realized the demo link wasn't working. if you're familiar with grunt it should be a quick setup though :) I also realize a server component for midi is not what anyone had in mind; but the web midi api wasn't implemented at the time I needed a solution.
The people who are involved in NDN had also huge part in making the current TCP/IP work.

For example Van Jacobson, whom started the idea and made huge contributions, one of them was implementing congestion control in TCP/IP. Some people don't know but in early 90s the Internet actually collapsed under the traffic and was practically unusable until his fix.

Lixia Zhang for example was working on TCP/IP since 1981 she was responsible for Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP), which is implemented by almost every major router vendor today for Internet resource management and traffic control applications.
AMZ is 910 P/E, so yes, you're paying quite a premium on today's value.
This is what the Amazon fire phone should have been. They would have sold millions. Kudos to Motorola for figuring it out.
Essential Coding Theory
I don't really understand your comment about vegetarians not doing #2. First, vegetarians don't buy meat, so yes, they don't do #2 because that's not something they would do. No matter how better animals are treated, vegetarians don't eat meat by definition.

Second, it's not even true that they don't buy more expensive products. I'm vegetarian (not vegan) so I eat eggs, but only if they are biological and from free range chickens. Yes, they cost more, but vegetarians don't buy only on cost.
This deprecation policy appears to affect some (possibly all) Startcom SSL certificates, which are chained through "StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA", which is signed with SHA1 and expires on 2017-10-24.
Nope, just consciousness from non-conscious materials.

There are no non-moving materials. Engines move (e.g pistons), and there's molecular and electron flow. Now, if you had said movement from zero Kelvin, actually non moving materials, that would really be magic. Or, light without photons (which ARE luminous).

The only real valid analogy IMO is "computations from non-computing materials". But the materials are indeed computing -- computing just means having a state, and being able to keep it or change it under certain conditions.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye peeled. :)
"That's been tried a lot and is often referred to as "sweat equity". Most people won't go for it when there's 5 jobs across the street that will offer cold hard cash which they have obtained by getting a premium on equity with a VC."

How many startups offer the first few employees a reasonable amount of equity (>5%)? Most startups will offer 1% if you are lucky.
As others have written downthread, it's probably at least worth the pro-rated value of their assets at fair market value. That said, the classic theoretical valuation of a stock is the net present value of their dividends--i.e. the cash you receive from the company. Obviously this doesn't work very well as a stock pricing proxy for most companies. But if you factor in things like estimated acquisition price, you get closer.
Sorry, I meant it depends on the elastic modulus. Mechanics was a while ago.

If the model matches the prediction, the model works. The argument is only over what regime. In this regime it matches.

If you read the article it specifically mentions it applies to paper. I expect it would apply to many fabrics as well. When it doesn't it's because it's outside the regime of the model because stress enables significant "stretching".

You could use beam theory as well, and I would be surprised if the author hasn't heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's the only technique available.
Is it difficult to see that they are both examples of actions that that might be within legal rights, but that others can debate the morality / 'dick-ishness' of? Does anyone really think that I feel Garth Brooks' move is akin to actually withholding a cure for cancer?
> ... nor are they what people mean by domain squatting.

Of course they are -- all one need do is read the article I linked, which describes how cybersquatters sit on names of established companies or trademarks, until someone tries to pay their ransom. Many such cases end up in court, because that kind of cybersquatting is illegal.
Usury is defined by individual state law. Some states have no usury laws, but many do. There are loopholes in alot of them as well. Here's a summary of the state laws:

http://www.lendingkarma.com/content/state-usury-laws-legal-i...
> "You can take less, and I even bet few employers will complain. I gonna let you start the trend and I'll hold back though."

Which is why I won't do it. It might be a symbolic gesture, but it'll also be useless.

Expecting people to take voluntary pay cuts is unrealistic, it also overlooks a fundamentally better solution: increasing supply.

Growing the labor pool is good - it means more wealth and more employment all around. It means better lives for more people (as opposed to reducing the quality of your own life for no apparent purpose). It means more people in our community, it means more technologists will exist, and a larger portion of the population will understand what we do.

I will gladly take a pay cut if it means more people have joined the fold and enjoy the upper-middle class income that was previously out of reach.

> "I submit, w/o proof, laundry startups are a symptom of how shitty a city sf is. In a real city (ny) there are wash & folds near your apartment"

Hehe, agreed on all counts. I too am of the opinion that a large number of startups exist solely to paper over what is a civic planning failure of gigantic proportions. SF is not a functioning city, it is an embalmed tribute to the 1940s, kept "alive" solely by the massive and unending injection of cash.
Show HN: Hand-curated prospect lists
> I see no reason one couldn't open their own competitor with slightly lower rates

You would have a very difficult time attracting customers. Ignoring the fact that much of the payday loan industry is run by organized crime and you would likely end up with a bullet in the back of your head, even if it were totally safe you would get very little advantage from offering a lower interest rate. Studies have shown that people in economic trouble are not capable of making wise choices. It's commonly referred to as 'decision fatigue'.
The Steel Man of GamerGate
It's disturbing because it is a revelation of the way economists apparently think: You believe that unless I act in a way that is beneficial to your profit margin, and in a way that is objectively not in my best interests, then it is theft. The implications there being that every private individual is worthy of contempt unless they act in blind, ignorant support of the profits of the corporate oligarchy.

You used the word Theft on purpose, maybe not consciously, but because it came to your mind first. It reflects your true opinions on the matter, and they are quite frankly disgusting.

Judging from your replies elsewhere you don't or can't comprehend just how repugnant your attitude is. It is not my social or legal responsibility to maximize MTA's revenue. The fact that it would even occur to a person like you (who studied economics) to classify "not getting ripped off" as theft makes me want to beat the shit out of someone.