skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people of the US donate about 2% a year to various charitable causes, that's where his figure comes from, it's separate from what the government does. That includes a lot of internal stuff like people giving to their local church. Such charity is respectable, too, it helps e.g. the homeless Americans living on the streets, but it's separate from international aid.

The US's international development budget is only 0.2% which in my opinion is a disgrace. It's defense spending by comparison is 3.8%, more than an order of magnitude larger. That's for 2013, for 2012 for example it was 4.4%, in the sixties it was nearly 10%, and the 45-year average is about 5.5%. It makes that 0.2% look pretty puny.

As for the recipients, indeed military aid is larger than US Aid aid (the governmental agency of the US that does humanitarian/economic development) by a few billion. And so it's no surprise that foreign aid is very much tied to national security interests, which themselves are tied to US economic interests, making the 0.2% not a very benevolent figure beyond the fact that it's relatively small.

You mentioned Israel/Palestine, interestingly the WB/Gaza are the only group in the list of 25 top recipients that receive no military aid at all, only economic aid. For perspective, Palestine receives 20x more economic aid than Israel from the US. And Israel receives 6x more military assistance than Palestine receives economic aid. It's a bit of a weird situation indeed, as every few years the one army destroys infrastructure of the other territory, the US for part of that army, and then pays for the rebuilding of the infrastructure. Leaving politics outside of this, it's weird indeed, if I were a martian looking down from my spaceship, I'd have taken humans for quite silly creatures!

Also in this top 25 list of aid recipients, not a single country receives more economic aid than military aid. Every single country receives more military aid, often by a large margin. Except Palestine and Sudan (which receives as much military as economic aid).

Interesting factoid: remittance from the US (e.g. relatively poor Mexicans sending money back home to friends and family) surpasses the totality of all American military aid and US Aid, each, and, every, single, year.
Your website serves a niche population and imo design is not the problem.

Try some advertising and get the word out about your site, people will overlook the design if the utility and usefulness is there.
Good to know!

This was originally written for Puppet files. The Puppet Master needs to have a separate key that permits it to decrypt all the files.
I worked on this product back in 2002-2005. I developed the initial wheel system for this and early prototypes of their digital (switched reluctance) motor once we realised we'd need a very high power density compressor motor. Sadly the battery technology has taken a long time to get to the point where it can now give a useable run time, even when the vacuum only consumes 100W (typical cabled vacuums use 1.7-2kw). Also the prices of other components, high power embedded CPUs, cameras and sensors have reduced dramatically since then. It uses an intelligent algorithm to maximise the potential of the runtime, meaning that it tries to elminiate running over the same patch of floor more than once. This is what it uses the 360 camera for and SLAM image processing and maths that I still don't fully understand :) The chap with grey hair switching it off at the end of the teaser video[1] is the brains behind all the navigation and image processing software, Mike Aldred, very clever guy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ReNFlxqJc
> Its odd to talk about net neutrality as something that might "perish" as if it ever existed for more than the couple of years before the FCC's order was struck down.

The FCC Order was motivated by a desire to preserve what was seen by many as the status quo ante that was, at the time the order was adopted, perceived to be under threat as big providers began discriminating against certain remote endpoints and applications. Mandated neutrality may only have existed for a short time, but the mandate wasn't the origin of neutrality it was an effort to preserve/restore what was perceived as pre-existing neutrality
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> Available for free on IOS and Android platforms, the Dyson Link app allows you to control and schedule how and when your Dyson 360 Eye™ robot vacuum cleans. It enables you to view maps of cleaning progress, even when you're not at home. It activates your 2 year guarantee, automatically downloads software updates and, should you ever need them, provides access to troubleshooting guides.

So… A device that’s remotely controllable (and updateable) from Dyson’s central server. With a built-in 360° camera.
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Also click and drag isn't working. Can't go without this function these days.
And, to remind everyone, Musk actually called various mining operations directly and secured some very good deals.
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Dear GitHub, its time to put karma in user profiles
on another todays post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267295
this type of encrypted messaging is super common between banks and third parties. it's usually done in a similar manner to what is implemented here but in SFTP and every bank has it quirks/a different system for ACKing transmissions. a standard would be nice :)
No, they're not. Smartphones existed before the iPhone. And cars existed before Henry Ford too. There's the first to market companies then there's the company that creates the product that pushes it into the mainstream.
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Also Railways, Post and other infrastructure are all things that make perfect sense as nationalised industries. They often end up as monopolies anyway in a free market so they might as well be state monopolies with democratic accountability.
Regarding the social media outrage, it sounds like a mized blessing. They might convince the megafarms to stop using dihydrogen monoxide on their crops after they hear that it causes tsunamis.
Britishness not dying out, on the contrary actually, this referendum has fueled a resurgence: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence...
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Works perfectly in Chrome for me. I did not experience anything of what the OP stated.
You are so misinformed as to be a public menace.

Edit: to downvoters, menace means one who causes peril. How is my usage incorrect? The parent is spreading incorrect facts and encouraging internet fast lanes. That is perilous.
Exactly. I didn't know what LogMeIn is, but clicked on this thread because I read "Medium" in the title...
Here's a radical idea: Let startups choose whether to pay for mentorship
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Possibly, but it'd be pretty damn easy to tell if they were ever streaming video out, just check for any massive upstream communications by it's MAC.
Of course we had it. Neutrality was the de facto state of the internet pretty much from the start. We just didn't have laws against greedy fuckers destroying it for own profit.
Congrats! I've seen the problem of group password management over and over again at so many companies. I hope your team's happy with the outcome and that you get to keep working on making this solution even better.
Round the prices so there are categories of prices. At least you can compare withing the same price range then.
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Boris from Meldium here. One of our customers wrote a great description on our blog (http://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/5/19/the-web-setup-envy-la...) which I'll paste here:

"The actual implementation continually blows my mind. You're basically using a man-in-the-middle attack for good, if I don't betray my poor understanding of the concept. A less malignant analogy would be to liken it to the way telephone companies operated switchboards before individual telephone numbers connected people directly. You had to call the central and ask the operator (i.e. Meldium) to talk to your friend Frank McFakeperson in Ipsum, South Dakota (i.e. MailChimp) and the operator would patch you through to them seamlessly."
And of course the immediate answer is "no, no we have not tried such a thing, and we will not try such a thing."

A significantly improved work-life balance wouldn't hurt, either, but that's a societal problem outside of science too.

It's too bad, really. I've recently witnessed a ton of bright people decide to leave science for greener pastures. I'll be joining them soon.
It's a complicated issue. Banks are partly afraid of adopting something new. If Bank A is amongst the first American banks to switch and something goes wrong, Bank B may win its business due to customer frustration
But we have had this battle in the UK, and not just with BT. Most of the ISPs have at some point or other been accused of throttling BBC's iPlayer:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/02/why-bts-not-the-bigg...

The UK government was against Net Neutrality legislation:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/11/17/uk-government-su...

And again in 2011:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/ed-vaizey%E2%80%99...

This eventually led to consultation in 2012 by Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner for Competition, and we got legislation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26865869
I don't think "being in fashion" is relevant.

If someone wants this particular functionality (fashionable or not), then it's good if they can get a good implementation.
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I was thinking about this setup as well, but wasn't sure if I was nuts. What setup are considering? Plug a hefty quad core tower in at home and then use a chromebook as a remote control with a screen?
You're not supposed to suggest that the free market is not solving the right kinds of problems.
The technical term for a sexual dimorphic bodyweight delta would be a bimodal distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimodal_distribution

Fascinating bit about selective breeding to reduce the difference though.

Then there's the bit about white meat to the US, dark meat to Russia.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2011/01/the_dark_sid...
Oh yeah, that's a good point!
Any suggestions for channels to target? We're too cash-strapped to try a shotgun approach with Google Adwords or similar. Our exposure at Maker Faires has been one way for us to get the word out to about 200k people a year, in person. The reception has been phenomenal, and we received Editor's Choice at this year's past Bay Area Maker Faire. Kids and adults (with a roughly even gender split) love to learn about how things work, but not much attention has come back to the website.
Lifespan solves for this. If people knew they would be living long enough to experience what future generations would have to experience in terms of environmental impact, many would take on a different viewpoint toward climate issues as opposed to the "let them deal with it, I ain't gonna be alive anyway" approach.

In terms of population control, it's all about lifespan combined with more efficient discovery as fewer ideas would die with those moving them forward. Space travel will solve for moving the human race to further inhabitable planets, but not without a solution for the more important lifespan issue which is a requirement for extended space travel. We've got 4 billion years before our sun runs out and before the Andromeda galaxy will cause us a bit of trouble.

4 billion years from now, lets at least be known as the generation that began to make an impact in this area.
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* Always-on internet connection required

I kid, but it does say "The Dyson Link app may not be available in all markets.", so I'm assuming that it will not require an internet connection to function properly.
IIRC, lists and code blocks depend on indentation to decide where they begin/end, and I think what level they're at.
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I'm on Firefox 31.0 in Windows 7 Enterprise.
We need more time.
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Android 4.3 and older don't support WebSockets

In native developmet, I presume? Because the Chrome browser can handle them fine.
And similarly, whatever the result, Scotland can be proud to have pursued a peaceful approach, unlike the majority of both successful and unsuccessful independence movements in the past and in present times which have resorted to bloody terrorism and/or revolution. (No offence intended to a large number of the world's countries.)
We had a similar experience with our dysons. They begun to fall apart after 1-2 years. Granted, it was a three-story house with 7 family members and two dogs, so they had to take some abuse, but still, we expected more (than just innovation) at this price point.
Here can try the concept http://ubicate.me/
Data used in this research comes from "cosmicflows2" a released set of the data is available from the Extragalactic Distance Database http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu
> If you could get the price down far enough it might be able to compete in a number of markets.

It's going to have be really cheap to compete with minimum wage labour. Especially since minimum wage labour is discarded when it goes wrong whereas your expensive robots will need expensive servicing.
> The elephant in the room is how do we curb population growth in a meaningful and humane way.

Or, how to switch to sustainable means of energy production to secure comfortable level of life for increasing population.

It's a bit of an hammer and anvil situation - on one hand, achieving sustainability will most likely require getting rid of capitalistic economy and basically tearing the whole system apart and reassembling it into something different. On the other hand, you wouldn't want to be the one denied the right to live and/or reproduce, and allowing for this will open a huge another can of worms.
In Europe (I think Amsterdam?), beer bottles are often sold in plastic cartons that are then refunded when returned and reused. Could be handled like that.
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Look at the chat demo
They did, but it turned out the wrong kind of people were getting tenure, which is why it's being gutted.
I think part of the problem lies in the question "Where does it end?" Not just UK/England, even within Scotland there are multiple different factions. Once you've set the principle that it's ok to divide a country because you don't think you're being represented by the current party, where does it stop? In 10 years time we might be hearing calls for Islay or the Highlands to separate from the rest of Scotland for example. Or Cornwall from England...

So to my mind, wouldn't it be better to work at improving Scotland from within the UK rather than just abandoning both it and the democratic principle?

For example, instead of voting SNP, Labour or Conservative - vote Scottish Coalition. If the Scot MPs had been a united block, independent of the major UK parties, they could have easily taken the junior party position in the current coalition. They would also have had enough seats to do the same to the previous Labour government. Then you'd see some real change, without the all the potential downsides that independence could bring.

It's a third solution that nobody even seems to be mentioning or even trying. It seems to me anyway, that people have just given up as soon as the Conservatives got in. Will there still be this same sentiment after the next election when Labour probably get back in power? Or is it just a protest vote against the Conservatives? In which case, isn't independence a seriously drastic measure that's nigh on irreversible and has a large number of potential downsides?

PS: My personal favourite idea for the future of the union is actually devo-max (not independence) for every region big and small, with the Lords being replaced by a regionally elected House with longer terms. But if you want to work within the current system, a Scot Coalition is the way I'd go.
I like the simplicity. I guess, the namespace will become clouded quickly, so users will probably develop a lot of different naming schemes - and probably forget the one or the other name.
Some privacy info, e.g. "Will you sell my e-mail address" might be well received.
I had the obviously foolish hope that I might be able to correct your behavior.
Does it have a lag or admin approval on the stories, i just posted a blog post and it does not show.
In both the unit is years. However, the figure of 6 is incorrect as I assume it refers to the fact that in 1951 the Conservatives (at the time the Unionist and National Liberal and Conservative parties in Scotland) got the same number of seats as Labour in Scotland. If we count this, the correct figure is 8 of 68 years.
That is really cool.

I wonder how it does when the lighting changes throughout the day?
Would be really cool if we discovered an Ediacaeran branch of live.

But ~30years to publish such a find? Seriously? Something is really wrong in the way they work.
I wouldn't describe the current treatment of Netflix by numerous service providers as "Fine". I am on AT&T Uverse and I have to route my Netflix traffic through a private VPN service in order to get HD quality video. Why? Because AT&T is holding me hostage, in the interest of negotiating with Netflix on the other side of the table for extortion fees. I pay for a certain level of access to the Internet. I expect to be able to access ANY site or service without the telecom getting in the way of that. I dread the day where I have to pay AT&T additional fees on top of my base internet package to access Netflix fast (call it the AT&T Internet Movie Package). Or alternatively, Netflix charges me a surcharge on my bill because I am an AT&T subscriber.

I really can't believe you are so deluded to think that there is not a problem brewing here that has the potential to ruin the Internet as we know it (both as a consumer and a business owner).
While ISP monopolies are a big part of the problem, even if there were competition, that would not ensure net neutrality.

After all, if all of ISP companies decided that they could make metric tons of money by gating off the internet, and there were no laws against it, you could potentially end up with a situation where every ISP is charging ransom.

Look at mobile telcos and text message charges. For a long time there every mobile provider was charging exorbitant rates for text messages because it was highly profitable and everyone was doing it. Eventually newcomers started offering free text packages, and maybe that's what would happen with ISP's. But it is not at all a given, especially because the barriers to entry to the market are so high.
Impressive! Not only did you place blame on the victims in general for this whole situation, but you've now managed to blame the victim for a specific incident which is clearly described as being another person's fault. That takes some real effort.
you at ORNL? I spent a couple summers getting to play with the big rigs there(which is so cool) but knoxvegas/farragut/oak ridge aren't exactly magnets for young professional tech types.

Also I grew up in Chattanooga, whenever I go home to my parents house it blows my mind that they have gigabit to the house(and they don't live downtown) for something like $70/mo. I pay that for 50mbit in DC and my understanding is that I am getting a pretty good deal compared to others.

It's a great town with some cool tech initiatives going on(and awesome outdoorsy stuff if you climb or kayak or camp or hangglide or whatever) but the core of the city is still a shockingly violent place.

I miss it terribly though. Everyone is so nice, and it's really a beautiful town.
Lawn mowing robots have been around for a while already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2_AIWFO77s
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That sounds like a delicious practical joke.
Your conversion is probably more-accurate. I was just going with Google's conversion, but if you compare pricing for currently-available Dyson models in the US and the UK, the conversion-rate is closer to 1:1 after available US discounts.
Even before going interplanetary, we still have a lot of uninhabited space on Earth. Colonizing various deserts would be a first step, then maybe underwater habitats will become a thing - all of this is cheaper, safer and easier to do than going to space.

We will eventually have to spread to other worlds, but for now, there is still a lot of space to use on ours, so we don't have be afraid of overpopulation in terms of land. We just need to figure out how to feed us all in a sustainable way.
Also this: http://www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/blog/why-are-young-scot...
I think the design is fine, or at least serviceable.

I think you could take a lesson from photojournalists, though: it's not just about the photos, but about the captions, too. As a casual tinkerer, the photos are nice, but I need text to draw me in...not just descriptions of what to do, but how difficult/finnicky a particular step was.

Note that this is not just about making the guides more hand-holdy...it's about making the guides more engaging...and a narrative is a pretty solid way to do that, as it becomes a way to showcase your passion for taking things apart, and to express some of the joy you have in the small details...photos alone cannot tell this story.

Think back to some of the great reverse-engineering posts on HN...nearly all of them have musings from the author, including why they chose the project in the first place, how much they struggled with particular steps and how they brainstormed their way out of it, and what they learned when all is done.

It's not trivial to do these writeups, of course, but I think they'd have far more impact on making your site a must-visit than a design overhaul.
I'm surprised to see a lot of resistance to your post here on Hacker News. I'm not a mathematician by trade, but I was involved fairly deeply in that world as an undergraduate and I certainly feel that many mathematicians would agree that mathematics is an end in and of itself. Hardy was actually quite adamant about favoring those areas that are least likely to yield real world applications (though as we know from history this back-fired on him quite spectacularly, through no fault of his own).

Most mathematicians that I know or knew contributed to the world and fulfilled that part of them through the rest of their duties as a professor. That means teaching, mentoring, and helping to run an academic department which trains mostly young students who will not be researchers in pure mathematics but rather engineers and so on. It means helping teach a new generation how to think rigorously and energetically and passionately. These are clear (and incredibly important) real-world contributions which are at the same time tangential to the professor's research.
It's tough, I imagine. I love Germany but I was shocked to learn how important the Abitur is, and my friends there seem to have had their lives largely determined by the course they took as 16 year olds. Surely there must be some flexibility?
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Can you imagine applying this to other countries? "Oh those stupid Chinese, they call their country 'Zhongguo', but it's clearly 'China.'" Seems that labeling country-specific language variations as "wrong" is acceptable only for the USA.
The worst outcome is increasingly looking like what will actually materialise: a narrow margin.

It doesn't matter who wins, if either side does not win with at least 60% of the electorate, it's going to undermine their position going forward. We could see Referendum v2.0 in 2-10 years, quite easily.

Nobody on either side wants that, but it's starting to feel inevitable.