skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually just started playing around with this today, after seeing the reference via Chucklefish's blog: http://blog.chucklefish.org/?p=154

TL;DR - Apparently they're stepping away from it with their latest game, primarily because of its focus on 2D rendering. It's heavily influencing their newest internal toolset though, called Cove (not opened up yet, as far as I can tell).
Not to totally disagree with you, but there's something to be said for walking into a store and holding stuff in your hands before buying it. It's true that you can get any possible component you want from the internet, but on the other hand it's much more fun (funner? Is there even agreement about whether that's a word?) to walk in and fiddle around with components and imagine how you might use them in your own designs. Radioshack has all kinds of buzzers, motors, switches, etc, and some of them are even pretty ridiculous and over the top, which is awesome. You can make your own little Dr Evil Doomsday device for like $10, which is way more entertaining than a movie. I hope Radioshack manages to persist.
How much is due to changes in or the unreliability of the statistics? The article (and many others) say perceptions haven't caught up with reality, but really they mean that perception hasn't caught up with statistics -- perhaps the statistics don't reflect reality. I don't know one way or the other, but I haven't seen these questions addressed:

1) I don't know much about how the data is produced, but certainly if law enforcement practitioners, down to the sergeants, are under pressure to produce better and better statistics (which many reports say is true), they are incentivized to reduce those stats and not crime.

I've read news stories of police not reporting or fudging crime stats (e.g., reporting a serious crime as a moderate one, not reporting lower-level crimes, etc.). And under that pressure, they may use strategies that produce more numerical improvement than public safety.

2) How could the FBI accurately measure nation-wide crime, every mugging in every small town? Do others measure it?

3) Some of the numbers are extraordinary; doesn't that raise red flags for you?: (both quotes are from the article)

* "the F.B.I.'s count of violent crimes reported to law enforcement has declined from a rate of 747 violent incidents per 100,000 people in 1993 to 387 ... over this period, the homicide rate has fallen by 51 percent; forcible rapes have declined by 35 percent; robberies have decreased by 56 percent; and the rate of aggravated assault has been cut by 45 percent. Property crime rates are also sharply down."

* "The National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the rate of violent victimizations has declined by 67 percent since 1993. This reflects a 70 percent decline in rape and sexual assault; a 66 percent decline in robbery; a 77 percent decline in aggravated assault; and a 64 percent decline in simple assault."
Crack Cocaine is not in the amphetamine category of drugs. Moreover, this explanation totally ignores the plague that is methamphetamine.
> 4. While violent crime has declined in profitability, white-collar crime has become much more lucrative. There's big money in identity theft, for example. This means that the ambitious criminals who would have previously been robbing banks and mugging people are now doing their crime online and over the phone.

Just want to add to this credit card theft (i.e. Target and Home Depot). The rewards are so much higher, and you never have to face someone in person to steal from them.
Both will make ground landings.
Read Ben Thompson's Apple Watch: Asking Why And Saying No for an examination of why the AppleWatch announcement is very announcement is very different from the iPhone announcement (along with the iPod and iPad announcements too).

http://stratechery.com/2014/apple-watch-asking-saying/

This is the first Apple announcement I can readily recall where they didn't mention a shipping date, battery life and full pricing details for the new product.
It's important to remember that as brokers/agents of LPs' money, VCs price risk. The valuation of companies is distinct from that, and is normally the principal component of the pricing of the risk. However, if the market is in a mode of skyrocketing/bubbling, a larger component of the price is how much you can hype up the company before your exit, and basically trade on your own credibility/brand.

In a crude sense, it's a form of a confidence scheme...
I'm sad to see it go, too. I used to love playing on the local store's TRS-80, and I was a member of their battery of the month club.
Also, the Superfreakonomics chapter on that:

http://freakonomics.com/books/freakonomics/chapter-excerpts/...
I'd guess that the obvious disparity between the two was an intentional move by NASA.

SpaceX is the cool, fast-moving, forward-thinking—but potentially more risky—alternative. Boeing is the boring, slow-moving, business-as-usual, military-industrial-complex alternative.

I suspect that privately they hope SpaceX succeeds, but they also want a backup plan that's more conventional, if less good in some sense.

[As to why Boeing's getting more money than SpaceX, I suppose because Boeing probably uses money much less efficiently... they need more to reach a similar point... >< ]
If you like pipes, you'll love Pipe Viewer:

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

> pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
It costs more but it's also likely to break often and would be a liability. The tray could snap off or a finger could get stuck in it. How annoying would it be if the machine is constantly out of order?

A machine that deals with the general public on a scale of tens of millions has to be rock solid. People can behave really strangely (think drunk people) and all kinds of ridiculous outcomes can happen.
Never has creative destruction ever been so enjoyable to observe and partake. For all the waiting in the cold, rude cabbies, cash only bullshit, and lack of availability, to the taxi industry of SF, I say to you: you have only yourselves and SF City Council to blame.
Yep, agree. I think more people faced with this question should see it posed as "90% chance of no return". (Cognitive irrationalities about asymmetric loss aversion and all that.)
> Could a 70's style Mafia survive today? I doubt it.

RICO deserves a lot of the credit. Capone was booked on tax evasion instead of, say, all the murders. It took almost 40 years for an effective federal racketeering statute to be passed, and longer still for police and prosecutors to learn how to use it.

RICO has its downsides, has been criticized for providing too much power to law enforcement. It's a pretty solid mob busting tool though.

That said, two caveats. First, I'm not sure how much of crime is due to organized crime. I'm not sure that affects your bigger point though, that police techniques (as well as maybe legal tools) have improved.

Secondly, note that organized crime does exist today. La Cosa Nostra is still around, as are various eastern European and Asian groups. Albanian groups are apparently one of the most formidable rising threats. Organized crime is probably harder, but it's also probably adapted to find ways to not get caught.

Historical crime stats by category: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

CRS paper on organized crime in the US:
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40525.pdf
Given how few rides occur (less than what a single taxi driver sees in a month), it seems like the sort of thing Uber/Lyft could subsidize, particularly if all they commit to is the incredibly crappy service levels you get from the Taxi company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkSvk0frQOY

"Where's the Modding API?" - Yogscast
"decimate", so they reduced it by 10%?
That would work if Facebook only allowed you to communicate with people within 10 miles of your location. And if all you were likely to talk about was radios and traffic.
So what would that look like? Makes sense, but dd has a lot of options, and I haven't fiddled with it much.
In NYC, there seem to be crews that scout out unmanned subway turnstiles, and in the event of a fairly lonely one (I'm looking at you, 116th St. stop on the Bronx-bound B/C), the vending machines (which are built like tanks) somehow inevitably fail to accept bills, coins, credit cards, or any kind of money at all, actually. And guess what; In these situations, if you're caught without a Metrocard, there's usually a helpful street urchin on site, ready to swipe you through the turnstile for a reasonable fee.

I'm not saying this is what will happen to a CD-ROM-style tray approach, I'm just trying to add some context to the idea. Machines exposed to enclosed, semi-public areas have to withstand a lot of deliberate, brutal sabotage, that'll make you scratch your head, and ask why on earth?

With that in mind, protruding parts and orifices generally don't fare well with machines subjected to the abuses of the general public. I think it'd probably cost more that a little bit extra...
Please also try MathMagic. (www.mathmagic.com)
It supports various output options. MathType like UI but more features.
You can compare MathType and MathMagic. They both come with free versions and free trial period.
Sure, he does. But it is odd rhetoric to say "Android Wear is a limited device category without an audience for x and y reasons. Apple Watch, despite suffering from x and y as well, will be different because things change".
- https://helloblock.io/

- https://github.com/helloblock/helloblock-app

:)
Nice! How do I search by license? Tags public/gallery does not seem to be it as some marked public say "All Rights Reserved" for License. Are the others available for purchase?
Eventually, this ceases to read as a reason, and falls more into just an excuse. Told by what seems to be more and more of a bitter crowd. :(
The SpaceX design is probably the less risky one. They are already flying a version of Dragon which is very similar, and will have many more flights of it by the time of the first crewed flights. The differences between the crew and cargo versions are important, but the CST-100, as a basically clean-sheet design, will have far less relevant flight heritage than Dragon.
Why?

I could understand wanting to port it to platform x, but the language choice isn't the biggest barrier to modification/extension here.
21 Things About America That Most Americans Don't Realize
Ask HN: Tools to build a marketplace using stripe?
I want to build a service based marketplace using Stripe. I want to know if some code already exists out there that is open source or maybe even paid that lets you connect buyers and sellers and handle payments through Stripe.

Also any other material on this subject, building a service based marketplace tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated.
They are under the DoD, which is typically a good way of figuring out if an agency should be considered military.
Web-wallets should not be trusted, no matter what. See: mybitcoin.com, instawallet.com etc. -> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/EWallet
I agree. Weirdly, I find myself coming up with more ideas of what to build when I see the limited options Radioshack has than when I'm ordering parts off the internet. Limits breed creativity, I guess.
About time. Not that I'm affected at this point, since I've been using OpenSMTPD for awhile now.
Then we can have taxi drivers whine and argue about NFC in addition to credit cards?
I'm into hobby electronics and I've reluctantly shopped at Radio Shack pretty frequently over the past couple of decades.

I say reluctantly because I just hate going in there. The employees are never trained on anything yet are unbearably insistent on helping. They used to ask your phone number and address for any purchase, any at all. I just returned a $10 item the other day and they would only go through with the return if I gave them an address, phone number and email address.

I shop there to pick up a quick part I need and don't feel like waiting for it to be shipped to me and they are the only game in town. I can't even imagine shopping there for a cell phone, tablet, batteries, anything mainstream. It doesn't surprise me at all that they are going out of business.
The creator of Bootstrappers.io managed to get 700 emails by launching "a website looking and behaving like a thousand other ones":

http://blog.bootstrappers.io/how-i-bootstrapped-bootstrapper...

I appreciate that you're trying to give feedback, but in this case I think you're extrapolating a bit too much from your own (perfectly valid) opinion. Just because you don't see the value doesn't mean plenty of other people won't :)
"Lack of some features, most notably FFI and concurrency."

Cool -- my '90s hacks are in demand! I added threading support to Guile and wrote libffi back in the 90s.
so its a mac problem..
Designing a skimmer-proof ATM is much like designing a squirrel-proof birdfeeder. It looks good on paper but you never know what these guys are going to do.

Even if there were a skim-proof ATM, they could probably get a retired machine on the cheap, program it to accept cards and pins and then print 'Sorry, this machine is out of operation. Please call 1-800-FAK-ENUM to notify a technician' and place it somewhere reasonable.
“You Have Died of Dysentery”: History According to Video Games
Free from the burden of having to scientifically prove anything that is as-of yet unprovable, my own thoughts of the role of consciousness as it relates to evolution are that consciousness is actually the reproductive system of the universe (still prepubescent as far as we know within our own universe-organism).
Even more terrifying is that it is going to be trivial to determine the pickup location just by reversing the trip.

Please show this as an example to people that say "Why should I care? I have nothing to hide".
Coding School vs. M.S. In Computer Science
Hi,

I am stuck in a dilemma right now. I have already earn my bachelors degree, albeit it was in Economics. I started programming two years ago and have taken the Computer Science prerequisite courses at a community college(data structure, computer assembly, object oriented programming, etc). I really want to do full stack development.

In my position, is it better to go to a coding camp (i.e. hack reactor, app academy, general assembly) or get a masters in Computer Science?

Thanks in advance Software Gurus!
This is a very reasonable question. One way to get at the question of whether the reduction is real is to look at crimes where it's hard to game the statistics and see if they follow the same trends as other crimes.

One of the best crimes to look at is murder, since it's much harder to reclassify or not report a crime when there's a dead body involved. Looking at the statistics for murder and non-negligent manslaughter from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States seems to support the idea that the reduction is real--the rate has been cut in half since 1990, and the reduction is broadly similar to the reductions in other types of crime over that period as described by that article.
#1 reason is probably aging population. Young people, in particular young men, commit more crimes.

A nice animation (though this is England/Wales):

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18854073
It looks like you read the article. Why did you disregard this quote?

> These trends aren’t caused by changes in our willingness to report crime to the police. We see an even more significant decline in violent crime in data derived from surveys asking people whether they’ve been the victims of certain crimes over the past year.
I'm not offended, thanks for the extra feedback :)

Although I do want to point out that Telescope also comes with a minimally styled base theme that was specifically made to let people customize it however they want: http://telescope-base.meteor.com/
Nice. And now Instagram, haven for sales of prescription strength cough syrup:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/lean-on-me

(Though I guess that article still has some threats as spillover, threats on the internet are pretty common, so maybe they're acted out less frequently?)
A MOOC I'd definitely recommend taking along side this is the Startup Engineering from Stanford, taught by Balaji Srinivasan and Vijay Pande.

I've taken a lot of MOOCs but that was one that truly changed a lot of things in terms of how I approached tech and startups, and it actually says in it's description that it's somewhat of a sequel to CS183 (this new course is CS183B).

https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
Interestingly, asking Google to define "decimate" returns a modern definition, "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of", and a historical one, "kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group".

The English language has apparently moved on.
Because unlike sendmail, CVS hasn't been effectively broken for even one decade, let alone two.

Also, because CVS meshes better with their development philosophy (something about the fact that everything's in one repo, and CVS allows checking out portions of a repo, whereas Git only lets you check out the whole repo).

Just because it isn't as trendy or hip as Git doesn't mean it's automatically broken or obsolete.
No. Crimes per capita can obviously be concentrated in a smaller segment of the population (for instance, those that live in high crime areas). Half the population twice as frequently, or vice versa, looks the same in aggregate but not in perception.

And geographic concerns do matter. "I must live in this expensive area to avoid being mugged" drives a perception of unsafety even if you are not being mugged.
That's actually not the definition used in biology. Simple example: The entire genus Amphiprion (aka anemonefish) are speciated due to appearance and regional locality. They can and do interbreed when introduced into each others populations, and have fertile offspring that are mixed species. They are declared species due to their appearance, and their natural range's prevention of interbreeding. That said, there are areas where some ranges overlap and it's not uncommon that one species mates with another and has hybrid offspring.

Being genetically capable of interbreeding makes sense as a definition of speciation, but that is not how species are currently identified. Natural range, aesthetics, and more than that, whether or not they DO interbreed in the wild (vs physically/genetically capable) play a more significant role in determining species.

There are many 'hybrid' species in nature, which is what I feel warrants some revision, perhaps using genetic data to restructure many classifications as subspecies rather than independent species.

edit: Sorry, I think I may have misinterpreted what you said to some extent and think we generally agree. I will maintain that according to the classification methods described, people such as the Sentinelese, may well be considered a separate species to an unbiased observer using the same guidelines we apply to other animals due to slightly different physical characteristics and social/geographical reproductive isolation prevents the possibility of breeding with anyone outside of their group.
I believe there is a similar thing happening with people's beliefs about aviation safety. I think people understand it's generally safe, but I don't think most people realize how incredibly safe major US airlines are. The media plays a similar role there too, the difference being that some years there aren't even any crashes to report on, so they report when something goes wrong but everyone comes out safely anyway as if that's something to be scared of when really that highlights how good emergency procedures are.
I presume you're talking about the DCGS-A system. Palantir has done an expert level job confusing the public on this.

That system definitely has problems (it's terrible and sucks in many places), but it's a system of much larger capability and complexity than Palantir.

Comparing Palantir to it is like comparing a wheel to a an entire transport system. Palantir could comfortably fit in as a single capabilty in DCGS-A (and probably do a better job than the stuff currently filling in that role), but it could never replace it.

It's basically just a federated search, mediocre map and halfway decent link-analysis tool. But ask it to do anything even remotely outside of those three things and you're basically dead in the water as it doesn't offer anything relevant to all the other millions of things DCGS-A provides. DCGS-A is more than just some analytic tools.

The reason it's not part of DCGS-A is very political and complex and as much Palantir's doing as the Army's, but the answer is that the components that are on DCGS-A that basically do what Palantir does were selected because they're cheaper over the long run, even if a bit clunky. For example, on the client side, there's presently a forward looking mandate from big Army to drop flash and java clients (because they're an IT administrative menace). Palantir's front end is Java.
I remember when my Dad was part of a Tandy (aka CoCo) Computer Club hosted out of a local Radio Shack. He used to take me along and I'd swap games with other computer hobbyists on 5¼-inch disks.

My Dad also taught me how to build a desktop computer from scratch. We'd go to Radio Shack to pick up all the parts.

It's sad to see how far they've fallen from that kind of a destination.
Agreed on this being a semantic discussion.

I can see the compelling nature of the baseband processor being the largest part of a phone. If only because of the name of the device. The reality, I assert, is that the phone is now just another component inside a pocket computer I happen to carry around. Ironically, it is mainly used from an app called "Phone" on said device.

And, my entire point for this thread is that Android as an example can be used to cut both ways. That was what I meant by saying it could support either argument. (I cede that my opening comment did not make this clear. It was what I meant by saying "this point is easy to mislead.")

I do not see how it is an appeal to authority, though. It is meant to be an appeal to evidence. Just as the claim that "embedded systems use microkernels" is.
https://energycenter.org/programs/clean-cab-partnership

http://www.sfenvironment.org/news/press-release/san-francisc...

http://www.sfmayor.org/?page=684
I recently bought some BNC to RCA adapters from Radio Shack at $7 a pop. I thought they were screwing me on it, but I needed them that day so I bought them anyway. But if you look online, the average price for them is about $4+shipping. About a 70% markup, not that bad really considering a lot of the stuff they carry is pretty obscure.
(em)debian provides nearly enough of what I need most of the time. The trigger for going to a ARM chroot is when I can't get build dependencies installed properly on an amd64 host. Either that or the thing I'm compiling just isn't developed to be cross-compiler friendly and it's too much work to hotwire it to be so.

For example, say I need libfoo, I have an amd64 host (being the docker container). Sometimes I just can't get the libfoo:armhf or libfoo-dev:armhf package installed because it would break/conflict with the amd64 host's version of it in some way. xapt often helps but then sometimes screws up by re-packaging something that has an "all" arch (non-arch-specific) to something armhf specific (eg. foo-data). This ultimately either conflicts with the host or fails to be named properly in such a way that it meets the build-deps of the project.

Sometimes I know it would be easier in some cases to avoid the debian packaging ecosystem, but for my workflow and distribution requirements it brings a lot of benefits.

Edit: see here https://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianToolchain