skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper in question addresses the first criticism (of numbers).

"However, the ability to reach large populations online means that even small effects could yield behaviour changes for millions of people. Furthermore, as many elections are competitive, these changes could affect electoral outcomes. For example, in the 2000 US presidential election, George Bush beat Al Gore in Florida by 537 votes (less than 0.01% of votes cast in Florida). Had Gore won Florida, he would have won the election"

"To put these results in context, it is important to note that turnout has been steadily increasing in recent US midterm elections, from 36.3% of the voting age population in 2002 to 37.2% in 2006, and to 37.8% in 2010. Our results suggest that the Facebook social message increased turnout directly by about 60,000 voters and indirectly through social contagion by another 280,000 voters, for a total of 340,000 additional votes. That represents about 0.14% of the voting age population of about 236 million in 2010. However, this estimate does not include the effect of the treatment on Facebook users who were registered to vote but who we could not match because of nicknames, typographical errors, and so on. It would be complex to estimate the number of users on Facebook who are in the voter record but unmatchable, and it is not clear whether treatment effects would be of the same magnitude for these individuals, so we restrict our estimate to the matched group that we were able to sample and observe. This means it is possible that more of the 0.60% growth in turnout between 2006 and 2010 might have been caused by a single message on Facebook."

It's important to note that 0.14% of the population is the small number. It was 0.6% of the mobilized voting population and they got these results messaging 1/6 of the population. Furthermore they only report on effects that they could track and so all numbers are lower bounds.
What will it take to feed the world in 2050?
Such as Flash, which Apple did try to kill - remember the old section 3.3.1?

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas...

The clause was removed just 5 months later; there were rumors that potential antitrust issues were involved:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/05/apples-compiler-policy-...

History repeats itself.
It doesn't really qualify as "really good" (I'm not - I know people who are and they are way beyond what I can do, I mean light years beyond). It's just a set of basic tools about how to approach problems. Like when programming you don't have to have library function for everything - you learn to write your own functions, etc. You don't have to be able to write your own OS (though some people can) but going beyond clicking buttons in Word is not a bad idea.

Of course, I do not see it as "gaming" - I see it as learning the right way. IMHO, all learning should start with that and formula should come after - as a shortcut, which you can take but you know if needed you could do it from scratch because you understand where it comes from.
>immediately sell it so it doesn't count

I don't think that's moving goalposts.

Lots of places take Paypal. Paypal will convert [insert currency] into dollars. That doesn't mean I can claim all those businesses in the US accept [insert currency] in a way that shows that [insert currency] is strong and useful. All I can really argue is that Paypal does so.

Very few companies want to possess bitcoins as a liquid store of value.
This has got to be the most naive reasoning I've seen.

We totally live in a deterministic world where 1 action affects only 1 person, and everything else is isolated from one another.
I'm going to out myself as oversensitive and lacking a sense of humor in many of your eyes (or so I imagine) but I can't stand the kind of sarcastic humor in the contributing section.

Sarcasm is only funny to me when it's not mean spirited.

The joke about segfaults: "--dont-segfault --no-errors --dont-eat-dog." was quite funny, on the other hand. I'd like to see more playful expression in this way rather than playing with negativity; because even though it's obviously a joke, there's enough negativity in the world already that it doesn't make me laugh thinking about it.

I imagine i'm in a tiny minority. :/
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Good ol' pure capitalism my friend.
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According to the article, she's dead.
Wow, that was a fantastic video. I could understand it easily only because they iteratively added complexity to the models. It's amazing how well they have made the tutorial for the layman.

Thanks a lot for sharing.
A few days, and then what? Her job is at home, and so is the mob. Most people can't just hop across a border and start a new life on a whim.
I hope that we'll see web-development-like desktop platforms. There are certain classes of apps that are really simple to develop as a web site, but comparatively hard as a native app. I would like to see something like node-webkit with a broader range of native controls. On the opposite side, I would like to see desktop toolkits to include more web-server-like functionality to make desktop-web-dev easier.

in general, very much like the idea of Firefox OS, where you basically develop a web-app, and publish it as a native app. I would like to see this on the desktop as well.

Oh yeah, and a truly first class alternative to Javascript in the browser is really overdue.
Thanks for the grats!

Well, when you get right down to it, all internet startups essentially focused on 'reading words that were typed into such a box by someone else previously.﻿' [0] :)

The reinforced bubble you speak of is not what we're seeing in the articles being bought, but it is something that has our attention. We love great investigative reporting and journalism. Keeping that alive and nurturing that is our raison d'être.

So if that happens and if we can, we're going to prevent that bubble.

[0] https://plus.google.com/117114202722218150209/posts/KhMRNmgG...
Thank you for posting this, after 20 minutes of trying to get Puer going I gave Browser Sync a go. Easier to install and the proxy setup worked first time. Also the documentation seems to be well laid out on Browser Syncs site with clear instructions and Gulp / Grunt examples... might give gulp a try soon.
Are the performance problems you refer to the horrible slow-down in multiplayer? I've never had any client-side performance problems with AoC (Steam edition or prior), but the network slow-down has always been there, and makes substantial games with more than about 4 players essentially unplayable. I haven't checked on the Steam edition since a couple months after its release, but if they managed to fix that I would be elated.
>That is a valid point. I personally offset that $400 with rebates. The remaining amount is totally worth it to me to have chargeback ability, extended warranties, insurance on my rental cars, and all the other perks you can get from credit cards

Now, imagine a poor or homeless person with bad credit that pays in cash, debit or non-rewards credit card. That person is paying more for the same things compared to you at the store and gets none of those perks.

>As a thought experiment, imagine if Apple stopped taking a 30% cut of app store purchases. Do you think that $0.99 games would be priced at $0.69? Probably not.

Even if not, the developer has 30% more to spend on developing the app, resulting in more and better apps. Apple, meanwhile, is buying back stock and giving dividends with all the extra cash because they don't know what to do with it.
Desktop and mobile and web will continue to converge. That trend is already well underway. You would not go wrong by developing for the web, if you want to build to be relevant five years from now.

About half of the high end and mid end laptops have touch screens now. More will have them next year. The year after that, it'll be impossible to find a laptop without a touch screen. Touch will become pervasive, as it is how kids are comfortable interacting with devices and a lot of current kids will be adults in five years.

JavaScript will continue to evolve and find its way into new places. While Firefox OS probably won't make a dent in ChromeOS or iOS market share, the paradigm of developing mobile/desktop apps using web technologies probably will expand. It's hard to argue with tech that allows building run-anywhere applications.

Performance of browsers will continue to approach desktop native performance, further allowing more applications, including some that are currently impossible in-browser, like good 3D games. Native games will be among the last types of app to go browser, but they will come along, as well. The browser VM is pretty good and getting better. Unity has already shown that a lot of games can be built in a VM language and environment (and while Mono/C# is currently faster than JavaScript for some things, and has more native access, that likely won't be forever, and increasing machine performance will likely close whatever gap remains).

Assume everything will be more powerful, and things that are just out of reach today because of memory, or CPU speed, or disk space, will become mundane in a few years. Maybe not five (Moore's law has slowed, as has every other "law" about increasing computer performance, but it has not ceased), but in a span of ten, the difference will be huge. So, when someone says you'll never make a great 3D game on a table running in the browser, you should assume that really means, "you won't make a great 3D game on a tablet in a browser today".

Network speed will be a continuing source of revolutionary change. Fiber is making its way slowly, but surely, into the home. That kind of speed changes everything about how you interact, just like broadband brought us YouTube, GMail, Netflix streaming, streaming every kind of media, etc. fiber will make it seem entirely normal for every file to be stored in the cloud. We're nervous about that, as nerds who understand the privacy implications, but it'll happen, whether we trust it or not. Just like facebook continues to happen, despite our misgivings about what a privacy nightmare it is. So, building good encrypted ways to use that incredible network will be an ethical and profitable way to predict and create the future. (Building un-encrypted ways to use that network will be evil, but profitable.)
I see a reborn over the LAN and even PAN with apps talking between them, on a private network, without requiring internet access to provide services. IoT would certainly be a major driver for this, but innovation in network services and protocols is stagnated. The whole point is to bring services to the connected clients, and a bunch of those services does not require internet access, but better machinery.
If you see Uber driver behaving badly, you can call Uber.

>>> Good luck doing that with some rando driving for Uber, though.

Why? Every driver is identified and known, and Uber has a lot of incentive to weed out bad drivers, especially when they are just starting the service and couple of bad reviews can kill adoption for a whole market. What incentive Uber has to support bad service? I can tell one incentive for city politicians to do it - taxi lobbyists pay into their campaign funds, and you do not (at least not as much, unless you are Zuckerberg, in which case you probably have your own limo anyway), so who has more influence on them?

>>> For similar reasons, I'm also pretty sure the insurance situation is solid.

Because Uber just dreams about uninsured million-dollar lawsuit. Nothing inspires investors to invest into a young business as much as an uninsured risk of a million-dollar lawsuits, right? And Uber doesn't care about investors or risks - unlike city politicians whose very future is linked to the fact whether city would be sued or not, since lawsuit cost comes out of their pockets... Oh wait, I got it in reverse - city politician could not care less if the city is sued since taxpayers would pay it anyway, while Uber guys risk their own money and their investors money. Yet somehow you trust more the guy who uses your money to insure your risks and has zero incentive to preserve it and large incentive to follow lobby interests over guy who uses their own money and has large incentive to preserve it. I wonder how it works out for you.

>>> But in my view, Uber's cure is worse than the disease.

Worse in what? Of course, if you refuse to trust anything that does not say "State Commission" and is not rules by an unaccountable bureaucrat, then every cure would be worse than the disease for you. However, do not be very surprised if you find no cures at all, because you seem to be insisting on having the disease as a precondition to finding the cure.
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Another thing that I really enjoy about working remotely is not having to deal with people as much... Talking to computers is so much easier than talking to people :)
Many people here are thinking of this as a technical problem than a social one. I know we are HNers, but we do think of stuff in different perspectives too, don't we? I mean technology is not the farthest we can look.
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Well, that's honestly irrelevant as long as Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency with any significant market share.

Bitcoin's market share is currently over 15 times larger than the combined market share of the following 10 most popular cryptocurrencies! An altcoin could be much better than Bitcoin technically or economically/philosophically, but it wouldn't matter since Bitcoin would be much better in practical use due to its market penetration.

An altcoin could do some really cool stuff that would in theory make it more secure than Bitcoin, but Bitcoin would be vastly more secure in practice due to its massive network.

And if an objective flaw actually were discovered in Bitcoin, it would be solved pretty quickly.
> Syntax of a programming language not being IP protected is probably a good thing for developers, regardless of what you think of the Microsoft situation. The API being protected is a separate issue

But in the case you cited, the API was found to be not protected (which is also the proper ruling in my opinion).
I would have added to that list:

[4] Teachers aren't good at lecturing.

A great lecturer can make a subject fascinating. A great teacher can organize information in such a way that it fits together logically. But an average teacher does neither of these things. They are giving you material you could learn better and faster by simply reading the book. So far as I could tell, in most of my classes through grade school and high school the only reason for lecturing is that some kids can't or won't read the book, so the teacher needs to say out loud the exact same things that the textbook author said better in print.

When choosing a textbook, you can use one written by one of the best subject-domain teachers in the entire country and that author has an editor whose job is to hone the material to minimize repetition and confusion. What's more, you're not even constrained to currently living textbook author/editor combinations. If the best treatment on the subject was written in 1947, schools can still use that 1947 textbook (or relevant quoted sections from it). But when choosing a teacher you need to find somebody who is alive and teaching today and lives in or is willing to relocate to your neighborhood, which hugely lowers the expected quality. Your math teacher might be quite good compared to most math teachers in your county but probably is not a world-renowned subject expert the way your textbook author is. Your teacher has no editor tightening up the prose. Your teacher's lectures are (compared to the book) rambling, poorly organized and repetitive.

As a result, the best learning strategy to get at least some value out of the time you're forced to spend sitting in a class being talked at by idiots is to read the textbook and ignore lectures - use that time to read books or magazines that you actually enjoy.
I am just here to figure out how you managed to get that much credit.
I think it will be less of a matter of you remote controlling your house, and more a matter of your house learning your habits. If remote control continues to be a matter of you reaching over to your phone, unlocking it and stating a request, people will continue to just get out of bed to turn the lights on.

If, however, the house knows that you set an alarm last night for 4:00, and it is designed to slowly bring the lights up to simulate a natural sunrise, then you'll wake up with the lights on already, which is far more useful. If it offers to start the shower and bring up the lights in the bathroom after it confirms you're out of bed, even better.

I think we overestimate the amount of control people really want over the mechanical and electrical systems in their living space. Most people just want the thermostat to keep them comfortable, whatever that means.
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> Apple were the first phone makers (AFAICT) who managed to put NFC on the edge of a device rather than the center.

I'm not sure how that particular rumour started but it is inaccurate. Some HTC and Sony phones, from personal knowledge, have their NFC antennas embedded above^W [ Edit from evidence: near ] the camera at the 'top' of the phone.

Edit: Here's a page of antenna location diagrams. It looks like we're actually regressing... notice how Samsung used to have the antenna under their logo but now it's part of the battery housing!

http://www.octopus.com.hk/customer-service/checking-your-bal...

... and here's where it is in the iPhone 6, about the same location as the Sony phones

http://images.techtimes.com/data/images/full/12514/iphone-6-...
No, I was thinking more abstract. Like a picture which holds the joy of openning a nice gif. Like the walk of anyone when receiving the first car of his/her life.

I know my request is completly open and unespecified, but I want to see ur art.
I guess I was thinking about a unilateral intervention by a single country's army. UN peacekeepers are a different thing altogether, both the scope of the mission and the goals are usually very different. I don't have enough information to know how would that turn out. Keep in mind that they would be going into a very complex system that includes actors such as: the drug cartels, federal and state police, the Mexican army, federal and state political bodies, (multiple) self-defense civilian armies, (multiple) organized protest movements. The more official of those actors are - to an unknown degree - corrupted/infiltrated/colluded with the cartels. The more unstructured ones might very well consider peacekeeper intervention forcing them to disarm or stopping them from protest acts (which have included burning a state police building, an act that had surprising public support) to be further government repression.

In general I think just having independent media and investigators from outside the country can be helpful, since they can be perceived as not part of the system of internal corruption. I think it gets a lot more complicated when you have international actors as supposed to observers and/or pressure. Not saying it can't work, but it is far from simple to predict... (there are, of course, people who know great many orders of magnitude more about the issues involved than I do, both within and without Mexico, so maybe someone is looking into whether or not that sort of intervention would help).
>Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed, a news and entertainment site, said his rule for writing and reporting in a fragmented age is simple: “no filler.” News organizations that still publish a print edition, he said, have slots — physical holes on paper or virtual ones on a home page — that result in the publication of stories that are not necessarily the most interesting or timely, but are required to fill the space. It was partly to discourage such slot-filling that BuzzFeed did not focus on its home page when it first started, he said.

In summation, buzzfeed has a commitment to only report current events, and the most interesting and thought provoking content. They have a strict "no filler" mandate and a commitment to only report important news stories.

>Not sure this guy has ever even read buzzfeed
Does this comment serve any purpose? You can mock any damn statement in the world with "how very generous of you".
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heh, even parsing file header can be malicious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
There is no such thing as a 2nd world country.
Adobe might want to do that if they thought they could make more money that way, perhaps by reducing piracy or increasing lock in.
>But then there is this aspect of the pretend currency and the pretend commodity. Part of the con is in the pretend commodity, because this is a completely shallow, liquidless market. When you know that there’s, what, 13 million coins in circulation, and more than 50% of the them are owned and managed by about 950 people, you realize how shallow the market it is and how subject the market is to manipulation.

You just described the U.S economy.
Which specific claims from The Bell Curve do you disagree with?
The most contentious point, regarding racial differences in IQ, has been confirmed many times.
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I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments.

The only reason I can think of for the existence and continuous implementations of this idea is when you regularly develop on different machines where you can't set up development environments. And here again I can't imagine why such a thing would ever happen to a typical programmer, let alone to a team of developers (presumably at a company).
I just visited Rwanda and Bosnia a couple months ago, and I heard stories about the UN failing miserably in both places only a couple of decades ago. A guide in Sarajevo even said the UN would sometimes accidentally return captured Bosnian civilians to the Serbian army on the hillside. With "friends" as competent as that, Mexico would probably be better off without UN soldiers.
Yes there are good programmers in those freelance sites. You need to find the needle in those haystacks.

1. Post a project on Elance or Guru or other freelance sites where you specifically ask them for their Github and stackoverflow profile. I believe every good programmers do not maintain regular Github profile. But most of them do and from their Github profile you can have an idea on quality of code they can deliver.

I found a programmer from Russia who had a very high reputation score on Stackoverflow and arguable he came out as a proficient one. But convincing a programmer to work on your project is another challenge. They have enough projects under their belt. So your projects need to challenge/thrill them to work on. Else they will not stick for long.
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Yeah, so, over three years in us-east-1:

S3 = ~USD $1,085,552.64

Or more realistically:

Glacier = ~USD $377,487.36