skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we don’t have a “Basic Income”, to survive in society you have to provide value to others¹, i.e. make money. If you want to spend your time being an artist, you still have to make money.

The cost of any widely available item will trend towards its marginal cost. A non-rivalrous good with zero marginal cost will therefore trend towards a price of zero. Digital copies of things fall under this category. Therefore, you cannot expect to be able to make money by having a profit margin on each item sold on these types of products. You cannot make money this way.

You may lament this fact, but it is the reality. You will have to make money some other way. There will probably never arise a perfect substitute. The worst case scenario is that the modern but pre-digital age was a golden age for production of these kinds of now-digitizeable things, just as ancient Egypt was a golden age for the production of pyramids.

But you can’t put the genie back in the bottle, and you can’t complain that there isn’t any substitute business model to cover your situation. Reality is what it is.

① http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...
Implementing Language Engine – Pluralities in Semantics (part 2)
I think Einstein's very next sentence, "He must have the courage to set an example by word and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by this racial bias." is great advice.

The faster we demonstrate to our younger generations that our erroneous tradition must be corrected, the faster the goals of more diversity and elimination of racial bias can be achieved.
I live in Germany. It appears to me that the outrage from the government was largely theatre for the public, than serious. There is an election coming up.
> An increase in diversity is a goal, it's not a course of action.

Yes, actually, it is. It's fine to say you disagree with the course of action because you believe it is immoral or ineffective, but it is absolutely a course of action.

> We should be trying to root out whatever the underlying causes are that lead us to segregate ourselves into the groups that we end up in.

One of these causes is "that's how it has always been". How would you propose to root out this one?
I learned how to write a book. I've been working on Python Crash Course, which will come out this spring. It's been an incredible learning experience.

I have learned the most from having my work critiqued by so many people - an initial editor, a technical editor, a copy editor, and a production editor. It's been humbling and enlightening every step of the way. I can't wait to get back to programming again, and apply what I've learned from writing at a professional level to building things with code. My technical work will be much stronger; writing a book has forced me to reexamine much of what I thought I knew about programming, in a really good way.

http://www.nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse
For the life of me do not understand why anyone would require Node's package manager as a requirement for a PHP application.

One of the few strengths of PHP is that there doesn't have to be a "build process."

You don't even have to compile CSS and JS, really, but I guess people aren't comfortable with js or css which isn't machine generated. Fair enough - there are benefits to that, but as general practice, it's needless complexity.
Ok, I agree in general.

But the problem is that on the specifics, a few topics are indeed unanimous. You won't get diversity on those, and this is not a problem.
To all those arguing that HTTP is still fine, please go ahead and drop ssh in favor of telnet. Go ahead, I will wait. If you cannot figure out why HTTPS is more secure than HTTP and why we should drop HTTP support from all browsers entirely, then please go read about it. HTTP should be used no more than telnet these days.

I am not saying HTTPS is perfect as is, but I am saying that HTTP is fundamentally and practically broken at this point. It is exploited daily in many different ways and your and your users' experience is worse because of it. Stop using it, and help other stop.

</rant>
> There should be a word for requests for data citations that are really just disguised admissions of having no meaningful response to a point.

I'd be careful about this one. People don't always have the same news sources, so what constitutes "common knowledge" for one person might be alien to another.

Personally, I expect myself to be able to provide a citation for anything reasonably controversial or not widely known and I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with asking someone to show their work.

After all, there's the opposite side of this coin: someone who isn't giving evidence because they cannot. I mean, if I claim to have a unicorn in my garage, I can't reasonably expect everyone to accept it on my say-so. I know that's not at all the scenario you have in mind, but I think you'd hate to have someone engaged in such behavior justifying it with your logic when that's not what you meant at all.
Defcon 22 videos and slides
Yet the attitude you express here is used as a justification for the suppression of pay in this industry. Open source is a boon and a bane in that regard, because companies are unlikely to distinguish between the two contexts you note. And they have a large source of useful idiots who will happily play along.
It's a build requirement, not a requirement to run the app. If you know a better way to install grunt-contribs, please tell me.

I made it more obvious in the readme that you do not need build tools to run Hosty. Seems like that confused a lot of people.
Their onboarding is also pretty bad. The friction in switching from another music player is so high - you can't import music so you have to build a library from scratch. I'm a user but this stopped me from moving entirely from iTunes.

This post also doesn't go into their mobile apps, which (I think) are easier to use than the competition. This is the best post you'll read on their mobile apps: http://blog.brianlovin.com/design-details-soundcloud-for-ios...
Notch made a good game, sure, but Minecraft basically won the lottery. It's not a good example of anything. There are lots of other great games that fall victim to the phenomena described by guscost.
Have a look at https://prezi.com/vvbk0zjisuqa/what-is-prezi/. The presentation will be Adobe Flash though.
Also see keywords: echo chamber, filter bubble.
The article is 30 years out-of-date. Fire ants in the South around homes have for decades been easily controlled with "Amdro"-type baits. Everyone in the South, except the article's author apparently, knows this.

The real news is another new (2002) invasive species, the tawny (Rasberry) crazy ant (nylanderia fulva). Very small, fast and evasive, they out-compete fire ants, don't sting but bite and worst of all, collect around electrical wiring, sometimes shorting it out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/crazy-ants-invasive...

http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/rasberry.html
I had an anti-Obamacare Republican canvasser show up at my door during election season, and ended up debating for about an hour on the front porch. Though it was an enjoyable and intelligent discussion (far from the stereotype of the Tea Party), I couldn't help but realize that I effected a 1-to-1 "time attack" that drained his ability to canvass voters who actually had a snowball's chance of voting for his candidate.

For better or worse, that seems to be an attack vector in a free marketplace of ideas: finding ways to burn the time and energy of your opponent. (See also: "outrage fatigue".)
Are you arguing for the invalidity of most, if not all agent-based simulations?
Great article. I've not heard about any of the other traditional rocket builders pursuing reusable rockets recently. If SpaceX is successful in their goal of reusability, they will be able to undercut everybody else. But, they will have no incentive to reduce prices significantly until they have competition.
The paper, "Acoustic Tractor Beam" is also available here:

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/364597/1/Demore-TractorBeam%20R2%...

And a slightly different version here:

https://pdf.yt/d/8p03rq6HgDU1r-zs
>You have cash, you press a button on your phone which shows the nearest person selling it, you go there and buy it from them. Can it get any more simple than handing over money in return for an item, like buying a coffee?

Can it be more simple? No. Will most people do it, with the shady reputation of Bitcoin and the people involved with it? No.
Racism's trajectory is such that it is quickly disappearing. That is the case even in the deep south where I'm from (this is fairly profound considering our civil war defeat is still a big deal in the minds of many), but rather the racism you do encounter is in response to perceived injustices such as those I listed. Thus the hyper-vigilance perpetuated by the media does more to harm racism's disappearance than to hasten it's natural death.

Edit: Also, because racism is illogical. Irrational ideas tend to be replaced by good ones in the "free market" of ideas. There is no reason to beat tolerance into people, simply show show them the compassion and unity that equality leads to, and contrast that with the ridiculous KKK guys in goofy white cone hats and piss-stained bed sheets and let them make up their own mind.
Unable to reply to your other flagkilled comment, so I'll reply here.

It's amusing that bringing up facts in a community ostensibly self-selected to prize discovery and reason is sufficient cause to be silenced.

pg and the community he fostered has come a long way since this: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
That's really the heart of it. Everything has moved so fast that I don't think we understand the first principles of the system.

For a while I believed that all the new music production tools out there meant that the market is flooded with crappy music released by hobbyists giving it away for free. The system affects of that sort of thing is that the listeners are bombarded, they shut down, they don't have the opportunity to reliably discover "good" music, and that therefore people writing "good" music fall through the cracks, don't earn money, eventually stop writing, and culture is worse off.

But... I'm coming around to the view that the market is pretty much flooded now with "good" music. I'm being hand-wavy, defining it as merely music that deserves to exist alongside other "good" music. If that's true, then it's a different model. Great for the consumer, they can probably subsist on a healthy music diet received for free. There the only path through for a musician is to try and invite fans into the "family" and hope fans will pay a premium for that. But still, you're going to have artists that write good music fall through the cracks and stop writing - it's just that in those cases, culture isn't necessarily worse off.
In the video you mentioned that you worked on a bit of RTL for the codec. I am curious on how the codec can be accelerated. You didn't talk much about it, so I am interested in what you have learned. Do you have some info on where most of the CPU time is spent in the codec? What did you try out?
People do want new art. Just look at the most torrented works of art -- far more people download Game of Thrones than I Love Lucy. One major reason is that societies change and today's audiences are different from audiences of 30 years ago.

The reason people don't want to pay for art is not that they assign a value of zero to it; it's that they have figured out a way to get it without paying the artist.
A torrent is also available[1] The official page seems under heavy load ATM.

[1] https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-torrent.html
Good ideas. Would the single song view look like solution #2? The latest SC redesign put the song info in the upper right corner, and thereby hides stuff like track lists for DJ sets behind a modal pop-up. It's very annoying to keep switching between the song (with player controls) and the track list if you are looking up the name of a song.
That's the problem with lots of other professions, in an age where tons of skills become obsolete, either because tools, knowledge and opportunities to learn become too widespread (e.g. recording music, video making, photography, journalism -- millions enter a market that can only sustain 1/1000 of them because the barriers to entry are now much lower), or because they got automated / migrated to China, etc.

The usual BS about "being creative", "practicing hard" and getting a leg up the competition is also not really helpful. It's just advice for the individual, not a systemic solution to a problem (that might not even have one).
No. A GSM phone will camp to the strongest signal, so your base station just needs to be slightly higher powered (or closer) than the legitimate base stations.
I have some hope that in 500 years time we will look back at todays debates and have similar thoughts of how terribly out of touch with reality the debaters seemed to be and how obvious their biases and self-serving arguments were. Thank you for restoring some of my faith in humanity.
I'd much rather people stopped making music than they stopped making DRM-free computers. I care a little bit about music, but I care about computers more.
These results look pretty spotty...the rankings seem about as random as picking out names from a Bingo machine. User ssciafani is among the top users in Cautiousness, Openness, and Adventurousness, Stability, and Practicality. Any "Yeah, user johndoe is totally some-characteristic! revelations may be no more the intentional result of a sophisticated algorithm than the confirmation bias that many have when reading a horoscope.
As said, wasn’t at all about your project. But I’m glad you made this more clear. :)
I've always thought that a short-sighted argument. DRM and piracy have different effects at different popularity levels.
This is interesting. On the visualization, though, I'm not sure what the purpose of the inner ring is (it just seems to chart the first entry in the group at the next level out, which doesn't seem to be particularly meaningful.)
While redesigns are always interesting or refreshing, I think one has to be careful dubbing these concepts as "solutions". From a UX standpoint, "I’m usually searching for an artist or song name" is a dangerous standpoint as you're not the user. From a PM standpoint, I assume soundcloud (located next door to us) will validate any new feature. So often we see the prettiest solution doesn't become the most effective one. Personally, I find SC very intuitive to use and while I agree with some of the proposed changes some seem counter-intuitive as a long-time soundcloud user.
Art reacts to culture and creates new culture. Culture is always changing, so new art will always be able to say things that old art has never said before.
Plus that's how we get shitty OpenSSL code and the like, that everybody uses, but nobody bothers improving...
Author here! I'm surprised to see this up on HN, I checked the front page, and here it was. This was written for a computer security class, and definitely hasn't been proofread yet. If anyone has any questions, I can answer anything you like.
Right. Even in the current situation, surely there is some incentive for surgeons to turn down high-risk patients, because of the inevitable stress and potential legal trouble from a failed operation.
To clarify the confusion...

The definition of autonomous I am using here is: "having the freedom to act independently" [1]

And in this context context I mean the car acting independently of the driver.

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/autonom...
Do you really think there is an advantage to books over tech? I tend to think most people are attached to books for nostalgic reasons.
2. Sounds fun, but you need a plan in place for the first time somebody uploads child porn, or movies. I suspect dealing with abuse would be your biggest hassle, beyond the obvious upload/storage requirements and lack of income.
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I recall that the site has some flamewar detection algorithm that will penalize a story if it detects a flamewar. I don't have a source for this at the moment, though.
I think the example on the README should make it pretty clear.
As a new parent I quickly learned that kids emulate what they see (and they seem to pay more attention that we give them credit for)
In an effort to prove this out my wife and I got library cards and started reading books during my daughter's (alone) play time after dinner. Very soon after this experiment started she too started picking books and now likes to read (recite from memory) her bed-time books.
As a 80% of the time programmer and 20% of the time side-man musician, I disagree.... it's a lot easier for me to turn down for less than my rate gigs if I have a "real" income source.
>Do you suppose artists are entitled to cash that falls out of the sky proportional to the effort they put it?

No, I just suppose that artists are entitled to us paying their asking price for what they offer -- or not getting it at all, if you can't be bothered with paying.

Or, to put it in another way, it's the consumer that is NOT entitled to free art when that art is put up on sale by its creators.
I think a few places in the UK get Norwegian trees - not just London, we have one here in Edinburgh (and very beautiful it is too!):

http://www.norway.org.uk/norwayandcountry/News/Norwegian-Chr...

Edit: Not far from the tree on the Mound there is the Norwegian Memorial which is a large boulder carried from Norway that has the inscription:

During the war years 1940-45 the Norwegian brigade and other army units were raised and trained in Scotland where we found hospitality, friendship and hope during dark years of exile. In grateful memory of our friends and allies on these isles.

[I went to University here in Edinburgh with a lot of Norwegians - so I have a distinct fondness for Norway and Norwegians].
Oh, I fully agree with how you have everything set up and organized. It's clear you tried to be as formal as possible with organizing the app, it's dependencies and build processes, for _development_. People are just misunderstanding that bit or nitpicking. Like I said, it's damned if you do, damned if you don't.
> > called for some sort of unobtrusive, universal DRM -- and if you care about music, you should too

> I don't see the reason for the downvotes.

Perhaps because this reads like "you have to want DRM if you care about music" with no supporting argument.

I don't believe profit is the best motivator for artists and much of the music I listen to (and all of the music I make) is made by unpaid producers. With that point of view DRM is entirely uncalled for. I'm not trying to argue that point of view here, just presenting it as a contrast to reveal the hidden assumptions in the assertion made above.
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Actually, that's way less far-fetched than you think: http://www.autismspeaks.org/news/news-item/google-glass-app-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

http://www.quora.com/What-scientific-evidence-is-there-to-di...

http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrintro.htm

http://science-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/08/11/122229/genet...
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> silence

Is it really fair to call this a dodge? Not responding hardly means one has difficulty dealing with a post's information. It usually means it is not worth dealing with the poster, as their post may be tiresome, repetitive, abusive, trollish, etc.
Do you really care about accessing sites with 10-year-old mobile devices using only stock apps (emphasis: long term)?
It's weird because how I feel about my work has absolutely nothing to do with its market value. Zero. I work for money. If you want to experience my work, you'll pay for it. If you don't want to pay for it, you don't get to see it. My enjoyment in creating the work is the same whether or not you pay for it. Your enjoyment is what you're paying for. If you don't want it enough to pay for it, it's your loss.

This is equally true of my work as a scientist, as a software engineer, as a poet (http://www.siduri.net/cindylooyou/index.html) and as a novelist (http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...).

The market value of what I create (science: moderate, software: very high, poetry: almost zero, novel: barely more than almost zero) has nothing at all to do with my enjoyment of the act of creation, which is extremely high in all cases.

Some of my work I do for free for various reasons of my own, but mostly you have to pay for it if you want to have it, and I get to say that because it's my work. I own it. I made it. I created it. I'm an arrogant prick and if you don't like that... too bad. Go rip off someone else's work. I'm making good money from the stuff people are willing to pay for, and having lots of fun with everything I do, and so the loss is all on the side of those who can't appreciate the value of my other work.

If you think you deserve the output of my creativity without paying me simply because I enjoy the act of creation, the problem is all on your side.
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> If you know a better way to install grunt-contribs, please tell me.

I would just not use grunt. I understand it's not required to run it, but even as a build dependency, unless you already have Node installed and running, it's a lot of overhead for relatively little benefit, I think.
In addition to the wonderful piece, I enjoyed the fact that he appears to be wearing a bad-assed, black leather jacket in the photo.
Why don't we? Because when it comes to health care we aren't rational. Emotions run and win the day. But not only do they win the day, they win the day in court for a lawsuit.

Ob-Gyns have some of the highest insurance rates among doctors. Possibly the highest. Why? Because they screw up it's a baby that dies. God help you if you think there's an ounce of rationality in a room with a dead baby.

Here's a similar article from earlier this year. The short version is that a man lost his wife to a mistake and... well that was it. The NHS (UK) doesn't do investigations as to what happened or why. That just means it will happen again. When a plane crashes there is a gigantic investigation and the results are shared. There are some famous cases where a series of basic mistakes needlessly lead to a crash and everyone dies. All pilots know about this so it doesn't happen anymore. Hospitals don't do that. Because it ends in pointing the blame finger. And then people lose their job, lose their license, and get the ever living shit sued out of them.

http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/05/how-mistakes-can-save-li...
I also switched my small and ad-free blog to https-only and I haven't noticed a drop in traffic. On the other hand, even if I had, I wouldn't have cared.

I'm proud to contribute to a saner Internet and it does matter even for small blogs because I noticed networks that inject content in websites - I don't know how this practice evolved in the US, but a couple of years ago while traveling there the Wifi networks in the 2 motels I stayed at were injecting ads in the websites I was visiting. I found that to be extremely distasteful.

For me HTTPS is a way of signing my content. Shameless plug - https://www.bionicspirit.com/ :-)
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This seems to be the case for everything to do with Healthcare. Even choosing a healthcare plan is confusing and terrifying, and then figuring out if what you need is covered or not is hard to do.
Would it be possible to collect better data by correlating SMART data across drive manufacturer? Sure it'd be a smaller sample size, but if all Western Digitals start to indicate failure in the same way (that would be obscured by having other manufacturer specific data blended in), it might be worth the effort.
The problem here is that increasing the difficulty or learning curve of a system is always unpopular.

If SSL was truley as trivial as a check box, then we would see very wide adoption.