skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you remind me of someone I went to high school with. Are you from Regina, Sask? If so, next time we're in the same city, I would love to reacquaint with you. My email is in my profile, please use it!

Second, this reminds me of a conversation I had with a tattoo artist friend of mine. We had had a few drinks and he started ruminating about the state of his industry, most notably the sudden surge of people who would book slots, wait for a few months, show up twenty minutes late woefully prepared to be tattooed, and then complain about paying him $150 an hour.

He explained how he would love to tell them that they weren't buying an hour of his time; they were compensating him for the twenty five years he spent sketching, taking art classes, and learning a wide variety of mediums. Moreover, it wasn't as if they showed up and he slapped some flash on them - his work was custom, involved research, and a significant amount of planning. Alas, if he dared, he feared that word would spread that he was a prima donna, an elitist and a fake artist.

And, tattoo is one of very few fields where visual artists can make a good living...
FreeBSD coming to DigitalOcean
... hence the scare quotes ...
You suspected correctly. Christopher and I wrote this for a computer security class at UCSC (taught by Ethan Miller, who I expect will at some point read this), and I posted it to reddit to see what people thought. The paper was a bit rushed, and isn't proofread at all, if I had known it would pop up on HN, I would have polished it a bit more.
My RTL accelerated the transform stage of the codec. Because Daala has no pixel domain dependencies, the frequency domain coefficients can just be offloaded to hardware, which returns the pixel domain result. There is more information on timing on my website [1].

The transforms no longer take as much CPU time as they used to, due to having better SIMD accelerated versions. Much of the time is now spent on the PVQ decoder, which is not optimized for speed at the moment.

One thing I learned after writing large fixed-function transform hardware is that it doesn't take much extra hardware to turn them into microcoded programmable pipelines, much like a GPU. In fact, this approach is very common internal to hardware video decoders, though the firmware is not exposed to the user. One notable exception is Broadcom's Videocore IV, which is quite an interesting architecture [2].

Also, with the latest mobile processors having 8 or more ARM cores, we can also exploit CPU parallelism in much the same way. I feel it is very important to have the codec perform well on CPU alone, as not everyone will have hardware that can decode it right away. This is something I would like to play with a lot more.

[1] http://thomasdaede.com/wordpress/?cat=9
[2] http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-A...
I edited it down, but this:

> The market clearly does not favor this kind of product

Is the same as what you're saying. Obviously I didn't create something engaging enough to gain traction organically and become profitable. The point of the story was just to provide another anecdote supporting the claim that that is a difficult thing to do in the entertainment industry. I hope it did not come across as whining.
There's an emphasis on words and stories with books that's difficult to emulate fully with tech. I talk extensively with my son about what we read, and about what he does on the ipad. Those conversations are similar, but qualitatively different as well.

There are also some physical skills that kids develop from learning to turn pages, and handle books.

Books and devices are going to be around for a long time. Kids who develop appropriate fluency with both are going to be in a better position to make sense of their world.
It was ever a political fight.

That's what happens when you end up neighbors with the great great grandson of the bloke your great great granddaddy paid to have kidnapped and shipped to the country as a piece of equipment.

Sure you can argue over the details about what their family have been like to be around in the intervening time, but don't be surprised if the conversation gets back around to the question of who exactly kidnapped who in the first place.

Is pretty pointless to winge about it being political.
Read to them. That's it. Just read to them regularly.
Profit is an immensely powerful motivator up to a point. Being able to put food on your and your kids' table with your music will enable you to create MUCH more music than you otherwise would be able to.
3-4 years ago I watched the Ben Polak/Yale Game Theory course on Youtube, very well explained, and it was a great refresher for me https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EF60E1027E1A10B
> "you shouldn't expect to make money from selling recordings; release your recordings for free because all the real money is from touring and merchandise!"

Yeah, I hate this argument so much.

Touring is labor intensive, often risky, and scales badly except for the biggest acts. And there's also a degree to which it's competed against by any amount of freely released music (yes, they're different experiences, but ask yourself why the live band market labor became considerably tighter when recorded music came into its own).

Merchandising is another way of saying musicians should have other jobs besides music.

And saying that is another way of saying you don't really care if musicians can use more of their time to either improve or increase their output.

(Which I guess is fine if you really don't care, but own it, don't pretend we're in some kind of new magic economy that makes those fundamentals go away...)
P2P Asset Management the Next Thing in FinTech?
A big problem with scoring systems is that it incentivises risk taking. If you enter one of the stock picking competitions, for example, you rational choice is to take extreme risks.

You probably won't pick a winning stock, but if you do you're likely to have a good chance at winning the competition. This is the opposite of what an investor wants to do with his own money, which is to manage the risk taking.

This is a common problem in designing scoring systems for measuring performance, even after the more ovious problems with natural variations.
Ok, but remember that URL syntax was invented with the web. Before the URL existed it was conventional to write "available via FTP from quiz.baz.com" (or "via gopher" or whatever.) In the pre-"eternal september" days people were happy to use that formula even though it was a bit long-winded. I can't figure out a way to check for exceptions to that rule but it was the prevalent form of words.
> Okay, but, doesn't it, like, at least double the amount of fuel needed for a launch?

No, it reduces payload to orbit by ~30% or so. Fuel is insanely cheap in comparison to the cost of building the 1st stage.
Why Legal Weed Isn't Much Safer Than a Dime Bag
As the case of Dr. Christopher Duntsch revealed, the limiting factor in these things isn't that other surgeons noticed an incredible lack of skill (because they did), but the nature of the problem requires a great deal of time before the board involved can collect sufficient evidence of incompetence to the degree of negligence. It looks like this sort of thing would still help, but you'd still need to determine that the surgeries themselves were done ineptly.
When we see a shortage of rock bands, then there's a problem. There isn't. At one point there were 13.5 million bands on Myspace. With Band-In-A-Box and AutoTune, anyone can make music now. All music worth hearing is on line, so anyone can listen to a band that's better than you.

The musician as star concept dates from the vinyl and radio era, when manufacturing and distribution of records, and getting airplay, created a mass market for rock stars. That was a brief historical anomaly. For centuries, almost all musicians were nobodies, outranked by bartenders. Now, with the tools for making and distributing music available to everyone, we're back there.

You are in a business where, unless you're really good and really well promoted, you don't matter. Deal with it.

Read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_cares_about_yo...
> […] marginal cost of production was always cheap […]

Yes, but it wasn’t zero, like digital copying is today.

> Reality" is a pretty fluid concept […]

Sure, there are laws like Copyright which change the normal market forces, just like any other country can have laws changing society. But the principle, the trend for the cost towards zero, is the same, Copyright notwithstanding. Copyright sort-of worked when the marginal cost was small but non-zero, but when it actually hits too-cheap-to-meter zero, then it starts being ridiculous.

> […] culture where people don't pay for digital copies of media.

This isn’t a “cultural” thing. It’s a “normal market forces” thing, which was my point. If it were a cultural thing, we could influence culture to turn the tide and actually affect things. But it isn’t, so we can’t.
>I don't believe profit is the best motivator for artists ...

Then we don't live even in the same world. By taking into account how much people has the economical means to just "make music for the sake of it", I'd believe that a very small proportion of all artists actually don't seek profit for their work.

That aside, I believe that the right to defend your intellectual property is of extreme importance and the digital counterpart to ensure that right is, guess what?, DRM.

If your platform (i.e. the internet) does not give you a way to protect intellectual property then creators will eventually dissapear or move somewhere else; you can't expect to just get things from some place and never put something in return for that, a system needs to be sustainable in order to exist by itself.

DRM tries to make the overall creator/consumer ecosystem more sustainable, and there's nothing wrong with that. That is the supporting argument behind "you have to want DRM if you care about music".
No, they don't want to join EU, twice by public election, to keep their sovereignty. However, through the EOES agreement, establish through political back-doors against the will of the people, they are in effect part of EU, but without the same rights. And due to, are paying billions each year to EU. Norway is also one of the largest contributor in Europe of economic help to poor countries world wide.
Even on Windows XP, it is only IExplorer that doesn't do SNI. Chrome or Firefox have no problem.

The bigger problem right now is Android 2.x. But the lifetime of phones is only about 2 years and the market-share of Android 2.x has dropped below 20%.

And it really depends on the audience. The market share of all IExplorer versions on my blog is less than 4%, out of which IExplorer 11 represents more than half of that.
Previous discussion on C4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

Looks like this is a fork of that.
I can add these ones.

A plan for a motorway round the centre of Edinburgh:

http://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?tag=edinburgh-motorways

Churchill's Operation Unthinkable for an attack on the Soviet armies in Eastern Europe by Western forces in the aftermath of WW2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
I've been playing and designing games of several kinds since childhood, including dabbling in tabletop RPG writing/design. So I hear you. I'd love to know if your experience was with your own original RPG or did you just work on adventures/expansions for other systems (D&D, etc)?

I once took a shot at writing and publishing a GURPS compatible adventure, independently, and gave up because SJG either forebade it or simply made it too annoying. And that was the "final straw" beyond already knowing that my total hourly ROI for the project almost certainly would have been bad. Far too bad for a craft that takes such a rare and above-average set of intellectual skills.

However I was "lucky" also to have been programming since childhood, and that is one field that historically does pay well for one's time.
“There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.”

Unix came from Bell Labs in the East Coast. Californian Unix is just a non-elegant derivative, in my opinion (e.g. BSD sockets don't follow the "Unix philosophy", and one explanation could be the LSD, I agree with that).
Somewhere, an ad executive is thinking up a commercial about humanizing glassholes...
1. I agree with your points but they are not needed for a MVP. Unfortunately I was not thinking that the whole platform would be very similar to Reddit... I need to find some elements of differentiation.

3. Also in this case you are right but I was wondering about a situation where the first users try it with a very small amounts of money (few dollars), they see they are repaid, then word of mouth, more users, more money etc.
Making a work of art takes a lot of discipline and, often, drudgery. There are many tasks which are not enjoyable in the least bit. There's burnout, depression, writer's block. Many (most?) great works of art got completed only because their authors knew they had to complete them to make a living.

Furthermore, enjoyment that comes from creating art requires your more basic needs to be satisfied (food, shelter, sleep, health, etc.). We can't just pay artists nothing and expect them to enjoy their art they way they would if their basic needs were satisfied. How much art can you create if your stomach is empty, if you're worrying about being able to afford your child's healthcare, if you come back tired at 6 pm from your day job?
A freemium model of course is needed if the whole thing should be successful. About filtering the content... well, that is an interesting topic... how Dropbox ant its competitors deal with that?
DRM probably isn't necessary. We mostly need a legal and cultural structure that recognizes you should pay for recordings (and outlets that let you do so easily). There'd be some leakage (as there's been as long as there's been consumer recording tech), but people know the difference between participatory patronage and mooching, the market would provide a way to choose and do both.

And perhaps the biggest threat to this is buffet streaming services like Spotify, which give the veneer of legitimate participation and remove incentives to buy, but reduce the remittance to artists to a vanishing fraction of what recording purchases can provide.
What prevents c4x86.c from compiling with c4.c? Is it the <sys/mman.h> header? (Note the "not self-hosted" comment in the README.)
I highly recommend Jane Elliott's "Blue Eyes Brown Eyes" lesson for anyone who have not seen it yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uQ...

In any discussion about racism, the stratified-by-race-IQ-chart invariably gets brought up (crtl-f for "itjustdontwork" for its latest rendition in this thread). Jane Elliott's video helped me to find a new perspective on the IQ chart data.
Ahh, the ol' "racist" technique. Someone cites facts that puts a minority in a bad light? Someone says something mean to a black person? Just yell "racist" and you'll surely silence them and "win" the argument!

I am not claiming whites are superior or that blacks are inferior. All I am doing is citing facts. It is a fact that the poorest of white people outscore the richest of blacks in intelligence testing. It is also a fact that black males make up 6% of the population in the US, yet are responsible for a full half of our murders. It is also a fact that men are different from women, blacks are different from whites, and so on. This "everyone is exactly the same!!!1" stuff is baloney. The facts are indisputable. Your links don't change that fact. And shouting "RACIST!!!" does nothing but make you look silly and unintelligent.
Your daughter made fake cards to let her watch anything she wants whenever she wants??? Congratulations on raising a very cool little person!!! :)
Here's a good one - some networks are injecting ads or trackers in the content served by your blog on said networks. HTTPS is a good way of signing your content.
Elon Musk said the fuel costs $300,000. The first stage and 9 Merlin engines cost ~$40,000,000.

The Merlin 1-D Vacuum used on the upper stage does have a wide vacuum optimized nozzle, but the other parts are almost the same, to save costs during manufacturing and testing.

The article is ok, but says nothing new to people who have followed SpaceX for years. There is a lot of info online about the company and its products.
On front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8741464
The real man/woman of science is obviously the hermaphroditic god-head at the center of creation. Any fool knows that.
Someone use drones already. Whoever is using drones to launch many air-breathing components that return on their own and launch stages that glide in after re-entry wins. The rest of this stuff has obvious gigantic weight disadvantages.

Current gas turbines are not optimized for pure thrust-to-weight or else why are military engines outperforming civilian in thrust-to-weight? Turbofan-to-turbo-jet for high Isp in atmospheric flight and then fly everything back on its own. Firefly's rocket has a max thrust of 90klb on the main while a big gas turbine pulls 100klb easy. While we're talking about Isp and re-usability, the entire first stage of a rocket could be gas-turbine powered and the engines just peel away and fly home after they're done. The engine needs gas. The gas takes space. Put the gas in a wing. Wing glides the engine home after launch. Easy as 1,2,3-a-bunch-of-engineering. Go!
Unless and until our recent era of mass global travel results in a highly genetically uniform species, we will continue to have population groups that share allele groupings differently than other population groups which share different allele groupings.
That is the point, I think. Inefficient private enterprises go belly up, and therefor stop being inefficient. There is no such corrective mechanism for government organizations.
Einstein's simplification of this situation, even though it was made in a time where political correctness wasn't common, is a fresh view that reminds me how important it is to stop pronouncing racism and instead to each do our part in extinguishing it by action.
I wonder if this data might be more interesting on the bottom 100 users with a longevity > 2 years. And of course it would be interesting to see the differences between the top 100 HN users and the top 100 Reddit users. That might provide some insight into the echo chamber effect.
Any time some selfish jerk (and you are definitionally a selfish jerk if you happily claim that profit isn't the best motivator for artists) comes round on this topic, I always link Ryan Estrada's amazing Twitter:

https://twitter.com/forexposure_txt

Not down with DRM in the slightest, though, but that's because it doesn't work. Even the first-run benefits of it for big companies doesn't exist for the long-tail market of indies. You're very off-base and you're advocating a path that only hurts people.
My, how times have changed.

Here, I come from the Lisp world where PDP-10s had magnetic core memory, and a max of 1MiB (of 9 bit bytes) in address space. Lisp Machines used DRAM, but at least early on less than an address space (64MiB of 8 bit bytes), and keeping your working set inside that was an issue if for no other reason than GC by the time I showed up was incremental copying without generations (i.e. an increment of GC would tend to trigger a page fault).

So I assure people like sovande that this can be done correctly, even if it's convenient to "ship it now!" and later find out what's "leaking" (keeping unneeded stuff from the tender mercies of the garbage collector).
Gonna BEAT This Thing
I'm on the fence on this one. On one hand, I'm fond of package managers. On the other, there's a TON of crap every time I run bower install... I've yet to figure out the best way of doing things. I'm thinking of using bower-installer, ship with a copy of the assets, and include bower.json, but not bower_components/. The other alternative is obviously CDNs, but then you're maintaining assets manually
Why not both? I think we can work to address both the symptoms and the disease in tandem. Treat the symptom of segregation by implementing programs or initiatives that actively promote diversity. Also, root out the underlying cause by.... doing lots of various things over the course of generations to convince/teach people that racism is wrong.

Treating the symptom helps alleviate the problems experienced by people of color who are alive today. Addressing the cause could take a long, long time.
Chicago and New York Could Soon Compete with Uber and Lyft
Home Buyers Are Optimistic but Not Wild-Eyed
If you want to get paid, then you’d better do something which makes money. It’s as simple as that. In the current technological world, digital goods cannot make money by using the method which was, in the past, used to make money for the things which are now digital. (This is not to say that they cannot make money some other way.)

You comment looks like a sweat-of-the-brow argument. Like, if I spend a lot of effort and time doing something, and then as a result have a product which the world doesn’t value, why should I still get paid?

> We are a culture grown fat and rich off its own cultural products, yet which routinely refuses to actually pay for any of them.

If this could be shown and quantified, then we would have the data necessary to create some system to use this effect to national advantage. But we don’t, so we can’t.

Also, I think you are arguing disingenuously when you say that I “demand someone work 80+ hours a week for nothing”. I do not. People are free to do whatever they want, and will get compensated according to what they can get paid from other people.
Only tangentially related, but I thought it was relevant enough to post here: Andy Baio wrote a post about how he's introducing his son to videogames.

https://medium.com/message/playing-with-my-son-e5226ff0a7c3
This is the only answer, in my opinion. I was in the kitchen using google to set my alarms to time the oven, and by that evening she was taking her tablet and saying "Ok google".... Now I'm buying a kitchen timer
An Open Debate on Big Data
Twitter clock
It's `mmap` call and syntax of function pointer at the end of the file (needed to call the compiled code).

P.S. Otherwise, it is ready to run itself, work in progress.
Not exactly an "online course", but these notes (used for an undergrad course on games) I found quite readable:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/games/
Reason 6 hasn't been cracked because it uses a physical dongle. My understanding is that Reason 7, with the new system not using the Ignition Key, has been cracked.
Yes, that's a fork of c4 with virtual machine replaced by x86 code generation and running the compiled code.
Wow, this is excellent. Very reminiscent of milq.com. Go to http://milq.com/bead/best-nba-plays-of-all-time for example and play a track to see the persistent player on the right.
That is true but my point is: that's not the whole story. There are other solutions to be discussed. The point I'm making is that there is a way to care about music where DRM is entirely valueless.

I'm not saying you need to have to agree with my personal position on DRM or on music, but don't tell me I have to like DRM on flimsy circular grounds.
Science vs. Music
Yeah, Garmin stuff 2 or 3 developers into an office and believe me, it's much worse than open space.
I get a spinning icon, and that's it. I suppose there's supposed to be something else, yes?
Quantum Code-Cracking: An Interview with Thomas Vidick
I think some people refer to "Systems language" as a language you would write services and back-end code in, like Java, rather than than a language you would use to write a kernel driver or a render engine, like C.

It confused me a bit initially.