skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rapid prototyping circuit boards is still relatively expensive and limited compared to the options for purely physical objects. I don't believe we will unlock the value of 3D printers until banging out circuit boards is as quick and easy.
Apologies, as I misinterpreted your short reply. It was a bit odd have "how is A different than B?" replied to as "well, how is A similar to B?".

Now that I think about it they are both quite similar ("build apps with node.js/html/js/npm") and very different at the same time (webserver vs chromium runtime), so both questions are fair.
Interesting measure. Putting in some of the other bits of your post into the measure we could even say that low fungibility is a by-product of bad software processes and design.
How do you know what their problems are though if they won't even give you a chance to an interview?
Station without power would start to tumble. Makes docking much harder. This actually happened with Salyut 7: the station died on orbit, no electrical or anything. The pilot of the rescue Soyuz matched its spin to dock manually. Effected emergency repairs while wearing fur-lined winter clothing.

It must not have been tumbling too badly. Seems like once you have significant motion in more than one axis it'd be pretty hard to match up. At that point, you probably have to grab and despin, or something. Or dock really really fast and hope your docking mechanism holds up to the stress.
Colleges as a whole should be completely replaced with something like certificates. Bachelor degrees are way too expensive for what they provide. The vast majority of people would be much better off with focused, relevant learning and skills.

I went to a CC as well, fantastically cost-effective, I had some real gems for teachers, but I can think of at least one who had no business teaching anything. If we make CC free, they become an additional paper prereq, and high school education becomes even less valuable because basic education gets pushed further back to the CC level.

Stop, stop, stop. I know many people on this forum like me value learning, but spending more money fixes nothing.
Animate your subconscious. Hand-drawn animation by Alex Boya
My office firewall blocked the site due to it being in the category "adult".

I wonder what (obviously poorly crafted) filter/rule it triggered.. Too many dashes?
> As a libertarian / ancap who believes taxation is theft, I don't support anything involving spending tax dollars, no matter how noble the end.

It's a good thing most of us don't feel that way and you're able to express yourself through a medium initially funded through Government research.
> When a corporation sinks their hooks into an active open source project, it's only a matter of time.

An ironic statement given that one of the main motivations for io.js is to upgrade to the new awesome versions of V8 with all of its great new features.

V8, of course, has always been "corped": it was created and is maintained almost entirely by Google.
College requires time and jumping through hoops. If you can't keep track of the FAFSA application, how are you going to keep track of the class assignments?

Is the goal to make "attended college" become completely useless as a job market signal? Why are we trying to cram people into college if it means nothing?
Whats gofundme's business model?
Do they take a percentage of donations?
That seems more likely to create a class structure than anything else. I find that a lot of people with good jobs are not well educated; they have skills but no cultural knowledge. Often, they discount the necessity of that knowledge.

Interestingly enough, that's a totally working class sentiment. If you want to move beyond that, though, and have genuine leadership and thought generated by these government funded programs, you can't limit people to studying only things that have a direct correlation with paying back the investment.
What are the local cooking pots made of? Steel and cast iron would be the cheapest, and I assume leach iron into the food. I also imagine that the surface area of the pot is much larger than that of this "lucky fish".

A quick search found this, which appears to be cast iron:

http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/image/28438185
Damn, it didn't use to be this way back then (5 years ago or so). Why is that remote work went to shit?
It's kind of ironic that they list FreeBSD's excellent documentation as one of the reasons for consideration, especially considering that their own documentation is so bad!

I mean, what kind of company links directly to blog entries, with incomplete and outdated information, all across their web-site?

Ain't nobody got time to read the blog comments and figure out what's the current status of stuff is.
Thanks for the link, I put in $45. Shipping the fish to supporters was a great idea, because we can show them to friends, and promote the project.

This is the kind of project that I wish more researchers and activists would do, as it has the potential to improve the lives of a large number of individuals in a meaningful way, as well as giving other people who are far away the means to help.
Don't forget that CVS and others disabled NFC payments entirely to hamstring Apple because Apple makes it impossible for them to capture customer data (unique ID per transaction as opposed to a credit card number that's always the same). It's annoying for the folks that were using Google Wallet for a year before Apple Pay was introduced and the retailers turned it off.
debt =/= bankruptcy. Unrecoverable debt is bankruptcy. While the argument could be made that our debt is past a recoverable point, it is not a certainty.
It would be nice if C++ added syntactic sugar sigils for unique_ptr<T> and shared_ptr<T> like Rust used to.
Zarya (the first module, launched in 1998) was pressurized and could support a crew short-term-- the crew of STS-88 (which launched Unity, the second module added to the ISS) entered the station and began unstowing gear and stuff. The ISS couldn't support its permanent crew until Zvezda (the station's service module) launched in 2000, though-- Zvezda contains the station's primary life support equipment and contained crew facilities like toilets and bunks.
That's not true. OpenBSD's package system was rewritten by Marc Espie many years ago in perl, the utility names are inherited from FreeBSD, but are now otherwise unrelated.
If anyone is hiring for a position that requires <40 hours/week, this would probably be a good place to advertise. :-)
Any worthy changes or just the name? Like for instance using libchromiumcontent instead of building chromium like https://github.com/atom/atom-shell ?

I also like the node way of not forcing a window and instead using an entry.js to bootstrap anything you want, more freedom, especially handy on tray apps.
Domains with lots of dashes are usually webspam, exact match domains.

I don't think there's any correlation with porn.
A signal for this type of trading requires knowledge of the bid ask in both locations.
Are these the same datacenter? The same rack? I suspect that degraded instances and overly-busy disks are not endemic to AWS.
Exactly. The lack of transparency and developer openness was a huge problem for some of us. I really enjoy the steps forward Stripe makes in that regard across all facets of the business, to say nothing of the other reasons which I will stick with Stripe for a long time.
Oh cool - that's a neat program you folks have going! This might be a good excuse to dig into this for myself, rather than hoping someone else does it for me :)
What do you mean? He started a company (Milk) that was bought as an acquihire. He worked at Google Ventures while he vested (and it was probably a good job while he got married, etc), but after a few years wanted to get back out there and build. He spent a few months transitioning out of GV (he had invested in a lot of companies; he couldn't just walk away), and now he's working full time on North.

I'm sure there's a lot we don't know, but it seems pretty straightforward.
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It was. The change was a shift in the tree population due to a latent factor; this latent factor is what resulted in walker-better-groups to outcompete tree-clinging-groups.

There is no anthropomorphizing here; it's simply semantics.
Let me phrase the question a different way - since species seems to be overloaded. What stable state of organism led to the evolution of Giraffe ? Lets call that organism X. (I actually don't know what X is, is it a horse or a zebra or a donkey?)

Is there a simulation that would demonstrate X evolving to a Giraffe or test it ?

Or put another way, if we were to take some snapshots at times where we could consider the organism to be different enough according to the modern "species" classification say A -> B -> C -> D -> E, is there a way to test D -> E or B-> C using the stated principles/theory ?
Might start a trend. m-i-c-r-o-s-o-f-t.net is available for 12 bucks
I have absolutely heard people say, "Evolution is just a theory"
Exploring Angular 1.3: Go Fast with $applyAsync
Let me know when you hit the bottom of that slippery slope.
In the US, I do believe that this technology exists. Whether or not all shipping firms have adopted it, I'm not certain.

As for the UK, I have even less of an idea. Either way, this fella had to call in each time a haul was transferred, so it seems that he's saved himself and the company a bit of trouble.
Angular 1.4 Beta 0 released
It's not just semantics. Maybe some times it is, but not always, and I even think, not usually. Many people don't actually understand the basics of scientific theories, evidence and falsification. It requires going beyond learning just the "scientific process", and going into the actual philosophy of science. In my experience, that is not commonly known.
The Wikipedia entry on Anarcho-capitalism[1] dives into these details. It's a fascinating philosophy that, in my opinion, severely underestimates the human affinity for greed and manipulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
Yes, in most regions. The allocation is an incredibly stingy 16 addresses.
5%, just like Kickstarter
Steve Gold 80's hacker passes away
Agreed -- little doubt that the Bay Area attracts teaching talent that colleges in less desirable areas aren't able to. That said, I feel strongly in the potential for community colleges nation wide to raise their standards and become places of first choice for citizens not entirely set on an expensive 4 year university with questionable value.
The server could use GeoIP to identify the user's city, which is probably accurate enough for finding relevant services. I imagine very few people know their current latitude and longitude. :)
My advice: if anyone needs to run an online fundraiser for a charity cause don't use GoFundme, they charge 7.9% + 30 cents. Use http://www.youcaring.com they charge 2.9% + 30 cents AND they show the transaction cost to your donors so they can opt to give more to cover it.
With all due respect, I think this is a poorly-conceived point by Thiel. Airlines create hundreds of billions of dollars of value each year precisely because they make 17 cents per passenger. If it cost a traveler $900 to fly from Dallas to New York, nobody would fly except for only the wealthiest passengers and those who had dire business needs.

Now suppose a company came along and developed a way for inexpensive planes to fly by themselves without pilots, airports, or flight attendants (forget the technicalities like FAA requirements for a second). Now suddenly people can fly from New York to LA for $30 round trip, twenty times a day. It ruins the airline industry. And yet in spite of destroying the current airline industry as we know it, now even more value is being created for the economy.

This is the same logic that people use to argue against unions- that just because you can charge a higher fee than market conditions would otherwise allow, doesn't mean that you are serving society well.

Clearly Thiel is on the side of the megacorp with his logic, and I realize that his advice is more of a game strategy targeted at entrepreneurs than a suggested means to a utopia for everyone, but to ignore the larger picture is somewhat delusional IMO.
Interesting. Most references that I found say that f.e. is not correct. ;)
Yeah, I went from "oh, no" to "oh... ok"
Maverix looks great. I certainly see a desktop UI theme gaining traction.. Although a lot of work - be super beneficial to provide 'skins' for yosemite/windows10/gnome etc..
Angular – Responsive bootstrap directive
A change in selective pressure would trigger a change in the output of selection. The parent's point that reduction in trees would trigger a change to more walking behavior makes sense to me - the environment changed, which caused a change in selective pressures, thus making walking more favorable for survival and "triggering" the change.
A lot of that is tied up on how our language works. "The reason for this is" is ambiguous, because we use 'reason' to describe both purposeful decisions and coincidental explanations.

Have you ever tried to distinguish between "explaining" your behavior and "making excuses"? There is no clear difference -- or rather, people don't know what the difference is if there is one. It's not encoded in the language, but in our intent.

There is a lot of confusion about evolution because we simply don't have the words to make things less confusing. Trained scientists are better at it because they are better trained to see structure independent of language -- (I.e., to think logically instead of culturally.)
...with the addition of occasional riots, and eventually (typically) a revolution of one kind or another.

I prefer the kind of "functioning" where no one is starving. You see violent and other crime drop quickly as a society's quality of life improves, so even if I'm one of the ones "on top", my own QoL is better not having to worry as much about someone stealing things from me.
This looks pretty and useful for iPhone users, but as an Android user this isn't particularly useful to me, and the iPhone-only approach is stifling what could be a really awesome concept.

This would be much more awesome as a web application, perhaps with some sort of JSON API for third-party applications to hook into; beyond the obvious use-cases of developing an Android app, it would also enable cool things like, say, integrating with product and vendor (i.e. grocery store) websites in order to provide means to build a shopping list while surfing the web, then take that list with me on my phone while I go shopping, knowing exactly which stores I need to go to and how much I'll end up spending.
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The field is called "epigenetics," correct?
My impression of Angular is that it makes simple things complex and that it's poorly designed and engineered. I think that it tries to do too much, and tries to be too clever, and doesn't try at all to be usable (beyond maybe trivial examples, which could still be simpler, honestly). It speaks very poorly of Angular that many (most?) people familiar with all the tools it builds on (CSS, HTML, JS) find it difficult and unpleasant to work with.

It may be the case that only people with deeper engineering experience can wrangle it because they have the necessary background. It could also be that people who are used to working with friendlier tools just aren't willing to put up with Angular's crap.
I don't know if it would make for better quality of education in general. People attending community college tend to have less digital access and need more encouragement and support than your average college student. A number of studies on outcomes for classes taken online vs in-person at community colleges have been done, one of the biggest I know of being a study across the California community college system. They found that student dropout and failure rates were higher in online courses than regular in-person classes (after controlling for incoming background, etc) but that taking at least one online course made it more likely the student would graduate, probably because of enabling a course flow/meeting a requirement that was otherwise difficult to schedule.

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_514HJR.pdf
Much better name imho. I love node-webkit, although at the moment I am grappling with mp3 support (finding the right version of ffmpegsudo.so that works with the latest nw version)
Municipal broadband is a great idea. A town near me, Olds, just rolled out gigabit fiber to the curb for $57/mo.

Considering most of the other nearby municipalities have to live with dialup or (agonizingly slow) satellite internet, it's been a big draw to the area. I think it absolutely makes a ton of sense for rural areas; if I had a remote job it would be very tempting to head out there and get an acreage.

I feel like splitting it up and having municipalities responsible for their own infrastructure makes it easier for the common man to get involved, too. You can show up at city council and express an opinion or volunteering for a committee a lot easier than walking into a federal building and doing the same.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/small-alberta-town-gets-ma...
I've seen lots of local causes run through GoFundMe. A friend's son desperately needing dental work, a local family losing a mother or father and needing help to pay medical expenses, and so on. I've found that some of the accounts are pretty hard to read, perhaps because it is not easy to consider the hardships that are occurring right in our neighborhood.
It's only a symlink you create at the start of a new project (not even each package, each _project_), it's really not heavy. An additional step compared to other projects, but overall the cost of managing dependencies is still lower.
This makes me think of optimization problems around creating a life of productivity. Sometimes what seems to be an improvement just leads to suboptimal local optimizations. If you want to optimize, you really need to plan and look for all options as opposed to just taking a step in what looks like the right direction.

For instance, going for fast food over learning to cook some basic meals. If you are trying to optimize for price, buying pre-made meals is so much more expensive than learning to cook some basic meals and buying the ingredients. I probably eat on about 5-10 dollars a day because I buy in bulk and I make everything. I could definitely reduce that price too.

And on working out, there are studies that working out actually gets you better focus and productivity gains for hours after you're done. So, the phrase shouldn't be "I'm too busy to work out", it should be "I'm too busy to not work out".

And luckily both of those solutions also help with your long-term health and well-being.
His story is fascinating.

Some of us grew up watching him on TechTV, then he catches magic in a bottle with Digg, has a chance to sell for hundreds of millions, tragically loses that chance as his company loses traction and the upstart competitor (Reddit) becomes the one hosting amas by actors and politicians.

His story is almost Jobsian.
Don't get me started on trying to convince them not to spend 10 year's earnings on an overpriced dwelling.
You do: that's the signal that's sent over in 5ms. You then combine it with the local price 5ms ago, and you can construct the exact same instruction the computer in the center would have come up with 2.5ms ago, based on the price in both locations 5ms ago.

Both sides can this way make identical decisions to eachother, at the same time, and identical to those that would have been made by a computer in the center.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a giant slum instead.

That's a likely future. Lots of people in big housing projects, surviving but not much more than that. About 1% do really well, maybe 5-10% are "middle class", and the rest are warehoused in housing blocks. That was the normal living condition in the Soviet bloc, and today's urban China is much like that. The US is headed that way, but with better gadgets in your tiny apartment.
Can you sort the search pages (like http://ysnmn.org/#/shelter) to display the shelters with available beds first? The first page of results I see lists some "No beds available" results before some with available beds.
Really, he's calling for the FCC to prevent rent-seeking by local ISP monopolies by allowing the option of municipal networks. It's a really good idea; you can tell because of how stridently Comcast/Verizon/AT&T oppose it.
Being in debt just means one owes money. The US government has assets and various investments. Being bankrupt is when you can't pay back your debt, which the US most likely will be able to do.
Not only spare time (if it can even be called that), but SERIOUS motivation considering his wife's life was in danger.
RCDB has been around nearly 20 years. Was there something new to show us?
Why do you think we should be able to extrapolate millions of years of random mutation into the future and be able to test it? If you want evidence there are plenty of other places to look.
YourMechanic (YC W12) is hiring full stack engineers
You haven't actually read the post you're replying to. I do actually agree with the articles conclusion, but It has a misleading headline and my understanding is that this is exactly what flags are for.

Dang should we not flag this stuff?
The fingerprint is really on the browser, graphics driver (os-specific), and graphics hardware. Other sources of information could be used to increase the probability that the fingerprint is unique to the user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting
2 problems:

- libraries are duplicated left and right. If I want to use the same library in multiple projects, it will be in each project's lib (note that this is how you'd vendor, but it's something else)

- resetting env for each command you run sounds heavier, and the day will come when you will forget to do it and you'll run into problems.
This seems great, but I fear what is may do to the small ISP's (which generally don't pull any of the shenanigans the BIG5 do and are usually pretty pleasant to work with).
> I watch the pop-sci channels regularly, and even they fall victim to this anthropomorphic trap about species "evolving-by-choice".

I think this is, in part, due to their attempts to explain things to viewers by analogy, which often must anthropomorphise things.
The endoskeleton contains a tiny power supply that can run the phone in a low-power, emergency mode long enough for a battery swap.
If you could modify the driver, you may not need to rely on the subtlety of the emissions patterns...
How much does an efficient war cost?
I think it has been.

I interviewed for a job in Las Vegas last year where I was shown this sort of technology for the trucking/shipping industry, albeit more server-based and not so distributed.

My hats off to this guy.
Adding this as a separate reply addressing some of the other comments here.

Here is what I see to be the big use case for someone like me. Adapting your phone on a daily basis. I have days where battery life is everything, so I put in more battery. Maybe I'm traveling so I swap in the high end camera. Maybe I'm out hiking and I want the compass or what-ever. Maybe I'm diabetic and I want a blood meter in my phone if I'm out all day. And I can do all of this without having multiple devices... just one I adapt to what I'll need that day. Repairs, etc. are the extra niceties.. but I see adaptability as the main feature.
Excellent project. Small angular error: when I go to http://ysnmn.org/#/services/30, it looks like there's a ng-repeat dupes error in the console. Using track by $index may solve this (I ran into this problem working with angular).

I don't see it on any other pages. Either way, nice work!
Does YouCaring have a zip code search like GoFundMe does? I can usually find dozens of local causes really quickly that way.
Tabbing around on that site there is link to google maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pinkcomma+Gallery/@42.3420...

Is my browser just making the link not obvious?