skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another viable option is letting a lot of the content die.

I quite agree with that. Weaponized viral clickbait most especially.

what you do is not valuable to anyone.

Unfortunately for that premise, there are far, far, far too many counterexamples of those who've created hugely valuable works but have died destitute.

Looking beyond the strictly entertainment arts, just addressing a common trope of capitalism: that it's an engine of and greatly rewards innovation.

The tale of the unrewarded genius is legion, one set of substantiation is presented in Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms looking at key inventors of the early Industrial Revolution: John Kay, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, Reverend Edmund Cartwright, Eli Whitney, and Richard Roberts.

Of the list, Kay, Hargreaves, and Roberts died in poverty. Crompton and Cartwright were granted substantial payments by acts of Parliament (£5,000 and £10,000 respectively), Whitney made money through arms sales to the U.S. government, and of the lot, only Arkwright earned significant wealth, half a million pounds, after his patents stopped being honored by other manufacturers.

See also numerous authors, musicians, artists, playwrights, etc., who've created masterworks but were underappreciated in their own day.

That said, I do agree, somewhat, that the Universe does not owe you a living at your chosen task.

But a bigger issue is that information and markets are very poorly matched.

Market mechanisms work best where goods are uniform (either individually or on aggregate average), their qualities are readily determined (or again tend to average out well), where the fixed costs of production are low and marginal costs of production high (relative to one another), and externalities, both positive and negative, are small relative to market price.

Information goods violate virtually all these assumptions.

⚫ Quality is highly variable.

⚫ Quality assessment is difficult, and often frustrated by other factors (e.g., pay-to-publish journals, "friendly" colleague peer reviews, discussed recently by +Joerg Fliege).

⚫ Variance of individual instances is high enough that averages rarely suffice.

⚫ Fixed costs of production are high, particularly for research, also to an extent for selection, review, and editing.

⚫ Variable costs of production (e.g., publication) are low. In fact we're utilizing a system which was specifically created to reduce those costs still further, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, developed to transmit physics papers between CERN, SLAC, and other related facilities.

⚫ Information goods typically have very high positive externalities -- they benefit those who don't directly consume them. In the case of Dr. Grimm, those who would benefit by treatment of conditions informed by his research. Occasionally they have high negative externalities -- e.g., smallpox, "superflu", or weapons research.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/7Eer...
>structs (even 1-element structs) for everything.

Are there any large C projects written in this style?
Perhaps there ought to be a universal news client that ships with IOS and Android. Right now it's a land grab with every one trying to get a place on your phone's home screen and he's right the apps are universally horrible.
Elon Musk's Tesla emails to correct media attention on his role (2006)
The promise have been around since the 1840's or before. The origin of socialism was the idea that the rise of industrialisation would increase efficiency to the point that scarcity would eventually become a thing of the past - at least for everything needed to meet normal human needs. People like Saint Simon, Fourier, Owens, Marx, Proudhon and many others started with those assumptions.

Large parts of Marx entire theory of how socialist revolutions would come about is based around the combination of this idea and the idea that the capitalists won't willingly grant it.
A very practical and useful collection of hints. I particularly support the point about tailoring the set of informative features. In the end, there is no free lunch for the "core" of the machine learning method (cf., http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/dhw/papers/78.pdf).

Now deep learning seems to debunk the more-or-less usefulness of the feature extraction step.
How was it? I didn't have an option to take CS either for GCSE or A-Level. There was IT but most university departments actually discouraged it and recommended just taking science and maths.
How this compare with Netmap?
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
But who is benefiting from its existence? The creators or the current license holders?
Has been here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162841
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Maybe it's just that building a 70-meter dish is freaking expensive?
Is it usable as a template for a business plan today?
> Stop spewing bullshit.

> How's that astroturfing going for you?

Personal attacks are not ok on Hacker News. Please stop.
That video always get trotted out and it's very strange, it's just a rehash of the technoutopia that was parodied in The Jetsons, 50 years ago.
Go read something like Paleofuture[1] and come to the real world, where people have been saying that for hundreds of years and it's all vaporware.

[1]: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com
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too much leverage

The wars over public broadcasters are a significant case in point.

That said, the opposite of bad governance is not no governance but GOOD governance.

Among the reason public broadcasting entities are so vigorously opposed is that they are independent (to some extent) from the "commercial realities" of publishing and broadcast.

A system designed with no explicit limitations on who can or cannot be paid (or what works qualify) is an ultimate argument for "let the public decide". I actually differ from this in part through some selection and graduated payment system proposals -- there is fast-and-easy work which really doesn't require much incentive to produce, and highly detailed work which does require resources (e.g., international investigative journalism, scientific research).

I do see a need for graduated payment scales.
> Many sites will send session tokens over http because they don't set the "secure" cookie flag. It's a simple thing to do, and prevents a malicious ARP poison or DNS attack from potentially hijacking an account.

Or you can of course enforce HSTS so that HTTP never gets used.
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"That tax idea seems fraught with issues to me."

All the more reason to discuss it and explore what those issues might be.
> I wonder about other entrants... Perhaps Apple?

Because Apple's other attempts at SaaS are going so well? You'll call an Apple Car but it'll go to Blackberry offices instead.
Thanks, taking a look.
How long do you think communication session using Arecibo would last?

Edit: apparently some did not get the point I was making. Arecibo's dish is fixed, so there is practically no way to track the object. And earth is rotating. If you had a chance to see the stars through telescope, it rotates FAST. With Arecibo you can only catch a blip of communication.
It's certainly possible, but who would want to fund or participate in that? Mars gets support because it sounds cool.
If that's how your management works, time to find a new place to work.
It's only for the signup page so that really isn't a problem.
That left brain/right brain design has been done to death: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=left+brain+right+brain...
We Polish people have a hard language :(
Yes, I introduced some related thoughts I've had into the discussion, which is what HN is about -- "Anything that good hackers would find interesting". We're looking at an aspect of the problem, I'd like to see discussion of possible resolutions. The one Hunt and I are proposing seems relevant (and other than a few essays, I've not been pursuing it all that much).

My direct benefit? Discussion of elements of the proposals (I've seen some agreement, challenges, and related suggestions in the discussion above) and a possible slight uptick in awareness and mindshare around the concept.

I do find it downright amusing that an entrepreneurial site engenders criticism for entrepreneurship in the area of ideas themselves. Though not entirely surprising.
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FRP has nothing to do with this. Concurrency is only an implementation detail of FRP.
What GUI? Windows 10 IoT comes without a GUI.
Atari and HP both had some serious cachet back then

The 2015 equivalent would be an ex FB engineer and ex-Blizzard engineer team. Totally fundable.
This is a really neat app and brilliantly executed! Good luck with it. Would love a UK version!
I almost choked on my cereals. Good one!
> any planetary colony has to be almost-entirely self-sufficient.

Is this even remotely possible anywhere with current technology? Can we even make completely self-sufficient colonies on Earth (like the technologically advanced kind we want to make in space, not just people living in the woods.)
Yes, he did. His entire ideology is based around the premise that capitalism would lead to productivity increases sufficient that redistribution would lift everyone out of poverty.

Already in The German Ideology (1845) he specifically made the point that the productivity increases inherent in a capitalist economic system was a prerequisite for a successful socialist revolution as otherwise redistribution would just make want common, and the same class struggles would start all over again as people fight to get out of poverty (like what happened in the Soviet Union, China, where the party organisations became the new upper class).

In the Communist Manifesto he and Engels spelled out how they saw capitalist productivity increases eventually lead to over-production and under-employment, and that this, according to Marx, is what will eventually lead to an intensification of class struggle and finally enable a socialist revolution as economic productivity under capitalism reaches its peak.
>I doubt that to be the case. Many (most?) people are lost without a job. Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day.

Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't survive on the income they have without them.
> Desertification, increased sea levels causing flooding, higher atmospheric CO2 causing ocean acidification that will kill nearly all life in coral reefs sans jellies, etc etc.

Yes .. or Maybe .. but that all still sounds preferable to an ice age, if kaybe is right, right?

> Global warming probably isn't inherently bad if spread out over enough time, but large temperature fluctuations within a few centuries doesn't leave time for non-human species to adapt.

Eh, I don't know about that - you're not wrong but I don't think this is a relevant/useful consideration given that

(1) given that reasoning "spread out over enough time" everything and anything will work out fine

(2) in the long run (or rather the "even longer run", considering the first point) we're all dead anyways
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Arecibo can only be only be pointed slightly by moving the hanging receiver. To communicate with a spacecraft far away you want a dish pointed straight at it, to get a high gain.
I see a contradiction... explain the last bit mate..

How does one buy things produced if one doesn't own any capital.
Don't forget that the AI already does things like shoot and pursue. Your AI could do other things, but it is not clear exactly what. Starcraft 1 has a lot of micromanagement tricks, for example shooting while moving, that appear to be deficiencies of the game engine. I think there is motivation to view such tedious tasks as limitations or the game engine rather than the AI, unless off course you like that sort of thing!
There's a political imperative to tell this story this time. A lot of people are angry that finding a decent, well paid job is hard in 2015 and they want to know why. It wasn't that hard in 2007.

Techno-utopian futurism about us not needing menial labor any more because robots provides a believable "safe" explanation for that meaning that the real, "unsafe" reasons (trade policy; steady de-unionization; financialization of the economy) that are politically contentious can be more easily concealed from the public eye.
It is specifically mentioned in chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto, a large part of which is talking about the past expansion of capitalism through conquering new market and extending that tendency into the future. Here's one mention:

> The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones.
> There is enormous brand value in thinking "I'll get an Uber"

Yes, and there is enormous value in "I'll Google it", but that doesn't stop people from using other search engines (and online services) as soon as a better one comes along, because the cost to the user of switching is small.

Name recognition does not, IMO, make Uber worth $40bn.
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I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.
Users who do "Ctrl-S" to do fast save are certainly a minority. (1) That minority can have somewhere in the configuration of the site the setting where they can turn the default off, but the default should really be for $deity sake, don't override the default behaviour!

1) I'm old enough that I've programmed the computers with the front panel switches bit by bit, but I've never used "Ctrl-S" as the "fast save" when writing documents. I don't know actually anybody who does. Autosave in Word functions as it should (not needing any user action) since at least 1998. My code editors and IDEs all do autosave too before compiling. What's the auctual benefit of ever using Ctrl-S in the middle of writing?
Yeah, "NSA as a business-model" sounds great.. /s
> From what I can tell most physicists fall into category #3.

Most 'media physicists' fall into category #3. It is from my understanding that most 'practicing physicists', by association, fall into category #1 (QFT).
Honestly I would. I figured it'd be reverse engineered and scripted rather than actual physical devices
But but... "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace."
Well, Sublime Text is much fast er.
Thats why some people disable javascript.
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There is a point (mainly inertia and speed), but there won't be one for much longer. ST3 is a really great text editor, but it is only being developed by a single programmer.
Quite apart from his obvious technical chops, I've always been impressed by Jon Skeet's unfailing politeness and helpfulness. He's a real role model to developers.

Whatta guy!
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Capital generally means accumulated savings/investment. One can still have cash without having capital, and this is actually pretty common (or even people having negative capital, like student debt).

In short, one buys things by doing/making things for people who do have capital, or for people who don't have capital but have themselves acquired money by doing things for people with capital.
Where do people think up these names: Reflux? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastroesophageal_reflux_disease

Why don't we have a library called Melanoma or HIV yet? Actually I am sure we do have libraries with these names somewhere on github.
Adding more mothers to the production of one baby isn't necessarily going to speed up the process... I suspect that creating a text editor is not an embarrassingly parallel problem.
haha that's funny! because recently I had reflux disease :)
You should give Echofish atry. It's made wonders on our network with its "whitelisting of normal behaviour". You wont beleive the things you ll discover with this approach.

EDIT: The most fascinating aspect for me is that echofish is more geared towards the actual log entries, rather than statistical analysis, in order to automatically detect anomalies in your logs activity.
Map data from third parties requires manual verification, as we learned from the Apple Maps debacle.

Google does this [1]:

> Google employs a small army of human operators (they won’t say exactly how many) to manually check and correct the maps using an in-house program called Atlas.

A Maps app isn't just another app. Nobody gets killed if the Stocks app shows an incorrect price, but someone could die if the Maps app uses incorrect mapping information.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-maps-ground-truth/
Well, there's Mono...
Extremophiles roll differently: http://phys.org/news203835088.html
This is fascinating. I would love to know more. You should write an article about advanced optimization for mobile GPUs or something.
"While France, Germany, and other countries got their early PC with customized keyboards whose layouts mirrored closely the typewriters that came before… [...] …in Poland, we had to find another way of inputting the extra 9 diacritics unique to our language."

Did we? I dare to say that your historical account is inaccurate. We stuck to our traditional layout for a while.
What does it matter if the keyboard wasn't customized in physical sense anyway? You should be looking at the screen, not at the keys. If I recall well, Polish typewriter layout (PN-87) was still available on Windows 95/98. The now prevalent >Alt + something< one was called "programmer's layout", and the name itself indicates that it wasn't originally thought of as everyman's layout.

Domestic software certainly used the typewriter layout - for instance http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAG_%28edytor_tekstu%29, once a very popular word processor for PC, last version released in 1996.

The typewriter layout finally got extinct, but what spelled its ultimate demise was the internet, I believe.

Early netiquette actually forbid using Polish diacritics, because of encoding issues - in that era you could never be sure whether the other person would read "gwóźdź" or "gw░¶d¶", so it was considered good practice to stick to Latin characters only.

Meaning that users didn't get to feel the pain of having to press Alt + whatever all the time, and so they got hooked on default QWERTY.

As the last of Mohicans, I use the typewriter layout to this very day (for typing in Polish; I alternate), only I had to recreate it myself (using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Editor)*

It allows for much faster typing in compare to these inconvenient right-Alt shortcuts. Swapping Y with Z by itself is a win for a Polish speaker (writer), given that Z is much more common in Polish. While its frequency is at mere 0.07% in English, it reaches 4.9% in Polish, placing it in the top 10. Thus putting it under the weakest finger of all - your left pinky - isn't very considerate.

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* Funnily enough - I'm not flame baiting - when I decided to try Linux, hailed for its customizability, I found out that recreating my favorite layout wasn't as easy. I got lots of advice on various forums, but noone had a simple receipt for me. Admittedly this was few years back.
You can plan buildings, training & simple orders (go harvest crystal). You definitely cannot plan all the micro that any fight will involve.
"Inventing the personal computer" is something that is completely open to interpretation. I've heard Woz say something similar, and if you look at it a certain way then it's easy to agree with him. What he means by that is that the Apple ][ was the first computer that came with everything so you could plug it in and start work. The Altair and other's that people may consider as contenders for the first personal computer required more technical skills, like not coming with a keyboard, or requiring you to do a certain amount of assembly. So by one definition the Apple ][ was the first computer that you could buy, plug together and boot up Basic or VisiCalc and start doing some work.

At least with the first Apple ][, Woz designed the whole of the hardware, the ROM, and the first Basic. Later on that Basic was replaced with Microsoft Basic, which caused problems for Apple later on with the Macintosh when it came time to renew the MS Basic license. Steve Jobs did have some influence on the Apple ][, but far less than Woz, he worked on the PCB layout (as far as making it nice and everything line up, not the actual routing), and the case design (designed by Jerry Manock), which was revolutionary at the time. The switch-mode power supply was also unique in a computer at that time, and was not designed by Woz, but by Rod Holt. Woz's disk controller is probably the most impressive piece of design from that period though.

It was a very close thing though as the Commodore PET was actually released only a few months later, and was even more easy to set up as it came with a built in cassette drive and display. It's interesting that in most of this history Chuck Peddle, the designer of the PET, gets very little recognition, much less than he should. As well as designing the PET (which led on the the Commodore 64 and others), he was the main designer of the 6502, the processor used in the Apple ][. There's also a story that he met Woz and helped him debug one of his 6502 designs.
Absolutely. My one and only complaint with Atom is that it eats up so much CPU. Just typing sends my usage over 50% :(
This is pretty cool. There have been a ton of flux frameworks floating around lately, glad that there's an app that deals with async data to be able to compare each on their merits.
Atom was very slow and cumbersome for me, nowhere near as polished as Sublime Text.
Indeed, the very fact that someone can say "water is water", shows just how successful regulation has been in that market.
This has quite some of the worst documentation I have ever seen, and as you can imagine, in this industry, there's strong competition.