skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In January 2014 I rented a 2006 Mercedes S-Class at SFO for $20 per day from FlightCar. Pretty amazing.
How would this system operate on an international level? Whom would foreign creators pay to have their work copyrighted in the US? If you let everyone pay their country's government but still respect their copyright internationally then the country with the lowest fees will see a huge volume of copyright offshoring. If you make everyone pay each country separately then copyrighting one's work will suddenly become expensive for individuals and $properties not being registered on $island will be exploited.
> Without it, we would not have smartphones, tablets or laptops, including the device you are reading at this very moment.

Yes we would. All these things existed without Li-ion. The power/space budget would be more constrained but it was perfectly achievable. What wouldn't work is senselessly burning cycles running managed code in a VM with heaps of battery sucking DRAM. People today have no concept of how much computing power is wasted as excess heat because of modern software development practices.
Yes. Though they are pretty "hush hush" about the differences between the two classes, in fact, the course numbers are the same, it's just common knowledge that one professor teaches "Modern" physics, and one teaches "Classical" though, those are kind of informal, the differences are not in the material, but mainly in the teaching style.
Django: Theming (template prefixing). Lambda settings variables, testing
Map: The Most Common Job in Every State
hahaha, yeah sadly it seems to be the reasonable choice.
I have demonstrated an enormous memory leak in our app (not really difficult to do when you look for it with the tools provided by the sdk). I have explained why it happens (shitty architecture is shitty) and proposed to prototype alternatives.
It was 8 months ago, no time to do it (for me or anybody else in the team), we have features to add.
Meanwhile, OutOfMemoryException is our main cause of crashes.
Sigh.
Thank you :)! And, yes, all the animations are done in Keynote!
I think that's possible to a limited extent, but it's also kind of tangential to what I tried to say.

The parent's thesis was that technology gains in productivity are small.

I work in logistics and there adding some intelligence to a supply chain saves millions relatively quickly. It happens to be ecological as well, as spoilage is reduced.

So clearly there were a lot of gains to be had. In my opinion we operate on quite rudimentary levels in many areas of life and business. We're not limited by currently known physics. We're struck down by organizational inefficiencies and lack of brain resources.

At some point the inter-city council allowed getting into the busiest bus line not just from the front door but through any door. Great, we got a free speedup! It took years to drive that through the councils, maybe because it was a new idea (new idea here).

Now, the distribution of those savings made is another matter. And some changes are perhaps more politically charged than others, true.
I agree manufacturing should become more diverse.

Your other comments are factually true, but i don't think they're totally fair. To play devil's advocate: China acknowledge they've got a pollution problem and introduced several methods to start addressing it [1][2][3]. USA also ignores human rights[4][5][6][7], supports dictators and totalitarian governments[8], fights proxy wars and arms terrorists[9][10]. "These are good reasons to not do business with" the USA.

[citations http://pastebin.com/d5UGRB1Z]
Why would you spend $100k on a tractor every 3 years to get a $30k discount on taxes?
A huge photo collection is the best lock-in for an OS. So to have a top-notch app here is a smart move from Apple.

On the other hand, pretty much anyone who once used Aperture has moved to Lightroom after feeling the effects of Apple's enthusiasm followed by Apple's indifference. Presumably whoever is making an iPhoto (or whatever) equivalent on Windows will write an import feature that imports whatever format or formats Apple uses.

I want to be enthusiastic, but I've seen one too many Apple initiatives dropped to get real excited. I've also seen iPhoto libraries corrupted and heard the screams when it happens.
The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative agreed to fund Werner $60,000 several weeks ago for his critical GnuPG work.

https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/563456662024228865
I like the tar+netcat mentioned towards the bottom for LAN transfer. That usually goes much faster than rsync or scp.

The reason haven't looked at other tools is because I am doing this intermittently and always reach for the tool already installed on the system.
Seems to be the way they have been moving for a while on the productivity apps. Now only iMovie and iTunes are left.

It would be pretty ballsy (even for Apple) to drop the i and call the iPhone simply "Phone"!
I read your articles aloud, you listen and enjoy
Yep it always pays to follow the money, and the Saudis have a lot of it.

Also useful to read the meta news behind the news, ie. why are we reading this headline today?
The recent Bloomberg redesign is truly bizarre. Microsoft WordArt-esque text popping out as you scroll...
I wonder what percentage of the american population really knows what drones are?

Reminds me of opinions of cars at the turn of the century (1900):
"To the average city dweller, the idea of a city oriented around transportation in cars, and especially privately owned cars carrying one or a few people, would have been incomprehensible. Indeed, the modern idea of a street as an artery, existing primarily to convey vehicles, would have been foreign, says Christopher W. Wells, author of Car Country: An Environmental History" (http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/did-cars-save-our-cities-from...)
There are actually multiple definitions that have arisen as our understanding of the cosmos has grown [1]. The word has always been a filler for "all the stuff there is" but as science has evolved it's become useful to make a distinction based on "all the stuff there is in <whatever>".

The context of this article makes it pretty clear that a brane-constrained definition is being used.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Max_Tegmark.27s_four...
And please note that the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative funded him prior to the article.
I thought that was Spinoza.
> defined to be all that exists

"universe" may be as shortsighted as our ancestors calling our favorite space-faring rock "uniearth". Such a sibylline definition falls on its head as soon as one tries to define "existence" and finds it ultimately bound to lowly concepts of space or time. What to say of a "uni"-verse that is a constant collapse of probabilistic functions, where every possible permutation simultaneously exists until observed? Let's be humble, and cut some slack at putting words on what we're looking at, because we're really not quite so sure.
CPU speeds stopped increasing because the market stopped focusing on CPU speed (coincidentally to this discussion, the change was largely to reduce power demands). Transistor count has kept plugging right along;

http://i.imgur.com/FvVrnn4.png
The code that is being used in the demo:
https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net

is in the watson-developer-cloud organization in github:
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/speech-to-text-nod...

In fact, all the samples have the code there.
Ever since the Iraq war I've been of the opinion that forces within the USA shamelessly used 9/11 to pursue pet agendas that had been "on the table" for years but lacked sufficient support. Afghanistan was related to 9/11 though in all truth it probably wasn't the most important backer. Iraq had nothing to do with it at all -- it was just a foreign policy hobby horse that they use 9/11 to ram through.

Meanwhile our relationship to Saudi Arabia has always reminded me of an addict resorting to sexually servicing their dealer to get their fix. SA is every bit as bad as, say, Iran, but we have a "special relationship."

(Yes I'm aware that most of our oil does not physically come from SA or the Middle East, but it's the price that matters and SA has more influence over that than any other country.)
Obligatory xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Interesting, I like that it uses a NTM brushless motor from HobbyKing. Really cheap and easy to replace.
Triple deity
Katy Perry’s lawyers demand takedown of 3D printable Left Shark
Thanks for the info. A couple of questions:

> - Variable inspection when debugging has always worked fine for me.

Are you using version 3 or 4? In version 3 this definitely didn't work, as stated in the changelog for version 4 ( http://scala-ide.org/docs/changelog.html, look for M3 "Show variable values in hovers when in suspended debug mode". It should be noted that for me, in version 3 selecting and watching a variable doesn't work either). This seems to be fixed in version 4, which was officially released on 2014-12-16.

> - Scala-IDE never gives a "full" spurious compilation error

True, this seems to be mostly a presentation issue, albeit a very distracting one. However, in my experience occasionally one of these errors will prevent the application from launching from Eclipse (for debugging, for example), which seems very odd.

In my experience, autocomplete sometimes stops working completely. Or maybe I'm really impatient :)
Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Call For The Release Of The 28 Redacted Pages: http://youtu.be/H00l9AlYnEs

H. RES. 428: Urging the President to Release Information Regarding the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks upon the United States: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolutio...

Co-sponsor Thomas Massie speaks at a press conference in support of the bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEOF7wCIudA

I've invested siginificant time researching this subject. From my perspective the most important thing that folks need to know is how disinformation works. It's designed to offend. You can prevent people from looking at reliable, sourced, fact based information by attaching bad information to it.
Yes, that lower bound is a function of all those things: security costs, labor costs, etc. They can be laboriously approximately quantified. But it surely exists: for example, it's inconceivable the rate to ever reach -30% because storing money will never get that expansive in normal conditions (please discount apocalyptic scenarios).
So here's how this works. Gold bugs are big fans of buying gold. They have lots of gold. Their narrative of the financial system is that gold is the uber-asset that all other assets must be denominated in, and that fiat currency is doomed to collapse. The massive run-up of gold prices during the financial crisis played into this narrative, and despite the fact that mainstream economists, politicians, bankers, etc. still thought of it as a "barbarous relic" (Keynes), gold-bugs saw it as the key to a prosperous economy.

So now, gold prices have been weak for a few years, so they have to come up with a new narrative. And that narrative is global conspiracy. So you get groups like GATA [1] and Zero Hedge [2] pushing various stories about how gold is being squirreled away somewhere mysterious, or prices are being suppressed by faceless multinationals or what-have-you. Maybe it's true! I don't know, but there's never really been any evidence, and it just sounds like someone justifying a failed investment thesis.

[1] www.gata.org
[2] zerohedge.com
Have a look at https://sedo.com/us/. They do everything including escrow service (in case you already have a buyer but don't trust them)
Thousands of Wordpress Websites Affected by Zero Day Exploit
$0.125/mile seems pretty low. For comparison, the US Government reimburses employees $0.545/mile [1] for official travel in a personal vehicle. I wonder how many miles/day it would take for the cost of wear and tear to exceed the savings in parking fees.

[1] http://www.gsa.gov/mileage
The ISO 10646 + Unicode Merger (1995)
What language do you speak? Maybe we can do some cross language chats? I teach you English, you teach me whatever. I know a fair amount of Spanish and Japanese.
“Hitler Tamed by Prison” – The New York Times, December 21, 1924
FYI: The "Department of Homeland Security" was a proposal (without much support) that pre-existed 9/11.
It's risk vs. reward, to many people the increased cost of a brand new car is worth more than the risk of buying used.

Also, if you buy a car thats 2 or 3 years old you can actually figure out what is likely to go wrong with it, something you generally don't get with new cars (unless you're buying a model is about to be refreshed)

I generally find the maintenance required to keep the warranty generally exceeds the cost of repairs that might actually happen. It's not exactly rocket science to change air filters, oil, transmission fluid, and brakes.

The other thing about cheap used cars is when they break, you get a new one. I'm not going to spend $2k on a new engine, I'm going to buy a new car for $2000-4000.
But is the behavior really unsustainable when it's a company with the size and power of Wal-Mart?
I don't have facebook, so can't vote.
So was most of the Patriot Act and "Total Information Awareness."

The biggest thing that disgusts me is how our government responded to 9/11 by essentially telling us to be more afraid-- in other words helping deliver precisely the emotional message that the terrorists intended. I started to picture the planes hitting the towers with a voice-over of President Bush saying "my name is George Bush and I endorse this message." It viscerally disgusts me, and yes it also disgusts me when Obama more or less does the same thing. If a president today said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," I'd fall out of my chair.

Our politicians care more about their pet projects and hobby horses than they do about the country. We seem to be entering the late stages of imperial decadence in a lot of ways.
Continuing my mission to promote links to abstracts over links to PDFs: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880 .
The most obvious thing to me is that I can filter on multiple sources with JustWatch, and only a single source on Can I Stream It (in regards to the gallery view).

I really just use CISI for looking up a very specific thing. JustWatch might improve discoverability.
> The Apache Software Foundation does a decent job at
> fundraising, and even employs a few people to do stuff
> like administration. Most of the projects get by with
> companies that pay people to work on them, which seems
> to work out pretty well.

The ASF budget is roughly 1.2 million a year, the bulk of
which goes to maintaining infrastructure for 200+ projects.

https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2014/board...

As a 501c(3) non-profit, it is constrained as to what it can
do with donations.
Time for plan Bitcoin.
Aren't you ever tired of being wrong all the time? I swear, the only time I comment on this Digg-clone website is to counter your incredible BS.

Lots of people would love to work on it. But who can work for free? No one that I know of.
Even if the apartment complex didn't lock the doors and didn't allow tenants to put locks on the doors? If the apartment complex was supposed to have employees that install and check locks and cut the budget? If those cuts helped the apartment complex turn $2.56B in net income last year?
> The blood bath in Syria is also partly funded by the Saudis.

It's entirely possible that Saudis supported it before it became a case of full-blown ISIS.
For bulk transfer, the absolute fastest I've seen is piping tar through netcat and doing the reverse on the receiving end - on a 10-gigabit lan that results in transfer at the hdd speed. That was between my personal machines with consumer-grade SATA hard disks. The situation probably changes once you add hops and have multiple disks to read from at once.
RadioShack has filed for bankruptcy
How cute that the once powerhouse of Africa is now referred to as a developing country. I guess that's the ANC for you.
So youll pay amazon for the storage but not Apple? Being a prime customer doesn't mean its 'free'
Webshell.io tried to use JavaScript as cloud programming language, transforming every API endpoint/API call into a JavaScript object. Then you could script APIs and SaaS using JavaScript.
Check this article on why JavaScript is the glue for APIs http://apieconomist.com/blog/2013/6/26/api-days-are-here-aga...
Here's a conspiracy theory for you. The Iraq and Afghan wars were as much about regional containment of Iran as any other reason. There just happened to be fussy and irascible local in both places that caused all the ruckus.
What if they asked the same questions but used "electric toy helicopter" instead?
One thing a machine learning system can do that any one human cannot do is ingest lots of data. For example, for some tasks in which I have tried to compare human vs machine speech recognition performance the machine actually does better because the machine may - for example - know a singer's name that an individual human may not recognize.
I can't wait for nice bindings to a JS plotting library (something on top of D3). One of the big missing parts of Scala for analysis...
"In 2011, 96 percent of U.S. crop farms were family farms, and they accounted for 87 percent of
the value of crop production."

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1156726/err152.pdf

And since the devil's in the definitions:

"ERS defines a family farm to be one in which the principal operator, and people related to the principal operator by blood or marriage, own more than half of the farm business"

So I think that's valid.
I cannot decide if that Soundcloud laugh was completely distracting, or whether it improved the storytelling.
My first suggestion is to forget what you see on HN; it's totally not representative of most of the world's IT work.

Excel VBA and legacy business systems and nasty abandoned PHP and shitty Java monoliths are way more common out there than Angular and Node and the like.

"…solved many business problems with languages I didn't previously know, such as Excel VBA" sounds like it would make you a fantastic employee for any number of small businesses out there, the trick will be finding them.

I lucked into my first gig via a short-term contract (through a friend) that turned into full-time employment. The job was a mix of Filemaker (which I'd never touched before) and PHP and weird CSV import/export formats (so, basically the most awful combination of technologies in existence), but I solved real problems and was of real value to my employer. Sounds like you could pretty easily do the same, you just need to look for the opportunities.

The stuff that gets talked about on HN seems to be a weird microcosm of cutting edge tech, too much money, and "we have to convince investors we're worth buying so we have to keep up with all the buzzword tech". Meanwhile the other 99% are just tucked away in small businesses solving boring business problems with boring legacy tech and keeping the world turning.
I wasn't like it was a novel technology either. I've seen similar systems in Europe for at least a decade.
Here's Canonical's 2013 numbers:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-...

21 million USD negative, largely due to Ubuntu development and related expenses.

Canonical has never been profitable, which is why Shuttleworth constantly re-invests his own personal capital in the company.
The capability of giving anyone a monetization channel. Mobile Podcaster is really good, but its just a recording/publishing app. The main features they have is to add intro and publish directly to WordPress. There is no editing to add commercials or ads that can monetize your podcast. Also the feature I'm talking about should be from the listener to the producer (not the other way around). So if I listen to your podcast and I want to advertise my site in it, I just select a "free space" on your episode and record myself or upload my ad.
How the produce aisle looks to a migrant farmworker
And archaeological dig sites.
I'm surprised it wasn't North Korea.
They also are working on getting the tools that you need to design your prototype. Like Upverter (YCW2011) (https://upverter.com/) for designing your PCB.
Good point. It's not that clear and easy in all cases though. Besides, Stallman once disparaged SaaS business models as unfree and essentially a problem to be dealt with. While that in way makes sense from his point of view, it's problematic for developers who try to make a living with providing a useful service.

I very much agree for all system software and especially cryptographic and security-related software.

What about a developer or a company though that's put several years worth of work into developing a particularly useful novel solution to a specific business problem? If they use a proprietary license they'll at first force others into depending on them once they start using the software but is that really wrong in every case? If on the other hand they immediately release their code under an open source license they might effectively commoditize their novel solution. Sure, they might be able to recoup some of their up-front investment but in most cases this won't be a sustainable business model.

Releasing the source code only to paying customers might seem like an obvious solution but depending on the nature of the software and the industry the customers might decide to just pay once and afterwards sideline the developer. Continued innovation can serve as an incentive to pay for updates but again this doesn't apply to all fields and industries. Licenses such as AGPL might be a remedy, too but from experience I can see that software licensed under these or similar terms is mostly avoided in business contexts. I'm not sure if there's any company that's built a viable long-term business on a dual-licensing model.

Not every closed source (or only partially open source) software product is created with malicious "Let's blackmail the customer into using our software forever." intent. Sometimes, it just makes good sense. However, in those cases I think companies should at least make provisions for releasing the code if they go out of business.
Super easy and really annoying but probably relatively effective PR. The news on this stuff sees lots of eyeballs compared to follow-ups or clarifications. Plus the consequences for being found wrong downstream and pretty minimal, sadly. Casting these kinds of aspersions redirects fear & anger from the company to boogeyman nation-states.

[Edit: I just noticed these are government and not private analysts making the claims, so my comment is now a bit cynical for my own taste... but I think it's still effective PR and I expect private security companies to field more "So you're not saying is WASN'T North Korea, right?" kinds of questioning from corporate clients.]
Breaking from page 17 to 18:

"Finding that European firms display similar reductions in investment in science as American firms is not consistent with the idea that specific regulatory changes in American institutions drive the results of this paper."

This is a clever way to get at what effect SOX and Bayh-Dole have had on private large-enterprise investment in science, but the evidence and argument are a bit opaque. What counts as a "European" vs. "US" firm? Most corporations are global at the scale of interest to this argument. US regulations might still have had an effect, even on "European" firms.

Logically the best they can argue here is that the evidence is consistent with their hypothesis, not that the evidence is inconsistent with an alternative hypothesis that SOX and Bayh-Dole had an effect.
You know who probably won't be in that report - Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
Or naming the atom "atom".
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