skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 light years per 70000 years in miles per hour = 191604.751 miles per hour, according to google
ok, how do I create a copy of that spreadsheet? I can't https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bZRFP5R6DvGTPkDrVhqy...
> How's this different than any other sort of capitalist?

Other sorts of capitalists founded companies that produce something.
The article links to a paywalled source for the paper "The Closest Known Flyby of a Star to the Solar System" by Mamajek et al. Full text is freely available on arXiv at [1].

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04655
This article has some great stuff in it. I've been putting together some answers to some of these questions and it is currently very 'amateurish'. My economic training doesn't go much past Micro and Macro Undergrad courses and I'm to the point where I need some professional direction.

There are probably some economics PHDs floating around this thread, and if you like talking about this stuff and would be willing to critique the stuff I've put together, ping me @afat.
This was discussed like a year ago in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995568
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There is fundamental issue with spec - it cannot be implemented properly, because it completely ignores basic human "qualities" like greed, envy, paranoia, huge egos of power hungry control freaks on top of pyramide and so on. On paper it looks great of course, paper can handle a lot after all.
Yes, we can keep trying, or we can learn from history. Wait... who does that? :)
Those tools don't exist for all JITed platforms. Hence the problem.
I've seen Minecraft generate 400Mb/min worth of garbage and then GC with a noticable stutter.

The most egregious stutter though is when Minecraft generates new chunks.

Minecraft is not a well-coded game. ;)
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For reference, 0.8 light years is about 50,000 AU. (AU = the distance from the Earth to the Sun.) Pluto is about 49 AU away.
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Well, it was for emphasis. I can't count how many times I've seen the "rebase is evil" trope. It's so tired and abused and annoying and misguided. So, yeah, the sentence terminators were to convey the very real emotion on this subject.
I've seen this design before and the reasoning is that your physical signature is needed per policy (at least in the areas of US law I've worked in). We can only replace a physical signature with a two-factor authentication, and you can imagine the nightmare that is to set up in a way that is any bit usable to the general public.
The last couple of years have seen a marked increase in the number of easily available, free, high-quality stock photos. My favorite of these sites right now is

http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up

-- which is basically a scraper of other stock sites attached to a search engine.

Note that many "free" photos have CC licenses, so do your homework and make sure you follow any attribution rules. Looks like the OP's link has photos that are completely free of attribution requirements.
So they don't own it, but they are the majority share holder? That doesn't feel very independent. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Oh, sorry, I updated that link on Github but forgot to do the same on the blog post. This is the good link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bZRFP5R6DvGTPkDrVhqy...
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They deprecated a mapping API in AOSP because AOSP is not tied to a cloud service and should not depend on cloud services. AOSP on its own cannot assume that a mapping service is available, and neither can Android apps. For the same reason, there are no app store, social networking or cloud storage APIs in AOSP. AOSP does not depend on a cloud service.

They introduced a mapping API for Google Maps in Play Services because Play Services contains all client libraries for Google's services. The Google Services APIs are a container for all libraries to consume Google's cloud services.

This is not symptomatic of Google's evilness.
I don't get how he can be that productive. Just the non-programming things like creating artwork and deciding on game mechanics and plotlines sound like they could occupy someone for years. Now throw in the game engine programming.
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Dragging down on "1, 2, 4, 8" in Excel 2007 gives me "9.5, 11.8, 14.1, 16.4, 18.7".... but maybe newer versions have gotten better.
I'm not sure we can do much about this. Other than through indoctrination. It's human nature. Your local public system asking for donations in return for tickets to some high minded event tug at this vanity.

Never the less, there are good cases for prioritization. Say at a hospital the most critics but with the best chance for survival are prioritized.

And ideology will not get rid of this. If it's not directed by money it gets directed by class or position or favoritism.

So in this case I dont think the solution is to eradicate the behavior, but rather make it more accessible and less tied to a particular privilege.
Right, the Oort cloud is frickin huge - goes halfway to the next star (well, what we used to think of as the next star)
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Me too! my need was something that works over the internet. Here's one that's LAN only - http://bdwm.be/cs/.

One thing I noticed is that none of us attempted an iOS version :)
>> "seem paranoid about giving negative feedback to Millenials..."

I am a millennial, and I can't help but notice that as a cohort we really suck at accepting criticism and negative feedback. Not sure why this is, but it's unmistakable.
The key take-away when thinking about Marx's role in Marxism, though, is that Marx didn't create much of any kind of a spec, good or bad. The main concrete proposals he had were pretty banal by today's standards, ideas like universal education, and he didn't say much about how to get there besides hand-waving revolution.
I can't make AdSense revenues from a Twitter account.

In fact, if Twitter or Facebook suspect I'm a professional concern rather than simply an ordinary Joe, they may expect me to pay them money to promote my content, or even to make it visible.

I already have dealt with exactly that on my 'regular Joe' FB account in the past, because I had pages for my book label attached. Thankfully they seem to have realized that there was zero traffic to them and stopped, but I still sometimes worry about how much of my stuff is actually being 'curated' out of my friends' feeds.
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What do you mean by "public branch"? Public to the team, or public to the whole world?

I do commercial closed-source development; there is no public branch to the whole world. OTOH, all feature branches are public to the team; only trivial features involve a single developer. So your assertion doesn't seem well-formed to me.

Further: The distribution of code and feature responsibilities in a team of full-stack engineers is fluid. Depending on the day, any person might be working on a feature, and the person previously working on it might not even be in the office. It's a general policy where I work to push your branches before close of business.
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The about page says these photos are curated from the web and submitted by users. How do you ensure that they fall under the Creative Commons CC0 license?
No I don't think so. A lot of people call these things "hairballs," and probably a more useful interface would be some kind of faceted browser that allows you to do pivots and look at aggregate stats of the various lenses you can put on top of a graph. Additionally, measurements such as node separation, "betweenness," or perhaps even looking at common chain patterns are probably more useful ways of trying to dissect graph structures.
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I find it interesting that the "PCs" that are show are obviously a
macbook pro and an iMac -- although there is not yet any support for
a mac/ios app.

Not sure what this means. It is interesting to me that the mac may now
stand for a general PC.
Hi codegeek,

Thanks a lot for taking time to post your feedback.

Currently we extract data in realtime of users sending limits and emails sent by users in a day via SES API.

Since, we are already extracting all the users data and showing them in their dashboard. We will certainly plan to show the reputation to the users in the later stage as well.

We are working quite extensively on WordPress platform. What kind of integration would you be willing to get ?

Yes, you are right there are lot of plugins which provide the similar services, however there are few challenges.
1. You have to manage the hosting at your end.
2. You have to keep track on plugins and external apps and keep them updated.
3. There are not a robust solution out there, some don't have a simple drag drop email builder, others don't have a subscriber management system, some plugins don't track accurately and some don't provide web form embedding functionality or some plugins don't have autoresponders.

I am not saying that self hosted solution are all bad but there are certain limits where those solutions don't work well.

Mandrill is awesome, it gives 12,000 emails for free every month. However, they restrict their service to be used only for transactional emails and recommend MailChimp for marketing emails. On the other hand, SES has no such limitations whatsoever.

At the same time, if you are an Amazon EC2 customer, SES gives you 65,000 free emails every month.

We are actually coming up with a way to send emails via your custom SMTP to allow email sending via Mandrill or any other SMTP platform as well.

Once again, thanks a lot for taking time to post your feedback. I would suggest you to give OwlSend a try, I am pretty sure you will love it. If you have any questions or suggestions. Feel free to email me at neeraj[at]owlsend.com

Thanks
Neeraj, OwlSend Team
Yanis Varoufakis: How I Became an Erratic Marxist – News – The Guardian
"even though its word processor and spreadsheet are terrible."

How so? They seem extremely productive and reliable for the org I volunteer at as treasurer.

I've never seen a financial report with an incorrect addition, or hear anyone complain about the word processor.

My kids use google apps at school for things like writing essays and homework submission. Again, "just works".
I'm starting to wonder if a somewhat similar event could have occurred ~66 million years ago and triggered a series of events leading to the extinction of dinosaurs.
Cross pollination of ideas and experiences is a good thing. Its good for companies and good for employees, I hope this becomes much more common.
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At Fog Creek, we converted our SSH load balancer from Python to Go.

Paramiko had a number of bugs and memory leaks that were forcing us to restart it nightly. We had trouble getting patches accepted upstream over the years.

Eventually, a couple of the Kiln devs decided to sharpen their Go skills by rewriting the LB. We saw lower latencies, and there was much better built-in tooling for getting statistics. Deployment was nicer.

There wasn't really a massive difference, and we could have gotten the Python version to a good place, it was just easier with Go.
I use Twitter for lead generation via IFTTT.com.

I run a bot that posts Street Art pictures from Instagram [1]. The bot dominates the hashtag search term results [2]. People who find the bot, click the profile and click the URL associated with an app I made for discovering street art [3].

The bot dominates search results because it finds hashtag heavy images via Instagram. The hashtags on the Instagram image carry over to the Twitter post, resulting in an active searchable Twitter feed. The bot posts a over a thousand times a day.

Since releasing the app, I've averaged about 500 downloads per month, without any promotion. It works very well for consistent passive traffic.

[1]: Bot http://twitter.com/publicartfound

[2]: Search term https://twitter.com/search?q=streetart

[3]: Landing page http://publicart.io
Does Trello have salary differentiation policies based on location? In other words, can someone from Europe expect a "US 6-figures" salary?
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Aren't you using 'technical talent' too narrowly to only refer to CS? There are some pretty solid non-CS science/tech companies in the mid-west that employ a large number of elite talent in the respective areas: mechanical engineering in Detroit, food/bio/chem in MN, health-care in Pittsburgh (UPMC), etc. (Anecdotally) I know highly talented people in the top of their respective fields who consider working in companies in these cities to be highly desirable because of how good these companies are in their respective fields.
Huh, I had been under the impression St. Louis had a combined county and city government. I stand corrected!
Very interesting and very detailed, and very informative and also, useful. So, a great read.
Call me strange, but I prefer the old maximize. It only took up what space was needed for the window to not scroll horizontally, but did a full vertical. This had a few advantages for me: 1. I can see, and interact with, all of the other windows that I have open in the bkg without too much context switching (command+click to interact without giving a window focus) and 2. since I have an ultra wide monitor at work (and a 27 inch iMac at home), full screening for a browser or text editor is wasted space when I needed reference materials open too.

Apple's own iTunes app breaks a lot of pre-defined ui behavior -- cannot double click titlebar to minimize, the strange mini-mode, and it doesn't quite respect the screen boundaries. I just prefer for things that I use often to have an expected, common behavior.
> even though they might be technically liable, they'd never actually have to pay, assuming you don't have a law requiring them to carry commercial insurance

Um, I had assumed that "liable" meant "liable", not "technically liable but not actually liable". We're not comparing scenarios where the law is the same but we arbitrarily shift the "liable" label from one party to another. We're comparing scenarios where:

(a) the law says the company is legally liable when any driver they contract hits someone while driving a passenger under that contract, and has to carry insurance accordingly, vs.

(b) the law says the driver is legally liable when they hit someone, and has to carry insurance accordingly--commercial insurance for when they're carrying passengers under contract, and ordinary insurance for when they're driving for personal reasons.

The Coasian point is simply that under legal regime (b), as compared to (a), the drivers will negotiate for higher wages or other additional compensation to offset the increased cost of their insurance.

> If you do have such a law, then we're not talking about anything Coasian--we have just picked the driver to carry the cost of accidents.

Sigh. This is just case (b) above, and the Coasian point about the comparison with case (a) does apply.
The point of the previous commenter is that even if it's to convey very real emotion, it makes your comment harder to take seriously and actually lessens the impact of it.
I'm an American and admit that I hate sarcasm. Sarcastic people come across as cowardly; if you have something to say, just come out and say it.

No doubt this is cultural. For example, the sarcastic, eye-rolling banter found in Parliament raise my American hackles, making me wonder if any of those MPs had ever been "called out" for their insolent language when young. My wife and I typically sum up such sarcastic people (whether British, American, or otherwise) with the conclusion that "he's never been in a fight".

This may be an urban vs. country issue, as in the States I associate sarcasm with the effete, latte-culture found in metropolises, whereas laconic terseness seems more common in America's small towns and agricultural areas.
>In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 471 already displayed.

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Is there a benefit to use ELM, aside from its functional properties, when using the canvas then? Does using SVG with ELM offer benefits over canvas with ELM?
Tulsa University Bans Student from Campus for Someone Else's Facebook Posts
But do you play by ear? I don't think sight reading would help at all. I had been playing music for years, sight reading, and had picked up no musical ear.

Now, I can happily play along with the radio, and pick up languages by sound quite well.

Except for German. And I live in Germany. German is just... schmooshy.
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Yes we were either all there, and the new generation of devs have heard the stories. It doesn't matter anymore and it's exhausting to here people harp on decisions made 15 years ago by a bunch of old dudes who are retired now.
The online community's infatuation with the 'Streisand Effect' is somewhat thoughtless. The mechanism annihilates the power of the law, by making any attempt to get justice subject to the approval of the online mob.

Sure, it's a feel-good story when some celebrity suffering from affluentia is the subject. But why shouldn't Mr. Gonzalez have the right to try to clear his name? Is trust in the court system so low that we're happy when they are replaced by collective judgement by people who decide based on whatever small slice of the truth they saw on Twitter?
Surprisingly similar, actually. Many of the sentences look exactly the same.
Nah, at the fringes of east London's trendy "digital" parts, you can hear marital type arguments launched clearly across whole estate (project) courtyards, any given weekend..

Anyhow what was that about being so bad about being loud SPEAK UP DEAR, I CAN'T HEAR YOU?
The 50 shades of GPL
Right on the front page: "Alt-C uses Google Cloud Messaging with SSL connections to copy the text."
How does this explain what is crudely called "biting the hand that feeds you"?

Despite what this says, there are those who are strictly, to a great fault, at times, principled. And this principle can overcome the problem of flattery.

This is the kind of thing which tends to bite some people at work. Pointing out the warts, short -sightedness, despite the promise of a steady job, some managers can see this as threatening, rather than an awakening. Not everyone caves in to the siren call...
Rails Rest module
But by same logic, aren't all text only games same?
Ask HN: TrueCrypt audit status?
After raising over $70,000 from the community in October 2013, progress on the TrueCrypt audit has been fitful at best. The last update on http://istruecryptauditedyet.com was April 14, 2014.

Two key contributors, Matthew Green (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green) and Kenn White (https://twitter.com/kennwhite) remain active on Twitter.

I am aware of VeraCrypt and CipherShed but these appear orthogonal to the original audit.

Does anyone know what the heck is going on?
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Then perhaps you should be clear and change "Cost 10,000 Emails" to say "Cost 10,000 Subscribers". I can send 10,000 emails for free (12,000 actually) each month using Mandrill. Make it clear you're talking about subscribers and not emails.

Also, if I check MailChimp pricing, 10,000 subscribers costs $75 / month.

EDIT: When I saw 10,000 emails I honestly thought 10,000 emails which would make your pricing not that great.

Also, where'd you get your owl logo, looks very similar to Robly's (who is probably your "closest" competitor)
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You might as well get off the Internet if that's your problem. Because it won't be getting any better for you.
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Well you may be the first person I heard say that, but likewise, brit humor, American spelling seems the easiest combination to me.
> ... where I find Lyx superior

Trying to convince people to use something because »I consider it better« rarely works out, I guess.
Congressional Influence Model Shows How Much Congress Votes with the Money
While this is useful, it adds to the number of ways your data can leak, as to copy between devices that may be in the same room, your data will be crossing borders and potentially being exposed unencrypted on some server somewhere in another country.

I would be very reticent about pushing any remotely sensitive data over a channel like this.
> His philosophy flatters certain people, especially intellectuals, and tells them what they want to hear.

How do his philosophies flatter? And why specifically intellectuals?

> total nonfuctionality of the rest of his theories

Really? As in, all of his observations about socioeconomic dynamics were wrong?

In a competitive market economy prices fall to the cost required to produce something, right? What if this applies to labor too? Heck, what if there's a way to substituted for labor?

Have you ever felt like what you do doesn't matter? Like you're a cog in a larger machine where you're frustrated that you don't get to make decisions about the craftsmanship of whatever you're working on? Like some kind of ... I don't know... alienation from life?
This has even more projects: https://hadoopecosystemtable.github.io/
Having grown up in Chicago's Loop, it is vastly - vaaaaastly - more fun/exciting/busier afterhours now than it ever was before (or at least, in the 80s/90s when I lived there.)
The GnuPG maintainer is begging for nickles, while most commercial investment into open source is incidental to some other activity that generates the real money. Those aren't good things. When you make it difficult to monetize a product, you create a huge incentive for companies to vertically integrate until they control part of the stack that can be monetized. E.g. Android can exist as open source because it's an on-ramp to Google's proprietary web services.

If companies like Qualcomm couldn't directly monetize their R&D, the likely end result would be their getting sucked up into companies like Apple and Samsung that build end-user products.
What do you mean by "public branch"? Public to the team, or public to the whole world?

To anyone other than you. If other people are involved, then think very seriously whether or not rebase should be used. Almost in every case it should not be.
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I believe the article was about the entire Twin Cities area, not just Minneapolis/St. Paul proper.

I suspect if you shared the details of the commute that scare you so much, you'd be surprised how much worse it could be in other parts of the country.
Could you expand? :)
> Why is it that there is not - nor never was - a single prosperous country build on Marxist principles? Is it possible that Marx's theory is nonsense and all the rich mixed-capitalism economies are right?

It is possible. But let's not jump to conclusions. There wasn't any prosperous democratic country in Europe before cca 1600 either.

There are some smaller experiments. Things like Mondragon Cooperative or Kibutzes. These don't end too badly. It is even being claimed that they have higher productivity. They probably also exhibit lower outward growth, which tends to be bad when they compete with capitalist economies. Just like democratic societies tend to project less military force compared to dictatorships (because it doesn't help the general public, only the elites on top), these "marxist" economies also don't grow (compete in the market) very aggressively, to their disadvantage. But for the workers (I mean people doing stuff, majority of people and the ones that actually deserve to be paid) it may well be a better system, just like democracy is better than dictatorship.