skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devil's advocate let's do this from the perspective of the VC/Banker guys:
1) "Can we have $10 million to build the next wave of our watch?"
2) "Woah. There's a good chance AppleWatch will crush you. It's all anyone talks about. We'll lose our money and you'll waste 2 - 3 years of your life. Not sure it's a good idea"

In the old days 3) was i) nothing happened as the VC guys feared risk or ii) They did lend/invest but with a lot of risk built in to the terms to reflect the uncertainty.

Now 3) = "Let's put it on Kickstarter. That way both of us don't need to guess - we'll just know. If you get $x million of pledges we're happy to give you $y cash at $z valuation"

Seems like everyone can win?
The pay might be high but the average career is much shorter than that of a programmer. I bet the lifetime earnings aren't even that much different than the average person checking HN from California.
> In principle, government has the capability to be less stupid than the market.

Only if you're applying favorable "principles" to government but not doing the same for the market. If you're treating government as a black box that acts as a perfect aggregate of the population's preferences, then yes, it can maximize economic efficiency (or probably accomplish whichever other goal you have, like egalitarianism, utilitarianism, etc.). But if you do that, it's only fair to treat the market as a black box that does exactly the same thing.

Of course, neither the government nor the market can act as a perfect aggregate of the population's preferences.

> The government can, in principle, just arbitrarily decide that maybe, just maybe, we need to care about surviving for longer than next fiscal quarter or at least try and not create ourselves a hell on Earth.

To use your example, the market can also in principle just arbitrarily decide that maybe, just maybe, we need to care about surviving for longer than next fiscal quarter or at least try and not create ourselves a hell on Earth. There's no rule in the market that says a rich capitalist, or even a group of private companies, can't just spend a bunch of resources on whatever you're talking about.
-no-remote is the same as -new-instance except that the instance won't listen to remote commands.
FWIW, I have a regular pebble, and was a KS backer from the first campaign. I'm considering a second backing, mainly because the delivery date is may 2015, which is probably late enough that I'd be in the market for a new one anyway, and the promise to have a special something for double backers is a nice touch.

Personally, I use my pebble for just about whatever you'd think. It's nice to control my music (don't laugh- the nexus 6 is a pain to take out of my pocket just to change tracks), to have a quiet and personal alert of important emails, (the notification is a lot less noticeable by other people than the buzz of a vibrating phone) and to have ridiculous watchfaces.

QR code of the current time in a watchface. My favorite! https://github.com/TrueJournals/pebble-qrwatch

Finally, Android L has this nice new trusted-bluetooth-device notion, so when I'm wearing the pebble, I don't have to unlock the phone. I know it's a bit of a security risk, but it is one I'm willing to take.
Agreed that we really need to knock a couple of more digits of cost-to-orbit before we can make any kind of informed decision one way or another. Also agreed that it's not looking good so far.

Mass drivers could send cargo into orbit cheaply -- perhaps given the right cargo/human ratio, you'd end up with a drastic decrease in cost overall, especially with reusable rockets.

Right now there's just no there there. Most of the great arguments for getting off the planet are 1) Science! and 2) We need to get the heck out of Dodge before we kill ourselves. These are very good reasons, but it's like pushing a rope -- you'll never make space exploration happen by lecturing people and taxing them for it. Instead put some greed into the mix. If you find a big enough pull, then you'll see the dynamics radically change.

Space needs an 1849 Gold Rush.
It can be used for event sourcing, but it does prune past data (for single-value values, compared to set-like values) in the current database indexes. Old data is still available in older indexes.
And this is a reason to pick on people who use php?
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Tails 1.3 is out, now includes a Bitcoin wallet
Included Australians too which incensed our government, but what can realistically be done? What's changed as a result?

And I don't think they accidentally shot down the plane. They might've assumed it was a different plane, but from what I could tell, they intended to shoot it down. If I'm trying to avoid accidentally shooting down planes, I'm generally not firing surface-to-air missiles about the place.

It was an arms-length Russian crew then, and that could well have been the case with the other Malaysian plane. Professional support but professional deniability.
If you go for the clones of ardunio it can be amazingly cheap £2.95 vs £25 quid
That's a cute viewpoint, but the mere mortals get screwed, same as always.

Let's say a VC invests $2.4 million dollars in a company. Let's assume the company does well and sells out to Facebook for $2.3 billion. The VC, being wise in the ways of finance, profits handsomely from that $2.3 billion.

What if, instead of a VC investing $2.4 million dollars, it was a large collection of mortals each investing a small sum, say $300.

The collection of mortals would simply give the company $2.4 million, and after selling out to Facebook, the company... screws over the puny mortals and simply pockets it all.

Sure, the company gets to keep out the eeeeevil VC and bankers, but the little guy sees no return on their $300.

Yay?

Wait, no, we all got a shiny Oculus Rift out of the deal to play with.
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I want to have it. Of course there will be externalities. There are externalities in all systems, including all current governments.
This is incredibly hard to do well and takes a great deal of discipline. Unless you're a Belgacom or Gemalto sysadmin, the consequences of cross-contamination aren't grave. It's easy enough to burn an identity and create a new one.
I don't know compared to Unreal but Unity has several hidden performance issues. I am currently working on Bullet Boy [1] and we had several obscure problems that you have to fix with a lot of trial and error. Specific combinations of components and attributes can cause frame rate to drop because of the internal organization of the engine (moving colliders without rigidbodies comes to mind).

That being said, it is really easy to use. The asset pipeline is great and artists learn to use it very fast. It works really well for small teams.

My recommendation is that you should consider it if you are not planning to make a very performance intensive game.

[1] http://bulletboygame.com
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While I 100% agree that gays/lesbians have it "easier" than trans I wouldn't come close to acting like it's no longer an issue. Trans rights still have quite a way to go but I really do believe that it will get better. It's not going to happen overnight but I do believe it will happen so I don't consider it "an obvious lie". Thanks for the response!
What price tag? Unity is free. It doesn't start costing money until you need to start doing slightly more complicated things or your revenue goes over 100k annually. That's plenty of time to experiment.
> Do I want to heat my house that much if it means my children will die in poverty on a planet that went to hell?

Yes, you probably would, because even if you don't heat your house, it's unlikely that your individual decision will have any measurable affect on the condition of the planet in the future.
Ask HN: Jobs for young/old FORTRAN programmers?
I'm actually a Node/full-stack JS guy myself (I know, ick) but my father, a now-retired environmental scientist and former civil servant, coded in FORTRAN every workday for 20+ years.

Now I'm looking to spend more time with him, generally, and thought it'd be fun to go through some of his old materials/documentation and learn a little bit of the language myself. I figure it'd be a neat way for me to get more insight into his former day-to-day work than I ever did growing up (just recently started coding) while getting some exposure to CS history in the process.

My question: Is there any sort of market for FORTRAN programmers anymore? I've heard of COBOL programmers fetching pretty good prices because so many legacy applications depend on it and there's a dearth of new talent - does a similar situation exist for FORTRAN?

If not, that's OK, just already dreaming about a family business refactoring legacy code! "LastName & Sons Software Development" has a nice ring to it ;)
The parent in this thread literally said "willing".
In my opinion, the lockout-shortened 2012-13 NHL season (started in January, 48 game regular season) was the best thing ever.

Particularly in a country where NFL football reigns supreme, the NHL starting an 82 game season in October is just a loser. Starting the compressed season in January, with the NFL regular season over, made so much more sense.
baseball, as with all sports, has a long and storied history with using various performance enhancing drugs to cope with injury and fatigue. amphetamines were commonplace in ball four ... bouton casually discusses greenies, players' coffee vs. regular coffee, etc. there was a sporting news snippet from the 1910's (that i can't find right now) that discussed pitchers dealing with arm fatigue ... the takeaway was that some pitchers preferred cocaine injections, while others preferred morphine. and then there was the steroid era ... lots of attention of course to creating cartoonishly large players, but most of these drugs were to shorten recovery from workouts ... you don't magically get huge from taking steroids.
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On https://www.crowdmed.com/our-stories scroll down to Patient Success Stories and you'll see patients with more definitive resolutions. Those are completely anonymous, unlike the videos, so more medical detail can be provided.
Can we please get a non horrible scrolling behaviour in the Android build regarding rest of the platform ?
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Llvm takes longer to clone in git than downloading and building the entire go tool chain from scratch. A full build with llvm plus clang takes 30 minutes or so on my pc. A full go build takes 10 seconds.

The go team is small and fast. Taking on that kind of baggage is unnecessary.
I wonder how well a standard clinican, armed with a the right software(maybe the full version of [1]) would do at crowdmed ?

[1]http://www.isabelhealthcare.com/home/default
See the "Privacy, Security, Liability, & HIPAA Compliance" section at https://www.crowdmed.com/faqs
> Market cap isn't perfect but it is the company's actual value after all.

It's not the company's actual value, but rather the company's actual valuation. Related, but very different, concepts.
"The sport could use a shot in the arm in terms of viewership"

Your linked article also carefully tiptoed around the other elephant in the room, that being, as the pix demonstrates, not just a sea of old people, but a sea of old white people except for one Hispanic (old) guy. As whites become a minority race and the average age of a MLB viewer goes up one year per year, the pro level will die out pretty soon. How this interacts with billion dollar municipal bond offerings to pay for stadiums and such is interesting to contemplate.

Note, its probably a net gain to the sport overall, even if only 5% of the couch potatoes join or attend a local amateur game or take their kids to little league after MLB shuts down. Even if only 1% take a ball to a local park, it'll still be a net gain for the game overall.
Oh I am quite sure the powers that be have long term vision, they just don't align with some of what we want.

Everyone thinks they have "enough" long term vision. I'm sure many of the Roman emperors who we now think of as being short-sighted thought they had it all figured out in the way you outline above.
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Sorry, I don't really understand your comment. Assuming that people maximize utility is a useful model for certain tasks. Kahneman's work shows that people's decisions differ systematically from any kind of rational maximization, and are explained better when you allow for biases such as anchoring, loss aversion, and substituting a hard question for a related easy question.
?!? No.
I really, really, REALLY hope that Unity fixes their editor UI in version 5 (I haven't tried the beta yet, so maybe it's the case already), but as it stands right now I can't use Unity for long stretches (visual impairment). The font rendering in the editor is terrible, even at 1920x1200 the text is too small (froget about Retina even). This has been a problem with Unity for YEARS, which is a shame because it's a great tool otherwise.

I'm still torn between the two tools, they're both fantastic for different reasons, but if Unity 5 can't fix their editor then I think I'll have to jump ship just out of necessity.
What is your theoretical way of holding your government to account? If your answer is voting, I would ask why you think your single vote influences an election more than your individual choice whether to patronize a business.
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I didn't say proof is a synonym for correlation, I said proof refers to correlation. Causation is itself a kind of correlation, but I wouldn't wouldn't call either of them synonyms. They are structural relations on experience.

Proof will compel rational systems into agreement. If I submit a proof to a computer, it will consume it and output that-which-was-proved. The correlation between the structure of the inputs and outputs are what the word 'proof' refers to. It's not that complicated.

>You're attempting to deny the validity of my argument by shifting the context into some vague definition of the word proof.

I'm not defining proof, I'm just telling you what it is. Words don't require definition to have meaning.

>Sure applying the scientific method to daily life is stupid

I don't know why you'd say this or why you think I'd agree with it.

You are starting from the assumption that science doesn't proof things (a statement that you no doubt have no proof of) and used it to conclude that proof is meaningless. What a fine conclusion -- it's utterly useless. But rather than imagine that your assumption was wrong, you want to dig in because "so many people" told you it was correct. Well? Give me a proof. Why should anyone believe these things? What rational advantage do you have by claiming proof is impossible?

Furthermore, why would you -- while saying proof is impossible -- ignore the fact that mathematics -- a discipline completely enamored with proof -- be a useful basis for science if science had no need of proof? Does that not strike you as completely absurd? Why would you believe such a thing?
Rust doesn't do this because of the length of compile, it's because we occasionally patch LLVM, and then submit the patches upstream.
Crowd sourced House Md. I think that's a brilliant idea. I still don't now details about the inner functions like if anybody can be a detective? or do you need special education to be a detective? or who generates the report? but it seems to be sorted out and working currently.

Of course with the expansion of the crowd and patients moderation will become a bigger problem. If it can be moderated at least for an acceptable size, this will be huge.

How can we invest? :)
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AFAIK, Datomic doesn't have the same kind of distributed load management out of the box for you, where you can do analytical queries over the whole data set.

Datomic is designed such that load from analytic queries is local to the quering machine (apart from storage retrieval which can be cached and replicated), thus it does not need to be ran on a shadow server or some distanced system from the live production system.

Because the data is immutable in Datomic, there is no need for worrying about locks on tables or documents for contention of future writes--since it reads the data at the time of the query starting from immutable files (joined with the database transaction 'novelty' buffer/log since the last database indexing operation).

It is also up to the querying machine to store the conclusions from such queries in whatever way they like. (If this means going to another datomic instance, or put on HDFS or GFS, by all means.)
Oh GOD NOOOO!!!! This is truly a sign of the end of modern civilization...reduced to its lowest common denominator.
Well, I put in for two and I imagine some others did as well.

hth,
adric
> Rust's core goals are performance, memory safety, and lack of race conditions (AFAICT)

We usually formulate this as "memory safety without garbage collection," which has secondary implications on speed and concurrency, but yes. (Also, 'data races' rather than 'race conditions,' technically).
'Nonwithdrawable' means that if you earn additional income then your Citizen's Income will not be withdrawn. This is different from means-tested benefits which are reduced if earnings rise.

Quoting from: http://www.citizensincome.org/FAQs.htm

I thought "non-withdrawable" meant some crazy credit system where you don't get to withdraw your money but can only trade it for living necessities or something.
Scaling Wix to over 100M users – the beginning
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for bash http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16715103/bash-prompt-with...
Ultimately, this site along with all of the rest concludes that you should "talk to your doctor":

> "CrowdMed patients are advised to never act upon one of our diagnostic or solution suggestions without the care of a medical professional, who is ultimately responsible for determining the patient's correct diagnosis and treatment."

This seems reasonable to me.
Rentals have no property tax, of course.

Someone's paying that tax, even though it's not the tenant. That's going to get passed through to the tenant in the form of higher rents.
I wonder if it isn't more like, now 3) = "Let's put it on Kickstarter and let ordinary blokes who don't know any better fund us instead".

It's just all-around suspicious when a product you'd expect to be able to get traditional funding, is listed on Kickstarter instead.
At least some of what they are doing isn't particularly risky. I only read a couple of the profiles, but in this one, the recommendation is to see a professional for a specific treatment:

https://www.crowdmed.com/our-stories/sanora

The speech pathologist is the one that is doing the treatment there.
I'm astonished nobody has commented. Am I the only one surprised by this? Or are people afraid to comment (as were some people, according to the article).
CrowdMed founder here, happy to chime in on this question.

We consider it up to our Medical Detectives to determine whether the patient's symptoms are physical or psychological in origin. If the latter, then 'somatization disorder' or 'hypochondriasis' are perfectly acceptable diagnostic suggestions.

That said, a lot of patients are given psychological diagnoses from physicians (i.e., "it's all in your head") only to discover on our site a physical root cause to their symptoms.
But China lags significantly behind the U.S. in areas of education, economy, and freedom of expression. The latter is important because it is an essential ingredient for long-term innovation.

We're at the point where China can simply use existing technology to gain a lead in space presence. More permissive societies are bound to appear, given a serious program of Chinese space settlement. Also, the Soviet experience shows that you can have technological innovation in aerospace without freedom of expression.
No, but you need to heat your house a lot less if there's an economic incentive to insulate it more because fuel is less subsidized, and to design new houses to take solar heating into consideration again.
Despite looking at that very section, I somehow totally missed that. Edited my original post accordingly, thanks!
The overweight players are overweight for the same reason that (American) football linemen are: it's useful for their skill.

One of the reasons that Prince Fielder can hit as many home runs as he does is that he has a lot of mass; it's also one reason that steroids were effective. Not (just) for strength, but the more mass you have to swing into the ball, the farther it will go.
Unless it's a new feature, the UE4 UI does not render at retina resolution - certainly looks pretty pixelated on my rMBP.
"...health web sites share your search queries with 3rd parties..."

For anyone looking for health information (in English), I recommend the NHS website. (Start your search from there rather than Google if you're worried about being tracked). It may not be the best-looking website, but the info is written by medical professionals and there are no commercial interests since the NHS is funded by the UK taxpayer.

They have an A-Z of conditions, a symptom checker, videos and much more. (I presume this is all available to anyone outside the UK)

http://www.nhs.uk
"There are currently no major issues with how Internet Service Providers offer broadband service, nor is there any groundswell of dissatisfaction from the millions of Americans who are generally able to consume as much bandwidth as they desire."

I'm not even sure what to say about that; it's so plainly false it's not even laughable. It conflicts with every bit of evidence and every anecdote that everyone else is reporting.
Maybe foundation should simply ensure non-enforcement of related IP.
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This is awesome.

I'm a huge huge huge fan of Von Wong's work. He takes things to the extreme and produces unique and mindblowing images.

And I had the opportunity to meet him in person, the guy is fascinating and very humble.
I would be highly interested in how this model incorporates appearances into it. In particular, if you can maintain the appearance of heavy sharing, without heavily sharing, that can land you closer to the benefits of not sharing, without the downsides.
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There are many crowdfunding platforms but at least here in the US they all need to follow the same SEC regulations which require investors to be accredited which essentially means you have to be a millionaire to play.
Instead they were just illegally crushing employee wages and e-book markets.
Thank you, this helps enormously.

It's this sort of stuff I'm talking about: I've never even heard of an SLA or a support coverage contract (and apparently there are tiers of support?); things that enterprise users want and expect, but that aren't well-known to the common hacker.
You might want to mark this as a Show HN by prepending the title as such, if you can edit the post.
I keep my photos in git-annex. It means I have a backup of my photos. If I edit one, the old version is still there. I can "fork" the directories and do some experimental stuff, and switch back to the original version if I need to. Git annex, like git, uses content based hashes for names. The content is preserved. I can copy files to/from remote git annex repos. Easy backup and redundancy.
I think developers looking for Unreal performance from Unity 3d will be disappointed. What Unity has over Unreal is C#, great interactive tools (a live stage within a running game), and the ability to publish to just about anything.
My hunch is that you'll lose a lot of your investment over 25 years, without spending more on the storage strategy.
As stated, I wanted to see which features were generic to enterprise in general.

Thank you!
That does sound annoying, IIS (non-express) seems to not have this issue though. Agree with debugging and tweaking though, my largest complaint is that you can't edit methods that contain lambda expressions.