skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philly has some great digital data initiatives. I don't know if this is the norm for most cities that aren't the size of San Francisco or NYC (or have budgets that these cities have) but the City of Philadelphia has pursued excellent open data policies which have led to projects like:

https://www.opendataphilly.org/

http://www.phlcrimemapper.com/

The city also has an interesting github page: https://github.com/CityOfPhiladelphia

I know I'm missing a couple of other great pages. AXISPhilly used to be my go-to place for open data projects here but they closed up shop in 2013.
I'm pretty sure most things are delicious once fried in butter and mixed with vegetables.

Incidentally, I'd love for microlivestock to be more widespread in the US--it could be such an affordable protein source!
I found it 'interesting' to see they speak of the dual-core i5 and i7 as an upgrade, never mentioning the number of cores. All 5th gen mobile i7's are 2-core. http://ark.intel.com/products/family/84979/5th-Generation-In...
I guess if you change the definition of "extreme left", you might have a point. But otherwise, just look here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics

The headlines are all about: Evil Republicans, Capitalism and how the government should be paying for Healthcare, Employment, and a basic income. There is no middle ground, everything is shown from one, extreme, biased, view.

The comments show even more evidence of this.
soooooo, the way i see it, imho, is that any government which derives its authority from the governed is inseparable from the governed. i.e. government = proper subset of governed. either cyberspace is lawless (and might makes right) or there is some form of law, thus some form of governance, and thus a government. again inmho, a government of and by the people is better than, say, fascism. until we've evolved to the state of Zee Prime, cyberspace will continue to exist in that most primitive of mediums, atomic matter, and so must share the domain of nation states and such. look at me now, blathering on as much as this article. all i was trying to say is, given that cyberspace is pervasive throughout the political structures of our earth, maybe we should productively engage rather than hostilely withdrawal. that, and Jefferson was able to eloquently express his deep understanding of governance through his pen while still clearly shouting, "leave us the f-ck alone or expect a fight you english b-stards." you just new he meant it.
Thanks for the awesome view into your private world of trying to make it on your own. As a wage slave, this is the most interesting thing to read about!
I really wish building single-page apps was better supported by browsers. The current setup is to try to kludge over the fact that DOM is for documents, not apps, and use the awfulness that is CSS and current layout paradigms (note, no CSS is strictly worse than yes CSS, but that doesn't make CSS good).

Breaking away from the DOM but keeping the ability to remotely load code and static assets would be the best of both worlds. Something like Google Maps is an application, not a document. Why are we rendering it with a document renderer? Why are we styling it with CSS, which is again, document-oriented? The good part about single page apps is that they deliver a package of code, then are able to keep local state and communicate with the server over a stateless protocol. Oh, and the current breed runs on a platform (browsers) that is installed on every PC and mobile device. Browsers just need a better format for delivering packages of code and better support for these than "manipulate the DOM".
DAQ box runs Linux on Core i7, packs Spartan-6 FPGA
It's pretty sick when talking about equality earns me a down vote. It really tells me that nobody wants equality, they want more power for special interest groups.
I was wondering how this study got this result, since other studies have come up with very different numbers.
> the SV software industry has taken a unique stance that experience is actually a liability

I see this viewpoint often, but it always seems to be from people who either haven't used their time wisely or otherwise don't want to change their role. There's a bizarre belief that they should be paid more for the same type/amount of work. Apart from a few situations, the marginal value of very good code over simply adequate code is very small...it's not enough to justify the marginal salary of a very senior coder over a junior coder. And yet people believe that since they've got 20+ years of experience, they should be paid significantly more than someone with 2+ years.

Meanwhile, those that have used their time wisely and moved from engineer into architects or other leadership positions are both older and very well compensated. We realize that we can guide a team of junior engineers to produce something that's good enough to meet the needs of the business. It's not as good as it would be if I wrote every line of code myself or with a team of engineers with 20+ years experience each, but I know that none of it is a disaster and it was written for a fraction of the cost. My salary/comp has more than kept pace with my expenses as they've grown, but only because my contribution to the organization has grown similarly. I could have never grown that contribution if I'd stayed in a role where I was primarily responsible for writing code.
So your intuition says that there's some point where everyone is suffering pain X, where X is very large, and they would each agree to cause the X-(1 mote speck) to a trillion times as many people, in return for reducing their own suffering by 1 mote speck? That strikes me as beyond regular selfishness, and non intuitive.
> Not that necessarily means anything bad for the game

They're selling ships.

There's not much more bad you can do for Descent.
In my experience, the comments on the niche subs are of considerably higher quality than the default subs. So much so that I'm puzzled what you could be thinking about. Can you give some examples?
In the case of soy-based fakemeat, it's more about texture than taste. The taste isn't that hard to get down; good luck getting it to have the same mouthfeel as a slice of bacon or a nice, juicy steak though.
>Comment and voting quality also appears to improve dramatically with scale; compare the quality of comments on default subs to niche subs.

I hope you meant - worsen dramatically ... it's the reason I unsubbed from almost all the defaults.
I visited the author's site in the signature (futureclaw), and it's not exactly a slick experience. Front page doesn't let me use space to scroll it; 'more fashion' page looks janky and out of order, and has a wide scrollbar that requires mouse work; click through to Coach Men's Fall 2015 and we have a page that takes forever to load, a scrollbar on the left which does nothing when it's moved; and now I notice a side-scroll at the very bottom, which scrolls me through all the pages I've visited so far (the previous issue is actually the scrollbar for the 'previous page'), including a large thumbnail page I never visited; a side-scrollbar in the middle of the page to scroll through the model's pictures, but no other controls visible...

This is definitely not the site I'd have in my signature when talking about the emerging trend of single-page apps and proposing a new standard. It's such a non-standard site, and feels clunky and clumsy.
So first of all, your preferences are still circular, unless you bite another bullet somewhere. But even your argument isn't quite accurate. It's not this one person who needs to get a speck, it's a literally unimaginable amount of people.

As it happens to be, a number of people in our tiny world have said they would choose torture, so your argument fails just considering them.
so in your etnocentric (and maybe outdated) point of view the west would only be USA, Canada and parts of Europe?

Where does Japan, NZ and Australia fit in that world view because they are in the east but aligned politically with the west...

I find extremely odd what passes in the concepts inside the minds of some readers here. "Broad definition of the west would include latin america", WTF! Most of the countries here are ex-colonies of European invaders. Most countries are dominated by capitalist interests with mostly democratic governments. What requirement countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, etc are missing?

I wish people paid more attention to whats has been going around the world the past 50 years and got rid of silly outdated concepts of the west, the east and other useless labels.
The Red Pill an organization of freedom fighters? We're comparing feminists to ISIS now?

Genuine, generalized anger against women? What are you upset about, that it's fallen out of favor to feel up a woman at a bar without permission before you begin a courtship that ends with her in the kitchen as your property with your dinner on the table at 5:30? Upset that you can't give her two black eyes for finishing dinner at 5:31 and keep custody of the kids because judges are pretty much out of patience for male shenanigans? Mad because "alpha male" means something different today than it did throughout history, and you miss the old ways? Do you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say "I'm championing the causes of men by participating in a community that started as a haven for pickup artists and uses The Matrix references as pseudointellectualism?"

Stop me, I'm laughing so hard I'm getting lightheaded.

I would have never predicted someone who speaks positively of The Red Pill works in the subset of technology that made him aware of Hacker News, and all that does is make me rethink what I thought was a typical level of intelligence to work in this field.

Your organization grows because there are lot of pieces of shit in the male gender, and everybody likes validation that there are other pieces of shit like them. Why do you think Stormfront grew so quickly? "Yay, a whole forum of people just like me!" That's exactly why. Believe me when I tell you that I can't wait for the SPLC to list you, just like they did Stormfront, because you are just about as antiprogressive and awful.
3D printing accessories like liquid print heads, laser cutters, and continuous production thing that I call a "broom". Android based robotic rovers (we were the first to do one at google i/o 2010, I should do a writeup on how that went). Industrial control systems.
Nations distribute gold, cultural information, legal information, and many other aspects of their deepest national functionality, so this is nothing new. Erasing a nation is nothing new as well; take a close look at what happened to the people of Poland during World War II.

Beyond the obvious necessity of restoration if your neighbors are prone to invading, the capability is also preventative -- it increases the long-term cost to the country considering invading.
It definitely improves security, but you'll still be screwed against a targeted attack against a specific website.

The attack against Forbes.com is a good example. That is a site you would have whitelisted and the attackers compromised that website to then elevate access to the people browsing that site (government employees specifically targeted).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/10/forbes...
> What should I do?

Afraid that Slow Pay clients go with the territory. I've found that the bigger the client, the more likely to abuse (unintentionally of course) a small vendor partner. Typically blamed on bureaucracy, internal approvals, processing, new system, etc...

1) Keep Cool, play it like Fonzi. *Preserve the client relationship. Be friendly, but firm. "Hey, help me out on this."

2) Offer multiple payment options. Here are some ideas> http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/06/digital-payment-options-sm...

3) Future Clients: Offer upfront payment and/or retainer discounts. You'll want to mark-up to keep your margins intact. But clients like discount deals. Bonus, you'll have their money in the bank.
Yup, they even mention other studies in the article but could obviously not find one to support their headline. So they write stuff like:

While Hess’s Pacific Standard article drew on that
survey to note that “5 percent of women who used the
Internet said ‘something happened online’ that led them
into ‘physical danger,’” it made no mention of the fact
that 3 percent of the men also reported such an experience.
Embedded Linux Keeps Growing Amid IoT Disruption
For context this was written during the height of the first war on encryption.
ah, that clears it up.
Even if it's discontinuous, it still needs to grow incredibly slowly. The ratio of pain neurons that fire for a speck versus for torture over 50 years is nowhere near 3||3. You need a function that grows so slow that outweighs 3||3, which is damn near impossible for any plausible function.
Insulting to cite 2048 as "making something people want", considering it's an inferior copy of threes.
Yup, and it only makes it that much harder for Indian students who want to separate themselves from the herd and try to be honest hard-working individuals.
>What blather. Cyberspace is just a way for people to communicate--flesh and bone people who live and work in cities of concrete and steel, and are bound to each other by social compacts that encompass both the tangible and intangible. The subjects of cyberspace are "transactions" and "relationships" and "thoughts"--but those transactions overwhelmingly pertain to tangible things, those relationships are between physical people, and those thoughts are overwhelmingly about things that exist in the real world.

man, you're right as long as tangible world is more "important" than intangible. But one can imagine the moment when tangible world will become a sub-servient to intangible, when the "transactions" and "relationships" and "thoughts" will be mostly with /about intangible things(and persons like AI or uploaded ones) existing only in cyberspace.
Priime (YC W15) – A new way to edit photos on the iPhone
The article is about a skeleton in Spain, not Wales.
"I just need to break the encryption......ok...it's done."
NYPD cop arrested for hacking into FBI, traffic databases
An approach to Angular separation of concerns
What is the percentage of applications you accept that are not from the U.S.
I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results:

Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/

Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/

Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/

Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org

Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (6 mentions)

EconTalk (6 mentions) - http://www.econtalk.org/

WTF with Marc Maron (6 mentions) - http://www.wtfpod.com/

Freakonomics (5 mentions) - http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts...

Skeptic's Guide to the Universe (5 mentions) - http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

Moth (4 mentions) - http://themoth.org/

No Agenda Show (4 mentions) - http://www.noagendashow.com/

StarTalk (4 mentions) - http://www.startalkradio.net/shows-archive/

Startups for the Rest of Us (4 mentions) - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

The Truth (4 mentions) - http://thetruthpodcast.com/The_Truth.html

Upvoted by Reddit (4 mentions) - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/upvoted-by-reddit/id9541...

Anything else was three mentions or less, but I'll likely put my spreadsheet up on Google Sheets.
'Donation Request for Network SMP Development' – MARC
An astromer explains the science behind what the spring equinox actually is
Out of curiosity, what hardware are you using / drivers are you missing? Given the number of existing flight control boards with decent open source software support, I'm a little surprised that drivers are blocking you, rather than something more interesting like running out of CPU cycles to run a Kalman filter ;)
Validating schemas with Mongoose
On the website it says seventh grade students were encouraged to start studying for it, so focus on the test was high even then.
Inflated implies bubble, deflatable. I think it's just the market rate for living in those places. There's no bubble to pop here. Yes, it's true the cost of living are high in these areas, but I don't think that means the wages are inflated. How would you derive a non-inflated base pay eliminating cost of living?
Yah but Threes did not go viral as 2048 did
So for a long time I had a spare Vax (MicroVAX III if you're wondering) hooked up to a modem on an unused phone line (yes it answered as KREMVAX), and when sufficient internet bandwidth came along put it on the Internet to watch people "hack" it. It was fun because they would get all confused when their x86 exploit code wasn't even a thing :-).

But your comment reminded me that if I ran a virtual VAX and then a virtual Windows on top of that and a browser in the windows, breaking out of the 'guest' into VMS would really challenge the bad guys tool box in terms of zero days :-) Fun to contemplate on a Friday afternoon.
Share Your Code, Not Your API Keys
"Information hazard" is just a term for "things you or others learn and then are worse off because of". Examples of information hazards:

- Instructions on how to make a gigaton bomb with processes and materials anyone can acquire and assemble privately.

- A reachable-by-a-country mechanism for blowing up the sun.

- An image designed to temporarily or permanently mess with your vision. Sharing [1] on reddit as a "cool optical illusion" would be mean.

- Probably whatever a computer spits out if you give it a scan of your brain and set it on the task of finding a paragraph/image/movie/whatever that maximizes dopamine production.

- Some people would consider a devastating argument against free will to be an information hazard, predicting that people would then do whatever they wanted because they "couldn't be blamed".

- If you're a hardcore atheist: religions. If you're a hardcore theist who thinks the devil is out to trick you: convincing arguments against belief.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect
Dear Teacher, a Video Game Developer Is a Real Job and Should Be Celebrated
This text is killing Chrome Mac
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You can easily find blogs talking about how anything is terrible. Just offhand, your link recommends multivitamins, but there are many more-credible sources that will tell you that multivitamins are bad for you.
I think the WTC can be appreciated even if you don't know the mechanics of counterpoint. I finally found the wonder in the WTC when I was doing an assignment that required us track the themes in one of the fugues. Mine was Book 1, Fugue 4. Having never listened to any of the pieces with the score in hand, it was enlightening to find not only the specific instances, but also the rhythms, the contours, and the sub-motifs from each theme seemingly in every nook and cranny of the piece. Nor were the themes constrained in any way: they morphed into one another, played against one another, and fundamentally changed the feel of the piece as they made their entrances. It felt like the musical material was liquid. The effect was emotional and profound, but it wasn't something that could be put into words; this was music talking.

I took away a lifelong lesson from this 1 hour listening session, and all it required was the score and my attention. Counterpoint is a rhetorical tool, and I think it can be fundamentally understood and appreciated even without performing the full dissection.

I also recommend Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 4 in B Minor for counterpoint appreciation. That piece never fails to blow my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLotW5AKjg
I'm sure you're not the only one, but you're pretty unusual.

Eating meat doesn't bother me, but if I imagine myself attaching more moral value to nonhumans, I would rate insects a lot lower than chickens a lot lower than pigs, and switching to insects being a net gain morally.

Does it bother you to eat plants? Things made with yeast? Do other activities that kill lots of insects bother you?

Not trying to needle you and I hope I am not setting off your scrupulosity, I'm just wondering how far it goes. I am also curious if this is a "thing" in the West now, I know something similar is sometimes practiced in India.
Indian Government does have programs for what you have said.
cmdliner's applicative-functor interface has a bit of a learning curve but the end result is some really clean programs. It can also generate manpages!
Didn't downvote you. But it might be because you're wrong, derailing, cite nothing, and make this about yourself.

> Women are not actually being singled out, they are now equal with men.

Gender pay gap? Just one example.

> But for some reason, they feel they should have special treatment.

Who exactly wants what special treatment?

> It really tells me that nobody wants equality, they want more power for special interest groups.

This just screams conspiracy theory.
Are you using some new/nonstandard/uncommon use of "ethnocentric" that doesn't involve culture? I'm not sure if you're trying to subtly paint me as a racist, but it seems that way.

Europe, North America, and Latin America are all very different in all but a few superficial ways, but I do find that Europe and North America are more like each other than either is like Latin America.
Well, presumably they'd want to keep the money from the competition. That's definitely an incentive.
Hi Sam

how many start-ups do you accept on average outside the U.S
That quote (and article) doesn't jibe with the definition of affluence, at least according to various dictionaries [1] (e.g. "great wealth", "property", "abundance of wealth"). Not having much left over is not having an abundance.

The definition of affluence seems to presume various sources of passive income.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=affluence&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Well, yeah. As much as anonymity is necessary for political dissent, whistleblowing, etc, it does come with the cost that it promotes douchebaggery. Which means the internet is hostile to everyone.
OK, sorry, I haven't listened to it in a while. Make that "a few notes". Or just boil it down to "voice leading between chords". The point is the same: it's written with a very particular constraint in mind.
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Crazieflie 1.0 [1], when I first got it there was zero Linux support (the radio wanted to talk on a Windows box) I started porting it to Linux, got libusb going and then got stuck on both not knowing what I didn't know, and a process for discovering what was going on. Since that time I see they have updated their code for Linux support. :-) (I guess procrastination can pay off!)

[1] http://www.bitcraze.se/crazyflie/
You should probably redo the abbreviations test, though. Arkansas is AR - unless you're really getting confused between Alaska, Mississippi and Alabama....
Very nice write-up on the project. Good to see some machining on here.
I work in incident response and actually investigated that watering hole firsthand at our organization. The SWF was hosted on a separate domain, so NoScript in fact would have prevented that specific attack from working even if you whitelisted forbes.com.

NoScript will very often block exploit chains from occurring even if it won't necessarily always block stage 1.
It will be a interesting perspective as it becomes more common to eat insects in Western countries. The main barrier to break down would be the 'ick/ew' factor, which has been mentioned in this threads comments, that is usually cultural.

But judging from the way some domestic animals are treated by some farms, the ick/ew factor of eating insects becomes less of a barrier.
I think you ran in to problems with the part where you implied you could read the minds of half the planet's population:

> But for some reason, they feel they should have special treatment.