skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, thanks! I'm hosting it on DigitalOcean. Honestly I'm designer and I worked all this Meteor / Telescope stuff together by myself and not sure how should I respond to the performance question :D How can I measure it so it'll be helpful for you?
Google Inbox is now available for custom domains
SuperTasker is the Uber for digital work. Read this http://techcitynews.com/2015/03/16/peopleperhour-launches-ub...
This is a terrible idea, in my opinion. It would effectively cause users to "budget" the music they play, e.g.: "If I play that Rihanna song after playing 10 songs from my favorite indie band this month, it'll severely dilute the money going to them." The last thing Spotify wants is people not playing music for moral reasons.
Speaking of that, is there an indie competitor to the Sims out there? My biggest gripe with that series is the $30 game + $6000000 of expansions model, which could be pretty easily replaced with community-made mods to build on a simpler base game.
The drug cartels brutally murder thousands and commit many other crimes -- they are as brutal as ISIS in many ways -- they undermine and oppress entire countries and ruin large parts of American cities. Many organizations such as the Taliban and Hezbollah fund themselves via the drug trade.

Some people boycott companies over political issues; how many of them still buy drugs? Every user I know, to whom I've mentioned this issue, insists their drugs come from a friend who produces it at home. But somehow the drug cartels earn billions and have worldwide distribution networks.
For the op: Was it difficult to figure out the Flux part?
http://slashdot.org/ ?
There are tumbler services, no idea how well they work or how many are compromised but in theory it seems like it could work.
Just trying to convey that complexity of the accounting for broadcasters is not a reason to stick with the current payout system. The proposal isn't much more complicated than the data we already have to report to some agencies.
I was an employee #15-30 range of a small startup and got around $200k out of options and $1.3M of additional RSU upon acquisition. I've more or less kept all of my equity. Because the parent company did well, they're currently worth roughly $2.5M post tax (and I'm hoping the parent company continues to do well).
Is it really that good?

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/15/why-i-changed-my-mind-abou...
Facebook's "Anonymous" Login[0] is still in beta.

0.https://developers.facebook.com/products/anonymous-login/
How the first human to take steps in outer space nearly didn't return to Earth
They also tried this with Windows RT.
The notion of implicit involvement is a PR strategy for legitimizing a government. If a majority of the population do not feel implicitly involved, they will not care if the government is overthrown.
Don’t edit the human germ line? Why not?
They likely already record and store all the necessary data (and more) in order to build out people's listener profiles.

Pools of money is not really a relevant metric. They collect all the subscription premiums and pay a portion of them out according to their contractual agreements.

Pay(artist_i) = 0.7 * sum_j [ premium(viever_j) * ratio_ji ]

is not that much harder to do.

I agree that auditing would be more complicated, but usually one does selective audits anyway. I doubt this would be a show stopper.

The confusion on the receivers' side would increase massively though. As someone else has pointed out, there would be a lot less correlation between #plays and payout.

(To be clear, I have no real opinion on whether this would be a better schema.)
You could, I guess. Why would you want to, if you're Spotify? It's more bookkeeping for no benefit to them. The author believes he's getting hosed because gyms and nail salons are playing Spotify all day over their PAs, but... I'm not sure that's true, and even if they are, those are still plays Spotify has to pay for.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, there are programs in place that help people with their bills. They've a number of problems, however. Some ran out of funds and couldn't help any more people. What's interesting about those programs is that a few (including the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department itself) started referring people to us. Others (such as state-run programs) moved too slowly to prevent shut-offs.

Yes, there are people who simply choose not to pay their bills. When we determine that's the case with an applicant, they don't get assistance. Simple.

On top of that, we provide one-time assistance, so there isn't an opportunity to just decide to lean on us and stop paying a bill.
This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do.

Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
I'm not positive that bitcoins offer much more protection from robbery than cash, given the situation here.
I couldn't find any other articles about this, but I can confirm that the Inbox app will now let me use my non-gmail domain.
Ah so this is the consumer version of the http://aprilzero.com site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203
California Committee Moves to Expand How Police Access and Use DMV Photos
Applying your logic, purchasing anything from US, Saudia Arabia or Russian companies is "supporting the marketplace that provides service to" government officials and politicians "of the sort that kill", abuse and torture people.

Do you agree?
It's one of the larger rocks in the photo, to the right of the center. To me, it looks like the profile view of a fish's face.
It seems rational for entrants in a YC class to all invest in each other, to hedge the failure risk. Why doesn't everyone in a given YC class (say, of 100 people) agree to give 10% of their company to a holding company, in response for 1% ownership of that holding company?
I agree with your statement on mutual understanding.

I don't believe the first question is relevant. Rather, thousands, if not millions of Americans will kill, or send others to kill, in the name of their god. We hear this in the popular press often, when people say that we need troops active in the Middle East to fight on God's side. Or when Bush, quoted by Chirac when Bush was trying to convince France to be in the Iraq war, said "This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins".

That doesn't mean we prosecute people for being willing to do something. We do prosecute them (sometimes) for doing so, or for planning/conspiring to do so.

Yes, I believe the federal government prosecution acted in bad faith in the following:

> These transcripts were never supposed to be revealed in their entirety. The government argued that their release could harm the U.S. government by revealing “law enforcement investigative strategy and methods.” U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli not only sealed the transcripts, but also placed them under a protective order.

Based on what was given, this information did not need to be classified and contained potentially mitigating information.
Why Auto Makers Are Building New Factories in Mexico, Not the U.S
Thanks for the donation! And these are really good suggestions. That transparency is definitely a goal.
I can assure you, she is.
Agreed. I am tired of being told I have all this "privilege" just because I was born with a penis and have to wear sunscreen when I am outside.

Okay I can pee standing up, but other than than?

Also whenever these kinds of arguments are made Asians are always counted as white, even though more Asians work in the tech sector than should by chance.
Pretty sure Spotify would have no problem with people who are paying for Premium choosing to not listen to music. Saves bandwith and doesn't reduce revenue, what is to not want?
I'd love to see this evolve into something production worthy, even if it can't be done in idiomatic go style. A good cross platform GUI library is, to my mind at least, the largest void in an otherwise excellent standard library.
I don't think the way to interpret his post is to stop reading all news, but to do due diligence and learn how to filter out the shit and focus on the essentials. Not paying attention at all to what's going on in the world makes for an ignorant and useless citizen. Especially since getting everyone to go along with Aaron's suggestion of filling the time digesting news with a book will never happen.
EFF Asks PTO to Stop Issuing Abstract Software Patents
I am so tired of seeing visual evidence dismissed by people who refuse to even consider it if it's not endorsed by some large "respectable" institution

Any time generally reasonable people seem to consistently disagree with you in a way that perplexes you, especially when it's you who is suggesting something extraordinary, it would be wise to strongly consider that you might be missing something. Not necessarily that they know something you don't know -- it's worth questioning whether you're hitting a bug in the programming of your brain.

If you start thinking everyone around you is crazy, start worrying that you're crazy.
Lie to her.
So disgusting
I was going to make a joke about "her money" in my comment, but didn't think it needed to be made :)
Tell HN: Take this idea: uber for dedicated colo rack units
When is some bright startup going to create an uber for colocation hosting?
Maybe, just maybe, there are other ways. Musk did it with rockets. I'm not knowledgeable, but very often, long proven techniques and status quo let people stop trying to find alternative paths.
From a religious perspective, Muslims believe in parts other than the brain also retaining a memory of their deeds and bearing independent witness on the day of judgement. Quran Sura 41, v18-20
Everything looked great until I saw Facebook login.
Uber has 'demand' because they're advertising. Because they're handing out credits. Because they're claiming they're cheaper (but are they?). Because they may actually be cheaper on selected routes (but not when it matters). Because they may even be operating at a loss until they cornered the market (or go bust).

That's not sustainable. I knew self-employed taxi drivers and they weren't exactly rich, far from it. Having to give some leech 20% of their income would have ruined them, so Uber's presence in their business model must be to the detriment of someone.

So if they survive and corner the market, they'll raise prices (all those VCs want a return, after all). If they don't, they may leave behind ruins where there was infrastructure - no interest in that. There is no option 3, since their business model is fundamentally 'us vs them': Serving all the good inner city and airport routes, while leaving the non-profitable stuff to someone else doesn't work for long.

I can understand that Uber doesn't want to plan for the long term: They might not be around in 3 years, and even if they are, any mess they create here doesn't affect them.

I'd prefer infrastructure to still work in 15 years, and Uber doesn't look like an ally for that cause. In fact their conduct indicates to me that they wouldn't hesitate to burn down society as long as they can instate themselves as rent keeper and make a buck on the remains. Why should I support that?

Nobody forces Uber to enter the German market. If they can't rethink taxis legally, they should leave the field to those who are capable of that (to those who want to: PBefG §2(7) might be of interest).

tl;dr: don't buy taxi services on society's credit card - since I believe Uber customers are doing that when they get 'cheaper' service, any restriction on Uber is a good thing in my book.
There's a third issue: Playback on spotify sounds horrible, even with high quality playback turned on it. It cannot come close in quality and richness to a VBR mp3. Anytime I really want to feel the music, I have to fire up forbar2000
Another checking in. Guilty as charged.

My main gripe is that because of this stupid model, it pushes a lot of the artists I would listen to away from spotify because it doesn't connect them directly with the revenue stream they should be getting from their true fans. Artists have a hard time surviving without that.
Half a million sounds awesome until you factor in lower salary like you did. Great post. Thanks.
By "research results," I take it that they are referring to the resulting paper, not the resulting data.
Let's start at the beginning. The paper talks about evidence for nuclear explosions (the word "weapon" isn't mentioned as far as I can see), and then discusses natural nuclear reactors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

The author then argues that the evidence seems to fit an atmospheric explosion better, for example an asteroid that exploded in mid-air like in Tunguska. Or that the radioactive stuff just got there in this pattern through geological activities and other processes.

Did I miss the part where he talks about nuclear weapons or sterilization?
Windows 10 upgrades will be free, even for pirates
You never really know until you know you don't know? What we know now is that we think we know -- that is, until we don't. Theories are meant to be superseded.
Both of the possibilities that you suggest seem logical to me. I can imagine other dimensions to it as well, not the least of which could be planned obsolescence.
Well adware is A/B evolution in its finest. They found this result by gradually adding more and more new features!
Mix the City – video jam
Thanks for the link. Even this was a bit underwhelming to me. You have to click the (not very visible) link to toggle the effect on and off. Turning it on forces a reload of the page. Would be nice to have a side-by-side comparison of off and on.
When I had chemo (Leukemia) parts of my hair turned a copper-ish red and other parts got a weird waviness, and it thinned somewhat, but it never was anywhere close to falling out.

Forehead thermometers also always measure my body temperature a degree or two too low.

Taken together, I wonder if that means I've got a naturally cool scalp which somehow protected my hair from falling out.
Looks like the third time is a charm for this story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9217162

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9217229

It would be interesting if HN showed submission so people could do analysis on submission time, for example.
I always wondered when reading papers how anybody could reproduce the conclusions (p-values, that sort) from the data.

One simple solution would be every time you have some data analysis, you set up a VM or Docker type thing with your dataset and your code. That way other people can download it and run it, see your results, and tinker.
Any updates to the README.md ? How do you plan to push notifications to stakeholders? Can they comment on PRs before merging to master?

Also, LICENSE file might be good
I included the link in your zeroeth reference in my original post, well before anyone had replied. I had no intention to take credit for the poem, and assumed most readers here were smart enough to infer authorship from the link I included. Please, a little more charity in interpretation and a little more attention to detail would go a long way in keeping discourse friendly here.
This is really exciting move. I wonder if this would make compiling the .NET core easier in OSX and Linux?
well, i'm kind of in the same boat... what size node is it on, and how many users can it support? also, you may want to check out the "meteor hacks cluster" package. it allows meteor to take advantage of multiple cores.
A friend and I built http://usefixie.com/ with it to learn Go. Like artursapek's project, Fixie was a good fit because it involved concurrency and networking, and latency was critical. It was also nice that we could leverage a well-developed open source project (GoProxy).
PSA: HN is being actively censored
Try to provide nuance against the ridiculous notion that Reddit is a cesspool of right-wing toxicity but that ShitRedditSays is just misunderstood? Flagkilled.

Try to provide counterarguments against the reigning third wave feminist "women are oppressed in tech" narrative? Shadowbanned.

Instead it seems we're supposed to keep dredging up articles from the same unaccomplished tech personalities whose writing is a grab bag of 30 years of failed social science and confirmation bias elevated to the status of data.

Statistics is not magic, falsifiable science is not just a nice to have, and HN should damn well know better.
It looks really cool, although the 3D part is incredibly aliased for me (FF 31, Linux), to the point of being barely readable.
I think it's made by the same person.
Running a Small Docker Swarm Cluster
Although it takes a certain amount of guts to steal from drug dealers. They don't generally bother with suing you in court to recover their funds :-)
Yep! Took a while to figure out an elegant setup process and generalize the design but we're finally getting close
i was in an acoma at 16. I was floating around the room way above my bed in the hospital. my mom walked in looked up at me straight in my eyes. behind her was a preast with a purple around his neck. I yelled out that i was not going to die,my the time not going to die ,i was back in my body.momlaughed commented how she knew this would work. the priest had an odd look on his face as he looked at me and mom.it was a shooked look. this was normal crap for my family.
Says the guy editing poetry because he doesn't agree with the sentiment. Sure, I'll go easier on you next time.
It's a standard figure. Suspiciously round, basically unsupportable. It's really hard to measure what percentage of companies fail because so little of the data is public.
RMS thinks on much longer timeline than many of us.
In every way. Have you ever used Uber? The whole experience is so nice compared to the low-quality/bad-service experience typical of a government-approved taxi.

I'm not introspective enough to enumerate every single reason I love Uber, but here are a few:

It's cheaper.

It's faster in less densely populated areas.

The service is better and the drivers are friendlier.

The cars are nicer.
Mario and Zelda are coming to mobile phones
I would like to take a moment to have people recognize that there are differences between the glyphs used for these characters, and some people find this to be a point of contention.

For example, in the case of the text fragment “福祉”, there are three glyph representations for each character.
Referenced below is an image demonstrating these three; first is Chinese, second is Korean, third is Japanese. [0] (I left out the Taiwanese etc. because they don't differ in this case from the CN)

The UC have clear rules for this, as explained in their section "Characters, not glyphs", which starts on page 8 of the chapter 2 pdf of the Unicode 7.0 standard. They make the case that codepoints are not for representing stylistic or glyphic distinctions, as seen here, but rather for semantic separations; that is, people still agree that these are the same characters, even if they typeset and write them differently in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese text.

They make cases specifically against a greco-latin unification, and for the CJK unification in Technical Note #26[1]

[0] http://marumie.magnifi.ca:8080/ipfs/QmXDnJUPVtzxVtAQgFkNHwvk...
[1] http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn26/
> That applies to pretty much everything -- from agile development to democracy -- not just feminism.

No it doesn't. It doesn't apply to most concepts. If it did, concepts would not work.

Democracy is rule by the majority. There is no ambiguity there. That there are many implementations doesn't make the term ambiguous.

> The support for the claim that this is particularly interpretation of "overthrowing patriarchy" is in fact the goal of "many feminists" is non-obvious. Please identify it.

It is not non-obvious. You just have to listen to feminists.
If that's a WTF fror you, prepare to have your mind clean blown away.

https://twitter.com/facespics
Just signed up to test things out. Really nice interface and great job with having the onboarding process although I did get slightly lost when it came to editing the R file. Will continue to test it out a little bit later.

Excited to see if this takes off - working on a startup where an integration could be beneficial to both sides. Just curious who you feel your target customer is?
I sure hope they'll drop IE9 support and integrate flexbox as much as possible. It really makes handling layouts much simpler. Card UI patterns are great and flexbox is a perfect match.
It depends on how bitcoin flowed through their system. If funds flowed through a small number of addresses, the stolen bitcoin could have ended up in dozens of addresses that are difficult to distinguish from the seller addresses (short of enumerating the great majority of addresses used by sellers).

It could also already be in cash.
Surprising news. I bet sales will be very high.
Facebook Messenger will now let you send money to friends
It's taking a while to connect to everything, but I'm really pumped to see my data in this interface. I've been working on something similar — an automatic journal based on Moves/Instagram/Dropbox etc. One reason I'm scared to publish is data security — are you storing any of this data, or pulling from 4+ APIs every page load?
Here's a statement from Canonical[1]; they're assessing the situation and plan to release sources next week.

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg11543.html

PS: disclosure: I work for Canonical, albeit not on phones
>No, that's not a fair assessment at all - the evidence doesn't bear that out. Just because the government isn't doing the regulating doesn't mean there is no regulation. Uber at the very least does background/license checks, and the aforementioned ongoing quality rating. It's not a free-for-all.

I have no idea what lengths Uber goes to, but it's irrelevant. You're espousing self regulation. What happens when the next Uber competitor decides upon a different, perhaps less stringent, standard? This is why these regulations exist on the first place. The whole thing is coming full circle.

1. Unregulated service arises

2. People use said service, gains critical mass.

3. Service excludes/endangers part of the population.

4. Service is regulated by the government

5. Eventually, regulations become burdensome and are either lifted or circumvented.

6. Goto 2
I highly recommend Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki. It really opened my mind when I was starting out in functional programming. Highly relevant to many modern problems.
I will submit my answer in the form of an article:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20150217/236674/Ga...

My vote is for Haxe :)

Summary: depends on your specific needs and where you fall on the security/freedom threshold. Do you have some more specifics about your project rather than just comparing the two in the abstract?

(Also as josefiene pertosa pointed out to me on twitter, you can use Haxe's C# target in conjunction with Unity so the answer can easily be "and" instead of "or")
>For many feminists, feminism absolutely is about "overthrowing patriarchy," which in practice means taking retribution against all men

Patriarchy is defined as "a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it." Overthrowing such a system =/= 'taking retribution against all men'
I guess first you have to specifically define "the problem" because there are tons of situations like this.

> no other way to achieve equality, other than specifically separating the groups that need to be treated differently than they are now

Is this really true? Perhaps you could find ways to improve processes overall so that "equality" was an outcome of an improved unbiased process without focusing on specific race, sex or beliefs.
Yep, that's elegant. It's so easy to write bad bash scripts that I do it all the time. So much to learn on my end.
Can you imagine witnessing one of those towers when they fell down?