skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that the Compass card project has been a failure, but I don't think it is fair to fault their ability to execute a transportation project based on their inability to execute a software project. Translink has a proven successful track record in building roads and bridges and SkyTrains and bus routes.

The Compass card project is undoubtably a failure, and Translink chose the wrong contractor (the same company is responsible for another failed project in Chicago). Software is hard, and I would say to a certain extent this is a transportation company diving a little too deeply in a field for which they have no expertise.

To the property tax argument - in general, the people that own property in Vancouver probably also own cars. The largest users of public transit are obviously those who do not have cars, so then raising property taxes would largely affect people who do not directly benefit from a successful vote, no?
Bill Gates, diseases, large contributions to pharmaceutical companies.

Me thinks I see an association here that adds up to making lots of money using scare tactics.
Lake Michigan’s Haunting Shipwreck, the Francisco Morazan
kodachrome was my favorite film to shoot. it always made even average pictures feel like NatGeo. just the right about of saturation, of fade, of crispness. the color balance was very unique.

that show of Nürburgring is great :)
As APNG any good? My uninformed impression is it's kind of crap. Wishing they'd all support BPG instead

http://bellard.org/bpg/
Hadn't thought of that, though that seems like a very unlikely scenario, since you would also need the car. And driving around in a stolen car with a stolen phone probably won't work for long and will probably get you caught just as fast as an actual Uber driver who assaults someone.
The UI is a mess, the actual task scheduler is pretty darn powerful.

cron is missing a bunch of Task Scheduler's toys e.g.

- Start task on computer idle (and no, "nice"/low priority is not what this does)

- Stop task if the computer ceases to be idle, restart task if idle state resumes

- Start only on AC, stop if computer moves to battery

- Wake computer to run this task (unreliable, but useful when it works)

- Start task only if network connection is available (<pick network connection>)

The following has to be hacked with a bash script:

- Random delayed start

- Stop tasks if they run too long

- Begin on event (list of 300+ events, +custom event filters)

Honestly your criticism is pretty silly. cron is very very basic, and has to be hacked to do most things. Task Scheduler is incredibly powerful and doesn't require giant ugly hacks or custom scripts to accomplish things. I really think your reply is born out of ignorance (of both cron AND task scheduler) or just a raw unwillingness to learn something different.

Microsoft COULD put cron into Windows, just remove 70%+ of task scheduler's functionality, and all knowledge of how the underlying system works. But at least it would be cross platform...
I think you're wrong. Humanity won't destroy the golden goose. The next Aaron Swartz will release it to the public, whether that's distributing the software to everyone, or finding a way to freely build/distribute high-level robotics.

Just as Prometheus brought fire to the humans, someone will find a way to prevent the future from being locked away. Once you achieve the necessary level of automation, you only need one fabricator that can build the next.
can improve UX. Resume is where we see all the content with out any interactions..atleast thats what i feel...
AI company Quid raises $39M
"It's about a 30% increase in performance, maybe a little more. What it does is it allows us to land the first stage for GTO missions on the drone ship."

I am constantly blown away by SpaceX. This is an absurd level of improvement for an already mature, commercially successful rocket.

If even 1% of the world's companies in other sectors worked this well, I can only imagine how much our quality of life would improve. Musk seems extremely adept at applying the best of software development practices to hardware design.

Some things that stand out:

-Extreme streamlining of the product range

-Complete control of the design, prototyping, testing and manufacturing cycles achieved by keeping the entire process in-house

- Optimal product iteration roadmap, which balances maximum improvement per iteration with minimum time-to-market

I think Musk should open an engineering management consulting firm, and hire a few smart people to analyze SpaceX and transfer some of its engineering management methodologies into a set of training modules. I'm usually of the opinion that good management is just common sense, but the degree to which SpaceX is outdoing its competitors suggests they've made a significant breakthrough in their engineering/management processes.
I second not doing fixed bid projects. I've been building custom WordPress sites for a local firm who provides me with a design and I charge hourly ($65-$80/hr) to bring those designs to life. This includes building a custom theme, finding and configuring appropriate plugins, writing any code to support custom functionality, and handling the deployment to the hosting provider.

Average project cost tends to be around $4,500. Sites with only a few pages and a single layout can cost as little as $2,500 while sites with more eye-catching client-side stuff like transitions and animation are usually in the $10k range.
Hey Apple, time to sue!
Which they don't; they just make it harder to pretend they aren't modified. Cheating is very much still possible, and more still if you wrote it all yourself.
That article is from Aug 2014 and it seemed to be kind of a red herring at the time.

However there are several factions (pro- and anti-Microsoft) at work and only time will tell what happens.
UX or UI? ... thanks for feedback ...
Yup, that line sent my eyebrows north at a rapid rate! I would never have thought that it was possible to see such rapid advancement in the field of rocketry - it'd been close to stagnant for pretty much all of my 40 years until SpaceX showed up.
>AFAICT the default in policy is that privacy doesn't matter

I think that may be true for some, but not for others. It depends a lot on previous experience I think. My uncle was a county clerk and digitized a lot of public records, for which he was rewarded by unhappy citizens filing a FOIA act on his e-mail account (a great reason to never e-mail relatives at their work address if you don't want it all potentially public someday). After that, his office was a lot more cautionary about data releases, even though it was public record.

For some counter-examples on the business side, Netflix got bit by the re-identification bug and now is very careful about data releases. At Kiva, I face this problem all the time of turning down research requests for what would be interesting and useful analysis. We release an anonymized dataset of our loan activity (that's taken a lot of work to properly sanitize). However, we get requests nearly every day to release more information, which we can't do, due to the real possibility of re-identification.
This is not true^, and indeed the German parliamentary investigation into GCHQ doing this spying is what this is all about.

^The Eu itself doesn't have a spy organisation, but plenty of EU countries do.
IIRC because the premier promised not to increase sales tax without putting it to a vote first; it was one of her election promises. Around the time she was elected, there was a lot of controversy because the previous government tried to enforce a major tax change (GST/PST to HST) that also caused the total sales tax on some items to increase. People were pretty angry about it, and in the end we had to pay the costs of switching from GST/PST to HST, and then again the costs to switch back to GST/PST.

Apparently if people vote "no" on the sales tax increase, they will be increasing property taxes instead:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/clark-w...

Voting no to "punish" the people putting it to a vote sounds like an incredibly ineffective way of protesting. Nobody would know it was a protest except you. If you live here, why don't you actually protest instead? You don't even need voting rights for that.

I'm still unsure whether to vote yes or no. I think we need the transit improvements and the money has to come from somewhere. OTOH property tax seems like it would be less regressive than sales tax, and I'm not in favor of regressive taxes in general. So if we're really voting on sales tax vs property tax, a "no" vote would make sense, except I feel like the property tax route would be more fraught with further political drama and other difficulties and we might not actually get the needed funding.
I had the pleasure to meet Banzi and be interviewed with him during last year's Maker Faire in Rome, he sounded really passionate and excited about the future of Arduino and I believe that while this is a problem, it's in no way holding them back. They recently joined the 3D printing world with Materia 101 and they're bound to release a new IDE soon-ish. Most people buying Arduinos in Italy usually have them imported from elsewhere; they also sponsor lots of events here in Rome, I have 4 boards and I got 3 of them through Maker Faire/hackathons, I imagine those profits go straight to Arduino (the legit one).

Wonder why they didn't register the arduino.org domain though...
We should put less focus on reusability, and pay more attention to labor (inspection and repair time) per launch. If you compare SpaceX and NASA under this paradigm, or by looking at launch cost per unit of mass, SpaceX has long since surpassed all other launch providers.

The shuttle had a number of issues, including design issues due to DoD requirements, engine pressure issues due to internal NASA priorities, and budget trade-offs due to Congressional directives. The most important lesson to take away from the shuttle is that returning the most costly components to earth does not necessarily translate into cost savings.
A computer model could crack the code to a Hawaiian butterfly's future security
This seems to me very implausible, because our panem et circenses are too good today. People will be too busy with their comfy couches and Netflix, their NFL, their darknet hashish, and their Instagram to revolt. Also, the system is tuned so that labor servility is high (by setting the price of housing and medicine such that the people must scramble all the time to meet basic expenses) so idleness and therefore active discontent is rare.
The only way you can do this is if the server is not fully under your control but partially controlled by the remote client.

We've been here before: this is Trusted Computing. You need a Trusted Platform Module on your servers (thankfully you're picking the hardware, so you can make that a hard requirement). Your users can inspect and sign your code with their keys, that they generate and keep on the client side (you never see them). Or more likely, they sign that they trust a particular third-party auditor. Either way, their data is uploaded encrypted with their keys and only code they have signed will ever be allowed to decrypt it.

It won't be easy. You'll have to keep old versions of your code around in case users haven't signed the new versions. The TPM-handling libraries are immature, though they get better every day. But it's possible, particularly since you only need to make it work with one particular model of TPM.

Good luck!
...more commonly referred to as protection or extortion rackets
I am not sure why the experience would be better. You always have the option of paying asking price to the traditional dealer.

For some reason people that don't like to negotiate don't want to pay sticker price either.
This only works assuming you can't hack the game itself, publicize the solution, or pay someone to do it for you.
>The safety concerns are that working as an Uber driver on domestic car insurance invalidates the insurance, so if they do hit anyone they won't be able to pay for the damage and injuries.

Fair point, I was more thinking about accidents and assaults, not the aftermath.

>which is why there have been no car accidents at all involving licensed drivers since the introduction of the system!

I'm not saying that an accident isn't possible, just that it isn't much more likely than if you'd drive yourself or use an ordinary taxi service, especially since an Uber driver would probably get kicked out of the system if he didn't drive safely.
This article is more about the man than about what he does. There are lots of people who try to stop diseases and epidemics. The difference is, its Bill Gates and its posted on a tech-heavy news site.
West Germany is still occupied by US troops. The 2+4 treaty is !NOT! a peace treaty. Russians just withdraw their troops from east Germany. Take a look in the 2+4 contract, neither US troops nor US atom rockets are allowed in east Germany.

Each Chancellor has to sign a paper called Kanzlerakte, that he agrees, to give up sovereignty at lot of cases, e.e. intelligence, military.
Just because a problem has been solved poorly in the past doesn't mean it can't be solved correctly in the future.
Last April there was an hackathon at my university and TinkerKit provided a bunch of kits; they said they could be bought through arduino.cc, so they probably just ditched the TinkerKit website to bring everything together ([The libraries are still on GitHub though](https://github.com/TinkerKit), at least there's that).
I thought of doing this with the last web app I was running, but I decided not to, and here's why:

1) Anyone, not just nice people, can view source code on GitHub

2) Source code can be used to find vulnerabilities (which is of course one of the great values of using open source code - vulnerabilities are usually spotted more quickly by a larger group)

3) A single vulnerability that allows access to private data OR can lead to corruption of loss of data could put your company out of business
My first guess would be some sort of chemical poisoning from the mine. Natural uranium is effectively inert in terms of radiation, but it is still a heavy metal and is pretty chemically toxic (in metallic form, I don't know how toxic the ore is). Or some leftover chemical from the mining. Or some gas leaking from underground. Or other radiation sources that are found near uranium (e.g. radon).

But the article says they tested all that. Weird weird weird.
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The RPi is based on a 32 bit processor and complex operating software. Great for things that need a web interface or have to interact with complex protocols. You wouldn't consider something like a RPi if you could get the reliability and ease of implementation of a simple program running on an 8 bit processor.
Best Security Practices for OpenSSH Server
Scientists Invent New Way to Control Light
Rails 4.2.1 and 4.1.10 have been released
There's scleroplasty, developed and only practiced in Russia and some other ex-USSR countries. Seems dangerous, but somewhat effective (if you trust Russian research results): http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v24/n7/full/eye2009322a.ht...
While you might be hiring, it was remarkably hard to find any details on job listings. (edit: I don't think I actually found any.) The closest I could find was by following many links and eventually getting a web form where I could give my contact info for joining the Digital Service.

Is there a chance you could put a more convenient link directly to your listing of jobs (or a friendly page that links directly to USAJOBS, or explains about that painful tar baby) at the bottom of the main 18F page?
Bait and Switch: A Third of All Seafood Is Mislabeled
Really neat project. One suggestion: Put bitrate and filesize information in search results so that the user can make a decision based on the quality of the file.
It's nothing like this.

One has a plain-as-day pricing table with a $100 / month plan and a big blue "Buy now" button. The other company's Pricing page has $100/month plan with "Buy now" button and additional text: "Call us if you want to pay less".
A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
Been using Meteor for 4 months, and I'm an junior ops guy turned developer. So if I say something that sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about, it's probably because I don't, so take it easy. Having said that, here's my two cents:
First and foremost, Meteor is a complete platform for building modern web applications. You get so much out-of-the box functionality that you'll be productive in no time. Also, you will find that your codebase is several times smaller than with other frameworks, because the isomorphic javascript saves you from needing to do a lot of boilerplate and configuration. You also have very convenient ways to organize code, whether through packages or in a /client or /server or /cordova folder, so you'll have an easier time managing your code. So a "big" application is smaller than it would be, and makes for more understandable code.

There are many, many examples of functionality that you get for "free" without further set-up, and in my experience it empowers you, the developer, to build richer, better applications.

I think that the fact that the platform is stable and past 1.0, and the package ecosystem at atmospherejs.com is vibrant and high-quality, the answer is yes you can absolutely build an application with a large code-base. (And, I might add, you may wonder why you ever did it another way.)
As for scaling, you're on a non-blocking node architecture, and so you're already doing pretty well. If you can't figure out how to scale it through the community, my understanding is that the folks at Meteor are working on a paid product that will make it dead-simple to scale to your heart's content. I am guessing that by the time you launch your Meteor-built product, there will be ample resources to hold your hand through it.
> That was their original plans for the shuttle.

While I agree with your point I don't think it's necessarily fair to compare a for-profit company to a government agency with no requirements to create a profit. A company should always be moving in the direction of the highest profits while a government agency seems to always head in the direction of higher bureaucracy.
The rocket is paid for with its primary mission. Elon has said that the fuel is a very small cost compared to the entire launch, so I would assume the cost to refly a "used" rocket is going to be orders of magnitude cheaper than the original flight.

I could see SpaceX segmenting their customers into two tiers: mission completion sensitive, and cost sensitive, with who gets which rockets straightforward.
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I have had success in raising rates, but you have to be prepared to walk away. I typically raised rates yearly, but also have raised rates after the end of the first contract.

Typically I do it over email, and say something like: "As of Jun 2015, I'm raising my rate to $XXX. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns." Typically I raised the rates $10/hr/year, but that depended on starting rate.

Note! You are more valuable to them after the first engagement because you are now a known quantity, so you should be paid more.

But, as stated above, you have to be willing to walk away if they can't or won't meet your new rate. I've lost clients as well.

EDIT: I've freelanced for about 8 years in total (two different time periods).
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At the beginning of civilization, the research budget for the invention of fire was zero, while the benefits of fire were incalculable. Compare this to the development costs of the next generation of Boeing aircraft relative to the small improvements in air travel. This dynamic has enormous implications for the presumed benefits of increases in government spending beyond some low base.

Over time and with increasing complexity, returns on investment in society begin to level off and turn negative. Once the easy irrigation projects are completed, society begins progressively larger projects covering longer conduits with progressively smaller amounts of water produced. Bureaucracies that started out as efficient organizers turn into inefficient obstacles to improvement more concerned with their own perpetuation than with service to society. Elites who manage the institutions of society slowly become more concerned with the their own share of a shrinking pie than with the welfare of society as a whole. The elite echelons of society go from leading to leeching. Elites behave like parasites on the host body of society and engage in what economists call "rent seeking," or the accumulation of wealth through nonproductive means--postmodern finance being one example.

Excerpt from: http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Crisis/dp/...
You did well at GS!

At one time I wrote Fisher Black
at GS and got a nice letter back
from him, I still have, saying
that he saw no opportunities for
applied math on Wall Street!

I didn't hear about James Simons
until much later.
and http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/29/antigua-legit...
I'll add my request here, please. http://scr.im/jfsq

Willing to entertain reasonable/specific requests to prove I am capable of civil, interesting conversation.
Here is a huge list of presumably legit distributors:

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Buy

For example: DigiKey has thousands of the Arduino Uno in stock.
How Steve Jobs Trained His Own Brain
Yes, yes, definitely agree they're not there yet, but when you look at space technology from the 60's to now, and how quickly SpaceX has moved from inception to first successful stage landing, it's extremely impressive.
Never mind the fact that it's just plain wrong to assume that "those bands NEVER used to get airplay". E.g. there are a number of significant artists on the label Drag City, such as Ty Segall and White, both of which get plenty of radio play, and most of the label's catalogue is not available to stream.
Check out Giorgia and Stefanie's excellent talks at Eyeo for more detail on their attitudes and ideas.

https://vimeo.com/70666303
https://vimeo.com/109954123

https://vimeo.com/46304381
https://vimeo.com/72246588
Ask HN: What framework for mobile webapp?
I'm about to create a simple webapp, probably SPA. I need fast loading pages, minimalist design, a nice router, smooth page transitions. In general terms I know the good and bad parts of all frameworks bellow and still I'm not convinced about what to use.

CSS Frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, Materialize, etc), other frameworks (Angular, React, Backbone, Ember, Polymer)

Can you help me decide?
Holy cow that's cheap. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the six that I just bought, but now they'll be accessible at a moment's notice when the inspiration strikes.
OK, thanks. Much clearer.
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> most ppl will never need more than 100k IOPs, let alone 500k+

These types of statements are always false. If there is anything the computing industry has taught us is that people always need more resources. Always.
There are still a lot of necessities that are taxed, like adult clothing, hygiene supplies, etc., and a lot of non-necessities that are exempted. Last I checked, a baggie of corner store candy is not exempt but a $5k wedding cake would be. A wardrobe of designer children's clothing is exempt, but work boots for an adult are not. So they have tried to make it less regressive, but that's hard to do with a sales tax.
I've played a few rounds of this and love it. As far as I've gotten, it's been refreshing to work on a machine where everything is "all there". Too often there are black boxes that contain too much magic, or just too many layers of abstraction to efficiently reason about something.
I would expect something like one of the advanced oil rigs that uses cables, ballast and computer systems to establish a stable platform at sea.
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