skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That means for every winner under a new scheme, there will be a loser.

No, that doesn't follow. Imagine one artist is receiving all the money, and the other 10,000 artists are receiving none. Spotify could move to another payment model that would result in 10,000 winners and one loser.
Wouldn't it be a fraction of a fraction of a cent for every subscriber going to the band?
Unless you clear your Facebook cookies each time you log out.
Msbuild is a fantastic system. But it's incredibly horribly documented so it's difficult to know how to use it correctly.
From an anti-materialistic point of view, huh? Hair is a cosmetic feature and, given the other problems in the situation, I feel like making sure you keep your hair is kind of silly.

From an economic point of view though, there's easy evidence that hair has a high value based off of how much people (especially women) put into it's maintenance, via luxury shampoo/conditions, haircuts, hair styling, etc. So it's not surprising that saving one's hair would be worth the $2,000 average cost, plus the labor of switching them.
> The whole point of open source is that you get to go back and see how the software evolved.

Its really not. Its a potential -- and perhaps significant -- side benefit of open source in some cases, but its certainly not the main motivation, much less the "whole point".
His point was exactly the opposite. More menial and jobs are being created by technology that concentrates money in the hands of a few people. The interesting and fulfilling middle-class jobs are the ones being squeezed.

Whether he's right or not, your point seems to miss the mark.
This is another argument in support of legalisation. The 'war on drugs' is lost, and can never be won. Far better drugs are legalised, can be produced safely and with known purities. Governments can tax their sale (as per alcohol), and direct some funds into treatment programs for addiction.
CA Legislation would apply trespass rules to drones in the air
> "That doesn't sound crazy to me, just human. Around here we've seen some IMHO irrationyal fears of super-human dangerous AIs circulating recently, and it seems to have led to a similar amount of metaphysical anxiety among some very brilliant and notable people in the CS field."

Reminds me a lot of Roko's Basilisk (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk) and the breakdowns that ensued amongst the LessWrong community.
Or the Scorpion and the Frog [1]

[1] http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandth...
I think it's related to both of those factors, but also the continued miniaturization of parts, and the shrinking of package sizes. Rework on modern day electronics is infeasible without somewhat expensive tools and a fair amount of skill.
I don't get the Clueless animated gif. What does that mean in this context?
Salary and benefits are an HR cost. As Project manager I don't care about that.

IT costs are booked to the project or if you are lucky to central licensing bucket which can aggregate users and obtain a discount. Either way that comes out of my project bucket which is already besieged by too many expenses.
But it was also a bit threatening to newbies, because he easily lost his control with them. I rarely dared to ask something.

It wasn't just newbies. He came across like a completely different person in email vs live and in person. I never once saw him lose his cool in front of someone. I saw it many, many times in public and private email.

As an aside, it's always strange to click on a link on some random site and see a photo I took.
Robotframework: Python vs. Java
Correct, VS commandline calls MSBuild. They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it.
In the version told in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Scorpion, the girl is a fox and the snake is a scorpion (hence the show's title)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708968/quotes?item=qt0492714
How to create an Economic Democracy
This is a new website and service aimed at democratically meta-crowdfunding startups and growing businesses. The original aim was to create a community that focused on micro-economies that traditional finance operations ignored. I thought that in all fairness, the system should also accommodate those businesses and startups that would choose to pursue growth funding through this new venue.

The system works by creating a crowdfund in advance of a product. People join the community by becoming a "micro-angel-investor," they purchase a share in the fund and may then be pitched as if they were an investor with many millions of dollars. All of the members of the fund vote on the pitch and the fund makes the investment based on a majority approval. While multiple shares may be purchased in the fund, membership only comes with 1 equal vote. The system allows for the increased valuation of shares and the eventual sale of shares as well to help add incentive to membership and profitability for all of our angels.

This is a social web experiment. There is a small service fee on top of fund shares to help pay for the exorbitant startup costs that will be levied if the idea proves viable. This will also pay for a market-rate salary for all the employees to help maintain it, once again, if the idea proves viable.

The experimental part of this is the potential for what the individual funds can become. If a fund reaches a certain level of membership and a certain level of money in the bank, it could become a major economic power. This is economic self-determination. The power that comes with being a major economic power isn't concentrated though, its diluted. Think of a board of directors with hundreds of thousands of members voting on the tough decisions.

Economic Democracy can truly be a beautiful thing in the imagination. The Grey Market Collective aims to make it happen.

http://greymarketcollective.com
In one model of escrow, the middleman receives both the goods and cash before distributing them to the other parties. Potentially doing some inspection of goods at the time too.

In another model, more common on the internet, the middleman holds the money from the buyer while the seller ships the goods to the seller. They can't guarantee the buyer does not lie to the middleman, but it changes the incentive structure around fraud. Especially so when the middleman runs or has connections to the marketplace.
Realistically do you think a lottery winner is comparable to a successful startup employee? Lottery winners are entirely random while startup successes comes after years of working in a structured business environment with a built in community of successful business people. A lottery winner could be a guy in small town Tennessee who got lucky while he worked at the local corner store and has a group of friends & family asking for his money. A startup success is one or two social ties away from Sequoia or Peter Thiel, has meaningful work experience and has a group of friends actively trying to make him more money. There's a huge difference.

And I honestly don't mean this to be dismissive of a "typical lottery winner." The social environment you live in is a huge deal. Being in the SV community is going to lead you down a path of investments that typical lottery winners don't have immediate access to. If you win the lottery and Warren Buffet is a family friend you're much more likely to do well than if you win the lottery and your mother was receiving food stamps when you were in elementary school. Business people will answer your email, almost anyone's email, I'm not a big deal by any stretch of the imagination but I've chatted with Gary V and exchanged emails with Paul Graham. If lightning struck and I had a suddenly had a bunch of money to invest I could ask for powerful, connected help and there's a good chance I would get it from someone because no one cares how you made the money in your bank account. But at the very least I know where to look for that help, random lottery player guy doesn't necessarily have that and that's just his environment not anything inherent about him. Startup employee who cashed out is probably a lot more like me than typical lottery winner.
Building using a keyboard shortcut from within an IDE is just one of the many tasks a build system is required for. Another is setting up a build server that builds the projects on every checkin, deploys it on the various test servers and runs all the test suites. That requires the build system to be scriptable, idempotent (as in weird stale cache issues won't screw up your builds) and easily controllable from the command line.

MSBuild completely sucks at these tasks when compared to any free software build system such as Ant, Automake, CMake, WAF or dozens others. It was designed to be used in conjuction with Visual Studio and you very much feel the limitations of it when you try to use it from the outside.
In small quantities.
No, the person who's harassing someone for being different isn't making a joke or a point. They're harassing someone for being different.

People who try to make others commit suicide don't have a valid point.
Probably a byproduct of generalized "increase sweat output b/c you might have to run / fight in the near future" response.
> the speculation that anomalous levels of radiation in parts of Mars is due to "big nasty genocidal intelligences," that sounds Dianetics-level bonkers to me.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0624
Internet trolls are the people who dox others and drive them to suicide.

We can achieve more without them than with them.
Polymer recycling codes for distributed manufacturing with 3-D printers
One of those two is my fork and yes I did it to fix something, but edandersen's point was more geared towards a real fork (i.e. something that takes the project into a different direction) instead of the fork that GitHub requires to send a PR.

I agree with him, we already have a bunch of popular .NET build tools other than MSBuild like FAKE, basing one off of MSBuild doesn't seem to add a lot of value imho.
OK, I've spent too much time on this.

First, sorry but no excuses for releasing questionable studies that will spread like wildfire due to confirmation bias. Just because something is 'girl positive' doesn't mean we should all abandon our critical thinking skills. It's a small fraction of these feminist studies that go viral that can withstand any amount of scrutiny which makes the movement look worse.

I figured out how to get Fortune 1000 companies arbitrarily far back, and the S&P500 back to 2005. But the information is under copyright. I spent a long time thinking about the implications of helping you subvert copyright and decided that it's not something I'm going to do even though I'd like to see the study done better.

If you want the 2014 Fortune 1000 with contacts (i.e. CEO names) it costs $1799 from Fortune, the historical data from 1996-2013 costs $399/yr though it's unclear if that includes CEO names. (http://www.fortunedatastore.com/) Fortune's contact for historical data is female, she may be sympathetic to your cause. The S&P500 data might cost another $5-10k.

Since what you're doing is commercial your company has a responsibility to go through the proper channels to get your data. Really, the project is being used for advertising and brand-recognition. I also think your company has a responsibility to make sure you have the data you need to do proper analysis when you're representing the company.

Honestly I can't believe a company focused on quantitative market analysis doesn't already have this data!

Once you have CEO names it should be fairly straightforward to assign gender.
The sound design in skylines is somehow 'jarring' but i really cant define exactly what causes it
And here i thought this would be something that benefits the general public by making cars actually more quiet. Instead it's just a noise filter for phone calls in cars.
> Broadcast news started out as an FCC mandate for licensing purpose, and a differentiator where more quality made a difference in the performance of the network.

Given the history of news, this is very doubtful, unless you define 'quality' as 'more entertaining'.
You can't be much of a citizen if you don't know what is going on.
Privacy > Cosmetics

If you lose all your hair, everyone knows you have cancer, whereas if you have your hair, you can choose who to disclose that information to. The proximal difference may be the unsolicited comments (most of them well-meaning, but still jarring), but there are probably more that I haven't thought of because I haven't walked a mile in their shoes.

Even so, I imagine it would easily be worth $2K to me to not have a glaring billboard that advertises my physical ailments publicly where ever I go. (I'm visualizing wearing a t-shirt that says "I have strep throat/whooping cough," but you know, more serious...)
Mad Science Modules (Node.js/iojs/npm)
The New York Times's smartwatch cancer article is bad and they should feel bad
3 Reasons Content Ideation Is Essential to Content Marketing
I think you just gave a perfect description of how bureaucratic details produce microoptimizations that, while beneficial to the individual decision-maker, are not optimal for the organization.
One question:

How do you plan to remote control a moving car with photons?

Edit: Huh, ok. I didn't know radio signals are also photons. Still, the speed of light is significant with sub-second decisions. So even for photon transmission remote control of a moving car in live traffic is not feasible.
Flagged for being transphobic.
Let's not just assume the parent of your comment thinks Facebook is untrustworthy; how about if someone (like me, for example) just doesn't have a Facebook account?
You forgot to include paying $0.99/song as a hard disk negative.

Two more possible trade-offs:

- Does the average person know how to transfer their music collection to a new computer?

- Paying for songs a la carte requires thinking about what to buy and deciding if it's worth your money. Streaming reduces that friction.

Having moved to streaming, I can't really imagine going back to storing songs. If I had a really great stereo or headphones, maybe then I'd reconsider. But streaming is just so much more convenient.
For sure. You seem to imply this would change the balance. But you don't know either.
Yes. That is the rationale, one more component for an open and cross-plat .NET ecosystem. Also, @migueldeicaza asked us for it, so Xamarin/Mono could use it. It was these two things, together.
Sounds to me like slavery. The women slaves had babies, the male slaves were workers and soldiers.

In a way, it sort of sounds like a eusocial sort of society, like a bee colony (but with the male female roles reversed). One reproducing male, many reproducing females, many non-reproducing males.
Seems there would be work for a clued up lawyer to advise early hires on their employment contracts. Do such people exist?
You need to trust either the buyer or the arbitrator actually. In this case some money might have been lost due to malicious buyers (and the absent arbitrator).
I never ever login or vote or whatever but I've been looking for something like this forever. I was thinking about doing this myself for such a long time. This is amazing.

+1 goodreads integration.
That's actually a great point.
I made the April Zero site by myself, but Gyroscope has been a massive undertaking with many people involved.

@ericflo built most of the backend and API powering this, and some of our other friends like @mirashii and @wingfield also helped build some of the features. Our investors have also been a huge help, from @semil getting us great deals on our hosting last week to @jyri helping us with legal issues and @hiten being a brilliant source of product inspiration. It's a team effort and everyone has contributed so much in the last 6 months.
I'm sorry.

"What a truly poor design". Perhaps awful was too mean.
yeah it's difficult to tell... the narrative from all the vcs is it's all about the team, pg even goes as far to say that if you choose good people even if they initially have a bad idea they'll pivot out of it... but given the high percentage of start-ups that fail would seem to suggest that a lot of 'teams aren't up to it' i.e. there is a lack of talent going into start-ups... if that's the case it doesn't seem unreasonable to think some of that talent might be in big lucrative jobs at established technology companies
Close on the Bayesianing: there's no threshold, so it isn't quite correct to say you'd need extremely good evidence to "begin to shift" your appraisal. But you'd need extremely good evidence to shift your threshold very much.

Bayes' rule tells us the plausibility [$] of a proposition after taking into account some evidence should be the prior plausibility times the probability of the evidence occurring if the proposition is true divided by the probability of the evidence regardless of whether or not the evidence is true, so vastly improbable occurrences that would be way more probable if the proposition was true count as very good evidence, but lots of things can shift our degree of belief a tiny little bit.

However, you are correct that the prior has such a minuscule prior plausibility that it'd take astonishing evidence that couldn't be explained otherwise to raise the posterior plausibility up to "worth taking very seriously" level.

Beyond that, there is the practical consideration that we impose a threshold on our beliefs for purely pragmatic reasons. Below some plausibility it just isn't worth our time to even consider the issue. So in that sense, you are Bayesianing with the best of them.

[$] I am a heterodox subjective Bayesian, in that I maintain a strict separation between "plausibility" and "probability". Plausibilities are degrees of belief by a knowing subject in a proposition, and as such are inherently subjective. Probabilities are measures of the likelihood of events, and by far the most common measure is the frequency. I take orthodox Bayesiansism to be in error by identifying plausibilities with probabilities, which is what creates the great subjective/objective quango. Bayes' rule on my view is Pl(H|E) = Pl(H)*Pr(E|H)/Pr(E) where Pr = probability and Pl = plausibility.
Google Goes After Facebook with a New Kind of Search
Send handwritten thank you cards to your SaaS customers.Integrated with Stripe
Sure, but what is the total market size of businesses versus individuals?
I also love the idea. The closest thing they have to programmer is web developer though, which is unfortunate.
I wrote an answer, but HN gobbled it up because it said I was posting too fast. I don't want to write it again. Sorry.
I wrote an answer, but HN gobbled it up because it said I was posting too fast. I don't want to write it again.
You ought to understand that what Russian officials are publicly saying and what they actually intend doing are quite different. Russian bureaucracy is every bit interested in supplying engines while they bring back significant cash. To stop doing that is directly hurting their abilities to enjoy life outside of Russia - which they aren't prepared to lose.
Thanks! There are so many more integrations we are excited to start using, can't get to them fast enough. PS: We're hiring :)
> but customers don't for the most part. It's a lot easier than trying to explain to them that there are two kinds of ounces

It's that kind of stuff that makes people think that jewelers and gold buyers are crooked. Some customers--perhaps only a minority--do know the difference, and they will become suspicious and tell others.

Whenever a professional of any kind (car mechanic, doctor, tax preparer, vet) tells me something that is contrary to a known basic fact, then alarm bells go off in my head. I start thinking that this guy is either incompetent or trying to cheat or trick me in some way, and I will tell friends to watch out. Fortunately it doesn't happen all the time. I generally trust doctors for example.

In one of your other comments, you said, There are a staggering number of honest jewelers and gold buyers out there. But stories about obviously crooked people are what makes everyone say "see, these guys are ALL crooks".

Maybe the jewelers and gold buyers--like used car salesmen--have gotten the reputation they deserve.
The productivity gains don't come from increased typing speed. They come from the ability to script and automate most, if not all, of the administration and setup tasks from the command line.

The first time a system is built will always take a significant amount of time. It's the ability to quickly and easily replicate the process that saves in the long run.

For example frameworks save on setup by providing a scaffold to build on. Package management systems (ex apt-get, npm, etc) save on the time required to build, update, manage dependencies. Provisioning (ex puppet, chef) save on setup and administration of full system builds. Containerization can be used to standardize development and production deployments.

If the processes can be scripted, versioned, and shared publicly via open source platforms and package registries then the initial setup can be reduced to nothing more than finding and gluing the right pieces together.

Windows is still years behind the curve on automation simply because the ecosystem still builds on the assumption that everything should be configurable via a GUI.

It's not so much, keyboard vs mouse as computer vs human. Automation will always produce the greatest gains in productivity and automation is best left to the command line.
Venues playing music to their customers have to pay public performance license fees as well, so that skews the popular music subsidies even more?
So, what do you want? Just RStudio?

Or do you want more utilities that work together and run locally? (i.e. repeatable workflows in project bundles of scripts + data + saved notebook logs etc).
I've heard those videos caused a lot of flack for the workers, due to the lack of safety equipment use.
Yeah, I prefer not to use the built in Visual Studio project templates. Best to always use bin deployed binaries explicitly installed from NuGet packages. In the future (later this year) we can also bin deploy the runtime (.NET Core) and base class library (Core FX).
Everybody knows where Lorca is, and he'll continue buried in a hole until digging up the corpses of the ones executed after the Civil War stops being a matter of pride for certain people.
I was thinking the same application from the title but had the opposite reaction. Why would anyone bother investing in making cars quieter when the ground swell all pushing towards electric?
Interesting, especially since the replacement for the WTC claims its height using a similar structure mounted on top.

The experts decided its the tallest building in the US based on that non-building "architectural element", which could later be extended to re-capture the "title", for whatever that's worth.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/12/world-t...
I don't think that follows. Also, it's not as though Netscape didn't have it's moments either. There was a time where it was better, a time where IE was better, a time where firefox was better, a time where chrome was better, and so on. Time marches on.
Any discussion of how to split revenues is pointless without data about what paying users listen to. Top 40 listeners may percentage-wise be a much lower paying audience. Lots of the top 40 is aimed at teen/youth users, who have lots of hardware given to them, but not lots of subscription revenue or credit cards necessarily.
It says there are 5 steps, with the first four steps containing free apps, and the 5th step containing an integration to RescueTime, which appears to cost money. I don't particularly want RescueTime. Am I just going to be on the "waiting list" forever, then?

Also, please provide a way to cancel the account. :)