skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love for a portion of my Spotify subscription to be discretionary, so I could proactively reward bands I love. In fact, I would gladly pay $2-5 extra a month for this feature.

Here's how it could work. Every month, I'd get an email with the top 20 artists I listened to that month (stats! fun!). By default, my contribution goes to my most listened artist. I don't need to do a thing.

If I want, I can manually go in and change the contribution to another artist – say I listened to the new Kanye album a ton, but would rather give my extra dollars to my second-most-listened, way-less-famous artist.

I believe a lot of people get real personal value out of supporting artists they believe in. Right now, the best way to do this is to go to shows and buy merch.

Optional donations as describe above are an opportunity for Spotify to increase the amount of money spent on music, while generating lots of goodwill from users and artists alike.
You could also think of this time like dimension as acceleration. When above the plane, the planet is accelerating, and it is decelerating when below the plane.
Wait, aren't they inviting competitors to... oh, right, patents.
If the design is suspect, so is the scan chain.
Agreed. I just meant, if you must.
On the other hand again, which is more likely, warlike beings that develop nuclear weapons visiting Mars to nuke it, or warlike beings that develop nuclear weapons visiting Mars to broadcast a reality TV show with no good long term plan for the contestants.
Yeah, putting a privacy policy into Markdown format and on Github would be a good opportunity to also collaborate on its machine-readable and graphical representation. @m0hit, @schimmy_changa -- would you be interested in including a P3P or some nutrition-label-schema representation of the Clever policy in a forked version of this repo?
http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

http://paulgraham.com/swan.html
Between the ages of 15 and 17 years old, I spent hours every night in a dark room in front of a (really bad) 14" CRT display.

I never had issues with my vision. Then I developed Myopia. I have always felt that it was related to my late night computing.
"Spotify Free, Unlimited, and Premium accounts are for personal, non-commercial use only."

I can't imagine it's being done illegally regularly. It would be way to easy to identify by stream behavior.
I think a better argument is that the SR guys were not above selling things like malware and (via The Armory) RPG launchers. The whole "victimless crimes" trope was pretty thin even at the start.
TS;DGP (too short; didn't get paid)
> I like the idea of giving macros type information so they can actually report usage errors in a decent way.

You might also find interesting the Scala macro system (http://scalamacros.org/documentation.html)
I would like to use it but not reveal who I am. I think this is more than fair enough reason, and probably the direction these guys should move towards.
I really though this would say: "Mitsubishi quits car noise by not selling cars anymore".
The Clojure source code for its data structures.
Absolutely nothing, it was as relevant as the pull request itself.
No, unfortunately. And I've told my parents for years to change that. They finally have now.

The reality is most people aren't security conscious until AFTER something bad happens, even if you warn them ahead of time. But this also seems to be human nature. Life is complicated enough that we try to balance things towards convenient until it's clear something has to change. This will happen with global warming, industrial foods, water policy, oil-based economies, all-your-life-online etc just like it has with lead, atomic/chemical weapons, and the lack of regulatory bodies.
Republicans Push Climate Change Cuts at CIA, Defense Department
Microsoft lets you upgrade to Windows 10 for free even if it's a pirated version
SAS is the huge incumbent, but open source tools like R and Spark and cloud-centric platforms are going to win, no question. We're already well into this transition and tools like Sense should accelerate it.
Yes, definitely it takes a big pair... I reckon the admins of these sites must be the same kind of people that don't really care stealing from anybody, even big banks.

What I don't understand is why after so many thefts the users (sellers and buyers) still trust this kind of underground services without demanding additional security measures like multi-signature wallets.
or just plug in (cheap) headphones, now spotify thinks you're listening, the music is actually playing and you can physically see why when you try to play something else it doesn't work. Everyone wins!
The interface looks nice. How do you get data into the platform? The field I work in (genomics) usually uses a bunch of flat text/binary files instead of databases. How would this platform interface with that kind of data?
Top result in Bing/Google is a pdf. Not sure if it's a pre-print edition, looks like a PhD thesis.
Although he can't figure out who it would be, especially in that city.

The police, btw, wouldn't do anything. We even have the person's IP address on Comcast, so it's easy for law to find out the address of the actual thief. They won't waste their time on mobile theft, despite the fact that he lives in a small rich town that doesn't really have any crime!
I got loads of time for that, but I've also suffered at the hands of MSBuild as have thousands of others so the PR seemed like a funny troll at the time.

Seriously - I remember at one client there was a specific machine set up to edit the build on because it was the only one that could open the workflow editor without crashing. Why there was a workflow editor to edit MSBuild stuff I don't know but that's that world in a nutshell.
So, a troll/idiot tried to be funny. Let's not reward him with any more attention?
Did you read the article on natural fission reactors? Completely? If not, do so. It answers your question. No enrichment was necessary at the time, natural quantities were sufficient.
If I recall fun trivia from my childhood correctly, slightly damp skin has better grip. Obviously drippy hands won't work, but it makes some sense in the context of cartoons showing the character spittin on their hands before putting their back into something (like an axe whose head inevitably flys off the handle (which was expected to have better grip now)).
google hype tactics : "This is just an experiment to test concept feasibility", "This is unfinished, please consider that.", "This isn't a product, it's an experiment.", "Oh, it's just a side project of some employees, ignore that google owns it."
Make Games on Your iPhone with Playr
So will cold caps stop male pattern baldness?!!? .... I'm asking because a friend wants to know, yup that's who .... and i'm sticking with it :P

Meh. a sister who is under 40 needs estrogen shots now, and I regularly use Rogaine -- the things we do to appear "normal".
A new HipChat
But wouldn't there be a write to flash after each attempt? This would mean that you just guess 9 times, cut power, then you can repeat the whole process again?

You don't even need a fancy machine to guess the most common pins if that's the case! Just let the battery run out and start again. Seems like a really poor setup if that's true.
Crusty old GNU Make can be made to be very fast, even for large projects. It does take a bit of doing, however.
Dev teams get's blamed, but others failed, now dev blame others – what worked
Data.gov Adds “Open With” Options for Plotly and CartoDB
When you phrase it this way, "using different code for the same characters" it sounds obvious, but the problem precisely is whether they are the same characters or not. Are they like sans serif (used in English) or Gothic (traditionally used in German), or are they like the Roman alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet, different but from the same root?

Gather 5 linguists, you won't get them to agree on that. Unicode says they're the same, but not everyone agrees with them, and the practical problems are real.
You saw this coming? Just how old are you?
Nvidia  Tweaks Pascal GPU for Deep Learning Push
Does it seem crazy to anyone else that a purely software noise reduction system is planned to be released in 3 years when it already seems to be working? Not like it is a safety critical system.
Because the difficulty of the calculation increases as more are mined, therefore to mine the remaining Bitcoins it will cost a ridiculously ludicrous amount of resources (i.e. electricity for the processing power). So: game-over for all the small players since a while back.

Further details in these articles:

http://www.coindesk.com/microscope-economic-environmental-co...

http://qz.com/316898/the-gold-rush-days-of-bitcoin-mining-ar...
First was meant to be: because there's real value in using the same language on the server and the client (if only for parts of the code), and on the client it has to be javascript.

(Also because certain libraries, in particular for async, simply don't exist for Java because the sync version is "good enough")
Exactly. Rob was just being an annoying prick.
I can add my anecdotal experience as well. On Windows XP, the default refresh rate for CRT monitors was set low, to avoid burning out those that couldn't handle more.

It took me two years to figure this out. My screen was a fuzzy mess for those two years. Had progressing myopia during that period.

Myopia stabilized after that.

Edit: Found the support doc for this. Ah, 60hz default.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/311403
In case anyone else is interested but didn't make it all the way through the comments on the blog page, a commenter notes that Miller Puckette of Max/PD music software fame was one of their coaches a year or two later.
Thanks for the comments! I'll check out "libhugetblfs".

On the CentOS 6.4 / Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1 kernel systems described in the paper, Transparent Huge Pages were enabled, and according to all my investigations, THP was working automatically and effectively as expected.

Specifically, correlating the "AnonHugePages" numbers between "/proc/meminfo" (system-wide) and "/proc/<PID>/smaps" (for the Aerospike database daemon), showed substantial amounts of the process VM was in huge pages, and the page table space ("VmPTE" in "/proc/<PID>/status") was not excessive.

Do you have a compelling use-case / metrics for manually controlling huge pages vs. simply relying on THP managed by the kernel?
The thing about "genocidal aliens" is... one has to assume such aliens have technology "beyond human knowledge" - since we know of no way to travel between stars. Yet the supposed methods that they used against the supposed Martian civilization seem crude and simplistic, something human beings could now if we put resources into the project.

Once one begins hypothesizing "things that can do anything in ways we don't understand for reasons we don't understand but occasionally do some things we do understand but again for no clear or unambiguous reason" then one's ability to use Occam's razor is gone.

Maybe a spaceship go marooned on Mars and exploded in the process of trying to fix it's warp drive. What are the odds? Clearly we don't know what the odds for any of this.

A simpler hypothesis is a supposed Martian civilization wiped out itself. No necessarily true or supported by much evidence but it seems at least sort-of testable since it doesn't assume variables beyond our conception of what's possible. Human civilization has been poised on the brink of large-scale nuclear in the not-too-distant past so intelligence creating world-destroying-nukes hardly seems like that big a stretch.
I disagree 100%.

Prepend and append are very different. And you do need to know, because for many scala collections one is O(N) and the other is O(1) [1], plus the importance of knowing order.

The difference between x :: y and x ::: y could mean List(List(1), 2, 3) versus List(1, 2, 3).

[1] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/performance...
Do you run VS on your production servers?

Why would I have any build system installed on a production server?
I haven't read everything on LessWrong, nor do I have time to keep up on the meta-discussion of Eliezer's neologism habits, but I can say that I've never thought that he invented any of the concepts that I learned through HPMOR or the sequences that I have read.

On the contrary, he seems very intent on citing the very books and people from which he learned these things. At least in my more limited experience. You definitely seem to have studied up on the issue much more than I.
As someone whose myopia gets worse every few years, I feel any concrete research into myopia is a bonus.
You can upload small to medium files directly into your project, which lives on a distributed filesystem. For larger data, we typically recommend pulling data directly from S3 or production databases.
Probably they're already doing it. I was wondering why the plunge in price during the last 24h, and then I found this thread. We were in our slow-but-steady way to recovery and bam! now back to downtrend. Always the same history. Shit happens...
I'm totally behind the JPEG artifact theory and am definitely not making that point just so I can ask for unobtainable evidence. It is, in my opinion, blindingly obvious upon zooming in on the original JPEG.

For anyone not versed in this stuff, JPEG works by breaking the image up into 8x8 squares (possibly 16x16, or 8x16, or 16x8, but 8x8 is standard). For each square, the encoder then transforms the pixel data into the frequency domain using the discrete cosine transform. The frequency data is then what is ultimately losslessly compressed and encoded in the actual JPEG data.

Now, here's a zoomed-in screenshot of the rock in question, taken from the original JPEG with no alterations whatsoever:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_F574A0FB-5919-4E2C-AEA3-C3...

The 8x8 grid stands out like a sore thumb at this zoom level. You can clearly see that the vertical separation of the "teeth" are just macroblock boundaries. There is clearly an actual horizontal dark streak in there, but the division of the areas above and below into separate vertical "teeth" is, to me, blindingly obviously a JPEG encoding artifact and nothing more.

Would I be convinced if the raw images showed these features as well? Probably not. But that doesn't invalidate my point. If somebody showed a picture of Bigfoot, and I noticed that their supposed Bigfoot is wearing a digital watch, it would be perfectly reasonable to point that out. Explaining away the watch would not silence my doubts, but it's still a completely reasonable thing to point out when someone shows a picture of Bigfoot and he's wearing a digital watch.

Do I know how to obtain a raw image? Nope. I wish I did. I briefly searched around for one, but with no success. My point is simply that JPEG images cannot be relied upon for fine detail, and if one is going to make claims about Mars rovers finding alien statues, the evidence needs to be clearly not due to JPEG artifacts, preferably by finding the original, uncompressed data. Scientists don't use JPEG-compressed photos for analysis, and this is why. The fact that a raw image is difficult to obtain is unfortunate, but completely not my fault, and doesn't alter the facts that 1) you really need a raw image to say anything about this photo and 2) the "teeth" in this photo are really, really, really clearly JPEG macroblocks.
There's criticism and then there's "criticism." I see plenty of criticism of ridiculous startups and bad science and bad articles here so I don't know what you're getting at. See for example the recent Bengali unicode thread. But usually if a thing has obvious criticisms then there's no point in people stomping on that, it's just dumb and obvious and nobody cares to read the unneedful.
Is this actually true? It's pretty hard to believe, I honestly feel like you pulled it out of your ass, but it's also possible I'm totally out of touch.

This article is a "feature" (not entirely sure what that implies) in a scientific journal (targeted towards a relatively general audience, compared to other scientific journals). Is this particular publication, or this type of publication, known to pay by the word?

Which other publications pay by the word?

Is it more common in some areas of publication than others?

How could such an incentive-perverting mechanism not have died off by now?

Do any companies still pay/evaluate their developers by lines of code written?
Generally true, but the problem here is not an issue of bandwidth or racism. Unicode can represent this character, but does so with two codepoints, a technical decision the author doesn't feel is useful. He blames this on the dominance of white people in the work (a questionable assumption, given he didn't link to the extensive list of international liaisons and international standards bodies). The participants in Unicode, including a native Bengali speaker who responded above, considered the argument presented but chose a different path to be consistent with how other characters are treated. The author needs to more carefully distinguish the codepoint, input, and rendering issues raised in his argument.
I know what you mean; after all, I don't consume the mainstream news, besides occasionally Democracy Now, which I mostly value for the interviews.
I love how this is the only thing that people seemed to comment on. And I appreciate everyone's suggestion of unifying function calls being a good thing plus other aesthetics.

But does that mean everyone agrees with the rest?
The real issue is simply that anything other than Top 40 isn't relevant to the public at large (power law). I don't really know how you correct that.

Even if the indie artists created their own service, several orders of magnitude less people would listen to it.

> My gut is that very few artists are getting "screwed"

Huh? How does that follow?

My gut is that a LOT of artists are getting screwed for exactly the reasons mentioned in the article.

This payment scheme isn't an accident. It favors the big, popular copyright holders to keep them off of Spotfy's back.

Of course, those big copyrights are also who bring in the majority of revenue for Spotify.
I'm like 4 paragraphs into that Pharyngula post, and they have him arguing that the "face" on Cydonia is evidence of a civilization that lived on Mars before being nuked off the planet. Like: that's actually part of his argument.
After Banning VPN, UAE Blocks Free WhatsApp Voice Call Feature
Well at least the title here on HN doesn't mention Google.
>The Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments, The Congressional Budget Office

>According to available estimates, there are about 12 million unauthorized immigrants
in the United States. Federal, state, and local governments spend public funds that benefit
those immigrants, and those immigrants pay individual income, sales, and property taxes.
Most available studies conclude that the unauthorized population pays less in state and local
taxes than it costs state and local governments to provide services to that population. However,
those estimates have significant limitations; they are not a suitable basis for developing an
aggregate national effect across all states.
For a large display (iMac), it's glorious, but agreed, on a MacBook Air (let alone an iPhone), it's overkill.

There should be a way to determine the resolution of a target device, and just send the appropriately sized images.
Judicial Committee Gives FBI First OK to Hack Any Computer on the Planet
The trick is to ask for a tablet SIM or mobile internet SIM for a laptop. Don't say it's for your phone.
How Suge Knight Is Responsible for the Wage Gap:On Race, Gender and Technology
I hope this leads to an actual cure for myopia instead of burning off your cornea to compensate.
As a side note, there is infact a "commercial"-version of Spotify[0], even though i'm not sure whether its available outside of Sweden yet.

[0]https://www.soundtrackyourbrand.com/
I agree. Even if 100% of commercial properties that play music was using Spotify behind the scenes 24/7 that's still got to be only a small percentage of total Spotify plays.
You're totally right, they're not mutually exclusive, and I am personally a fan of both. I can just see it as not necessarily a pragmatic approach.

I would simply envisage less popular resistance to a real progressive tax on capital gains than to a basic income (see: welfare fraud), but maybe I'm wrong.

I don't have a particularly great solution to our problem, but I do think there are meaningful steps we can take between an ideal world and the real one that are better than nothing. Silicon valley should surely start paying people closer to the value they provide.
Jees, what is your issue seriously?

It's all just a bit of fun; there is no need to get directly insulting over it.
It seems to me like plain regression effect. Also your argument makes no sense because most or virtually all of those people had all that standard math curriculum too. You'll find that "is a professor" is very well correlated with "wants to be a professor" among that set.

Edit: Pascal's triangle??? Sorry but if you give some mopper Pascal's triangle they'll have already heard about it or invented it themself.
It should be illegal to be this good at design. The site is responsive, is HDPI optimized, and is damn beautiful. I'm envious. :)
Is it not the kind of stunt that the DMCA (and similarly inspired legislations elsewhere) is supposed to render illegal?
By that logic, there's a good chance you're a perpetrator of slavery due to the labor that put your computer and/or its constituent parts together...
My biggest problem with Syncthing is that I don't just want sync, I want a kind of backup built in as well, which Syncthing doesn't do (no support for cloud storage or zero knowledge storage hosts).

At the moment I'm paying for SpiderOak, which does this but another open source alternative that's getting there is Syncany[0], which supports a variety of cloud providers through plugins, versions all files and encrypts data.

There's also git-annex but its plugins aren't always high quality and usability is... Challenging.

[0] https://www.syncany.org/
Sure, this is completely within the context of this discussion. I'm not saying that Uber is bad, what I'm saying is that a bad actor will eventually crop up, which leads to regulation.
Indeed. It's never a statue of a fish, or a turtle, or a bird. It's always a face.
Tracking Users Selection of Web Elements in Qt
Rather than guess what the number of plays is, I think what's more valuable is to see what the break even point is.

Assuming 12 songs on a CD, and that each CD costs $2 to print, distribute, and account for merchant margins, that gives us effectively $0.66666 per song. At the rate of $0.00786 per play on spotify, you'd have to play each song on your physical CD 84 times (or 1018 plays across varied tracks) before it produced less revenue for the artist than a play on spotify.

I'm guestimating here, but I'd say that in general artists/record companies benefit more from CD sales based on those numbers.
Technically, there was a walker that went from the place of employment searching for an occupied dwelling to source employees from. But you are correct that there weren't agents that tracked where each individual citizen was at any given moment.

Tropico, on the other hand, does have every employee individually modeled.

And I believe Children of the Nile, which is something of a spiritual sequel to Pharaoh, also tracked individual citizens as agents.