skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit slippery slope for my taste (2 does not necessarily lead to 3), but in this particular case, pretty much.

..Except I'd argue that the people champing at the bit to sue/ban/regulate Uber are doing so either out of annoyance (politicos annoyed that their regs are being flouted) or greed (competitors upset that they're being undercut), with the "safety" issue being nothing more than a convenient pretext.

They are not demonstrably less safe than the "regulated" livery services.
VR Pacman in the browser
Fixing the power supply would cost them a lot more in opportunity cost. Those must be extremely profitable!
It seems beautiful etc and fun to watch from time to time but what is the use of gyroscope ? What will it do for me ?
"I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. ...Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party," Emerson lamented in his eulogy of Thoreau.
I would have signed up via facebook, but then I noticed they wanted my friends list. Nope. Nope. Nope.
I agree with all your comments in this thread (edit: and the one below, thanks for the great response :) ), though I have to wonder if you're really that confident in the idea that the features are merely JPEG compression artifacts, or if you're just asking for evidence that's hard to obtain. (Context for this line of thinking: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ph/youre_entitled_to_arguments_but_...) You may have noticed the URL of the image is in a folder called "msl-raw-images", so even if they're JPEGs, as far as most people are concerned these are the 'raw' images. It's unclear to me how one would get rawer images without a Freedom of Information Request. Do you know a way?

Also, suppose he did come back with a rawer image that still showed the features. Is that going to convince you to say "oh wow maybe it was carved, it couldn't have naturally occurred!"? (http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/)
I don't think people imagine having better experiences with Uber than with taxis in some parts of the world. That doesn't mean that Uber provides a better service than all taxis everywhere.

San Francisco's dysfunctional taxi regulation doesn't extend past the cities borders, much less the US despite Uber's best efforts to make seem as if that were the case.
Master emacs & shell. You can achieve a high level of productivity if you can get into the flow. Of course, this requires more training and you will be slow initially, but over time, it helps.
Ancient invaders transformed Britain, but not its DNA
Yes. See http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I think silicon valley gets around this moral quandary by arguing for things like basic income, wherein the logic is that people should have an opportunity to fill their lives with interesting and fulfilling things that don't pay.

I'm personally vulnerable to this line of thinking, but I can definitely see that silicon valley is getting rich but expecting everyone else to chip in to solve the problem and advocating a solution that is a nonstarter in most circles.

I think that, at the very least, Piketty is right and we need a progressive tax on capital gains.
Ffmpeg vs. libav. Brief history and pros/cons
Ask HN: Deploying Jira Server for free or for under $10/month
I'm using Bitbucket to track issues on several projects as I need private repository access with a budget of "free" allocated to a service such as Github or Bitbucket. Unfortunately, Bitbucket's issue tracking is severely lacking in comparison to what you can do in Jira or Github with no plans to improve it.

I have a Jira server license, however, I'm looking for some guidance on where I can deploy it for free or on a DigitalOcean $5/month Droplet or something similar.

Please help!

Thanks!
5 Major Problems with Power to Choose – #4
Not all sharing-economy jobs are created equal; some platforms bring workers on as employees, with all that entails.
Since this is posted here is it a sign that HN is going to get some edge? It's probably too much to hope for... I'm sure we'll continue to be subject to the same wimpy upvoters/downvoters we've always been subject to...

This place could use some open criticism and degradation. Any criticism of ridiculous start-ups or bad science is criticized for not being open-minded, for ridiculing someone's life's work. Well, sometimes it's deserved.
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You still need to find a trustworthy 3rd party "mediator" or escrow agent, whom still holds the ability to collude with either seller or buyer for a share of the funds withheld.
I have an USB stick for every year. The USB stick has a metal surface and I write the name of the year on the stick.
Here’s what Tufte says:

> Can optical art effects ever produce a better graphic? Bertin exhorts: “It is the designer’s duty to make the most of this variation; to obtain the resonance [of moiré vibration] without provoking an uncomfortable sensation: to flirt with ambiguity without succumbing to it.” But can statistical graphics successfully “flirt with ambiguity”? It is a clever idea, but no good examples are to be found. The key difficulty remains: moiré vibration is an undisciplined ambiguity, with an illusive, eye-straining quality that contaminates the entire graphic. It has no place in data graphical design.
Working model? LOL.
Sometimes, rider comfort determines value. Such as on an airplane, where a couple inches can determine if your neck and back are screwed up for hours. Or on a bus in Dubai, where air conditioning may determine if you look like you just stepped out of a lake of perspiration.

In this case, the Leap is doing what someone else already alluded to: giving you a Lexus version of a bus. It's not like it's providing air conditioning where it didn't exist, or needed room where it didn't exist [in fact, it does the opposite].

Added value is when you get more for your money. Like when you get a free bag of peanuts with your ride, or your ride costs less, or introduces air conditioning. Adding luxury changes the value, but while also increasing the cost. And things introduced purely as a luxury tend to be pretentious.

As it's designed now, there are less seats, higher prices, and increases the amount of traffic on the roads. If this service became popular they'd either have to raise the price (ala Uber/Lyft surges) or increase the number of buses, which forces you to choose between increased cost or increased traffic, neither of which improves transportation.

I wasn't trying to suggest we shouldn't have luxury items. Just that when it comes to an alternative bus [transportation means], what we don't need is a luxury bus. We need a more efficient bus. Less seats, higher prices and a potential increase in traffic does not seem more efficient to me.

--

Let's be honest. This service is intended to cater to people who are "too classy" for the bus, but too cheap for an expensive car service. It's not getting them there faster, and definitely not cheaper, but it is giving them fancy drinks and a space to open up their laptops away from the poor, unwashed masses. It's the upper-middle-class bus service. "Tired of looking at poor people? Need a place to USB charge your phone? Like the idea of going to work in a mobile coffee shop? Try Leap!"

Now that's pretentious.
This is the actual explanation. With one caveat... slavery.

Basically, agriculture allowed people to specialize. This included specializing in killing. (Soldiers). You would use these specialists to conquer other lands. Which, in turn, provided slave labor to increase production in agriculture and other sectors. So the conquered females would be used as "rewards" for the conquerors. And the conquered males would be used to increase production across the conquering society via slave labor.

So the explanation is pretty simple. In fact, the 17 to 1 figure is so low that I question whether they aren't missing something ??? Societies that developed later generally required enormous amounts of slave labor. That, coupled with the fact that there would have been an enormous amount of killing involved in taking the slaves in the first place, makes me wonder how the numbers turned out so evenhanded? I would have expected it to be an order of magnitude higher. But they did the study and have the data... so life must not have been quite as brutal as I thought it was.

I suppose it is possible that life was brutal... and less desirable females simply may not have been taken? This happened a lot in our own history. Slave auction records show that some female slaves in America sold for as much as 100 times the rate of a "regular" female slave. (And even more in some private trades we have records for). We can speculate on why that may have been... but I think it's safe to assume that in a less sophisticated time they may have simply dispensed with females and males who were in some way undesirable, or were not likely to survive the journey back.
I very much doubt that. In large cities like Berlin or Hamburg they will but in larger cities you can usually just hail a taxi.
Varoufakis video sophisticated joke by german satirical magazin
Does this seem a bit overkill or a "just because we can" sort of thing? Noise-canceling microphones have been around for a long time, and they work surprisingly well.
Really? I'd be interested to know what sorts of issues you ran into. It's always been fairly trivial for me to make PKGBUILDs in Arch for projects that are built with Go.
The Night Battles
Progressive tax on capital gains (or, more simply, just taxing capital gains like regular income) and basic income aren't mutually exclusive alternatives. OTOH, not giving capital gains is currently highly-favorable treatment is at least as much of a "non-starter in most circles" as Basic Income, so its kind of odd to use the non-starter thing to criticize SV for supporting BI while pushing progressive tax on capital gains (unless, of course, you are referring to the progressive tax we already have on capital gains -- capital gains taxes now are progressive, not flat, just at lower levels than regular income taxes; but in that case, you aren't offering any solution at all, just the status quo.)
Not only are you correct, but you made me laugh like a lunatic in front of my co-workers. You've won twice today.
News as in Usenet.
Using drugs is victimless, but given that a lot of drug manufacture and cultivation is directly linked to organized crime, buying drugs is only victimless if you know for a fact that your drugs are ethically grown, fair trade, etc. Which you don't.
As DevOps Go from Niche to Mainstream, Will InfoSec Follow?
Of course he did consider color blindness.

Tufte recommends Imhof’s book Cartographic Relief Presentation on the subject of choosing colors for data graphics, and I’d second the recommendation.

Or for something online, take a look at Cynthia Brewer’s work.
I think it is an interesting perspective. What would you say the purpose of open source is? If not purpose, you can call it an attractive property.

Let say you have the sources of an algorithm implementation, but they are unreadable because the variables are not named, you don't know the name of the algorithm getting implemented and so on. Of course this is a lot harder to understand than code which cites its references (like papers and so). Wouldn't this qualify as being able to "see how the the software evolved"? Granted, VCS history is only a small part of this, but I think it may help cause it would show what improvements were done, which shows the direction of the project, showing what's important. A large part of being a good programmer is knowing what NOT to do. If you see what others failed to do, don't you think that helps?
Capturing the Night in Digital Photos, Spectacularly
I once searched for a catchy phrase to capture this. Something that could catch on even in a time where politician supposedly "fight unemployment". Something like "Systematic Annihilation of Unwanted Work".
You can simulate this in Battlefield 3 :D
> For machines to communicate over the web–essentially sending data from sensors back and forth from cloud-based servers—there needs to be a standard software protocol.

For IoT in general, there will be very fragmented protocols.

For _industrial_ use cases, the clear winner is IEC62541, aka OPC Unified Automation [1]. There is no real alternative, so that issue is basically already settled.
And from a technical point of view, its actually quite good.

[1] https://opcfoundation.org/about/opc-technologies/opc-ua/
By "your web developer's", I think you mean "your" :) Gyroscope was created by Anand Sharma, who did all the design AND front end development.

https://medium.com/gyroscope-innovations/introducing-gyrosco...
It doesn't have to be directly related. Maybe aliens nuked Mars when it was green, and then much later it lost its water and most of atmosphere. Also may it be that it won't happen if an advanced civilization still looked after their home world instead of being vaporized.
What's wrong with MSBuild/XBuild?

I just type "msbuild" (or press F5 in VS) and I get result .exe file in 0.2 second. On Linux I type "xbuild" and it's the same.
You can use Visual Studio without even knowing msbuild exists. Just occasionally a pre-build or post-build script needs to be added.

Makefiles, Gradle or CMake are much slower and very complicated.
I always thought bands make their money on tour. live shows & merch; and the label makes more money from CD & song sells. I guess there is a new type of indie. Those that don't go on tour much and want money?
I really like the design of this site!

Question: Moves (which I already use) tracks cycling and runs - why do I also need to link Runkeeper/Strava/Fitbit in addition? This appears to be redundant.

Other question: How do you get back into the "follow these steps" page once you've clicked away? The link on the front page has been replaced with a notification that i'll be emailed when my account is set up. (http://gyrosco.pe/setup/)
Startup Founders Can Finally Ride a Unicorn (Well, Sort Of)
Will no doubt help realize the synergies and strategic alignments that were previously synthesized by Nadella.
I notice all the answers so far are in the US. Any UK or Australia stories to keep my hope up?

Interesting to see 250k is a realistic salary for a developer as well. I never see any jobs anywhere near that in the UK or Australia - except maybe London as a contract developer in finance.
we have tested many systems and thought there would be no real solution. until we came across bitcodin.com
Either way, with linux I have to waste a lot of time to make it work, with windows, just works. At least this happens to me.
Help Fedora Find a Diversity Advisor
That's a fair point.

Thinking about limit-case scenarios, if the bottleneck lasted long enough, this could be a matter of 5% of the men having 1+epsilon male offspring and 95% having 1-epsilon male offspring. For even relatively modest values of epsilon that would give quite a large deviation in the population, given enough time.

The article suggests this went on for about 2000 years (8000-6000 BCE) which is 100 generations, so if epsilion was 0.05 then the favoured class would have fathered 99.5% of the male population at the end of that time (most of whom would have fallen into the unfavoured class over time, of course.) Because all women reproduced (more or less) I think they just fall out of the calculation.

So you are correct.

[Edit: the article actually suggests it was as much as 4000 years, so an even smaller disparity could work.]
This is one of the most interesting HN post+comments I've read yet, in part because it mixes technology with culture and history. It also takes advantage of the diverse HN community and their own native languages.

As an American (English speaker) who has studied French, Hebrew and Japanese, I can appreciate the complexity of input balanced against standards and the needs of programmers.

It's a fucking hard problem, but I don't think that blaming the unicode consortium is the right place to do so. They seem to be doing a reasonably good job in trying to get everything in, and really they need input from outsiders to do this well. It requires people with linguistic & technical backgrounds which is probably why random governments may have a harder time providing input.

Further from all the points people are making about uppercase/lowercase/hyphenation across languages, it sounds to me like there really needs to be a super-standarized open source implementation of the things you want to do with text, not just purely encode it. I don't think that exists, and it might be a good place for the unicode people to branch to.
No, for sure. I tried multiple times to like linux, but everytime makes me hate it. Yes, more than windows.
The Reason Why Internet Is Awesome
On the importance of junk drawers
Anyone know of an online reference with this sort of material? Not huge on book collecting these days, and freer is better.
I recently tried unsuccessfully to run the free confluence version on a free ubunty AWS EC2 instance...too little memory. Oh well.
Things that are _unreasonable_ to believe:

* That life in our galaxy is unique to our planet given our now solid knowledge that similar planet systems and planets of the correct size in habitable zones are beyond abundant

* That intelligent life, given the above, is also not unique to our planet

* That some intelligent life is not millions of years more advanced

* That there is nothing capable or motivated to wipe out entire planets for reasons to us which seem irrational and murderous

---

Lots of folks get confused between the increasing rationality of assuming life exists somewhere besides Earth and conspiracy nuts who think every unusual weather phenomenon and experimental aircraft is an alien.

---

The disconnect and irrationality comes from attributing non-Human sentience to unexplained phenomena.

If your foot hurts, it's pretty easy to go on WebMD and convince yourself that you have bone cancer. It's not irrational because it's impossible, but because your overactive imagination has chosen the most interesting solution over the most reasonable one.

---

Likewise your mind shouldn't be closed to the idea of something we observe in the next century being definitely attributable to extraterrestrial intelligence; but it will take some extraordinary exclusion of natural happenings to make it conclusive.
It's not just PR. Open sourcing brings real benefits—look at the development around LLVM.

Good tooling helps everyone.
Looks interesting. Seems like they're attempting to solve similar problems as Project Jupyter[1] & ScienceBox[2].

[1] http://jupyter.org/
[2] https://yhathq.com/products/sciencebox
Man arrested for filming Premier League matches with a drone
N choose k the Haskell way
Increased productivity over time hasn't correlated very well with the amount of free time people have, and there's always been room for tinkering. There were especially large amounts of free time pre-agriculture.

And I wouldn't put advances in medical drugs particularly high on the list of advances either. It's not even the top of the list of medical advances. Though I don't classify vaccines as drugs.
I may be old school, but a 3MB (mostly images) web page seems a bit over the top.
So silicon valley is bad _because_ they find more
efficient ways to do things? Should we also be upset with
anyone who sells a refrigerator, for making all those
poor iceblock-expeditions and milkmen obsolete? Does the
"\"sharing economy\"" (my quotes around their quotes, for
how much they quote that term) mean that by using our
cars, homes, tools, etc. more efficiently, and buying
less new stuff, we're actually saying "drop dead" to the
people who would have manufactured new things?

Soon we and our economics will have to confront the massive efficiency boost of our machinery that gives us sufficient production of goods and services for less hours of work.

We can let half the world starve, or we can educate and build for the future instead of the next big prophesied exit or fiscal quarter..
This behavior applied to train stations too: When a train entered the station in SimCity 2013, it would randomly decide to either continue forward or go backwards (it was strange to look at it -- it would "skip" the tracks and face itself in the opposite direction).

So even if you had a single long train track with no intersections, but multiple train stations, some train stations would receive more traffic than others.

It was incredibly dumb.
The girl represents MS being proud of itself for open sourcing something the two blokes consider irrelevant, as they head to the pub for a nice pint of Make.

That's my interpretation (and not my sentiment - I'd rather MS open-source tools like this than not).
I mean, it's not like people are forking gcc daily. Not all open source is valuable because of the forks.
So in that case what does Winter 2016 imply? Is it January 2016, or December 2016?
So, under your model, Terry's band gets $7. Total. It's not even worth bothering to get involved with spotify if you only get one single cheap lunch out of it.

As it currently stands, Terry's band also gets a small amount of money from people who aren't listening to it, which is something you didn't include in your argument. There's really not going to be much difference for the tiny artists, however you carve it up. $7 is 'effectively zero percent of Spotify's monthly revenue' as well.
If only it didn't require steam :(.
Looks interesting, but you need some sort of clear statement of the legal factors, both so people know where they stands and so that the SEC doesn't eat you for breakfast.
Rescuetime is free. They have a paid upgrade but you don't need it.

And you don't need to have all of the steps complete, just a majority of them. There isn't an exact threshold, we just want people to have a good experience and not start off by landing on a mostly empty page.
The summary of this, which was surprisingly difficult to distill, is that low light levels induces myopia.

Or more specifically, elevated light levels causes a dopamine release which prevents myopia.

Not sure why the article needed to spend the first 2000 words not just saying that.
Image you have an UI which talks to this. For example you have a button on/off. How would you do?

var t = texture().lines().stroke('red')
if(this.button.on) t= texture.heavier()

Compare the previous with this one.

var t = texture({lines: true, heavier: this.button.on, stroke: 'red'})

I also hate the non standard constructor: this should be like this

var texture = new Texture({lines: true, heavier: this.button.on, stroke: 'red'});
It depends on the structure of the deal, and varies. The larger worry for most employees would be liquidation preferences. The investors tend to protect themselves, and often times this requires a 2-3x return before an common stock sees any money.
Throwaway account.

Our start-up was acquired by famous bigco after 2 years. ~20 of us were in the company. Every single person is making >$500K, 16 of 20 are making >$1.5M, and 7 of 20 are making >$2M. The founders likely made much more.

Few things to note:
- The team didn't take big salary cuts to join the start-up - salaries were pretty much in line with large companies
- Most people were at start-up for less than 1 year when acquired
- Four years needed to get the full payout at bigco

Although salaries were fine, the employee equity made all the difference on a good->great outcome. The start-up was enterprise focused, and built innovative, new technology. The team worked really hard and was focused.

Pretty much beat all my university classmates on outcome including the ones that joined Google/Facebook/etc.
I guess my question should have been more clear. I am already using emacs and shell. But I feel there are still areas to improve. Alfred on OSX helped to avoid using the mouse in situations. I am looking for any other tools like that.
Journalists are paid by the word. There is no incentive for being brief (and not wasting the time of the reader)