skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool. Physics is about modeling. If you create a model, and it's consistent with the real world, then it's inscrutable. Cool.

The only time you can contradict a model in Physics, is if the model conflicts with something observable. Isn't that why we have so many coexisting cosmological theories?
Freaked out for a second there, because I thought that this was announcing that Hello.is pivoted before I got my Sense Sleep Monitor.
Self-congratulating masturbatory financial recursion. That's the phrase I use.
Education is almost 100% funded by property taxes and sales taxes. Property taxes are a tax on the value of the property, not on your income or your equity in the property, but based on the "fair market value" of the property. Sales tax is based on the value of the transaction.

Everyone lives somewhere, and somewhere basically always has a value attached to it. Maybe run down apartments aren't worth as much as fancy new ones, but property tax still has to be paid.

Even if you rent, you still pay property taxes. The owner of the apartment considers property taxes as a part of his/her expenses the same way a mortgage, insurance, maintenance, etc are expenses. Those expenses get rolled into the rent.

Sales taxes are largely regressive, because any money saved is by default not going to get any sales tax applied. And poor people spend a larger portion of their income on things which are taxed than wealthier people do; look at the whole "buying experiences" advice that well-to-do participate in. Those are generally arranged as "services" which aren't taxable, rather than products, which are.

Progressive taxes are generally based on income, not property value or transaction value. As a result, funding for education is currently borne fairly evenly amongst people who both have an address and buy things, no matter their income level.
True, but fault != fix, which is why we used to spend hours kerning type in illustrator or photoshop.
Judging by the DPR trial these guys are not generally criminal masterminds.
In astronomy, we have the Astrophysics Source Code Library[1] at least for the code part.

[1] http://ascl.net/
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I think you definitely hit the spot on what killed SimCity, but a 3D holographic city builder would probably be one of the best things ever. Combined with the street level view you can get in City: Skylines it'd actually be really really cool to see.
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AngularJS Providers under the hood
This is how a large chunk of music royalty distribution works. For example, fees collected from restaurants, shops and other public places basically ends up in a large bucket.

Later the funds are being distributed after "market share", which means most of it will be sent to Taylor Swift or the Michael Jackson estate, even if the restaurant played nothing but epic fusion mathcore.

I'm guessing that the "big five" asked for a model similar to this when Spotify started, because it was a model they understood.
well looks like these thiefs selling their bitcoins will push down the prices....almost 40 million dollars they've stolen, how the fuck do they expect to cash out without getting caught?
Demo page:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/nathanford/type.js/master/index.html
This Startup (YC S14) Is Designing Yeast to Make Brand-New Scents, Flavors
You really don't get it, do you?

Road traffic is dangerous. Not only for people sitting inside those cars, but also very much so for everyone else.

The pedestrian your cheap taxi without working brakes just ran over didn't choose your taxi.

You did. And you're proudly saying that you have assessed the risk and... are willing to let other people take it.
I think there certainly is a lower rate for radio -- I think Spotify gets Pandora-like rates for Spotify Radio, which I believe are lower than the rates they pay for their normal music streaming. I don't think there are different rates for free and paid streamers, though.
In the 80s there was a group of Russian girls (almost identical, sisters or cousins) that spoke to each other in a strange language. They didn't responded if someone spoke to them in English.

It turned out they spoke Russian, but the words and pronunciation young kids use at home is very different to what they teach as Russian in America from textbooks and language tapes. It took a native bilingual Russian speaking doctor to figure out that mystery.
Absolutely. And the pirated versions keeps getting updates just like a fully paid version of Windows.
Of course it's a feedback loop. But, just as truly, the design and incentive control we exercise over institutions is a "social technology" that can radically alter which way history goes. Society does decide what sorts of technologies it builds. That's why we're years behind on green energy, for instance: we could have been funding all research proposals regarding thorium reactors or, more speculatively, nuclear fusion decades ago. Society chose to stick with fossil fuels. Likewise, we could have built modern networked operating systems with capability security from the ground up -- but we chose, collectively, to stick with a weaker security model that bore more resemblance to what came before it.
it is nice to see that they post hash values of what was audited, but how do I prevent the steam client from automatically updating the mods I have to a newer non-audited version? how can you compute a checksum of the module before downloading it? it seems the steam client only allows you to 'subscribe' to a mod, not to download/check/install it
My question as well.

I like almost everything about AeroFS, except that the OS X client is (or seems to be) written in Java and doesn't feel native. It's kind of sluggish.
I have a hunch that this ancient way of warfare is still the optimal way to destroy a culture and achieve total victory. Not that it's acceptable in any way, but imagine if the US had done this in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is heart-wrenching to think about, but I think it would have worked.
Interesting article. One question that it missed is how Russia might use this leverage if they are planning on losing the American market for the RD-180? I can see them assuming that there is no long-term gain from keeping ULA and the US gov happy given current US-Russia relations and SpaceX's development schedule.
There are good text editors and IDEs for LISP-like languages that will help you matching braces. It stops being a problems very quickly. Also, like in other languages, you can make the structure of your code clear by indentation (good editors/IDEs will help you with that, too, of course).

Also, in C/C++/Java/C#/whatever code, you can run into the same kind of problem on a smaller scale when editing deeply nested blocks and expressions, especially when dealing with complex arithmetic/logic expressions.

(I basically only use Lisp when messing with Emacs, so I would not call myself a Lisp hacker, but when learning Lisp, the braces cease to be a problem after a month at most.)
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I contribute to OSS because I have no reasons not to, and often benefit:

I occasionally write stuff for my own use that might be of use to others. There's no downside to me if I release it, and the occasional upside.

Sometimes I need to apply a fix to some OSS project. Contributing helps me avoid having to maintain a fork.

Sometimes I write something at work that may be useful for others and convince my employers to let me open source it, and as a result I am also able to reuse the same software at home or in future jobs.

None of these have deprived me of income. Some of the work I was paid for. Some of it has indirectly led to income.

I find your expression of resentment curious. Their use of your software did not deprive you of anything other than in your own mind.
Personas: Finding imaginary friends for web designers
I'm going to ignore so many things in this post and just point out that there is not enough material in the asteroid belt to create another planet. All said, the asteroid belt is about 4.5% the mass of the moon, or a quarter of Pluto [0].

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+the+asteroid+be...
No, the male programmers back then were doing data entry too. It mainly has to do with the transition from punch cards to digital storage. A "programmer" was someone who entered a program or data into a computer. The definition of the role changed as computers did.
“There is no evidence Rolfing is effective for the treatment of any health condition”
Is Google working on a cure for cancer?
There is no one definition of feminism. Feminism is a "big tent" term. So generally, you can't sustain an argument that feminism doesn't say or do X, Y or Z, within a fairly broad scope.

That is my bigger problem with feminism: people with more reasonable views are providing cover for people with less reasonable views, since they all just call it "feminism."

For many feminists, feminism absolutely is about "overthrowing patriarchy," which in practice means taking retribution against all men---including all those men that are already at the bottom of the pyramid (like, say, the ones who serve as cannon fodder in wars). That is reprehensible. Those men need our help, not to be treated like crap even more.

The only kind of intellectual position that is a respectable one is an intellectual position that is well defined. "Big tent" terms and movements should be rejected. They always consist of better people providing cover for worse people. "Islam" is another example.
> trust designers to properly manually adjust the kerning themselves.

You've got it backwards. Never trust a font to provide your kerning, always adjust. Proper kerning is a fundamental tenant of good typography. Designers have always and will always manually adjust kerning.
Figshare[0] has already gotten quite a lot of traction in this space. Full disclosure was started by a friend, but people say very good things.

[0] https://figshare.com
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In your surfing example the surfer is at risk. That's not what we're discussing here.

You want other people to suffer a higher risk, just so you can save money.

And no matter how often you try to frame it as a matter of "I choose for myself", you're actually choosing for others.

That's highly illiberal and unfree, by the way.
Hmm, an Asymptote to SVG renderer would be pretty useful for displaying mathematical diagrams on the web.
I have no idea how you come to that conclusion.

Rigzone:

> Another finding from the studies was that most women will go into white-collar jobs, but there will also be a large number of energy jobs available in blue-collar areas. Several jobs, such as welding, fall into this category, and they offer good salaries, but women typically do not pursue jobs in this area. In part, this could be because there are comparatively few women currently in these areas, so it is difficult for other women to see themselves doing these jobs.
WIM

> Created in 2006, WIM (UK) now counts over 1,300 members, from all corners of mining-related businesses and professions.
sense.io gives...
a blank page
Efficient development workflow using Git submodules and Docker Compose
Same here, I love how relaxing and charming SimCity is. I think Simcity 2013 really nailed the charm (if nothing else). I don't know what the general opinion is on the cartoonish graphics and filters, but I really like them. I would often let the game run for hours just to watch, like a fish tank or something, because I think visually it is gorgeous and it looks so alive (and maybe because I felt I needed to get my money's worth somehow).

I'm very excited to play Skylines, the gameplay seems a million times better in every way. But the screenshots just aren't as satisfying to look at, and as silly as that may be, that's a big part of SimCity to me.
Yeah, I'd read that. So had she. This is why we were somewhat surprised, after the fact, that we went through with it anyway.

Cultural expectations can be a strong force, even if they were manufactured.
I work with wordpress a lot (not as a developer but user) so I am throwing in my 2 cents.

Wordpress is a very competitive domain where you are competing with many developers from all over the world (think elance, odesk etc). So you have to price yourself based on value and not just a number.

For example, if you say that you charge $50/hour, you can never compete with an ok developer from India/Eastern Europe charging 10-15/hour. So forget the hourly stuff.

Talk about the value of what you have done with wordpress. Do you write about it ? What problems did you solve and for what kind of clients ?

My advice: talk about the businesses and their problems you have solved using wordpress. You can always talk about how you used wordpress (customized a theme etc) but for what purpose is the key for clients.

Once you can talk like this, you can also charge based on value which means charge a fixed fee or daily rate etc. For example, lets say a client wants to build a custom plugin that you know you can do in 5 hours, why tell him/her that ? Figure out what value it adds to the client. Then price your work accordingly. Sure this does not always work the same way for all kinds of jobs but it can matter. Editing a theme's css is probably very simple for most wordpress devs but creating a custom plugin for a specific purpose may not be.
It's not the Martian archaeology parts, but rather the childish comparisons to Earth archaeology (a fine selection of the most common items in pseudo-archaeological literature) that really stand out as nonsense.
4 or 5 might be high, but it's still noticeable anecdotally (although more rigorous analysis would be interesting).

My ex-wife and I have no children, but her current fiancee has children with his ex-wife (who has no other children), and she and him plan to have children together. My dad has children with his ex-wife (who has no children with other men) and current wife, but my mom (his current wife) has no children with her ex-husband.

So in a very small anecdotal sample, men who have children may often have children with 2 (or more, presumably) women over a lifetime, even though at any given time, monogamy prevails.
Eunuch's and harems. The rich and powerful males kept all their local women in a harem and forced all the other competing males to become eunuchs. Not fun, but it fits with the Monty Python version of history.... ;)
That's an entirely different problem in itself.
Does your software vendor use a web framework?
In comparison to which other countries?
I'm assuming you're spending every cent of your income on charity for the neediest people on the planet seeing as you are so concerned about how other people choose to spend their money.
Maybe you linked to the wrong photo, but I'm not seeing what you're referring to.
When your poorly maintain cab plows into a pedestrian, crippling them, leaving them with medical bills (in some countries) and loss of earnings they're going to want to claim on the cabs insurance. But the cab doesn't have insurance because fuck regulation.
Dropbear is a lightweight replacement for OpenSSH. It runs on things like routers (openwrt) and certain android ROMs.
Is that true for tech start ups in the bay area? I'd be interested to know if the investors have different founder salary expectations for older founders.
With all due respect to David, it's just an experimental library, it's not a thing :)
The alien genocider theory doesn't pass the smell test.

Why have they not bothered to come get us yet? We have our own nukes. They waited a little too long, or so it would seem.

Now, if they wiped out Mars with a designer black hole, or something of that nature, I'd say that we're still not too big for our britches for them to come do the same... but if they're just lobbing atom bombs, then they're overdue.

It's almost certainly some sort of natural, random event. If not another Oklo, then something not so different from it.
This is nice gesture, but in my experience, especially for medium/large experiments, it almost definitely won't be applicable to analysis software, private datasets/raw data/metadata, and more specifically middleware. It doesn't really help with reproducible results in the cases which might be most interesting. For medium to big data experiments, most source code is often useless without the (often custom or proprietary) middleware used for processing the data. For very large experiments, there is likely no canonical dataset and all "datasets" are actually generated on-demand (at least those might be covered under this).

For software, and especially middleware, some universities will be very reluctant to give that up, especially because many times the majority of the software/middleware isn't actually funded through the NSF, but maybe through a computing division, foreign institution, or international collaboration, for example. At the very least, they'll likely want to assert a restrictive copyright on the license and likely even attempt to patent some of the methods (a la Google). Researchers themselves may be reluctant to give up code: Some (maybe most?) universities have profit sharing too.

At the very least, however, it is a policy researchers can point to.
He thinks it is cheap. He would be willing to pay around $80.
"So we're already charging $30 for $1 worth of parts. What else can we do to make even more money off the people gullible enough to buy this thing in the first place?"

"Make it run out after a fixed number of uses? They'll have to buy another one. We'll sell them on subscription."

"That's so stupid it's brilliant. Do it."
> That is my bigger problem with feminism: people with more reasonable views are providing cover for people with less reasonable views, since they all just call it "feminism."

That applies to pretty much everything -- from agile development to democracy -- not just feminism.

> For many feminists, feminism absolutely is about "overthrowing patriarchy," which in practice means taking retribution against all men

The support for the claim that this is particularly interpretation of "overthrowing patriarchy" is in fact the goal of "many feminists" is non-obvious. Please identify it.
Notepad++, granted they were called out on it hence the apology:

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/response-and-apology-4-sex...
Represent File Structure as YAML with Python
The so-called "civic duty to vote" is really a civic duty to support whatever is done by the representatives chosen by the plurality of voters. As a task supposedly necessary to maintain democratic society, it is lacking in any personal responsibility; and its practical consequence mostly consists in accepting whatever the people in power decide to do.
Pentagon on Path to Launch “Hacker-Proof” Boeing Drone by 2018
Blizzard has a huge fan base and have had much success with recent games like Hearthstone and the build up to Heroes of the Storm is also looking very promising. SC2 has stagnated and Diablo had missteps but they've made bold steps in trying to fix those problems. I don't think Activision's stewardship of Blizzard and EA are even in the same league. Blizzard has maintained a very unique and powerful brand with almost Nintendo level IP. There are a lot of characters from Blizzard games that are well known.

Also Blizzard's' international presence is very large.
You should email Razib Khan at UC Davis. He's been blogging about this stuff for years. And just earlier today, the NYT announced that he's been brought on as one of their new opinion writers.
Two things

1) To avoid confusing readers that don't know German or are used to umlauts: The correct transcription is base-vowel+e (i.e. ö turns to oe - the example given is therefor wrong. Probably just a typo, but still)

2) These transcriptions are lossy. If you see 'oe' in a word, you cannot (always) pronounce it as umlaut. The second e just might indicate that the o in oe is long.

3) ß is a character in the alphabet, as far as I'm aware and as far as the mighty Wikipedia is concerned, as I pointed out above. If you have better sources that claim something else, please share those (I .. am a native speaker, but no language expert. So I'm genuinely curious why you'd think that this letter isn't part of the alphabet).

Fun fact: I once had to revise all the documentation for a project, because the (huge, state-owned) Swiss customer refused perfectly valid German, stating "We don't have that letter here, we don't use it: Remove it".
Are you suggesting that YouTube correlates audio quality to video resolution? If so, do you know what the correlations are?
couldn't you do this with a premium account as well?... assuming you can make more than $9 a month from 24/7 listening
Easy ways to improve conversion with copy
It is like Windows 8.1 is both a service pack and new OS version. You can call it a service pack if you wish but Microsoft stopped using service packs with Windows 8 and made 8.1 instead which is a free upgrade for 8.
MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
For results in the $X00k range, I think it's easier to just pick more inevitable startups (relatively). I would also say that you should plan to stay through the vesting and event and to only work for market salary.

Picking at the Founder+epsilon stage is not easy -- if you are doing that, pick serial-winners.
>Complex accounting isn't a good reason to pay artists unfairly.

That wasn't ever mentioned or implied. The point was, the author doesn't understand how complex his simple solution is.
Yeah, I know that is what it is supposed to be for, it just seems to do the job a lot worse than in sim city.
Many times I will notice my pop +/- flip from a large + population to a large minus, which is the only indicator I get from the game that I am screwing up.
But you didn't start a discussion on your post! :-)
The Cities in Motion series (same developer) runs on Linux too, but those are more transit modeling than city building (but if you build roads, buildings will follow).
Its the same even today.
Apparently Evo admins stopped processing withdrawals a week ago. Vendors wouldn't be able to transfer money to a local wallet even if they wanted to. Disabling autowithdrawals should have been a sign of impending doom.

That said, some people probably just leave money in their accounts anyway due to convenience/laziness.
I don't think too much significance should be placed on the fact that it's coming "from Google".

As mentioned in the Readme, it's just code written by a couple of Googlers that happens to be owned by Google.

I think it will be interesting to see it get more fleshed out, though.
Now I want to do a comparative study between that and joke-induced ROFLing. Then, a follow-up study on the gluteal benefits of ROFLMAOing.
I'm not splitting hairs. You made work freely made available for others to use, they used it, this somehow exploited you.

> I did not want to contribute to OSS anymore because watching other people make money off of my unpaid work made me feel undervalued and resentful.

Again, what did you think was going to happen to work you freely made available for people to use as they saw fit. They used it as they saw fit.

You are complaining that people did what you expressly allowed them to do. It's probably best that you stopped contributing, you clearly didn't understand what you were doing.
How good or bad interface design affects user behavior
Ask HN: Haxe or Unity? Why?
as someone pointed out, Psiphon's license doesn't allow it.

https://bitbucket.org/psiphon/psiphon-circumvention-system/s...
Even something like a low-cost phone would fall under this. Unless you're making a simple control board for a physical process, OSH Park won't cut it. And of course RMS is talking about computing. Anything at the general computer level is probably not going to work out unless it's really tiny.