skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty neat, just made a small donation. I think it would be cool to see real-time statistics and various metrics. Like how much has been given (regularly updating). What goals there are to reach people in certain priority levels, like 45% complete on P1 which is customer's water is scheduled for turn-off within the month. Show what numbers of monthly commitments would be needed. Etc. Donors could then better see the impact they are making. I think this is a big advantage to Watsi where you can see the person and their story. That may not be as simple for this project, but even aggregate metrics that show progress I think would be a huge incentive.
The OP's idea does make some sense but so does Spotify's current scheme. The one area where there should absolutely be differentiated pricing is "radio-style" listens vs on demand listens (which should generate much more revenue for artist).
hmm on second read, I think I meant polish (as in fingernail paint) and not varnish (for wood treatment). Does it also use alcohol? My mother used acetone to remove nail polish from her fingernails from what I remember, that is why I was shocked to see a baby wipe do the same thing.
There may be an upside to this. It could mean that sexual selection will evolve them based on traits other than physical appearance.
Lucky for you that you can show your work to people outside of your company, right?

> Also the author says she knows "many" women who have had trouble contributing to OSS based on how they were treated. GitHub should make it easy to provide examples of this right?

Now you're being deliberately obtuse. Not everyone uses github, and not all communication happens through github.
The strategy being looking for pre-IPO companies that plan to IPO within 1 to 2 years. Targeting these types of companies allows you to get market compensation with quite reasonable upside potential and seems a lot better risk/reward profile than joining a "real" startup.
To tangentially answer your question (with only little relation to the rest of the thread), we're getting old much the way Japan does, and we're doing very little to help it. The average German is 45, ageing to 50 in the next 15 years. This has direct consequences on the political discourse, choosing a status quo mentality over the innovative stance we used to have.
It's a compelling argument for stronger "viral" licenses, for sure.
If someone has read the actual report, what is the plan for data? Neither the linked press release nor the homepage of the plan[1] say that data will be shared; they only mention papers.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/
Erik Naggum, RIP (2009)
A few years ago I spilled water on my dell inspiron and wouldn't turn on. I took it to the local dell distributor and they replaced the motherboard no questions asked.
Improving Go's 'container/list'
>While other sites followed the original Silk Road’s ethos of selling only victimless contraband

While human sacrifices may not be a literal ingredient of drugs, calling it victimless ignores a whole lot of problems caused by drugs. Buying pot from your friend who grows it is victimless. But fueling any black market, even one that avoids identity theft, means you are supporting the marketplace that provides service to drug traffickers of the sort that kill people or that delivers highly addictive drugs that ruin far more than just their user's own life. Yes, bad government laws have made these problems much worse and are preventing truly safe victimless market places that uses locally grown and produced drugs sold in moderation, but the black market is not victimless.
Not every collection of 1000 correctly hashed parts will make a correctly hashed whole, but there are an awful lot of different collections of parts that will hash correctly (2^24909824 permutations of them) and of those, one in 2^256 will also match the full-file hash.
>The proposed rule would just create a tiny group which gets quite a lot more revenue than the rest, at the cost of slightly impoverishing every member of the remaining group, who then gets a slightly smaller fraction of a cent.

Nope, this rule would do the opposite. Currently, only a very small fraction are getting any "real" money at all. This would cut out some chunk of their revenue and distribute it slightly more evenly across all the artists. This is a more "fair for everyone" approach, in the sense that socialism is more "fair for everyone".

(Personally I like the idea a lot, but it sucks for the artists currently making a killing on Spotify. Perhaps for big labels as well, though since they have a ton of small artists typically it might be near neutral for them)
She was already on board with the "no blood diamonds" angle. We ended up with a "Hearts on Fire"[1] diamond, which claimed at least to have a paper trail proving that it did not come from a war zone.

It also had the advantage of a shallower cut that made it look larger than a normal cut on a stone of that carat weight, which also reduced the total cost.

I do like your idea, though. It's a bit late to be useful for me, though. ;)

[1] http://www.heartsonfire.com/
It requires VirtualBox, VMWare, EC2, or similar—in other words, you can't just install this on your DigitalOcean droplet, or your Vultr cloud server.
Who do you think is your biggest competitor right now? Do you think that you'll be fighting with Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning offering for the same audience ? How do the two platform compare?
Evolution did use escrow, except that they were the middle man between buyer and seller. Even with escrow you still have to put your trust in someone else.
The idea that nuclear weapons are what sterilized Mars is insane.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought it was because Mars' core cooled, which caused its magnetic field to go away, resulting in all its water floating off into space. No water = sterile planet. You could shoot every nuclear weapon in the world at the Earth and life would still easily carry on (maybe not multicellular, but life nonetheless), but take all the water away...
cropped with contrast added: http://postimg.org/image/n0nci70xp/
Another thing to note (although it represents a pretty useless edge case) is that given a user who spends $10 a month on Premium if they were to listen to 1400 songs in a single month (10/(.005/.7)) bands who he is the only person who listens to and he only listens to once would receive nothing, due to accounting (and the ieee) using round to even, and 0 being the closest even penny.

I realize this the amount they are paying now per song is not too far above the $0.005 amount which rounds to 0, and therefore given changes in the market could potentially drop to an amount which would round to 0 for single play also. I also get that a single penny isn't what anyone is going to be upset about. Also that few artists will have a single play. I just find the low number of plays (1400 in a month isn't really that many) required by a person for an artist to potentially not get paid interesting.
>> 99% of artists would prefer this model, even if it meant more complex accounting.
> What are you basing that on?

Simple, artists who are paid penauts would prefer getting paid more. We just released an album but we are not putting it on Spotify. Why bother.
Things used to be much better. Nearly all early computers included complete schematics. My first education about computer hardware came from studying the schematics of the Apple II.
this: http://postimg.org/image/n0nci70xp/
> As a father of 1, I must agree to this

Yep, and people who are disabled (or act as a caretaker) are in a similar boat.

Ironically, you are probably a better bet for a lot of employers than that average young single male because you value stability. You're not gonna jump ship because you want a foosball table or expect to have lunch catered every day.
That is a very fancy website. I envy your web developer's front end skills.
The impeachment has legal basis on administrative improbity. This is what the law says:

"Acts of the President against the Constitution, and, especially, against the guard and legal use of public money".

The definition of "against the guard and legal use of public money" is given as, among other things,

"neglect the collection of rents, taxes and fees, as well as the conservation of national patrimony."

Futhermore:

"Are crimes of liability against the probity of administration: (...) Not make effective the responsibility of his subordinates, considered manifested in functional offenses or the practice of acts contrary to the Constitution."

and

"Constitutes an act of improper conduct which infringes upon the principles of government action or omission that violates the duties of honesty, impartiality, legality and loyalty to the institutions"

I'm not sure what you mean with your fire alarm allegory, but I suppose you're trying to say that all the investigations are only happening because the government (and the President in particular) let them happen. This is false. The Federal Police and the Public Attorney's Office are independent of the government and do not require it to allow any kind of investigation.

Edit: by the way, weather the impeachment is legal or not is irrelevant to the point of weather the protesters are representative of Brazil's population (they are). You seemed to imply that somehow due to who organized part of the protests, they are not, but then nothing in your latest reply addresses that.
Youtube does indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_formats (click the "show")
I think "Dianetics-level bonkers" might be overly harsh.

If one believes the radiation anomalies are from nuclear explosions, it seems at least remotely plausible that they came from off-planet (because who would do that to their own?). At that pointpoint it's not entirely lunacy to consider the existence of genocidal aliens.

None of that means that any of those are true, but each seems to be an explanation that might occur to any normal person who accepts the preceding points. The idea of genocidal aliens has been part of our cultural zeitgeist for some time -- isn't that the premise of Mass Effect?
I've got a few older Dell switches that still work wonderfully, but only connect via ssh1, not ssh2. They're still useful, and setting up a management vlan isn't that hard, so replacing them is a proposition that's much more expensive than it's worth.
No no no, that's bullshit. A properly designed font isn't just the outlines, it's the outlines + spacing. Type designers spend almost as many hours perfecting the built in kerning as they do creating the outlines themselves, because the space is integral to the font as a whole.

Yes there are times, especially with display type, that you want to adjust the kerning between a few pairs of glyphs, but to say to "never trust a font to provide your kerning" suggests to me that you use a lot of poorly designed free fonts rather than professionally realized typefaces from reputable font foundries.

I would love it if the browsers would all support the built in kerning in a font by default, with a way to override it manually.
> 99% of artists would prefer this model

I mean that objectively, based on how much money they would make.

99% of artists would make more money in this model.

And, again, cumbersome accounting is a bad excuse for unfair pay.
We'd actually love to support DigitalOcean. I think I've reached out to them in the past and haven't gotten a response. So, if someone is reading there, send us a bump! I'm at yuri@aerofs.com
Q: "What does it do?"
A: "This is what it looks like!"

-_-
yes it does, if you use a video extractor, and look at the different settings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PDXmYoF5U

.mp4 in 720p:

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 192.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 24000->352800)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=192000

.mp4 in 360p:

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 96.0 kbit/3.40% (ratio: 12001->352800)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=96008

(compared using : mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify videofile.mp4

http://superuser.com/questions/595177/how-to-retrieve-video-... )
I have a problem with this and question YC for taking on The Detroit Water Project. I'm truly not trying to be difficult but I do not see the full context of the situation here or in the TC article. I'm a native Detroiter (not the suburbs and live in the city now) and know that this problem is not as severe as often publicized.

There are programs already in place for people who are struggling to pay their water bills by the city, county, and state to avoid shut off regardless of their economic status. Why not focus your efforts on getting people enrolled in those programs; which would ensure they're doing everything within their power to keep water on.

As indicated by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, in the news, talking circles, and community events, there are some that simply choose not to pay their bill over others (i.e. phone, cable, etc...). What is the need to pay your bill if others will do it for you? The city has made a ton of bad decisions but this is not one of them.
there already is one at http://nomadler.com/feed.xml

you should look at your telescope packages. also, what kind of box are you hosting it on? hows the performance?
If it succeeds, Apple could become the biggest gateway to online video — the new Comcast for the Internet.

Um, unless Apple has some means to cancel and overtake thousands of municipal cable franchise agreements and string millions of miles of coax, Comcast will still be the gateway to <x>. Comcast will always be the internet, unless they're broken up by the feds.
DevOps goes corporate
It's a zero sum game. Spotify isn't going to pay any more in total, no matter how the rules change. That means for every winner under a new scheme, there will be a loser. If those losers are the popular artists that the service can't exist without, you have a non-starter.
This is pretty much how Isis conducts their warfare.
Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com Over Abu Ghraib Photos
> With no chat logs, all we go by is this guy's word?

You mean, besides the market & forum being down since 8PM yesterday, withdrawals failing since at least Saturday, no communication from the operators, at least one other employee saying it's an exit scam, and blockchain movements of large amounts of funds?

> What are the odds he was in on the heist?

We can't rule out a scenario like NSWGreat expected to receive a cut, but it's clear that when he went public, he helped some people save money by not continuing to deposit funds.
If you click on the link VIP and sign up for an account, the standard edition is $21.89
Is it Woo Wednesday on Hacker News?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_memory

Come on.
"grifted grads" - Freudian slip?
I can't create an account because it uses Facebook, I'll wait for the next version.
Nothing's going to happen. This happens every time a big market like Sheep goes down - a lot of people who knew better start talking big online and huffing and puffing and bluffing, along with the occasional scam 'send me BTC and I'll track down the admins!'
Eat or not eat Organic food in 2015? -
I have found that reacting to news in "real time" (for example, as it is fed to me through TV or Facebook) leads to a loss of perspective. The purported urgency of the story overwhelms its broader significance. Discovering news items later or second-hand enables me to research multiple perspectives after some people have had time to digest the event. On the other hand, sometimes the first-hand accounts get edited to have sensational elements removed, and the sanitized versions are less informative.
I don't really know how you quantify "number of plays" through time and attribute a "value per spin". Take John Coltrane's "Blue Train" - $10 for that album in 1957 would have given you almost 60 years of unlimited play (if you could keep the record clean!).

To a certain degree, "Buying an album" has always been a gamble. Spotify/Amazon/etc make it easier to (a) not buy albums that suck, and (b) buy more singles instead.
You're right, I'm using the default Telescope functionality/behaviour right now, but it's something I'd definitely implement in future, thanks!
Even with escrow you still have to put your trust in someone else.

Not with Bitcoin. With multi-sig transactions you don't have to trust the escrow agent to not steal your money (assuming you're confident the escrow agent is not also the other party in the transaction): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_2:_Escrow_and_d...

As dshankar pointed out, Evolution supported these types of transactions but they were not widely used, presumably because they are more difficult than normal transactions.
it's funny, back when programming computers and managing tech projects was (perceived as) low status work

You do realize that back when being a "computer" (look up the original definition) and programmer were low-status jobs, they were primarily held by women, don't you?
Should we distrust Comodo after issuing rogue SSL certificate for Windows Live?
Pretty much, yeah. It was available but not very many people used it.
didn't read through everything, but the example of the contrast with the positive/negative actions is silly.

I find it much easier to identify the "bad example" than he good example. It isn't the contrast that's important, it's the color and the it's easier to pick out the red when it's filled in.

I feel like more important things should be catchier than less important things, something the example absolutely does not do.
Common plight these days. I've considered making throwaway facebook profiles for these sorts of things before, but there's got to be a better solution.
Google details Chrome’s latest speed boost
This is very interesting for someone who dreams about making a text editor!
wrong. They are normalizing the perceived loudness. Which means [3] (which is the louder CD) will end up sounding squashed and equally as loud as [2].
Shame I cannot even browse their web site: paragraph 2 of their terms expressly prohibit it, since I'm acting on behalf of my business. Maybe I'll stick with other solutions.

Same goes with BitTorrent Sync - their current paid-for version 2 expressly prohibits business use. Sigh. Their beta versions also did for some time, despite the fact they solicited business' success stories. People were even crazy enough to link to their commercial web site, using BT Sync products as a fundamental part of their service, against BitTorrent's terms of service.
Anti Great Firewall mirrors under DDOS following WSJ article
Here's the shortest, sweetest "a-ha" I've yet learned in KSP.

So you're piloting ship A and you want to rendezvous with ship B in a stable orbit. Let's assume that A and B are on identical, basically circular orbits, and A is behind B, so your distances from each other aren't really changing much.

The maneuver you're looking for is.... Point retrograde (i.e. "away from the direction that will take you to where B is now") and burn. In the short run, you increase your distance from B (of course), but you also dropped your orbital altitude and therefore the area of the arc swept between your ship and your center of orbit over time... and by Kepler's second law, you are now orbiting faster (more full revolutions per unit of time). So you'll swing under B and eventually come up "in front" of it; time your burns right, and you come up epsilon distance in front of B; rendezvous successful.

It's totally counter-intuitive to accelerate away from something to approach it, except you're basically on a sphere. :-p
An analogy to "This Old House"? Not sure it makes sense, but that's what I thought of.
What about my need to be reimbursed when you ram into me? Am I just our of luck because you didn't want to pay insurance? And btw, society has decided that some do in fact have the right to tell you how to spend your money. Ever paid taxes? Do you think those should be abolished as well?

I'm almost always on the side of less governmental power, but to believe that all regulations like these are unnecessary is just boneheaded.
Local storage (which is what I think you mean, unless no stream service runs from HDD or no user stores music on an SSD) isn't necessarily better quality, since lossless music downloads are very rare. Also, you're ignoring the fact that buying every song one plays is much more expensive than simply paying $9/month.
One thing to focus on is that the rate per song in the CD era can't fairly be compared to the rate per song today - particularly for popular songs that have a global reach. I would agree that "per play" is only a partial metric, but would caution against trying to compare too much over time.
Perhaps I don't understand Bitcoin well enough, but wouldn't these guys out themselves the instant they try and spend them because of the public transaction history?
SimCity 3000 actually had a native Linux port by the (now defunct) Loki Games, that can still be gotten on Amazon and some other resellers and can be run with the help of some compatibility dependencies, although it's been some time since I tried.

http://www.lokigames.com/products/sc3k/

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1300658
Posting this under a throwaway for obvious reasons.

Employees at Facebook and Google who are high achievers (top 2-5% generally) make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in equity. I am one such lucky son of a bitch and know many others.

I'm well over 500k in cash after taxes at this point.
What it seemed like happened was the Maxis developed a great (or at least good) game, and EA came in and stuck their own requirements in where they didn't belong, which then caused all the issues.
It's a rather amazing coincidence that the "teeth" are the exact size and position of the JPEG macroblocks, wouldn't you say? The "eye" precisely occupies four macroblocks, too. Hmm.... I don't suppose you have an uncompressed original to compare to....
Keep in mind this is Ashe Dryden, who thinks being called a professional victim is misogynist. Paper-thin skin, but throwing stones from her glass house like there's no tomorrow. Open source's results-over-feelings approach turns off many, not just women.
In the late 1890s, a group of gentlemen-researchers named Henri Duveyrier, Victor Largeau, Erwin von Bary and H. S. Cowper found something incredible, what appeared to be a megalithic structure in Tripoli.

Upon further investigations they found large numbers of them throughout northern Africa, they described all kinds of megalithic structures: dolmens, menhirs, cairns, cup stones, and sacrificial altars.

Speculation was that this was a previously undiscovered Neolithic civilization, in describing the Senams, Cowper wrote "there had been originally no less than eighteen or twenty megalithic trilithons, in a line, each with its massive altar placed before it." Amazingly each altar had an obvious drain trench where blood from the sacrifices flowed. Cowper even speculated at one point that the builders of these cyclopean structures were involved in the raising of Stonehenge.

They were all well-respected, H.S. Cowper had done some early significant work identifying and describing megalithic structures in the UK, so obviously he knew what he was talking about.

A book with the findings was published to great anticipation. Unfortunately as the book was going to press, an article was written by J. L. Myers, Arthur Evans, and W. Gowland who actually knew what those structures were.

They were Roman-era oil presses.

For a brief period of time, Cowper denied this was possible pointing to Berbers that referred to the structures as idols, but for anyone who knew anything about Roman oil presses, these were fairly commonplace.

That's the long way of saying that the human mind has a tendency to find patterns and to try to explain those patterns based on their expectations.

But sometimes a cyclopean altar is just an oil press.
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