skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making an invalid comparison.

The owners of the land will be considering alternative uses for their land by how much additional revenue they could produce.

If the owner of a hectare of remote farmland decides to do something else with it other than tilling it as a flat field, it is far more likely to be building greenhouses, or burying drainage tile, or installing center-pivot irrigation and planting windbreaks, or just changing to a higher-margin crop rather than something like erecting a mid-rise AAA office building. Even building a vertical farm is unlikely.

If the hectare is in the middle of the fastest-growing city in the state, selling out or converting to a different use is increasingly likely, as the marginal increase in revenue over the marginal cost of making the improvement rises.

Consider also that a hectare in the suburbs is likely not directly producing any revenue for the owner at all. Its worth is almost entirely derived from opportunity costs. The owner of that land might decide to grow a vegetable garden in response to a tax, or raise rabbits or chickens in the back yard. Or they might decide to lease their mother-in-law apartment in the basement or garage. or they might just work a little harder elsewhere to pay the cost of not improving their land.
great job! it looks like a good replacement for people trying to juggle with the complexity of a software like moodle. I'm also interesting in knowing if it will support some type of assessment, because it looks like so far it's only a paywall for content. Do you have plans to add support for any type of assessment?
At a guess, Stripe probably is or has been. SpaceX maybe too if you count the NASA cash as advance purchase for future service.
Yeah - it's helpful to make public commitments about charitable giving if, e.g. you have a blog where you have enough space to explain the philosophical underpinnings of your need to publicly broadcast how much money you're giving away. Without that context, it can look like you're bragging about how much money you have.

We spend a lot of time agonizing over how much to tell "normal" people about what we're doing and the cost of being "weird". This isn't so much of a factor if you live in a nice EA hub like Oxford-Boston-San Francisco, but for those of us that don't....we're stuck with the internet.
In my opinion, the "killer apps" for Linux (aside from the Apache httpd that amyjess mentioned) are:

* A mostly Unix-like OS that runs on available commodity hardware, rather than requiring you to buy a SPARC, Alpha or POWER machine, you can buy a commodity x86 machine and use that instead. Because of economies of scale, commodity hardware is always going to be cheaper.

* Low (really no) licensing cost. The traditional model of scaling was that when your computer wasn't fast enough, you bought a faster computer. Linux's licensing model makes it affordable to scale horizontally -- to have lots of "slow" computers provide the same computing capacity as one big computer. In a "buy a computer and you have to buy my UNIX" world, any savings you can achieve by scaling out instead of up are offset by software licensing costs. Not in a Linux world, though.
Ah, you wrote the piece:
http://qz.com/57254/to-save-the-world-dont-get-a-job-at-a-ch...

What did you think of Brook Allen's response:
http://qz.com/57807/dont-come-to-wall-street-for-the-money-e...

His point was that the actual making of money might actually cause more harm (fraud, etc) than the good your donations would do. I don't agree; objectively weighing the harm with the benefits is possible, as other comments have pointed out.
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Both Intel (integrated GPUs) and nVidia (discrete GPUs) have announced VP9 hw acceleration for their GPUs. However, I believe these are probably the only two "household name" ODMs that are supporting it. The rest of the partners are cheap SOC manufacturers like Rockchip and Mediatek
Please point to the slightest inkling of "gratuitous negativity" in the above post, dear dang?

Holy shit, HN is taking a perilous dive to absolutely shitsville under your profoundly incompetent watch. Eat a dick, shitbird.

That you would reply to this thread demonstrates, in the most profound of ways, how utterly incapable you are at the position you were afforded. Yes, this is negativity -- absolutely gratuitous -- because you are such a riotous imbecile.

This post is "SAN for idiots", and here's dang to prop it up.
1 man and 13 minutes early would have stopped World War II
Because of this change it now takes 1-14 days for my to respond to a facebook message. I see no need to install a separate app when I'm already debating uninstalling facebook's app. And usually I'm not motivated to log into facebooks' website just to read and respond to the message. So they sit there until I finally get bored enough to do it. Granted, in all fairness, I probably get under 4 messages a month.

Not complaining, just sharing my experience.
Will your next debt collector be a robot?
I'm already working on quizzes. I still need to refactor the current code base though so that feature is at least two weeks out.

The multi course feature is already working as well and once I clean the code up, I'll update the code base on GitHub.

Do you have any other type of assessment in mind?
It has already been covered over with tarp and the letting removed[1].

It's a wonderful piece of work with excellent sentiment behind it. Unfortunately it doesn't suit the government and mainstream media narrative, so I'm sure the act of its erection will be decried as liberal terrorism and vandalism, the piece taken down and Snowden-related news once again brushed over.

[1]http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/illegal-edward-...
I second Ankur's thoughts here. We've put a lot of time and energy into making our user experience simple and beautiful and while we take it as a compliment that you liked it enough to use our design, we would appreciate it if you came up with your own original design as to differentiate from us.

We're not just a random online education platform that popped up out of the blue - we're real people working very hard to build a quality product.
This is disgusting. Snowden lost any legitimacy he may have had as a whistle-blower when he started exposing the unquestionably legitimate foreign intelligence activities and capabilities of the United States. You have to be naive to think the Russians are harboring him without something in exchange: even more information about our foreign intelligence activities. This traitor's bust does not belong among the remains of fallen heroes.
>> Snapchat is the Myspace of the current batch of unicorns and he's going to eventually regret not selling to FB or Google back in 2013.

If by MySpace, you mean a social network that had a meteoric rise then sort of died out, perhaps. But MySpace actually did take the giant buyout they were offered. As far as I know, they never turned down a 10 figure exit like Snapchat.
I don't think anyone really disputes that there are an increasing number of earthquakes, both in Oklahoma and elsewhere.

http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/files/2013/07/2013-hockey...

Like cancer, once can show that something causes an increased rate of earthquakes (on top of an underlying base rate) even if no individual earthquake can be definitively attributed to that cause.

> A team of USGS scientists led by Bill Ellsworth analyzed changes in the rate of earthquake occurrence using large USGS databases of earthquakes recorded since 1970. The increase in seismicity has been found to coincide with the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in several locations, including Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Ohio. Much of this wastewater is a byproduct of oil and gas production and is routinely disposed of by injection into wells specifically designed and approved for this purpose.

> Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” does not appear to be linked to the increased rate of magnitude 3 and larger earthquakes.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/
If that's what it takes to lose credibility for you then I can't say I've lost anything of value.
Kill Employee Motivation
Considering that their Kickstarter was shut down 6 months ago due to their lies, and that they started up again at Indiegogo despite the warnings, and that they've been concealing information and attacking their critics through sockpuppets? Yes, I think it's fair at this point to call them malicious.
Thank you, appreciate the response and the new design.

Keep me updated with future developments (ankur@usefedora.com) and maybe we can work together in the future.
Elastic Search is known to drop your data in some occasions. I think it's fair to advise against using it as your source of truth (or anything built on top of it like Crate).
Hardware/DSP/driver issue. Nokia was on the complaining side when others tried to get VP8 assigned as the video tag default codec, because they had multiple products in circulation that only supported H264 decoding in hardware.
Why you should go for React.js + Meteor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QtrkXKvQFc
You're taking it on faith that the price of beef in the store currently reflects the actual costs of producing that beef. And that it would continue to do so if the beef industry became even larger and more powerful.

But it isn't true, current "cheap beef prices" (they are actually up a lot just now [1]) are a reflection, in part, of the public funds and public property use that are routinely donated to agribusiness.

You can't tell what the cost of beef is by looking at the pricetag, and that's true about a lot of real-world products and services. You can't rely on the market to give you a signal in such cases. And you can't tell which cases are which without digging in to every one.

I don't mean to pick on you, exactly, but your attitude is one I see online frequently. "I took Econ 101 and therefore I can tell which global industrial supply chains are or are not sustainable just by looking at price-tags in the grocery store." When even real economists get things wrong all the time.

[1] http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=beef&months...
WOW! You just made the worlds best music discovery service! Too bad that was the easy part ...
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I wonder if the lack of help from LACP was because DRBD is using only 1 TCP session, which would only get hashed to one or the other member link?
Both. Pollution externalities are basically unpriced, and oil production is massively subsidised. Governments suffer from hyperbolic discounting - they would rather keep gas prices low for the next election than deal with the expensive and difficult long-term process of transitioning to more sustainable sources of energy.
What exactly is he stealing? Big picture at the top followed by some text/testimonials? That's like every second modern landing page these days.
So true. That's why I like the concept of Startup Weekend (http://startupweekend.org) There is no prize money, just pure action. I always go to one of their locally organized events, to simply enjoy and just feel young again :)
As it stands, the Hurd consists of file servers on top of Mach called translators, which provide OS services. It's a rustier version of what Plan 9 achieves via the 9P protocol.

By academic standards the design is uninteresting and perhaps outdated, though if it had actually flourished in the 90s as it was intended, the use of a multiserver microkernel in a mainstream OS would have been quite the achievement back then.
Let's put this in some historical light. The British government abolished the slave trade in 1833 - 1838 and this was a big step (even if other schemes were in effect slavery). Only one monument was erected to commemorate this. Protagonists, e.g. William Wilberforce have statues however the event itself - abolition - only has this one memorial. It was built by a wealthy Quaker and served as the entrance arch for his mansion.

Step forward 150 years and this might be the one and only memorial 'made at the time' to the work of our hero.
Minor correction: H.265 is HEVC - High Efficiency Video Coding.

H.265 and VP9 will (most likely) have a lot of difference when we consider hardware encoders/decoders. I guess H.265 hardware decoders will be present on all platforms in the next couple of years. There are mobile processors that have hardware H.265 decoder. H.265 encoder seems to be a bit far. I am not sure whether someone has a production ready hardware encoder. On the other hand, VP9 is not a priority for most of the companies.
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> you won't be kicking yourself a few months down the line as you baby your custom storage solution. Normally i'm the guy building stuff like this, but sometimes I would rather just sleep at night...

"Even Southwest doesn't build their own airplanes." I have this argument with myself all the time. If you don't have an IT pro who works on storage every day, then buy something from someone who does work on storage every day. Their time is worth the price. Your time is worth it too.
I don't really understand how this works. Does it just load an image from the unsendit server as the content of the email, which is re-generated on their servers?

I can't imagine how it would work otherwise.
Focus on little things
Sir. Edward does not expose anything. It's the journalists that choose the material. He made it very explicit from the start.

> You have to be naive to think the Russians are harboring him

Can you please provide a source?

The quality of this comment is something I'd expect from a 50 cent army.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades

[EDIT] Softened language.
Any feedback you have about any aspect of this project is appreciated.
The abstract page (HTML plus all of the resources it loads) is larger than the full PDF.
If active development is a concern, you may want to consider ZingChart (http://www.zingchart.com )
They release new builds on a quarterly basis. The support is pretty responsive, too.
> What about the right to participate in government?

The right to participate in government can be viewed as the right to be free from government action without you being given the opportunity to participate. It can be met by government not acting, as well as by you having the opportunity to participate (directly or indirectly) in any decision it makes.

I think that those who hold to the pure negative view of human rights absolutely tend to view the right to participate this way (and frequently to prefer government non-action to action-with-participation.)

> And, even with this one, it seems like such a strain to me to say "the right to a fair trial is a negative right because, even though you're compelling the government structures to act in a certain way, it only applies once you're in the justice system".

What I think you miss is that being "in the justice system" isn't something that happens external to actions of the government. So it can be a purely a negative right, in that it requires government not to subject you to the justice system unless in so doing it also acts in a certain way.

If it was conditioned on something outside of the governments control, then it would not be a pure negative right. Particularly, if you view the right to a fair trial as applying not only to conditions when you are subject to the justice system, but to include a right to bring grievances against the government and other members of society and to have them fairly heard by an appropriate tribunal, then it becomes a positive right, because the situations in which it applies are no longer ones that result from government action. But, again, I think that many people, particularly those that view negative rights as the exclusive human rights, view the right to a fair trial in terms that are consistent with the purely negative view (and the right to a speedy trial is, as generally understood in the US, a right of that type, since it applies only to criminal trials, which occur only as the result of positive government action, so it is a right that is a pure restraint on government action.)
and here is the critique of it : http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/notes/llrb.html (left-leaning-rb-trees-considered-harmful)
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The OP point is incorrect since it incorrectly states that Locke's definition of human rights came from Libertarianism.

The OP therefore doesn't have a point since their argument relies on a false statement.
You have no clue what you are talking about.

a.) It's not him releasing the info anymore.

b.) You are just speculating that he's giving any info to Russia.
I think the best solution for hackathons is to stop focusing on the prizes. When you have a "grand prize" worth many of thousands of dollars, people are going to compete for it. I think a better idea is to go with just a top 6 / 8 /10, and a lot of sponsor prizes. At Treehacks (the one in this article), there were what felt like 25+ sponsor prizes - and that is cool, because a lot of those are going to kids who are too inexperienced to land in the top 10 at something with 600 students.

But remove the Grand Prize, because it makes the whole thing feel like a competition to people, and cheating / pre-building projects is unavoidable. Even the grand prize winners at Treehacks (built the robot arm, mentioned in the article) partially faked it - they were asked by the judges how much of the hardware they built before the hackathon, and they said they built all of the hardware beforehand. How much of the software had they already tinkered with / sketched out / built? Who knows.

So remove the idea that pre-building is cheating, and instead of 3 big prizes give out 50 small ones.
So much respect for the Buttercoin team for this. The Bitcoin community really needs more honest people like them.
Could somebody summarize this into a diet description that anybody could understand?
Well that explains the Rockchip SoC in the Chromebit
Your opinion is above all misinformed.
>You have to be naive to think the Russians are harboring him without something in exchange

Other than the publicity win of playing host to the biggest thorn in your arch rivals side?

If you intend to say that he gave/gives material information directly to FSB, I'll need to see a source.
Do you have any evidence for your suppositions, or is that merely cynicism talking?
I'm in a similar boat to this guy for income, location, and donation goals. I spend < $30k per year living in downtown Manhattan, so that leaves a lot of room for saving. And I feel like my life is positively luxurious, so I'd never remotely use the word "sacrifice" to describe this.

I can think of a few reasonable changes I could make to lower my expenses to < $20k if I wanted to be more aggressive, but my current spending level works to compromise with my (incredibly understanding) girlfriend. Social factors are always there, but the absolute reality of this level of spending in NYC is fantastic.

The numbers will change when a family is involved, of course, but both the article guy and I (probably) have a long time to save up before that happens.
Hopefully we can.

I'll let you know when the new design is up. I've already coded most of it.
I'm 26, one year ahead of Spiegel in school (my brother was his year at Stanford), and I don't use Snapchat (I have an account, I download it maybe every other month to see what's changed, but have never been able to get into it). I'm an outlier in my social circles. All my friends use it. Also, a few weeks ago, Bill Simmons (Grantland creator) used it while at Wrestlemania. One year ago, he would have tweeted it from @GrantlandLive. Grantland has been really good at leveraging social technology, and were ahead of the curve on livestreaming, so to me, the fact that basically everyone I know my age and younger uses Snapchat, and that an organization that's done a great job using social tools is starting to try and figure it out tells me that its here to stay for at least the near future.
Why wouldn't it be possible? Here's a different (I believe more efficient) implementation of the Node container class by Sedgwick himself, which does exactly that:

private Node insert(Node h, Key key, Value val) {
if (h == null)
return new Node(key, val, RED);
if (isRed(h.left) && isRed(h.right))
colorFlip(h);
int cmp = key.compareTo(h.key);
if (cmp == 0) h.val = val;
else if (cmp < 0)
h.left = insert(h.left, key, val);
else
h.right = insert(h.right, key, val);
if (isRed(h.right))
h = rotateLeft(h);

if (isRed(h.left) && isRed(h.left.left))
h = rotateRight(h);
return h;

}

I've looked at this code from several angles, and I still can't see how type safety might be compromised by adding an extra bit for color. The Java compiler requires you to specify the static object type that your LLRBT returns, specifically so the JVM can make as few assumptions about the underlying data types as necessary at runtime. And the color bit, that's only passed as an argument to the object constructor to expedite the elementary rotations and color flips that happen frequently in a LLRBT, to enable the creation of black ones and same-colored ones. I don't think type safety is affected by this or even related.
Sad to see that replying to yourself in order to whine about downvotes (and then deleting it) has made its way to hackernews from reddit.
It's all about iterations
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I am skeptical of the quality claims without evidence. Previous third-party studies on VP8 and VP9 have said that both H.264 and HEVC (formerly H.265) outperform VP9 on video quality and encoding speed[1].

[1]: http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26...
Video codecs are good at compressing stills, so there's very little overhead in playing such a video when only the audio is desired.

That being said, YouTube does also encode audio-only versions of all their videos; they're not available from the web player though. You can use external software such as youtube-dl[1] to take advantage of it.

[1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ (using an invocation such as "youtube-dl -g -f bestaudio [url]" to retrieve the URL of an audio-only encode)
I've used Parse and would do so again -- I also use other stuff. They are excellent for getting up quickly and "it depends" on whether they are ok for scaling. Personally, I worry about fixing that when/if it happens.
"This is now an accepted way to start the process of ending a marriage."

No, one judge allowed one person to do it in NY, after attempts to find the person to be served had failed. That hardly means that it's an "accepted way" to serve legal process on someone.
Shame, this could've been interesting, but instead reads like a marketing pitch.

Of course, I probably shouldn't be surprised. ZapChain is, themselves, a company delivering services for the bitcoin community, so they are incentivized to put a positive spin on any major players in the space (since any good bitcoin press is good for them) in order to make the whole market look more mature and vibrant.

Gotta shake off the Mt. Gox stink somehow... :)
Congrats guys! We've been with Intuit for the last 5 years and recently made the transitioned to ZenPayroll - we haven't looked back. Huge fan of the automated emails along with their outstanding on-boarding/support.
This is the hacker spirit.
Okay, I'm sorry! Didn't want to make her feel bad! :)

Then again - she's already making bold statements about correct software development paradims ... I guess, some healthy humbleness may be useful if you don't want to be judged yourself.
His recent history suggests he's a technically informed contributor. While my initial suspicion was a 50 cent army, it doesn't smell like a purpose-built troll.