skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well here's the thing: if not for those extra tax shelter floors, he would not have built them at all, because no one else was willing to pay for a use of that space. Therefore, had he not built the extra floors on his theoretical tower, the space would have gone completely unused (and likely could not be used in the future).

Meanwhile, since there are people willing to pay to simply own portions of that floor, he builds it. In the future, if there is a high enough demand for that particular space, the owners of those portions of the floors could sell the floors. For those owners, they have effectively used the space on the extra floors as a property investment. However, the floors are still available in use when the time is necessary.

Comparatively, if those floors weren't built, no one would have made use of that space. If the building wasn't designed to accommodate future expansion vertically (is that even possible at that scale), then that space would have gone unused even when a demand for that space finally exists.

Thus, no one is being deprived of space because those extra floors were built. If at all, that space will be more likely to be utilized in the future, since it will have been built and ready for sale.
The DRM plugin is downloaded and installed automatically with the "normal" version of Firefox. So if you don't want to be downloading purposely-obfuscated proprietary Adobe binaries, you have to install this version.

Also, by default, EME activates on any webpage that requests it.
Are we really? The social patterning is the religious revival meeting, and that's precisely the wrong way to frame science if you want to give outsider a realistic impression of what it means and how it works.

Pop-sci has a terrible flattening effect. It gives the public the mistaken impression that their opinion is worth as much as a professional's, because it's not so hard really after you've read about it in a cheap paperback.

It's the mindset of "evolution of just a theory" and "climate change scientists are only in it for the money" and "my opinion of string theory is just as valid as that of a PhD working at the Perimeter Institute of Princeton - and what is a perimeter anyway?"

I'm not suggesting we should return to the happy era of pipe-smoking public science paternalism of the 40s and 50s.

But the alternative meme - that's it's all just a point of view - is just as destructive and stupid.

Gladwell, Godin, TED, and the rest are enablers of that mindset, whether or not they agree with it personally.
Great article, by a very experienced Ruby hacker. Wish he were as active in the community again, as he once was. Rumor says he is also looking into elixir these days :-).
Perhaps an airbag underneath could deploy faster.
@wavefunction.
I see their point, but I don't quite follow their logic. I don't think the patent office has much control over how many people file patent applications, they just examine them once they are filed. For example, the patent office doesn't advertise during the superbowl. If they have less resources to examine the filed patent applications, then they will not be able to examine them as effectively.
> Suppose you do need the aggregate to be worth around 400 billion to deliver decent returns. If Andreesen Horowitz catches the next 2 Facebooks ( worth 200 billion each ) over the next 10-15 years and loses money on every single other deal ( an extremely pessimistic assumption ), they can deliver it.

your assumption is that A16Z would own 100% of those 2 next Facebooks... which I don't think I need to point out how wrong that is (sorry, I just did)

let's assume something more realistic, like a16z getting 20% of each 200B company that appears - they would need to invest on the next TEN Facebooks (at an earliesh stage), and that seems a bit harder. and let's not forget that most "unicorns" don't even go past the 10B when IPOing, so in reality, they need a lot more than 10 FBs...
My mental picture of the author of this article is of one of the actors you see in bad late night infomercials. The ones that are too inept to use a regular knife for simple tasks, or put a lid on Tupperware.

Just like the people in this little gem:
http://everythingisterrible.blogspot.com/2009/09/infomercial...

I think Vox needs to reevaluate who they hand out free breakfast to.
Tried Weird Al's Mission Statement. Only got ~10% of the words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
All the upvotes for Hardcore History. Even if you're not into history, the story telling is amazing.
Once you have redundancy in the powertrain, getting redundancy from a flight computer is relatively straight forward. At that point 3 rotors on one side of the craft or multiple computers have to all fail simultaneously to cause a real loss of control, and even then algorithmic changes can be made to the flight computer to allow semi-controlled landings with multiple prop failures.
I'm betting raspberry pi 2 only (i.e. armv7 only) since that's all Windows IoT runs on. Doubt they'd put the effort into armv6 for all of the existing raspberry pi 1 devices.
> If performance becomes an issue look at Groovy

Or JRuby, Clojure, Scala, or Nashorn.
Identifi daemon and cli built on Bitcoin code
> The CEO responsible for that whole ordeal is gone. When do people decide Microsoft has behaved long enough to be given a second chance?

If the company clearly changes it's course, right? Though it doesn't seem to be the case, despite two CEO changes since Bill Gates. Recent news show more or less what they are still up-to.

Yesterdays plans to stop producing Windows and "Win10 as a service": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521151

TypeScript influences the ES6/JavascriptNext feature & syntax development - lead by Mr. Hejlsberg (TurboPascal) who was responsible for J++, Windows Foundation Classes and C#. In 2012 Hejlsberg announced his new project TypeScript — a superset of JavaScript. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg )

Read Bill Gates (former internal) 1994 memo: "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet": http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t...

"The memo starts with a background on the Internet in general, and then proposes a strategy on how to turn Windows into the next "killer app" for the Internet."

The Internet plan "Microsoft Network": https://youtu.be/kGYcNcFhctc?t=17m16s

And the Office format thing in 2007, the Silverlight thing, the XBoxOne launch thing. It was just not as public, as they were not that successful.
I can attest to that.

I was experimenting a couple of days ago with high duty and extreme DOM nodes crunching and FF's SpiderMoneky blew Chrome's V8 out of the water for 7 - 9 multiples gain in performance measured in time elapsed to complete the operations.

Chrome's V8 engine at this point is so overrated
Based on that license list, I don't see how any of those would present a problem. Do you?
Hmm, I wonder what the closest analogue to that statement is that's actually found in the writings of the Founding Fathers. I assume manny of them would agree with it, but the quote itself is from a century later, when a British Confederate-sympathizer was criticizing papal infallibility.
- Here is a link to a guide on setting it up http://blog.coinkite.com/post/116127008376/

- More information about the multisig setup http://blog.coinkite.com/post/102291566521/

- And some info about the multisig/co-sign API http://blog.coinkite.com/post/103555747636/
Beatiful article, slightly off into animation territorry but still. Taking distance from current technology and future is good.

The Chun-Li dissected animation reminded me of Disney classes on how to convey emotions rather than simulate movements. And for Jazz lovers, search about Mitsuo Iso : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvx7p6-lABw
Although I am sure the situation is more subtle than reported, I am reminded of this old ELER:

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/taking-freedom-furth...

"What better way to justify the proprietary bits of [Firefox] than a practically stooge [browser] to point at whenever we're questioned!"

All this has happened before. All this will happen again.
Plebs: 1

Artists: 0

(I agree with him)
The attack depends on a secret to match a user-provided string enough for the compression algorithm to notice this redundancy?

A counter-measure then would be to scramble the user input in the page with a random key, and include this key into the page for de-scrambling using JavaScript. It will still efficiently compress the parts of the page which are not user-controlled.
I hate pixel art anyway. One thing I'm pretty sure I always hate is pixel art.
Amazon Echo – Best Device I Ever Bought
You might worry that you wouldn't notice which sites are using it. Or you might want to send a message to sites, or to Mozilla, that you think DRM is bad and that you don't want to have DRM implementations installed.

One of the worst things about each browser vendor's decision to support DRM is that it makes the choice to require DRM less costly for new web sites that are considering it. So even if you think Netflix could never have been budged, random site X might now say "cool, we can control what people can do with video on our site, at a surprisingly low interoperability cost to us!". If you want to avoid that outcome as an end-user, you have to do whatever you can to increase potential DRM adopters' view of the market share they will put at risk.
Growth Hacking: How  to Increase Your Search Rank
I'm approaching it like this - I need to execute unsigned binaries from a location that does not have execute permissions. How can I manage this? The lack of a signature is at best an administrative burden and at worst an attack vector depending on how the Admin handles it ("let's just add a wildcard exeception"). Mozilla should recognize this and sign the dll's. I still haven't seen a reason for NOT signing them. We don't use WebRTC so ignoring gmpopenh264.dll was not a problem. However, now we're talking about "necessary" Adobe code. Need I say more? Chrome performs the same functions and adheres to common sense. This is one of those things that gets a package removed from offering. I like and use Firefox myself but I don't like the position Mozilla has put me in. Should I open a bug report or do you speak for Mozilla in an official capacity?
http://www.occupy.com/article/new-york-real-estate-new-swiss...

or the TLDR version

http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/globa...
Direct cash payment is always better than subsidies. Subsidized housing simply transfers money to property owners.
This is very cool, and the content-addressable web is going to be a huge leap forward for permanence and publishing without needing to run a server. Lots of people are working towards this future. In particular, you should look into IPFS.

http://ipfs.io/
Any particular services that you will be using for setting up subscription and distributing versions or are you rolling your own?
If you disable EME (in the Firefox Preferences menu by unchecking the "Play DRM content" checkbox), Firefox will delete the Adobe CDM binary if it has been installed.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
Syncthing is an interesting contender too.

http://syncthing.net/

Open source, open standard, end-to-end transmission, and the server only does peer-matching (and you manage your own server if you're truly paranoid).
I've often thought about trying to negotiate a 4 day work week in the US but it wouldn't be worth it. Since my 40 hours turn into 50 or 60 I could see 32 hours turning into 45 easily.
> Basically, you're using the blockchain as a decentralized passwd file. But again, I don't see why this is desirable in light of existing and much more powerful alternatives to passwd files (U2F for example)?

Not quite. To use a UNIX analogy, we're using the blockchain to bootstrap a global, decentralized LDAP. We're making it so applications can resolve a username to its owner's information without users needing to trust us, without applications needing to trust us, and without users needing to trust applications.

Now, my "LDAP entry" (i.e. my passcard) can contain whatever information I want to put there. Anyone can verify the authenticity of subsequent updates to my passcard data by verifying that each update was signed by the same private key whose public counterpart got bound to my username when the passcard was created.

I could put information in my passcard that further identifies who I am, and I could put information that authenticates me to certain applications. These are some of the key use-cases of my passcard. However, what this information is exactly depends on the application. The only thing Onename concerns itself with is ensuring that the application can discover this information when given the username, and be assured that the information was generated by the same principal that owns the username without having to trust Onename or the user.
Which is why I put it in parentheses, not quotation marks.
Google Debuts Its First Apple Watch App with “Google News and Weather”
This is by requirement line of sight. So indeed a cheap radio frequency tracker should be able to do the job. There are just minor issues with multipath and transmitter power.

EDIT: The included antenna is a wifi-like omnidirectional antenna, so I guess it's just using GPS. The precision is greatly improved due to large distances (linear precision is amplified into angular precision by O(distance) )
I would think a multi-FC voting system, like what the shuttle used, would be the way to go for FC redundancy.

Mix that with a dual power system and 6 or 8 motors and I think you get MUCH better redundancy and fault tolerance.

And while you are at it perhaps a disconnected drogue chute that deploys if a watchdog signal is lost. Not something that is large, just enough to slow the decent to non-dangerous speeds.
I think we're perhaps talking past each other. You want a source that says people prefer getting things for free over paying for them?
Well, one, in America, workers don't have rights to stand up for. If you say no to working unpaid overtime, you're labeled "Not a team player" and fired.

Employers get away with it due to a mix of fear of being fired, and a bunch of people who act happy to give up their lives for the company.
Publishers who want to protect their content against piracy and don't want to use cumbersome expensive solutions. Traditionally DRM has been a hassle for legal users, expensive to publishers, and complex to encode and host video. Having a browser standard would make it convenient to users and publishers.
Intel partners with eASIC for custom cloud silicon
http://challengepost.com/discover - is usually what I've seen being used as the de facto hackathon organizing site.
http://www.quora.com/How-much-venture-capital-did-Microsoft-...
I used to use this a lot. My experience is that for some reason, a couple years ago it stopped working reliably as a fresh page fetch. Some items were still coming up cached. Now I use incognito or private browsing windows instead.
I'm no socialist, but this one line makes me sick to my stomach.

> In NYC, Billionaires Pay 1/100th the Average Property-Tax Rate
Great, more trash in our fields and streams.
> They tend to rewrite a lot of things that you could do in SQL on NoSQL databases(Irony..)

You do realize most "NoSQL" databases are "Not only SQL"?
Computational Hydrographic Printing
The original commenter was asking why people would want to prevent their browser from having DRM support, rather than why publishers would want DRM. (For DRM opponents, having convenient and standardized DRM is worse in many ways because it is more likely to be adopted in more circumstances.)
Yes! Thank you. I love the old pixel aesthetic, but today's art should fit today's constraints. Those classic games will always be around, awaiting your next nostalgia rush. Screw stagnation.

Likewise, I like old Victorians and Art Deco, but I wouldn't be excited about one built today. No one would respect a 2015 medieval-style castle quite like one from 1515.
The front fork on your bike is almost certainly not six-nines reliable. If it breaks, you're not doing any evasive maneuvers. Ditto for car electronics. I'd wager that cars fail at a rate higher than 1:million, potentially leaving the driver effectively with no control (literally no control if drive-by-wire, no effective control for many people if power steering and breaking cut out).
Amazing presentation! As a nursing informaticist myself, Florence Nightingale represents the core of what we strive to do.

["Nursing Informatics is the "science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide." (IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics 2009).]
That can introduce other problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8213273

http://i.imgur.com/AZJti8I.png
and it looks like work has been underway to use an A-10 for just this purpose for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunder...
Dirt is shit. Shit is dirt. It is everywhere you walk. Every animal in the world shits on the ground. This is literally the most trivial issue on earth.
If you're pitching Marc Andreessen, here's the bottle of bourbon to bring him
But just because something hurts a business doesn't make it wrong, either. And it's worth considering that businesses are amoral entities - given the chance, most of them will gladly screw you if it increases their revenue.

With that in mind, why should a rational human choose to apply morality to an entity that has no obligation to do the same in return?

(This is not a value judgement on WSJ in particular, more a general statement as to the way of the world)

The way I see it, there are two arguments for this plugin to not exist:

1) "What if everyone does it? If everyone does it, WSJ makes no money and goes away". The appeal to utility. Problem is, it carries the unstated and unsubstantiated assumption that enough people will use this plugin to actually impact their profits in a measurable way.

Because of that, I call this argument invalid.

2) "It goes against the wishes of the content providers". The appeal to morality - but as mentioned above, this is strictly a one way consideration, and it's subjective for each person. There's also the moral consideration that WSJ has chosen to make this content visible for Google users, but only because Google forbids showing different content to the spider and to the human. Then, you're left answering an objectively unanswerable question - is a person who googles for most of their news and ends up on the WSJ often doing something wrong? Or does it only apply when you install the plugin and circumvent the company's intent?

The net effect on WSJ's profit is the same either way.
It seems unlikely that any space in NYC would go unused, let alone never be used.
> I think the difference is that PyPy exists, so people who just want "a faster Python" tend to go there, whereas in ruby-land JRuby gets the people who just want "a faster Ruby"

JRuby, IIRC, hasn't been particularly faster than MRI since MRI 1.9-ish, though it still has the advantage of no GVL for multithreaded apps.
I was "diagnosed" with ADHD after filling out a 9-question Y/N survey, then left with a prescription. I was psyched to get what I asked for, namely the extended-release amphetamine Vyvanse which I had taken about a week prior and felt like a god among men, but these days I just wish they hadn't prescribed it (and that I hadn't asked for it, in that order).

A few years later now, my intuition is that psychostimulants prescribed and/or consumed with therapeutic intent really do not address the core problems that Shire (et al.) claim to be medicating, at least in my case. For me, it's evident by now that I lack the discipline that others have to put mind over matter and work through a task. When I take stimulants, I do feel like I'm working hard and getting my work done. When the deadline approaches, however, I'm left with virtually nothing to show after N weeks of what I really felt was good work in the moment.

I was more productive—quite a lot more—prior to experimenting with stimulants. It really feels like I'm doing better work when I'm on the drugs, but all I've done by the end of the day is think consistently and with huge enthusiasm about a lot of things vs. inspired bursts of real productivity in between my old day-to-day of playing video games. At this point, I think more about whether I'm high enough to begin working than I do about any pressing matter at hand. I don't recommend it, but I suppose it works for others. Sorry about the rant.
PerchRTC – Open source WebRTC demo for iOS
Samsung Announces Their Entry into the Arduino Family
Paradigm Shift in Big Data SuperComputing: DataFlow vs. ControlFlow
The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/perchco/perchrtc
Roon Labs
Reddit's defaults, for some reason, includes 'wtf' which frequently has gore pictures. One of which was someone whose face encountered a drone.
Oh wow, very cool. This is very much what I had in mind when thinking about a content addressable web. Thanks for the tip.
Tweeted Lily support about Obstacle Avoidance. Sadly no - it doesn't steer clear of electric wires, branches and buildings.
> They're doing this to be able to run Node.js apps on Windows 10 ARM (on which V8 supposedly doesn't run?)

V8 definitely has an ARM runtime, so maybe this is a result of the restrictions on what's allowed to run on the platform? (e.g. iOS and Windows Phone don't allow JIT compilers except the ones provided by the platform itself)
Yes, this works on Raspberry Pi 2 and MinnowBoard MAX, running Windows 10 IOT Core preview - http://ms-iot.github.io/content/Downloads.htm
What book would you suggest for someone who is "New to Ruby"? What if I want to learn Ruby without Rails?
That's not the only weird part. The bottom of the second "g" in google is overlapping the search bar.

I think there must be something weird with the way IE is interpreting the CSS...very odd.
It was interesting to see that the game Aero uses very nice looking (high resolution?) pixel art. I'm familiar with it in old games and in newer ones that choose to adopt a retro look, but I'd never seen someone attempt what they did. I probably would have been one of the people complaining about the game's 'pixellated' art, as a result.

That said, I quite enjoyed the article, and some of those modern pixel art pieces linked were very impressive. I think overall his decision to make the switch is a good one though, if I can consider myself any kind of sample of his audience.
> I was experimenting a couple of days ago with high duty and extreme DOM nodes crunching and FF's SpiderMoneky blew Chrome's V8 out of the water for 7 - 9 multiples gain in performance measured in time elapsed to complete the operations.

This likely has nothing to do with the JS engines themselves and everything to do with the browser they were running in. To actually benchmark something like that you'd need to simulate the dom with something like https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom
You can with HTTP/2.
Attention, everybody who publishes on the web:

Selectively requiring authentication (based on referrer, user-agent, cookies, etc.) is not a supported feature of the internet. If you want to go ahead and implement it anyway, that's fine - but it's pointless to get mad when it doesn't really work the way you hoped it would.
I love the emphasis in the OP, both in the content and in the headline, on her mathematical background. The rose diagram of military deaths is so frequently as image associated with her that she's sometimes more remembered as an infographic designer (the rose diagram, to be honest, is much less decipherable than a standard bar histogram) than the insightful statistician that she was.

I'd argue the same for John Snow, who is legendary for his map, even though it was, according to biographers, an afterthought for him when doing the actual research (and the map itself also wasn't particularly effective to make his case, nor was he the first to do it).