skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bottom line is that government can play a tremendous role in leveling the playing field. Gov't can incentivize behavior any number of ways (taxes, certifications are two that come to mind) towards cooperation. As it stands there can be no question that vendors and institutions are disincentivized to share data. My recommendation is the following[0]:

"At it's core the government need only do one thing to encourage innovation in the interoperability space and it is this:

- The government, by means of regulation and incentive, ensure that any vendor of data systems that create or store data make adequate interoperability features and documentation available for said system.

I call this the Core Mandate. The core mandate must be unequivocal with no loopholes. What do I mean by "interoperability features"? Simply:

-If a system creates data, the ability to read that data is fully described in documentation.
-If a system stores data, the vendor will provide an API and/or SDK, with accompanying documentation, such that authenticated requests may create, read, update or delete that data programmatically as appropriate.

A system is defined as any software application or hardware device."

[0] http://siculars.posthaven.com/health-data-integration-regula...
You assume that the goal is to make society better. Currently one of the two major parties has aggressively staked out the position that government cannot work and should be privatized – from that perspective dysfunction is a goal, not a problem.

I liked Adam Gopnik's summation last week:

“What we have, uniquely in America, is a political class, and an entire political party, devoted to the idea that any money spent on public goods is money misplaced, not because the state goods might not be good but because they would distract us from the larger principle that no ultimate good can be found in the state. Ride a fast train to Washington today and you’ll start thinking about national health insurance tomorrow.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-plot-against...
I been working on Libraries.io in my spare time for the past couple months, I wrote up a little more about how Libraries.io it works on medium: https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db...
This is exactly what Carmack said at Game Developers Conference. They don't want to "poison the well" by releasing before they're ready with games and experiences that make people ill.
It's from the Precision line, not a (Studio) XPS. Not sure if that helps or not.
Not to mention the enormous logistical difficulties of landing and supplying a cross-Atlantic amphibious army large enough to conquer a continent in the age of sail.
Seattle housing costs are extremely high, after moving there from Los Angeles a few years ago, I was blown away at the fact they were almost equal. Prices have gone up something like 30% since. house here with an asking price of $530k sold for over $700k recently.

if you're moving here to no longer be house poor... you might want to rethink that idea, or get it done soon. similar weather and worse traffic... not sure what the attraction is.

Seattle and Portland already have protests about gentrification... so don't expect a warm welcome either. ;)
I made it too based on a StackOverflow answer a few years ago, but this one is probably much better (I hadn't even put a package.json at the time). However, the SO thread is really interesting, I suggest you give it a look if you're interested in how to solve this issue.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13637892/how-does-the-alg...

[2] https://github.com/arcanis/colibri.js
IIRC when I studied physics I think they tried to tell us that there was something profound about the fact that time-invariant systems conserve kinetic energy and space-invariant systems conserve momentum, … during the first year, but I don't think anyone was mindblown. Then during the second year we started learning about generalized coordinates and Lagrangians and I think we did learn the Noether theorem then (probably just about one semester later).

However I think I really fell in love with it when I understood gauge invariance.

In general I think you can always try to tell your students things a little early to impress them, but it rarely works until they can work out the math themselves. I remember our professor in introductory quantum mechanics saying something along the lines of: "and now you see why quantum mechanics is just Markov chains in imaginary time", but until another professor showed us the Wick rotation in the context of path integrals nobody really appreciated that even if it could have been in our grasp earlier.

I guess this has come out way denser than I meant it to be, but my point is that you can always try to introduce something a little bit earlier, but you'll often find that your students don't want to learn some diluted crap, they want the real deal!
Great project! May I ask how do you guys choose which libraries to track?
Crystal 0.7.2 released
Devops Engineer - Minted
What you will do:
Automate all the things - Vagrant/Docker for developers, continuous integration, auto-scaling, monitoring and alerting, and probably a whole lot more.
Make developers happy - by automating everything and providing visibility deeper down the stack in all environments, developers will shower you with love (the part of love shall be played by animated gifs and imaginary chat room points.)
Improve & refine support systems to help our developers build more robust applications

What we offer:
In many ways, Minted is a blank canvas. We are still building our brand new systems and infrastructure, and can do so using the very latest in technologies and best practices.
A deep hatred of firefighting and hero culture. If something is causing alerts, we want to kill it so that it can never hurt any of us again.
An enlightened engineering team who share our uptime and performance goals, and who have a mandate to not only fix root causes but to prove it with graphs. It is awesome.
Did I mention graphs? We strive to be a data-driven company, though we are not where we want to be on the engineering side. What this means is there is the opportunity to build out cutting edge monitoring and metrics collection infrastructure.

About you:
A compulsion to make everything repeatable and automated
Willingness to cross over into the app stack - we don’t believe in silos
Friendly, patient, and understanding - BOFHs need not apply
Experience with configuration management - the particular system is not important, but we use Puppet
A love for documentation, and a compulsion to leave things better than how you found them.

Bonus points:
Linux systems tuning
AWS experience
MySQL system and query tuning
Vagrant/Hashicorp tools
Continuous integration and delivery
Modern logging & metrics systems, e.g. Logstash, Graphite
Scaling Elasticsearch
Docker
San francisco or remote
On a related note, I think depending on ad revenues is not such a sustainable practice. Its a feast or famine strategy and eventually a lot of businesses are going to realize that. Targeted marketing improves this, but the greater the noise, the more our brains learn to ignore it. Subscription or sponsorship models are a tougher sell but provide more loyalty and consistency for free content.
Code-canon: A catalog of code worth reading
Google Glass isn't crappy AR. It has no AR capabilities whatsoever, nor has Google ever suggested that they have any interest in adding AR to future revisions. Totally different product.
The Agile Inception Deck
ReCode Acquired by Vox Media After 18 Months
JavaScript: Why does 00.0 cause a syntax error?
It's similar, but not quite the same. The built-in components work like this (although I'm not deeply knowledgeable of Unity internals or anything, just have been working with it for a few years).

But any game-specific logic written by a developer, while technically using the same component system, is usually written from an individual scene object's perspective rather than from a "system processing components associated with various game objects in bulk" perspective.

You can still write code that looks like a system, but the framework really encourages you to attach those scripts to scene objects, so you end up basing a lot of logic around the structure of the game object hierarchy.

(The alternative to putting a script on a game object is to have one Master script of a scene that delegates updates to several subsystems, but you lose the benefit of things such as disabling a gameobject while the scene is running to temporarily disable a system.)

For instance, you'll see a lot of addons (example Fabric: http://www.tazman-audio.co.uk/?page_id=73#! ) that use prefabs to create hierarchical data even when it's not necessarily appropriate. But it's the path of least resistance.

When you go to implement gameplay logic, you're usually not writing systems as rasmusrn describes, you're writing behavior scripts on the roots of game objects hierarchies (not unlike Actors as you'd see in Unreal and other game engines).

Trying to make a bunch of click-together MonoBehaviours usually makes a mess.

These slides give a good overview of generally good ways to not shoot yourself in the foot in Unity, and it mentions this actor-ish approach: http://slides.com/cratesmith/how-to-use-unity#/

The hope (or at least my hope after working with Unity for a while) with the design rasmusrn is using is that composing per-entity data is more flexible than composing per-entity behavior.
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Is there a reason why you rescale the font size when the user inputs too much text? Changing it so that you'd have to really dig deep in some menu in order to put 200 words on each slide seems like it would be a big improvement. Beamer and the various HTML5 backends to Pandoc all do this and I really like it.
... and therefore, anyone peddling a perpetual motion machine must be scientifically illiterate or believe that their audience is, because what they claim to have goes against all of the physical theories which get verified every time we launch a rocket, build a bridge, or throw a damned baseball.

I think we should teach a lot more things using the basic framework of "baloney detection": Use what you know to prove that this claim is either bogus or potentially true. Show your work.
Looking at every pixel of the image is quite slow (especially if you need to process multiple images, and more so when you're dealing with old devices, such as iPad 2). Resizing them is often "good enough" for the majority of use cases.
Interesting, you're right! For me, the image of the bird (4th one) shows the most variation. The cat changes a bit too; the others seems relatively stable.

At first I thought it would be the same, since the percentage of each color should be roughly equivalent; but then again, the images themselves are being resampled on resize, so there may be individual pixel colors in one size image that aren't in another.

Still, though, the point of a proper resampling algorithm is to maintain the same general perceived appearance of the image at different sizes; assuming it is doing this well, you should expect to see the same dominant colors.

Of course, the algorithm also might just be sampling every nth pixel, which would mean a different sample group depending on the size.
Good to hear! I've seen enough cases of devs not bothering to explain why something is the way it is to marketers/management (it can be a hassle) and simply remove or add what is asked for. Wanted to make sure it was known why that was there.

Cheers!
Solicitor General Advises Supreme Court to Not Grant Cert in Google vs. Oracle
But this is a PDF, not a PowerPoint deck. So it would seem to "prefute" (pre-refute) the point.

And your post makes the counterpoint: The problem is with the 'lack of design training that runs rampant in humanity', not with the presentation tool.
I'm an old timer. I remember a time before PowerPoint existed - and we did communicate with reports, whiteboard, flip-charts, and talks. Trust me - PowerPoint is better.

If nothing else, if forced people to put more thought into their talk - since they had to write down something on those slides. And it allowed for the potential to create something persuasive with graphs and sequence to accompany a talk. That really didn't exist.

And use a Word Processor for talks? I've done that - it can be done, but it doesn't compare to a specialized tool you can use to put together a slide set in a matter of minutes.
It looks like they've at least pulled the link to request transcripts online.

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I carry 20,000mah anker in my bag most days. Charges 5-12v up to 3A, good stuff. Charges my blackmagic camera too
I can definitely relate. The problem is, developers being a stubborn lot, "because I feel like we should do this" is a hard argument to win :).

I try to tease out the exact reasons when I feel that way about something. It can be difficult though.
Getting Event Sponsors
Does anyone have a tested framework of how to get event sponsors?
I was about to start working on an identical tool as my side-project.

Couple of thoughts:

* Devise a "pagerank for packages" algorithm - number of Github stars, how actively they're maintained, number of issues/contributors/etc.

* For monetization offer a service similar to https://www.versioneye.com (found out about them on HN as well, after I had the idea). You're going to crawl the packages either way.

Best of luck!
Imagine if all government software was open source and significant bug reports and contributions were rewarded with cash... I hope we reach some happy medium between that and what we have today in the future.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, [...]. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

The original title is good "Oktopod: Dev Kit for Your Robo-ideas!" is you drop the final exclamation mark. In some cases it's a good idea to tweak the title a little, but in this case it has all the relevant information.
Projects are found via the apis provided by all the package managers that are tracked, Libraries watches rss feeds of new and updated packages on places like rubygems and npm and adds them from there.
You can buy them for less than $20. I bought a refurbished Tracfone LG 505C about 2 years ago. I use it daily. The battery lasts about a week.

Edit: I paid $9.99 for the phone.
It may be true, generally speaking. I am 25, have mortgage, and am not working on a dating app. Although, I did give an SMS-based dating service a shot for a day and then put it aside.
Multiple commenters have said that ~100,000 is "too low".

The number quoted in the article is 104,000.

Obvious questions:

1. Is 104,000 the exact count, or has it been rounded?

2. Did the hackers stop when their success count got there?

3. Does nobody else think it is funny that 1040 is a factor of 104,000? :)

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because the real cost of labour the creator must put in to receive royalties on every new sale or performance tends to zero.

Of course, but you have much higher up front costs than the baker, who can bake less during periods of slack demand. You can't paint half of a picture and sell it for half the price you wanted to get. I'm not sure why you think a commodity model is even relevant here. An artistic work has a lot more in common with the erection of a building, which involves large amounts of labor and capital up front, in exchange for an ongoing stream of economic rents over the longer term.

(I'm discounting the cost of marketing etc., which in most cases has only a second-order effect and doesn't change the final result.)

A very dubious assumption. Marketing matters quite a lot IMHO, and certainly as far as films go there's a pretty strong correlation between the marketing budget and the probability of making a financial return. You micht like to check out the reference sources in this article, particularly Vogel: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/storyality-24-on...

Add to this the income which copyright brokers receive from media distributors etc. without having any part in the creative process, and things become very unbalanced real quick.

But it's not just creative, it's administrative as well. If you're a writer you don't want to spend half your time trying to audit your distributors.

It would be much better if the artist could make dealings directly with the audience

That's not realistic in the case of literary works, because you're still up against the copying problem - the text of a book is very easy to copy and it is the product itself.

As Syd Barrett put it: "All middle men are bad."

Much as I admire Syd Barrett artistically, have you considered that he was a) literally incompetent in the mental health sense, and b) that his economic wellbeing was to a large extent dependent on the good will of his former bandmates who ensured that he received royalty monies from record sales? Without their efforts as middlemen he'd probably have ended up institutionalized or homeless.

There's a romantic viewpoint that middlemen in the arts world are all parasitic. They're not; usually the relationship is much more symbiotic, with different parties bringing different skills to the table. So people in Hollywood may grumble about agents in a general sense, but nobody who has one is in a hurry to go back to repping themselves unless they get so rich and famous as to set up their own production company, in which case they hire people to do a lot of the same work.
There are plenty of replacement LiFePO4 auto batteries available, and they work very well without needing much in the way of support circuitry. I think that it's mostly cost keeping lead-acid around (as well as operating temperature range and lifetime), not that nothing is suitable for the application.

The headlamps on a moped probably flicker because it uses a magneto instead of an alternator as its power source.
My (also non-expert) understanding of current serious thought about black holes is that the event horizon is conjectured to be arbitrarily hot in the frame of reference of an observer hovering arbitrarily close to it. In the frame of reference of an observer falling into the black hole it's just empty space, and in the frame of reference of a distant observer the firewall is redshifted out of existence and only the Hawking temperature of the black hole is visible. But the existence of the frame of reference in which the event horizon reaches the Planck temperature suffices to justify the Schrodinger's cat style resolution of the paradox.
> For developers, Cordova/PhoneGap-style tools are not a panacea either. It's easy to get an 80% solution done, but then you run into problems with mobile browser performance.

That is a thing of the past. At the current rate of smartphone/phablet specs growth the differences with desktop are laughable (you can currently get 64bit octacore@1.7Ghz mobile devices with 3Gb of RAM for around $100) [0]. And this will only continue to grow. 16core and 32cores will be here in 2-3 years [1].

IMO, hybrid apps are already the present. The difficult times when we didn't have the required performance in our pockets are long gone... and frameworks like Ionic are really convenient for certain use cases.

> browser differences between devices (even Android devices with the same base OS can have very different web view browser engines)

That has been already solved with xwalk [2]... but again, this will be irrelevant in a couple of years.

[0] http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_152602.html

[1] http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130304235830_Pres...

[2] https://crosswalk-project.org/
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It's really come a long way since launch.

http://typographica.org/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-f...

Kudos to Stephen Coles for keeping that article updated as the font has evolved and improved.
Qmon:a quick and secure alternative to nagios with focus on simplicity
Except "over-architected mess" is what any generic thing is, if you don't need it.

It's very, very easy to convince yourself that a particular extensibility point is "obviously" going to be needed down the road. It's very, very easy to be wrong about this, and extraordinarily common to find out that your attempt at making it generic now makes it harder to extend in the way you actually need it extended.

It turns out if you make things bone-dumb to begin with, they're never really that hard to extend later on. Anyone can refactor really ridiculously simple stuff.
It seemed so easy when they were at the WSJ... A year and a half later they're trading their business for shares in Vox and a paycheck. Interesting times for media news lately. I'm not sure how Vox is going to work out long term, they're spending VC like it's going out of style.
Which would also imply that you cannot communicate with a person who jumped in right after you did. I think your model does not account for the jumper having mass and his communication photons being massless.

The reason the photons cannot escape is not because they are affected by the gravity, but because the space they must traverse is stretched and twisted to such an extent that to an observer inside the event horizon, the entire outside universe presents an infinitesimally small target that is receding rapidly. Anything you might manage to shoot out would be indistinguishable from the Hawking radiation coming from the event horizon.

On a closer scale, you could probably communicate uphill, but the conversation would be like an ent talking to a chipmunk. At some point, you simply can't target your uphill counterparty accurately enough, or with enough bandwidth to hold their interest.
Outside of deliberately "tainting" matches, I don't really see a big problem with what you said on your blog.

Back when I was in the dating pool, it would have been nice to get matches on all checkboxes, but life doesn't really work like that. Nobody's perfect and if you go onto a site expecting a perfect match (yeah, I'm sure many, many do so!), you're going to be sorely disappointed.

e.g., I hate cigarettes, but I married a smoker. In this case love made me see past something that would have been a dealbreaker. I'm an atheist, but I've dated religious people.

But to the point about losing customers, that's an interesting one. One the one hand, the successful matches will probably send business your way, but will they make up for the ones you lose due to "success?" I don't have data, but my gut tells me that even with great matching software, it will take people so long to meet someone who causes them to stop using the site, that you're better off giving them great matches to keep them coming back until that happens.
First, let's disabuse you of the notion that you "know" anything about the future. You can only guess about the future.
"The utility of switching lanes while stuck in traffic"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622626

Counterintuitively, in stop-and-go traffic everybody spends more time
watching others pass them than passing others.

Let's say you have to drive 100 km. Half of the distance your lane
moves at 100 km/h, and the other half your lane creeps along at
10 km/h. So you'll spend 50 / 100 + 50 / 10 = 5.5 hours in the
car, at an average speed of 18.18 km/h.

For every one minute you spend passing other cars, you'll spend
10 minutes watching other cars whiz by you!

Even though the fast and slow distances are evenly distributed,
all drivers perceive that they're in the wrong lane.
@sandis the search does use a thing I've been calling "SourceRank", I blogged about it here: https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db...