skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it also depends on the class size. If there are only 10 students, then it's very risky to pick 6 points, since you have to be the only one who picks it. But if there are 1,000 students, then it'd make perfect sense to pick 6 points. Basically, the less of an effect your own decision has on the group outcome, the more rational it is to pick the selfish decision.

This is why I find voting hard to justify if you view it pragmatically (even though I do it). It's mathematically improbable that my vote will make any difference. Then why do it? Sure, if everyone thought that, it would be bad. But it doesn't matter what other people do: your vote still won't matter either way. It's such a huge pool of voters that it's literally impossible to put yourself in a position where your vote makes a difference. Basically, it's important that people vote. But it's not important that a particular person votes.

Can anyone convince me why I in particular should vote in an election of a quarter billion people? Are there any reasons other than following idealistic principles? I mean, following principles is important, but I was wondering if there are more pragmatic arguments.
Well I guess they'll learn by their mistakes...
It's an interesting problem - the issue is that our trials are both money & time based ($300 for 60 days). So technically you've "used" your trial even if you do nothing for 2 months.

We do appreciate the feedback and are looking hard at the right next way to solve this. If it wasn't for bitcoin miners and/or bot nets, this would all be a lot easier :(

Full disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
Just an application of Poe's law to help you see the pot calling the kettle black about diction.
It's funny how many people are saying "oh just get everyone organized and have a lottery/auction". Yes, if we could perfectly organize large groups of people we could solve the tragedy of the commons. Unfortunately, organizing large groups of people is hard.

Even in the scenario where everyone is a rational actor (ie, fantasyland), effectively communicating to a group of > 20 people and obtaining unanimous consent is an exceedingly difficult problem.
By involving the auction you are adding an additional incentive to not blow it for everyone - you are getting money from the person who will get higher extra grade than you.
Like I said, what happened in the past doesn't matter. All the employees see is someone taking the bulk of the reward, for not doing much at all. Odds are, we had to replace all of their shit code, or they weren't able to write any of it to start with.
This is not really a platform. It's a consulting shop, with money to buy TC space
>> But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel?

I think that's sort of the point. You do whatever any other engineering team does when faced with the same challenges. The question is what is Gigster doing differently that allows you to achieve consistent on-time, on-budget results? Because if you have that formula, you could probably make a lot more money just consulting with existing dev shops on how to implement it.
I'm surprised no rich student ever just offered ahead of the tally that they'd pay everyone $x if no one choose 6, where x is more valuable than 4 points. He now has the ability to safely choose 6, and everyone else is paid for their cooperation.
> They could do nothing about the IBM PC and they even knew that IBM was mimicing their business strategy, and yet there was nothing they could do

Actually, they could have done what one of the founders suggested, and actually did after leaving the company: create an IBM compatible system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems
Doesn't take into account the student's standing in the class. If I am confident with the quality of my term paper and believe it is worthy of an A, what do I care if I get additional points?
No, they are being sued for distributing third party commentary and analysis of the law.

http://ia801504.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.gand.218...
Jeff Bezos's Space Company Is Now Taking Sign-Ups for Rocket Ship Rides
So, you said elsewhere "Generally you can expect a Gigster project to be way cheaper (we've seen 10X in some cases) ", and yet your devs are making 10-20k? That does not add up.
This article pokes slightly at Tom Friedman (whom I personally can't take seriously), so here's a little bit of why:

"Friedman supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing that the establishment of a democratic state in the Middle East would force other countries in the region to liberalize and modernize."[1]

"Nevertheless, until his piece dated August 4, 2006, his columns remained hopeful to the possibility of a positive conclusion to the Iraq conflict [...] Friedman chided George W. Bush and Tony Blair for "hyping" the evidence, and stated plainly that converting Iraq to democracy "would be a huge undertaking, though, and maybe impossible, given Iraq's fractious history"."[1]

"his recurrent assertion that "the next six months" will prove critical in determining the outcome of the conflict. A May 2006 study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting cited 14 examples of Friedman's declaring the next "few months" or "six months" as a decisive or critical period"[1]

Anywho, just a bit of explanation for why they might be noting him, since the article doesn't strictly require him to make the theory work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman
14 Open-Source Tools for Developer Tool Companies
I wonder why they went with a "paid beta" vs. a traditional free beta.
There are a group of men who joined the profession because of the exclusionary atmosphere: it makes them feel special and elite. You can see this in the study of interest in computer science classes depending on classroom atmosphere: the hyper-masculine condition has a rise in male interest at the same time women's interest falls dramatically (http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim...)

There are some people who just don't want anything to change and resent the effort required to think about people who are different from them, but there are others who have ego invested in maintaining the exclusionary atmosphere of the profession. I suspect, though I don't have a citation, that those people are also more likely to participate in forums like Hacker's News that reinforce that sense of being special.
I've used both, and Gimp falls flat in the implementation
of the features that it does have.

I've also used both, regularly and for many years, and my experience is the opposite. As I keep saying, Gimp's UI and portability is what makes me keep using Gimp despite also having Adobe CC installed on my workstation.

And that's where most open source software completely
falls down, because getting UI and polish into an app
takes tons of time and experimentation to get right.

I could just as easily say that this is where proprietary software falls down because software vendors sell their wares on features, not polish. As a professional software engineer, I know this first hand. PS continues to get feature after feature but its basic rectangle select tool is still a complete pain to use. Last time I checked, the Gimp team flat out refused to add support for 3D rendering. It took them along time to come round to the idea of adding vectors.

Actually, if you look at Gimp's development history, you will find that their approach for a long time now has been to work very hard on making the features they deliver as powerful and usable as possible.

This is partly why features are added so slowly. The other reason is because the development team are a handful of people who work on the tool in their spare time.

Yet despite this, they have built an excellent image manipulation tool in Gimp itself, they've developed the GTK+ UI toolkit that is the backbone of the excellent Gnome and XFCE desktop environments and countless applications. They've also developed the excellent GEGL library, the non-destructive rendering engine built precisely to enable adjustment layers (or their equivalent) in Gimp that you can't live without, which in the meantime has enabled the rapid development of Darktable, a very capable alternative to Lightroom.

In a futile attempt to keep this conversation on topic, I'll just point out that both GEGL and GTK are licensed under the LGPL, while Gimp and Darktable are both licensed under the GPL.

Just because you don't find a feature important...

That's got nothing to do with it. I started working with Gimp because it was the only tool that ran on Linux that was capable enough to do what I required.

A user of a tool like Gimp or Photoshop makes the application work for him. Before adjustment layers existed, Photoshop users duplicated layers and blended them with the original to get the flexibility they required. I do the same in Gimp. As Gimp introduces more powerful features, I will take advantage of them.
I think the point is that most managers won't work for just 10%
Everybody likes parfaits.
having worked on & maintained & architected 5 different social backends and failed at 4 of them, here are my key take aways;

data storage:
* keep data structure as simple as possible,
* do not go with the hypes, stick to old?, proven technologies
* have your db constraints as strict as possible in early stages, later you can remove them as for performance improvements
* test the key features of your database choices(does transparent sharding really works?), you will see them failing...
* you dont need a graph db, you need a graph-like access layer to your data
* your >1 month old data wont be accessed/modified at all (mostly) chose your shard key accordingly
* keep duplication of your data as small as possible in early stages

indexing:
* >1 month old thing might not apply here
* ACL can be problematic/hard to manage, try to keep it simple.

queuing:
* to me this is one of the most important elements, if you want a simple way to keep every component in sync with others, use event publishing, really.
* have your re-try mechanism, dead letter queue, delayed processing in place.

> We can use ActiveMQ, which is the most reliable queuing software.
a very bold statement :)

caching:
* think your cache invalidation strategy from the beginning
* keep your immutable and dynamic data cache separately in your code (at least visually)
* try not to mix your business logic and cache code

> We should be ready for anything in the order of billions of queries per seconds.
if only you are next/already facebook...
This assumes you haven't already maxed out the GPA value for the course. If you already have a 92 (I went to a school that didn't have "A+", YMMV), there's no reason to increase your grades, and anyone else increasing their grade has the potential to devalue yours.

Note that this is fixed by just averaging your actual grades out of 100 to form your GPA, instead of mapping from a 0-100 range to an enumeration to a 0-4 scale then averaging the results.
The anonymous nature of this removes the reputation cost for picking the six points.

Collusion isn't possible because there is no penalty for breaking an agreement, and the signals it creates (everyone is picking 2) only makes rationally self-motivated individuals more likely to break it.
Great, except votes are anonymous.
User-scaling of the viewport is thankfully not the only way of enlarging text inside of a web page. It's possible to design a site that allows the user to change the font-size of relevant UI controls without rendering the layout wider than the device screen (causing the user to have to pan around to read it).

If you're not providing a better experience than a fully working desktop site, then you shouldn't attempt responsive design at all and let mobile users use a non-targeted but working site. I only shut of user-scaling on sites where the targeted mobile experience is better than a scaled fully-working desktop layout.
Washington is fairly far from NY, but I wonder how these people commenting on how it is not distasteful would feel with a 9/11 mascot for a school team. Specially with bad puns about planes hitting buildings and some light-hearted representations of the tragedy.

You see, some people are proud of the 9/11 attacks, even if they did not got to participate in it directly. They may not use the world "liberal revisionist" for people they know who do not agree, but I'm pretty sure they will have some name to call them.
Yes, it's true that it sort of benefits everyone in the class vs people who did not take the class, but some classes are easy A's and some aren't, and everyone knows that. If the class becomes a slightly easier A because we all picked 2 points, then the effect will be relatively small. It would be a better experiment if he was handing out cash, even small amounts of cash.
Because many people who paid attention to the evidence were horrified? Just because something is legal doesn't make it not an example of sexism.
Gitfiti – GitHub pixel art
Oh yeah, good ole Mixminion. Yeah, the mix networks were the most promising. Thanks for the paper. That sure is a near-dream team of writers. I'll read it later.
Glad someone already said what I was going to say about the Blockchain tech. There's no security in that, especially given the feudal nature of the bitcoin market (now and going forward).
I can make my code arbitrarily fast if it doesn't have to be correct.
There where a bunch of us trying it. We created a corporate version for web site annotation and collaboration. We lost our best chance for funding just as the market cratered.

Having seen several more since then I don't think the market is there for it. People still rather print/screen capture/write an email/annotate PDF versions, about changes in websites rather than use an annotation tool on the page it seems.
Doesn't matter if there's a curve. Your grades are still only meaningful compared to your classmates. (ok, assuming you're not in danger of actually failing the class)
Easier just google "Sleep Is the New Status Symbol For Successful Entrepreneurs wsj" (note the wsj at the end). The link clears the paywall.
Works using Bluetooth LE for privacy, nice. And you received some TC coverage [1], congrats! My issue would be, how to give my position only to a subgroup of my FB friends, since I would only want to advertise availability during certain times to certain people.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/nowy-friends-app/
Random example from a popular project:

def bimap[C, X[_, _], D](g: Bijection[C, D])(implicit F: Bifunctor[X], evF: F[B] =:= Id[B], evG: G[A] =:= Id[A]): Bijection[X[A, C], X[B, D]] =
bijection(
F.bimap(_)(to(_), g.to(_)): Id[X[B, D]]
, F.bimap(_)(from(_), g.from(_)): Id[X[A, C]]
)
Exactly. Curve or no curve it doesn't matter.
New Chrome for iOS scans for beacons broadcasting URLs
I'm not defending Twitter, just pointing out a basic fact. I have no real horse in this particular dogfight.
What a misleading title. If you actually read the statement of claim posted at that link, you see that Georgia doesn't object to the laws being posted online for free, they do that themselves. But, they hired LexisNexis to produce an annotated code, and Public Resource is blatantly copying all the annotations. This is exactly what copyright is supposed to protect.

If Public Resource wants to they can make their own annotations.
I suspect the saying, "don't be so open minded that your brain falls out" is a threat about having only fashionable thoughts, a fashion statement, if you will.
From the gigster faq "Profits come later when we are at scale"

From the faq.

1. This is dangerous if there is no clear plan on what competitive advantage scale gets you.

- Is it network effects?
- Is there some other benefit that i am missing? Would it drive down the marginal costs of the project once you have an existing library or ways to optimize the process?

2. I have a theory, running at a loss, free or with no bus model only makes sense in a few cases:

- strong network effects (fb, twitter etc)
- High LTV for customer, together with low churn.
- Proxy for demand/supply. For e.g Solving a customers problem on one side. This may be low cost or even free, eventually you bring in the other side of the market
- The scale gives you access to data that no-one else can get. This allows you to be much more efficient / cross subsidise etc.
what if you choose 6 and explain to your classmates that "It feels good to be cooperative both from a strategic and moral perspective" and the whole commons thing and convince them to choose 2?
I thought you were just being a stickler referring to Mechanical Turk, but then I saw the PDF, and it didn't actually refer to a casino in Turkey. Wow, this is some next level confusion right there. What were the authors thinking?
Given the popularity of this on HN, you should consider adding a link to your jobs site.
It doesn't matter because the requirement is NO ONE choose it. There is nothing to gain by selecting 6. The second you are writing 6 down on your paper, you better hope the 4 extra points are worth more to you than $x because you have absolutely invalidated the game, not "maybe" invalidated it.

If x is big enough to trivialize 4 points, I am pretty sure no one would choose it (or at least fell well below 10%). For example, if Richy Rich was in your class and offered $1million to EVERYONE as long as NO ONE chose 2, I am quite certain that even the most selfish actors would not write down 6. If he offered 50 cents than I'm pretty sure some people would. Binary search and you'll know how much a point costs.

(apologies if you commented before my edit)
Interesting... One further question: when does it recalibrate—is it opportunistically, when it is already running past the reflective strip (I'm guessing in-line with the black displaying), or every so often (after each image cycle)?

One workaround that could better hide the inaccuracy would have been to only have smooth colour transitions on the ribbons (including between black and white), as it appears to be a hard transition between blank and white that causes it to be so noticeable with the small positional error.
Plausible explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931765 . In short, a certain filesharing client serves content on http://127.0.0.1 and links to that are distributed around the web.
Sure sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how many people would actually put processing time into this project. Maybe it would be possible for it to take off if it had a practical purpose and one or more universities started teaming up.
I often feel more inclined to upvote them because, in the end, YC created this community and I feel their incubees deserve a bit of that reflected glory.

It's my way of saying thanks, and I suspect other people's too.
As a C# developer I am tempted to buy, but this paid beta thing is kind of scary
I'd DDoS your up arrow if I could. I'm not a woman... but after discovering that I have a severe allergy to alcohol I don't drink at all anymore and there is no way I would feel comfortable attending an event that was so focused on drinking. On top of that, even as a man I would feel unsafe in such an environment... unfathomable to me how it would feel if I was a woman.
Ocean fertilization is an idea discussed from oceanographers since the last twenty years at least.
Estimote founder here.

Few days ago Google released their new, open beacon format - eddystone and today just updated Chrome for iOS that can scan for beacons broadcasting Eddystone URLs.

You can read more on our blog how to start broadcasting URL using beacons and how to test it on Chrome for iOS.
Wikipedia has some here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

Not the OP, but I enjoyed it, and think people should read or listen to it even though it contains some inaccuracies.
That depends largely on the implementation and libraries. Some make extensive use of CLOS in I/O for example.
Perhaps some people can draw the distinction between a sneak attack on a civilian target by a group of fanatics, and a technology developed during wartime to be used against a declared enemy, with the intent ending such conflict so their friends and family could return home.

Or maybe we're just fated to become the Hypersensitive, Hyperventilating States of America at this point.
Amiga was well represented until the late 90s when the print magazines died off and that was the death knell. Both Amiga and Atari were in Computer Shopper too, albeit token pages.
Exactly. No need for the mob to find and exploit the better art majors anymore. ;)
- You're not enlarging the font size, you're scaling the entire viewport. When thew viewport is larger than the screen things like modals (or other UI elements) may not appear where they are supposed to, if at all for the user

- slows down the time browsers respond to a tap by 300ms

- makes text difficult to read by the time the font is large enough because line lengths and line breaks happen off the screen now, so you're constantly panning to read your text

- users don't complete as many forms when they can scale the viewport, completing out forms is an integral step of nearly all online business models in some capacity

- without scaling disabled, a second tap within 300ms of an initial tap will zoom in on that section of the page. When developing web apps with game features I want to be sure that if the user taps too fast the page stays put

- User-scaling was not intended as a feature for mobile websites, but rather as a stop-gap to allow smartphone users to view desktop sites written by designers who had not prepared their site for mobile visitors. It's never been the plan or roadmap for mobile sites to use the zooming feature, and Apple provided developers a way to turn it off and encouraged them to do so if they add targeted support for mobile
W3Schools is just... Better
> Ted's visionary ideas permeate our thinking today.

Yes and no. A mutated version of them that turns out to work better, perhaps.
Agreed... though I imagine if you wait until full release they'll probably release a trial version.
And, at the very least, thinking about the human mind as an object will lead to greater advances in artificial intelligence. IMO.

My mind will change when my brain does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
I'll put it in a less charitable way - because those few e-mails are probably worth more to the company that a month of your work.

I find those "The Dog in the Manger" assertions weird. Most businesses are started by people wanting to make big money - often to secure not only themselves, but their families and causes they care about. Can't blame them, because frankly, even 8h of work week most of us are trapped in seems like a ridiculous waste of life. So the system promises them more money for less effort if they shoulder the risks and initially work their asses off to build a business. They do so, and now we should renege on the promise? Sounds like a great idea if you want to ensure the next people decide not to bother starting anything.
"Bitcoin solved the Byzantine Generals problem, but it hasn’t solved the Byzantine Core Developers problem."
If the document were html, something like epubcfi might work better than regular expressions. This is what the epub people are recommending for a similar use case - sharing highlights and notes in epub books whose content may be updated.

For locating links/comments from people you don't know, I'd imagine a service like Google. Something that indexes the entire web and answers queries about which links overlay this document. I'd think they'd have to be ranked somehow. (Technically, Google already does this with "link:http://..." queries, but standard HTML links don't reference document fragments.)
Trust me, dozens of people think the same day after day but they don't have the privilege of choosing their own titles for submissions.