skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What will they actually optimize for is an excellent question. We have plenty of central planning, its just most people don't like it very much. Look at the intentional destruction and elimination of the american middle class or the general population of Greece or how the criminal justice system treats black people in the USA. Statistically, they're unlikely to optimize for you, for most values of you.

Also don't forget the somewhat more intractable philosophical problem of whats actually good for you vs what you superficially want vs what you actually want, and our recent history of spending trillions on PR to intentionally confuse people about those three. I think we can safely assume that it'll be very cheap and easy to keep almost everyone unhappy about "the" central plan, which will be weaponized by factions.

Looking at how the disease of Puritanism has infected most of our culture pretty deeply, you can expect a similar meme infection in a centrally planned economy. So even assuming there is a "True" ideal state, we'll have infections and need an immune system. Merely computing faster or more complicated models is like assuming yeast are diseased and whales are disease free merely because of size and complication differential. What we do know from biology is the more mono-cultural and rigid something is, the more likely it is to get wiped out, and the analogy to central planning would be it'll inevitably get wiped out by meme diseases, so the best long term central plan might ironically be to not centrally plan.
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I thought it cannot get worse than dynamic languages, but then they invented document databases.
This is a nice saying, but there are other classes of fools and fanatics who are also full of doubt. How do you know if you're any one of those?

SELECT * FROM Everyone WHERE doubt=true && (foolishness=true || fanaticism=true)
This video from Numberphile goes in depth about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obg7JPd6cmw . The guy talking, is Persi Diaconis, is the main author of the paper this article is based upon.

He also has done research on the randomness of shuffling cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJubaijQbI . Pretty cool stuff!
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What the hell is “idertion”?
Good point. Download the script, read it, add it as a function in your bashrc if you trust it.
Yep; that's the line pretty much taught by Disney movies. And true it is, but much truer when you have the backup and the contacts that the average wealthy family (not Scrooge McDuck-wealthy, just wealthy) has, just like the real world teaches us every day.
I think the article's point is that, if you compare banners to physical billboards, then you have the same issue but the billboard still works. So even your theoretical mom and pop store is getting value out of the impressions.
Would be good if the browsers could offer more sane styled default elements. Why do I have to create a iOS like switch myself!? This is so often needed and a classic checkbox is not sufficient from UI perspective.
They have for at least parts of their infrastructure but there was a time where they were heavily invested in Ruby on Rails just like Facebook and PHP. They could have chosen to work on the framework and Ruby itself to make things better, they chose to move on to greener pastures instead. As a Ruby developer I regret that didn't "pull a HHVM", would have made my life easier, just HHVM and the whole FB/HHVM/Hack ecosystem is making PHP devs' life easier.
Hi Colin!

I am in fact a native Brit.

I also did mean "bedraggled" (as in "disordered", "messy", or "dishevelled").

I always think that to be "bedraggled" is best described as when you walk in from the rain looking a bit like a wet rat.

Please do head to The Memo to read more bizarre and charming turns of phrase.

Best,

Kitty
What "awesome other things" will this accomplish? No research is being done with this, it's just pointing a radio dish at the sky and listening.
The issue with saying "Oh yeah the Apple Watch is killer for fitness!" is that everyone who is into fitness and who cares about tracking stuff already has a fitness tracker. And these fitness trackers are cheaper, smaller, hardier, less of a target for theft, don't need to be continuously paired with a phone, and don't interrupt a workout to notify of text or phone call.

Nobody's going to jump me on my morning run to steal my FitBit, but they damn well are gonna jump me for my Apple Watch. I'm not going to wear my Apple Watch doing something like Crossfit where it could easily get broken but I'll happily wear my Jawbone UP because I know it can handle it. Also, fitness wearables are simply more comfortable to wear while exercising compared to the Apple Watch because the watch is bigger with a much bigger band and watchface for sweat to get trapped behind plus it has to be worn tight to the skin to capture heart rate which greatly limits range of motion.
That and the trackpad is near impossible to use. I still only use the button-mouse-nipple thing within the keyboard...
I agree that knowing is a worthy cause, but never mind getting there we will not even be able to have anything even resembling a conversation if you have to wait hundreds of years for a response.

Edit: Does anyone know the current thinking of the odds that information could be able to travel faster than light, ie a wormhole? As far as I know they are very slim.
UCLA Health hacked, 4.5M victims
I'm not sure that would have been a solution.

Twitters problems are architectural, telecoms-scale ones. Rails is unlikely to ever be suited for problems like that, and it feels like any attempt to make it so would neuter some of the benefits it offers elsewhere.

On the other hand, PHP is just a language and doesn't enforce architectural style. A much better option for this sort of thing, IMO.
He is building a game from scratch, but he isn't using an engine, so by nature he is building an engine too. I am sure there would be a lot of reusable pieces in the end he could re-use.

I am watching the series too. I paid the $15 to support the efforts.
Apple surely did know that apps would be a hit.That's why they gave monopoly on the iPhone to at&t - the weaker carrier at the time, in exchange for(among others) full control over the app store.

And i'm sure if you've asked in a place like HN at the time - they would have talked about some killer app ideas and a marketplace.

And let's not forget - we've already had android wear for some time(and the pebble before) ,and yet no great ideas, even just as prototypes or discussions.
The one group of people for whom I feel exactly no sympathy in all of this is the owners, investors and employees of AshleyMadison.

Anyone who creates a site specifically to encourage and facilitate adultery deserves everything he or she gets.
...they actually forgot to account for Doppler shift when deploying the Huygens probe to Titan: as planned, the 5.5km/s velocity change as Huygens reentered Titan would have caused Cassini's receiver to lose lock on the signal (due to a timing change, rather than a frequency shift, IIRC). As Huygens had no storage and ran on batteries this would cause a total loss of mission.

The problem was discovered after launch, and corrected for --- not by reprogramming the receiver, but by changing Cassini's flight profile to reduce the Doppler shift: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/306/1
There are a lot of open source efforts to learn from

Cocos2d-x - cocos2d-x.org

They also have forums to jump in and ask questions: discuss.cocos2d-x.org

There is even a Programmers Guide to get you started: cocos2d-x.org/programmersguide

ping me on there if you want to chat about game stuff @slackmoehrle
It is a real word, though it's usually used as an adjective[1], and so sounds a bit strange when used as a verb ("to bedraggle")[2], as a native Brit myself, but I get the meaning ("to make bedraggled").

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bedragg...

[2] I think, my grammar is a bit weak
> In a hypothetical cyber-utopia or something, this could all just be a simple protocol (say, um, combining aspects of Direct Connect, BitTorrent, NNTP, Gopher, Bitcoin, GPG)

The article does mention p2p and decentralization, but the browser isn't whats holding that back. The client-server development paradigm is.

Currently, every dev making a p2p app has to roll their own platform because there's no standard (i.e. no LAMP, rails, or Heroku for deploying p2p apps). Some projects are working to change this, namely BitTorrent Maelstrom (which is a fork of Chromium with native support for magnet URLs, so it auto-renders an html/js package distributed via torrent); and http://ipfs.io (a sort of content-addressable p2p filesystem, or bittorrent on steroids).
They don't care about software, they care about ideology.
We had mice for a brief instant of computer history, then came the phones and tablets and e-readers and watches and TVs and voice interfaces and who knows what's next?

I worked on a web-based replacement for medical record software, and a primary complaint from users was that they wanted to be able to use the keyboard. These weren't Unix nerds or whatever, they were normal people who wanted to get stuff done effectively and ergonomically.

Nobody knows you can do keyboard navigation on Google, and anyhow that's just one website with a special custom JavaScript. Why keyboard navigation on the web is so horrible and embarrassing is an interesting question with lots of strands to investigate.

Why would CPUs be there to be wasted? Power efficiency is even an ethical imperative these days. If there are more efficient ways to do the basic tasks of computing and networking, that also allows CPUs to do more interesting and valuable things.

It's not about Emacs, that's just my personal idiosyncratic preference. Other people have other preferences, which is exactly the point. Note that Emacs works very well with many network standards, like email, Usenet, IRC, RSS, even BitTorrent. These are protocols that have enough semantic structure, openness, and simplicity to allow access with different clients that present the information in whatever way is optimal for the user.

As for most people not wanting to use terminals, how do you know? Maybe they just don't like the existing terminal interfaces. Unix commands are notoriously cryptic and shells don't help much. But if you showed a normal person a nice-looking shell where you could type "netflix breaking bad s3" and get a nice presentation back, would they really be depressed?
Oh, correcting grammatical mistakes is worth downvotes now? Off course, it's so much more positive to not comment errors. And that's not a typo.
This is really important. I really believe small-time projects have no business buying advertising online. It's just so incredibly low value that to scale it to meaningful results takes a lot more money than a person or small group of people bootstrapping their project on a shoestring can muster.

For example: my wife has written a sci-fi novel. You can buy an eBook or paperback on Amazon. We would have to spend a few thousand dollars a month to acquire a single, purchasing reader. In contrast, I can drop around $100 on a booth at a book fair and sell 50 copies in about 8 hours. And we get almost all of those people to sign up for the mailing list (and almost all of them remember their email address well enough and have good enough handwriting to ensure it's a valid address). I don't get any chance to reconnect with my paying customers with just Amazon.

No, I'm sure it doesn't scale as well, but we don't have anywhere near the money it would take to scale online advertising to even those low of sales numbers. But we have a large enough margin on the paperback (we're self publishing and print-on-demand has gotten pretty cheap) that we typically break even for the combined print/booth costs. Similarly, growing the mailing list for when we finish editing the next book (which will be any day now) has been a lot easier in-person.

From the article:

We use them to measure the efficacy of campaigns we run our way, using our metrics.
We’ll spend a million bucks on a literal f**k ton of banners (I mean, just billions
of the things, it’s crazy). And then we’ll do targeted brand sentiment and purchase-
intent surveys using our internal peeps, online along with companies like Nielsen and
Foresee, and offline with a bunch of (really quite awesome) companies you’ve never
heard of. Then we’ll see whether the banners moved the needle, and if they did (and
they often do), we’re happy.

In other words, if you're not already successful, this article isn't for you.
I've had a Pebble for a little while, and I'm extremely happy with it. I bought it last fall for under $100 on Black Friday. My main goal was to give this smartwatch craze a try before the Apple Watch came out. The Pebble also has some apps, although in much smaller quantities, and with fairly elementary UX. But the main thing for me was the notifications. That's the killer app for me.

It's hard to understand the value of this unless you use one. I frequently used to miss text messages, or even phone calls because I wouldn't feel my iPhone vibrating in my pocket. With the Pebble, I have the phone on "Do Not Disturb" at all times, and never miss any notification of importance. It's gotten to the point that the idea of having a device in your pocket broadcasting a loud noise to the entire surrounding seems like the stone age.. A little vibration on the wrist, and I know something happened. Then I can choose to take out my phone to react on it, or just postpone that.

I actually found that this increases the battery life on my phone (despite Bluetooth being turned on). Since I used to miss notifications (and would look at the time..), I would frequently take out my phone, unnecessarily lighting up the screen. No more!

So my idea of the perfect smartwatch is one that can provide decent notifications, and has a long battery life. I'd appreciate it if it looked good.. :)
Some background on the TKDL: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-battle-for-...

Kudos to the Indian government for coming up with an effective way to combat these bogus patents.
Seems like a huge waste of money to me. If you're interested in ET, why not invest in the space industry to advance our capabilities? It'll be hard to interact with ET when as a society we are essentially[0] earth bound.

[0] http://howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
> "That's left Dutch households with a bigger debt burden than anyone else in the euro zone."

Sure, this is a problem. But it is an unfair comparison if you do not put it against the (much bigger) savings held by the Dutch.

http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/macro-economie/publicati...
You could record it as mp4/webm and host it on a fileshare.

I use ShareX for my screenshotting/quick screen recording needs.
https://imgrush.com/

Based on the open source MediaCrush, may it rest in peace
This article talks a lot about how low click rates don't matter -- but that wasn't the issue brought up by the WSJ. The key take away is that, even if you ignore clicks, impressions are twice as expensive as your reporting suggests.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873249040045785371...

> An astounding 54% of online display ads shown in "thousands" of campaigns measured by comScore Inc. between May of 2012 and February of this year weren't seen by anyone, according to a study completed last month.

> Don't confuse "weren't seen" with "ignored." These ads simply weren't seen, the result of technical glitches, user habits and fraud.
There is no value to "impressions". Impressions != sales. Sales are the only thing we should be counting as value. Focusing on impressions is how we get click-fraud in the first place.
Does Dragula implement keyboard accessibility?
I agree, the Trackpoint was all I used. I always disabled the touchpad so I wouldn't accidentally brush it with my hand.
The big thing missing from this, in my opinion, is scoring. If you have a large list of items, having no idea which of the 500 matches is the likeliest match, given what users would expect, makes it kind of useless.

http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-...
This is a bad, flamebait article.

- TFL are very explicit that all transactions must take place on the same device. They make it clear that if your battery does run out, you will be charged.

- Its obvious that this would be required, since there is no way for TFL to magically match devices or payment methods.

In other words, I don't know what the hell you expect to happen.
Javascript required.
My only concern is for those who's credit card information was used illegally. If I were an employer, I'd be concerned about hiring someone who joined this site. Most jobs put people in a position where they could "get away" with theft or other illegal activities that could deeply harm the company and I can see employers being very concerned about hiring someone associated with the site. Those folks just had their lives ruined -- even when they manage to prove to the banks that the activity was illegal, they're now associated with this for life.

As for the "real users". I don't think the lack of sympathy stems from people's misunderstanding that extramarital affairs are not "illegal". Most marriages have an expectation of monogamy and most users of this site were doing so in order to enjoy that activity without getting caught. They were the ones who decided to engage in an activity that broke up their family and "destroyed lives". This just sped up the process of getting caught. Aside from the moral contract that was broken, the cheating spouse also exposed their partner to sexually transmitted diseases without their knowledge.

I think sites like this are despicable and people using them should expect that a site that caters to helping you "get away with things" is not a trustworthy place to do business. They actually charged $19 to have your profile "completely removed" and then didn't do what was paid for.

I don't condone "vigilante punishment" and a read of the comments seems focused more on the activities of the users than the condoning of how they were caught, but I completely understand the lack of sympathy. I doubt you'd see such a lack of sympathy if the site catered to helping individuals escape addiction or cope with mental illness -- where a similar desire for anonymity exists.

Two wrongs don't make a right, yes, but expecting the average married person to have a lot of sympathy for a site that caters to weak people who'd rather destroy their marriage than figure out how to be a good wife, husband, father or mother is a stretch. There are many corners of the internet that make a huge profit catering to vice that is not illegal but getting caught doing these things would have consequences outside of the law. Users engaged in that activity are choosing to accept the consequences and folks investing in sites like this need to fully understand that the site has a big red target on their back; it will probably be attacked successfully at some point in the future.

As an aside, why is it assumed that all cheaters are men?
The "vigilantes" frustrated me most with the comment Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion. Anecdotally, I know of several relationships broken up by infidelity. I doubt I'm alone, it seems to be the main reason that my friends' marriages end in divorce -- people don't like to be alone so rather than end their marriage, attempt to mature and figure out why they were so unhappy, they jump to another partner and start off a new relationship with no trust as the foundation. In my small dataset, almost all of the affairs were had by women.
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You could run BOINC or mine Bitcoin or something similar with your excess electricity assuming you also have idle computer hardware, at least until there's a better option for you.
What's wrong with a checkbox? We've been using checkboxes for a hundred years at least, between computer and paper forms, before this "switch" concept became popular.
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I find that the Nix package manager is much more principled, general, and promising as a model for robust and easy package managing. And with NixOS, it's a huge step towards a declarative and reversible way of managing a whole computer system.
This guy seems to fundamentally misunderstand a lot of things about drag and drop.
Any AngularJS binding for it ?
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Your math is off. Let's say software engineers make twice median income - probably low, but it simplifies things. Twice the income means way more than twice the savings rate. In fact, if we take $100K/year of income and subtract $30K/year of savings, we're still well above median income. That means the median-income earner with the same cost of living would be falling behind to the tune of $20K/year. And no, factoring in taxes doesn't change anything significant. Factoring in the costs of home ownership might, but not in the way you'd like. The fact is that a median-income earner might be able to save some sliver of their pay, while a software engineer can save that same sliver plus darn near the entire top half. One year of software-engineer savings is several years' worth of median-income savings.

That's a huge difference in terms of willingness to assume risk. Let's take two people who have each worked seven years saving $30K/year before spending $30K on a business that takes two years to fail. The software engineer could devote themselves full time and still come out with $180K (not counting interest) in their retirement account. The median-income earner can devote only spare time because $30K isn't even enough to live on for two years, and at the end his retirement account is wiped out. One risk is a trivial one that most people would accept. The other is a yawning chasm. As the authors said, willingness to risk that much is strongly correlated with already being pretty wealthy.

There's only one word to describe the idea that risking $30K is no big deal. That word is "privilege" and you should check it.
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For completeness: https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/contactless/other-meth...

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Always use the same device

If you use Apple Pay on more than one device, for instance when the same payment card is linked to both an iPhone and an Apple Watch, make sure to choose one device and use the same one every time you travel, to:

Avoid incomplete journeys
Benefit from daily and weekly capping
Please be aware that you might receive payment notifications on all your devices, regardless of which one was used for touching in or out.

Watch out for card clash

If you keep a contactless payment or Oyster card in your phone case, you should remove it before using your iPhone to touch in and out. If you don't, you could pay for your travel with a card you did not intend to pay with.
The article is correct. A monetary union without a fiscal union doesn't seem to work very well. I should add that the Dutch situation isn't helped by 15 years of mostly right-wing governments that were already in love with austerity, but that only underscores that austerity is pretty harmful to your economy.

The euro could work fine, just not with the current rules. There needs to be some mechanism that compensates for the inequality between the different countries, just like how poorer regions within a sovereign country tend to get extra aid.
You need to use the same card to touch in and touch out to avoid being overcharged. There's been a fairly well-executed advertising campaign around this. Disappointing from The Memo, a site I hadn't come across before. I clicked to read how Apple had screwed up the London underground payment, but instead found clickbait.
it's not a verb... right?