skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a degree. Vaccines and autism have some different qualities. One, there doesn't appear to be any link between vaccines and autism and two, if there was a link it's closer to the "do we kill 5 people or 1 person" ethical question with a game theory twist.

I don't know enough about what a GMO dystopia would be to comment.

I like the fuel / climate change analogy because we know the general outcome (increased temperatures) and a number of likely/possible effects, but it's hard to say exactly how much life will change for the majority of people and there is a very obvious short-term benefit to going along with it. There is current evidence that it is actually a real problem as well. Fossil fuels are the revenue model for many industries, which is also the case with data collection.

While it's a lesser problem, data tracking has similar qualities. We know we lose privacy, but how much and what will the effects of losing that privacy be? There is incentive to use these 'free' services. The NSA, constant data breaches by hacking groups and government trying to strong-arm companies into weakening encryption show that it's a pretty big deal. Lavabit was effectively shut down in a very shady legal manner because it didn't want to provide data on all of it's customers when just one was being targeted.

If privacy really doesn't matter, give me read-only access to your emails. Then tell me when you leave the house each morning and when you arrive home. Machine learning is pretty fun, we can often learn more about you from data you think is meaningless than by reading your emails. Some portion (perhaps most) of the information on you will eventually make it's way outside of wherever it was initially stored. Oh and it's stored forever and you couldn't possibly imagine the uses or incentives on how to use that data in the future because you haven't imagined it yet. Let's have the discussion and decide on some kind of limitations and ethical practices please. Relying on people to be reasonable got us the current NSA.
Kneecaps are always the easiest things to break.
Materialism is also just an approximation IMO.
If this happens to you, you can also use the period sign with GMail. So johndoe@gmail.com also receives email addressed to john.doe@gmail.com j.o.hndoe@gmail.com, johnd.o.e@gmail.com, etc.
>I find this tendency pretty counter-productive to learning anything at all.

It can also be counter-productive to setup strawman arguments which you tear down at a later point.

It takes time for anyone to read something and no one has enough time to read everything. Further, most people have read lots of things that setup strawman arguments and never tear them down. Often, people will then conclude that the author actually believes such strawmen and may avoid further reading the author.

If I read to completion every piece of text that came before my eyes I would have died a long time ago.
I would do that, but I don't want to pay Microsoft twice: once for the Windows that came installed on the laptop and once again for another copy of Windows that's actually installable.

I miss the days when computers came with OS installation disks. it's like you actually owned the software.
Since when are browser apps "desktop" apps ?
It's so easy for people to figure out when you copy language or basic code. It never ends well.
An Encryption Backdoor Is a Bad Idea
Breaking news: A consultant for a company trash talks an open source competitor.
and what about other things, like gravity and electromagnetism? These are not created by matter
How brain activity changes based on various activities
Dave Chappelle signs with Yondr for cell-phone control at Chicago shows
I can't say that I agree with you. Kazakstan has never really been much of a leader in world politics.
I don't foresee the Apple Watch ever being untethered from the iPhone, for the simple reason that it won't sell iPhones.
Check out this great post on Reddit about how American artillery doctrine in WW2 spurred computational research/development

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3ixrvq/did_th...
I think you've just agreed with me? Perhaps I should have used "does not imply" instead of "not equal to". And the comment is relevant, because I claim that there are many smart people in IT who are not jerks, while you had a defeatist attitude ("most people in IT are difficult, deal with it".
A: You've got access to a lot of solar power, on a completely predictable schedule. Especially convenient since in this particular case you don't need to convert it to electricity first. B: Anything you release as a gas flies harmlessly out into the universe, so your environmental restrictions are a great deal less. (Also, this is not "cheating regulations" or anything... this is truly an environment with fewer restrictions. If you can vaporize it, it can be made to truly go away forever.) C: You've got zero G, and this sort of "massive mass spec" plan, while I question the numbers in general, is probably a great deal more practical in zero G than not zero G.

And it would all tie together; if the exhaust is in excess of escape velocity, which it probably is by an order of magnitude or two, you can just let anything you don't care to catch fly into space.

I'm not saying this is practical or necessarily a good idea, just pointing out that you do have some options in space that you don't have on Earth.
It doesn't matter what you use to build your back-end APIs. All your client will see are REST endpoints that produce/consume JSON.

I'd do the API in Rails, just because there are probably more resources available and the framework is very REST oriented. Don't know much about Node though, could be just as good.
Agreed.

As I mentioned in a previous thread, my idealized program is Signal+Ricochet.im+Burner-like resettable identity endpoints across desktop and mobile.
Once upon a time it was Atari/Amiga and before that it was a bunch of other smaller computers... Now it's languages and the arguments sounds just the same.
ISO weeks run Monday-Sunday, not Sunday-Saturday.
The earth is huge(compared to us), so it's hard to grasp why it doesn't work as seemingly instantaneously as bowl of water, for example. Eventually, in a perfect vacuum, that would be the case.
So you're giving attention seekers (read, a lot of trolls) a way to get even more attention for saying the most horrible things they can think of.

Why do I get the feeling this isn't going to work well? Seems like a pretty good marketing strategy actually, especially if your product/service relates to freedom of speech, censorship, harassment or something else and you can stick a link in at the end of the tweet.

I also wonder how the hell they try and verify where anyone actually lives, given the existence of proxies and other such devices. Seems like it could be very easily 'abused' to frame someone else, especially if you know it could cause a falling out between them and someone they're close to.

And on a funnier note... good deal for bilboard owners. Flame the hell out of people on Twitter, then jack the prices up a few hundred times and watch a charity pay to put your angry messages up in the street...
How does that help debugging why your device didn't come up on the network? There are a number of reasons the device won't come up; often those are not easily deduced from a log file but can be easily debugged with a serial connection. Also that doesn't require you to mount the SD or reinstall the image.
> I'm not sure how they intend to circumvent this problem, apart from perhaps just instructing users to not use those browsers? That's quite difficult to put into practice.

Even if pins overrode locally installed certificates, all they would have to do is to block all outgoing raw HTTPS traffic. All these browser-side security mechanisms can do is to refuse to initiate insecure connections (and inform the vendors about broken pins). They can't force a network that is actively designed to forbid private connections to allow them.
I guess thats the difference between you and me then :)

I am not just looking for correct, if i wanted that I would read scientific papers. I am looking for perspectives. Things that are useful even if they don't live up to scientific scrutiny.
I think you somewhat misunderstand how prices work to convey information. Price on its own has never provided sufficient information to make a purchasing decision. As a one dimensional, discrete numeric value, how could it? It is always necessary for the buyer to use additional information to determine what a particular purchase is worth to them. If it is priced below the value they determine it has to them then it may be a worthwhile purchase. Wide availability of product information and consumer reviews on the internet makes finding the information to estimate a purchase's value to a given individual easier and this makes the price mechanism work more effectively.

What price does convey quite effectively in a hard to fake way is the value to the seller and thus some indication of the resources that went into the manufacture of a product. All else being equal, a more durable product will tend to have a higher price reflecting the greater resources required to produce it.

I don't disagree with much else that you say, with the caveat that I think buying say a wood plane makes sense for relatively few individuals unless they happen to derive particular pleasure from woodwork as a hobby or intend to do it as a business. The 'sharing economy' is a way the internet makes it possible for more people to amortize the cost between them and does change that calculation somewhat by making more efficient use of resources.
My wife and I have this conversation a lot. I have a bazillion acquaintances and only a few people I consider close friends. She has a much broader group of friends.

I've identified that one of the characteristic of women interacting is a asking questions in an unprompted sort of way. Something I consider to be "prying", and yet it opens up other conversations which deepen the relationship.

My current position is that I was never exposed to good role models for building relationships with other men, and childhood homophobic sorts of taunts actually sensitized me to a notion of being "too close" to someone. While my wife has no trouble at all saying "love you" to her friends, my early programming makes that really hard for me with my male friends.

The process of building friendships is a process of developing trust and vulnerability, something which is hard to do outside of shared life threatening experiences. At some level in my younger days I always felt I was in competition with the other men around me. How do you make yourself vulnerable to your competitor? You don't of course. To get past that I've had to reassess a really large chunk of the structure in my brain about evaluating my own success and understanding whether or not I was under or over performing on my internal metrics of success.

Bottom line for me is that unpacking all the threads that were hindering my ability to make close friendships walked me back to kindergarten. That is a lot of unpacking to do :-)
You usually just mock the date provider, so it just returns the same date every time.
Maybe not evenly, but proportionally?
Why would you want to use an IDE (RStudio or whatever) to run pandoc over an markdown file?
There was nothing contrasting in the original reply. Just sayin'.
Yeah, and this is also .NET. I can't remember if I ran the full test suite or not (I have to admit, I don't always -- even though it's not best practice -- if it's a fairly isolated/minor change).. but in this case, due to the problem, if I had done the code change on the 30th, it would have passed at that time anyway. The nightly build (in the morning hours of the 1st) would have failed.
Thank you. 75%, that's not bad but it's also not exactly 'x-ray eyes' grade yet. This is a pretty tough problem you're tackling, I can see now why it is not a bot but an augmentation device. It would be nice to track the accuracy over time, to see if the vandalizers wise up to how the bot makes the decisions to game it.
Maybe because an excellent centralized encrypted chat doesn't exist yet. All options, including Signal, have lots of problems. Some chat apps are great, but really questionable security. Other apps have seemingly great security, but really questionable chat experience. After this duo problem of chat+encryption has been done well, we can start looking into adding additional problems like centralization.
As I know from my Kazakhstan-born friend, Twitter and LiveJournal are banned in Kazakhstan for years, nobody cares.
>Also, note that delta-V is not thrust. Delta-V is a change in velocity, thrust is force.)

Thanks for the condescending reply. Seeing as I have a degree in Physics, I am well aware of the technical difference between thrust and delta-v. However, when talking about rocketry, it's hard to have delta-v without corresponding thrust, and my usage of both terms was more for rhetoric than a desire for absolute technical correctness.
"Who would have been foolish enough to squander the money, lives and resources needed to travel to and explore the New World?"

You can only argue that the exploration of the Americas was a good affair if you ignore the cost of all the pillaging and killing and deaths and slavery... If you include the inhabitants of the Americas when you judge the benefit of the "exploration of the new world", I'm not sure it ends up being a net positive for several centuries.
I use a similar workflow using Pandoc at work. I painstakingly re-created our corporate Word documentation templates using LaTeX and then set up Pandoc to generate documents from Markdown using these templates.

In addition to this, I used Haskell and Diagrams to produce DSLs for rendering various UML documents from text based descriptions. These can be rendered in both vector graphics formats (SVG and Encapsulated Postscript) as well as a written description of the diagram that can be provided for accessibility reasons.

The big take-away I got out of this process was that I could write human-readable documents that were also machine-readable while also providing a higher level of accessibility for this documentation than would be possible using traditional WYSIWYG tools.

I highly recommend this style of documentation workflow.
Why is this here.
THE FIX HAS BEEN RELEASED.
They are also followed medically more closely than just about anyone on Earth: they don’t indulge in regular fast food

I wonder what they mean by that. Are astronauts explicitly banned from eating fast food, and somehow monitored? Or are they just less likely to eat fast food, since they pay close attention to their fitness and health?
There was no public uprising after Snowden in the US either ... Some will now say you can't compare this. They are right because what Kazakhstan is doing there looks amateurish.
A train is not constrained in the same way that the hyperloop is. This is both a good thing and a bad thing depending on what happens. Presumably the remaining air between two hyperloop capsules will be compressed prior to impact reducing the deceleration to something more manageable.
That platforms win by consumer preference is a truism that need not be underlined. Android benefited from homogenization by the OHA consortium, and its licensing permitting extensive reproduction by off-the-shelf producers of varying production quality. iOS benefited from Apple's branding and cult following.

What's relevant is that most consumers do not evaluate software platforms from technical and system properties. They seek mobile devices for their end use, and will inevitably steer towards what already has large units stocked, what is advertised and what is recommended via word-of-mouth which will usually create reinforcing loops from consumer impressions caused by the former two. That is to say, the mobile OSes are substitutable goods. Which mobile OS prevails is of little relevance to most consumers, who seek means to ends and the nature of software is that the precise workings of these means are often obscure to them or otherwise not important provided ends (telephony, messaging, browsing, productivity apps, entertainment, or communication and consumption in general, etc.) are met.

For there were other platforms besides Android and iOS, and those would have evolved just the same and we would be speaking of some other location exerting cultural dominance. If it weren't Google, it could have been Altavista or something else. If it weren't Facebook, it could have been MySpace, Friendster or something else. Especially social networks are by definition something that critically depend on Metcalfe's law. Mobile platforms as well, to an extent (largely because apps that people want will converge to them). People do not care that they use Facebook or iOS, they want access to networks of contacts and to communicate with them through a consistent mechanism.

As such, you cannot argue that SV culture has dominated just by the fact of some product being influential alone, since it's a circular argument that ignores most such technologies are not pursued for the actual technological properties.
I'm assuming this works similarly to WhatsApp Web (https://web.whatsapp.com/)
And it's not as if non-Sandboxed applications won't be used. They'll just be distributed outside the app store. So all of the potentially "dangerous" apps are one-more-step removed from Apple's oversight and ability to pull the app and halt downloads. Gatekeeper gives them some power in this regard, but what's the point of not allowing them in the Mac App Store? Is the PR from having a keylogger in the MAS really that different from the recent Instagram password harvester for iOS, or a Mac keylogger that was direct-downloaded?
To start off: Using McDonalds' facts sheet as data regarding the content of their products is not really a valiable source of information, as this is heavily biased towards their product (ref. http://news.yale.edu/2010/11/08/fast-food-restaurants-dish-u...).

Regarding the additives (regardless of the site's name, it does present a proper list):
http://foodbabe.com/2015/03/27/everyone-still-eats-mcdonalds...
ts has the node ecosystem, and haxe provides easy access to node/pyton/c++/java libs. gopherjs is able to compile a significant amount of the go standard lib -- I don't know if this is true for arbitrary go libs too.

Thanks for the reference.
and the same misconception populated many video games as well, yet are we not willing to trade some realism for fun and fantasy? What fun would it be if we didn't struggle? Much of science fiction in movies and games as portrayed seems to derive from WW1 fighting.
WebKit Breakpoint Options
https://github.com/docker/swarm/issues/1482
Hmm, I'm curious to see how you're reaching the 1GB limit per dyno. How many web workers do you have per dyno?

I worked on a pretty heavy monolithic rails app that was able to run 3-4 unicorn workers per heroku 512mb dyno.

I'd highly suggest you use newrelic and try to analyze how much memory each worker is consuming and how that exceeds the total dyno 1GB limit. Make sure you look at the peak consumption per worker in new relic. Otherwise you might run into a problem where workers are killed after exceeding the total dyno memory limit. You want to tweak the number of unicorn workers based on their total memory consumption at peak times, and find the optimal number of workers that can fit in a 1GB heroku dyno.

Having said that, heroku does get expensive as you scale up. You'd be better off managing your own servers, but that requires a good chunk of time to setup properly.

A few things I did in order to bring the slug size down for heroku dynos was to move all assets to AWS s3/cloudfront. Minify all CSS and JS, use carrierwave gem to upload to s3 bucket, and serve with cloudfront. Getting all of your static assets out of your slug will greatly reduce memory usage.

Also, I want to point out that you can setup your own database with AWS, and just point it in your env vars for heroku. You don't have to buy all the services from heroku and get charged extra $$.
That's outdated info. A newer article, also from AnandTech, nicely goes into detail. "in essence putting major feature updates on a yearly cadence" [1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overvi...
The linked article does a good job of refuting this hypothesis. There are radiation workers on Earth who receive regular, higher doses than what astronauts receive, and are not subject to these effects. It really is the weightlessness doing it, not the slightly higher ambient radiation.
This was a really great essay, very funny. Before I jump in with the rest of you claiming "sv echo chamber", I'd like to point out that these tweets can be made to look like asshats and can be made out to be inspirational and telling of a the silicon valley mind set. These are the bourgeoisie that are looking for that perfect work/life balance and want to see future push forward, though usually by building really simple technologies. They have the opportunity to become senile or play with philosophy because they are doing everything in the power to bet big.

As much as this essay shows how alien their world is to my own, it also shows what successful marketing/operations people think about while pushing for success.
User Experience (UX) Design Resources
The approaches aren't exclusive either, you can start "holistic" and then learn more by going "analytic" afterwards, once you have the gist of things.
Whisper Systems has a track record of prioritizing 'good enough' ease-of-use ahead of 'perfect' security as a practical way of expanding its user base.

Edit: Tried to word the above most neutrally; I believe this approach has both pros and cons.
Pirvacy/Mission Creep: LA License Plate-To-Shame Converter
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." - Paul the Apostle
Something I've been thinking about recently: does anyone think Slack followed Thiel's advice? It entered a space that already existed (didn't go from 0 to 1), with several competitors, solving a problem that was widely known (email is a broken way to get work done). Yet it's becoming a monopoly and will likely be a very valuable business. It seems like there can be tremendous value in making something really good when the existing solutions are not good, and that creating an extremely valuable business doesn't require doing something entirely new.
What language is Dwarf Fortress written in?

It is closed source, isn't it? I assume it is, like ADOM, to keep the secrets. Though there is an obvious solution: you could separate the game data from the engine, and open-source the engine, for public benefit and participation.
Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4608470/why-dec-31-2010-r...
I think more accurately, it's a standalone app that runs on the chrome runtime. You get windows, osx, linux & chrome os all at once. The chromebook is touted as the secure desktop for the non-technical user.

You can take the app and make your own standalone runtime version if you want and audit / test your standalone version to make sure it's only communicating with open whisper systems.
Why a technical reason? Maybe it's a deliberate design decision, like how the physics are set up in a video game. Maybe in this sort of scenario, they did some playtesting and found that setting light to that speed made the game more 'enjoyable'.

Then again, it could be a way to cover up for a lack of content. Set the speed of light to be faster, and it might theoretically make it so a species with massively advanced technology could reach the edge of the universe. More convenient and realistic than an invisible wall.
It's augmentation, not making any decisions on its own (and that's logical given the false positive rate). So it's just an aid at this point but it can probably help quite a bit with triage.
And sometimes the CAs might receive National Security Letters insisting on National Securtiy Certificates.