skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no qualms with mathematical physics at all. I love mathematical physics to the extent my undergraduate degree is in mathematical physics. But the problem is that they are calling it reality. To my mind, string theory is nothing but a mathematical exercise that likely has nothing to do with reality.

I hate when theorists take some abstract crazy idea and then say the universe has 10 or 11 dimensions when they have no basis for saying that.
That actually sounds really neat. Kind of like compile time polymorphism, but based on platform. I like it. Although there are some things it doesn't solve, it seems to work for the most part.
I just ran through the process, and it worked very smoothly. No hick-ups, it just worked. SSLlabs reports an A. Very awesome.
tl;dr Renting remote computational power is cool (AWS), but renting remote storage is not.

I have a complete history of email archives since I started using gmail (ie cloud), but have lost years of archives from the years I managed email myself.

It turns out that companies focused on data storage and retrieval do a better job than me. And that's fine. I pay someone to do my taxes and I don't build my own furniture. Specialization is a good thing.
That is by far my favorite plugin. Just don't forget to turn it off before presenting in a meeting...
Caveat that it would require trucking in water to Las Vegas it was suggested to take advantage of the drought to work on the sediment levels and do potential maintenance. Not something you can just decide on the spur of the moment though.

A sadder thing is that while the Marinas that are now on dry land have a chance to do some upgrades/maintenance, they have no cash since they are very day to day based on the cash inflow from slip fees. That is a tragedy I think, you could completely rebuild the piers and develop a much more durable infrastructure for future use I would expect.
Very nice. I had been building the same thing after wanting something more than pelican and less than wordpress. This seems to fit perfectly.

Is there a roadmap for contributing to the project? I failed to see one on github.
Apple, the first major computer company to do Open Source
I'm managing editor at Packt. I want to understand what skills developers will need over the next few years, so that we can help them skill up today.

We want to empower all developers to do amazing things and help build the future.

The biggest danger for us isn't wrongly predicting something that doesn't happen, but missing something that DOES happen. I've been in Packt almost since the start. We were among the first to really spot Open Source CMSs and development frameworks. But I still have nightmares about how long it took us to appreciate the full implications of iOS and Android. :S

But of course this is also just a bit of fun. I hope it's just plain interesting for everyone.
Because we all still harbour resentment toward frustrating situations such as the limitations of "the cloud"?
Maybe SSH has better cryptographic properties (say, around forward secrecy and key management) than the common options for delivering e-mail remotely over the network. (You could choose the key types and key lengths yourself and choose how authentication keys are stored and when they need to be changed, and you don't have to rely on an external naming or CA mechanism if you distribute fingerprints and authentication keys directly to the users.)
The person you're replying to mean't taxes you pay on your income after college.
Honestly saying "just look at instate costs" is just as misleading. Restricting access to a quality education / future job options (depending on your field, etc) based on geography is one of the most telling failures of American Federalism. The sooner state schools are re-bundled into a federal program for affordable access to all Americans the better.
Thanks for sharing! Looks interesting, does this work with netflix?
As he said in blog, another framework is not enough easy use for non-tech user
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Social skills for technical folks
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I think most people have more of there savings in stuff than banks. (Clothes, PC, car, House etc.) At scale cash is a proxy for wealth not actual wealth.

PS: A home loan might seem like the bank owns your house, but they can't say no when you sell it.
You know, you're right, those laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1992:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Zundel

Nevertheless, my example certainly applied before 1992, and yes, it served as a signal. Public policy has changed, the Supreme Court decided that something else had greater weight. That doesn't invalidate the fact that it is still a signaling mechanism.

> I've long been proud that we have been willing to refute bad arguments rather than just imprisoning those who make them.

That's your opinion, which you've carefully crafted to sound "obviously meritorious," and you're entitled to it, but the "we" you speak of is far from universal, and the way in which you put it is not one I accept.
That's an excellent analogy I hadn't thought of. SLA's between companies is perhaps a proxy in the data world, but nothing for individual users.

When data will become so important/politicized that there will be regulations about data retention?
That's a good point. My university did not have this requirement, however I should point out, even if you lived at home, or moved out on your own - you will be spending this money anyway.

As-in, it doesn't matter if the university requires you to take this package the first year, since you're spending it no matter what (on living somewhere). It's just a matter of who you give that money to.

If you don't want to spend student loans on normal living expenses, one should work while attending university, this way your loans are only for your tuition and related school expenses... not for rent and food.
Well, that's one way to break the ice :)

I have a bit more of a nuanced view on this than Jason, but I totally understand where he's coming from and when the whole cloud gravy train started rolling our perspectives overlapped much more than they do today (and quite probably since then Jason's perspective has changed as well as perspectives do with the passing of time).

There are use-cases where the cloud is absolutely and utterly the wrong way to go about it. When you're running a bank, a government institution (ever a lower government one) or something else that is mission critical and where total control of the data and maintaining end-user privacy is paramount then the cloud is probably not the right solution.

There are also use-cases where the cloud is the right solution in principle but the wrong solution in practice because of cost. Above a certain scale bandwidth and storage costs of cloud operators will always command a premium over those you get from dedicated hosting providers.

As for 'not owning the machines', plenty of companies lease their servers, so technically they don't own them anyway.

The big problem with 'the cloud' as I see it is that companies tend to rely utterly on it and do not have a 'what if the cloud fails' line in their disaster recovery plans. Lose the cloud data and the company goes up in a puff of water vapor, which is what clouds are made of after all.

So if your use case does match the cloud solutions well then make sure that whatever else you do, have at least a copy of your critical data, code and your configuration information outside of the cloud provider. And while you're at it, make sure that this is done in such a way that there is a separation of duties with respect to those that can administer the cloud portion and those that can access those just-in-case-the-shit-hits-the-fan backups.

Just so you don't end up like codespaces did.

Finally, the cloud is not so much an end-station as it is a step on a much wider scale from absolute control with certain administrative duties on one end and much less control but great convenience on the other. Where on that scale constraints indicated by your comfort level, your application and your fiduciary duties allow you to pick your solution is something that is likely different for every company (and likely for every person).

Customers of companies would do well to research their service providers when it comes to how they are architected, just in case something goes drastically wrong so they don't end up holding the bag.
a lot of time spent in Stripe's IRC chat room, recommendations from Stripe support to users
If you're interested in exploring the relationship of Lisp and the lambda calculus you might find this interesting:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/lc.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qC1iZN5ozw
Honestly, if this were reddit I would have deleted the entire post when scott_s pointed out it was harsh; it was hastily written in a moment of supreme frustration. Sorry!
See also: Fox News.
The reason they are is because of their intrinsic propensity to destabilization, vis-a-vis Minsky and the Financial Instability Hypothesis.

Of course, how you structure your regulatory framework can have adverse consequences, as well (i.e. implicit guarantees by GSEs on mortgage-backed securities). It is further arguable whether or not fractional reserve exacerbates these effects.
This is tornado class spin.
Given articles like this one, probably a lot less than you'd think.
And the video, for those who are interested. http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2fed57d5-68f3-4867-bdfa...
It's important to realize that true out of pocket costs for the median student have not grown nearly as fast as "sticker price" tuition[1].

That being said, easy government loan money and a growing pool of students demanding a much-slower-growing number of slots at "well regarded" private universities has made it easy to keep ramping up the price.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/how-the-government-...
>Haskell's so-called "list" type constructor is actually a type constructor of streams.

Most papers consider streams to be lists without a terminal constructor. Haskell lists are a superset of streams. All streams have infinite lengths, but only some lists have infinite length. (Again, this just comes down to definition, but this is how most functional papers describe it.)
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You can see how long someone has been away from their irc session with:
/whois username
> Mind-wandering: the rise of a new anti-mindfulness movement

This is absurd. Contrary to the efforts of ideologues, Mindfulness isn't a movement, it's an idea, and there are other equally valid ideas, like creative daydreaming. There's no actual conflict between choosing to pay attention to one's surroundings, and paying attention to one's inner creative voices -- they're complementary, non-conflicting states.

Only in the field of human psychology can an obviously legitimate mental state be described as an "anti-mindfulness movement", except for people whose minds have a maximum capacity of one trivial idea.
> fair to me to call a group a group of five people "a committee."

Haha. So any team is a committee?
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There is no alternative approach presented here. I can only assume that the author has never had to scale a piece of software to server hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
WebRTC Vendor Strategy: TokBox Is a Clear Winner
Well, Common Lisp is Lisp.

Scheme, Clojure etc. are lisps, with lower-case "l" ;)
>Don’t blow anything into the Cloud that you don’t have a personal copy of.

I don't understand this logic. Amazon's S3 offers service level agreements with failure rates that at one point implied the statistical likelihood of losing an object to be once in "thousands of years". When dealing with any sort of stable storage this is simply something I cannot offer. I couldn't produce a set up locally with the resources I have for making guarantees on the decade level let alone millennia.

With that said I keep personal copies, but the authoritative copy is what's in the cloud, because its a hell of a lot more stable.

TL;DR I hear this argument all the time. The cloud isn't perfect but its a hell of a lot closer to anything I could achieve. "not invented here" syndrome won't save your data.
It's like they're pretending Sun never existed.

NFS, anyone?
Our life's savings are not unique, and can be replenished from a different source. Our childhood pictures and personal correspondence are, and generally can not.

Besides, banks are subject to rather a lot of external control, through regulation (oh noes!). Here in NL the government actually guarantees your savings (but not investments) should a bank go belly-up. I believe the US did something similar, although I didn't bother to follow the specifics about who bailed out who for whom.
Never heard of refrigerated containers being used for retail or housing. Got a link?
I gamed Amazon, plagiarized another author and became a bestselling novelist
Do you have any knowledge of this or pure speculation? The lab industry I know (10+ years in healthcare) does not have the 60%+ in waste necessary for Theranos to offer their prices + generate positive cash flow. Perhaps the investor dollars are funding the low prices
Expense sharing is compensation, although Flytenow tried to argue otherwise. See page 12 of the court's ruling.
Google search history privacy failure
I think this gets to the heart of "what people value" and Jason is looking at it from a perspective of a collector. I'm also a collector so I feel much like him.

I wonder if there's a relationship between collecting and being an introvert. I have no evidence but feel like there is. I think most people just don't value "things" the way our types do. What most people value is their social life. They post pictures to Facebook not to store the pictures but to get a reaction from their friends about the picture. That's what they value. The social interaction, not the thing.
the ini-file configuration seems a bit strange to me(esp since it seems to be ini-files that occasionally contain python code). Why did you go with them instead of making these python classes? To allow the GUI to edit parts of them as well?
> for non-techy people I think it's still a big jump in terms of just opening up a tumblr blog

True, but that's not the audience anyways. The idea is that if you (as a web developer) want to make a portfolio site for a customer you could use lektor instead of wordpress or something like this. I generally always prefer static website generators for my own work but I cannot give it to a non technical person to fill with content. That's what motivated it.

But nobody needs to switch for anything. It's just another tool in the shed :)
How about 401K and Social Security ?
- If you upgrade a project "just because" then you're doing it wrong. That isn't the fault of the rails team.
- New versions don't break that many things that aren't tied directly to how rails works. Most general gems will work just fine, and a lot of tutorials from 3.2 are still more or less usable with minimal googling. Generators work the same, active record's api hasn't changed much, action view works the same way.

And don't get me started on the mess that a node dependency graph can become.
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When Typescript gets an engine capable of direct competition with JavaScript, then you can claim JavaScript is "dying." Until then, your usage of Typescript is no different than Objective-C vs. C.
> ... this mind-wandering "movement" has, as far I can tell, a couple of web articles written about it and very few people intentionally practicing it.

Every scientific theory, every invention throughout history, resulted from people "mind-wandering", imagining a reality other than the one in front of them. Mindfulness is not the only legitimate mental activity, in fact it's a fad with a name and some slogans surrounding one of many equally legitimate mental states. There's nothing wrong with it, unless people start thinking of it as the only legitimate mental activity, a human failing with a long sad history.
My take on the rationales given in the article.

#1: "Only game in town": ZERO viability (perhaps negative). Ether was the only game in town before relativity. Geocentricism was the only game in town before it wasn't. Gods were the only game in town before science.

#2: "Y grew out of X (and X is solid)": ZERO viability (perhaps negative). It's essentially a corollary of the exact same rationale. (e.g. X = Maxwell's Equations, and Y = Ether). Everyone is thinking along the lines of X, and the only thing they can come up with is Y.

#3: "Unexpectedly delivered explanations": THIS is a big deal. Or at least it may be. This is what (I hate to say "philosophers of science", depicting "armchair philosophers", but rather "scientists of science") need to be focusing on. In essence, it asks: can mathematics (sometimes) be considered an experimental science, in the Popperian sense? I think it could, if formalized, and would allow us to tackle on some of these nasty questions more definitively, but I have no idea what that formalization would be. However I'd be very interested to see if etherian theory had any "unexpectedly delivered explanations" before Einstein. THAT is worth investigating.
Higher Ed in the US has long been a luxury good, where price is no object. Or rather, there is a correlation between price and demand. Or at least, sticker price and demand -- institutions discriminate between customers by offering scholarships and need-based aid to maximize income, and to maintain a high sticker price.
I think you replied to the wrong person.
Respectfully disagree, although I appreciate the reply.
I guess I see where you're coming from and I agree that we're all entitled to our peeves and things that just rub us the wrong way.

That said, I look at these sorts of films like the old fables and many newer children's stories: they personify various aspects of life (in this case, emotions) in order to simplify them at first glance for easy recognition and then as a vehicle to show where those seemingly simple things can also be complex and unpredictable.

It's not even just kids' stories that do this. Plenty of movies and other stories use archetypes and "avatars" as characters. It's shorthand that makes it easier to jump into the narrative. Often they're combinations of different stock characters but the kids' stuff is often simpler.

Either way, I grew up with plenty of kids' stories where you knew who the good guy was, who the bad guy was, who the rogue/trickster was, etc. It hasn't stopped me from appreciating more subtle or complex characters and stories as an adult. It's almost as if you learn the basic "language" of characterization and storytelling first, and then can appreciate more varied combinations that as possible with experience. At some point, the fact that certain traits and behaviors are unexpected becomes a big part of a more "grown up" story's appeal.
> the ini-file configuration seems a bit strange to me(esp since it seems to be ini-files that occasionally contain python code). Why did you go with them instead of making these python classes? To allow the GUI to edit parts of them as well?

I grew to heavily dislike the idea of just executing random code to configure things. Impossible to expose to tools, even harder to reason about it. Note that these files do not contain python code at all. They just sometimes contain little Jinja templates.

The idea is indeed that the GUI can eventually edit some of these things. It also is already used for `lektor plugins add` for instance which updates the project ini file.

Lastly the reason ini over yaml is purely that this can preserve comments and doing the same for yaml is a lot more work i did not have time for :)
Buddha would have fun with this, I think. :)
> Is there a roadmap for contributing to the project? I failed to see one on github.

Nope. Hoping to get some feedback to see what people need. It does what I need pretty much at the moment. Just figured i add some docs and share it as some sort of Christmas or whatever else you celebrate present.
Until your control panel gets hacked and you lose all your data. See: codespaces.com (assuming it wasn't an inside job or a dumb mistake, but even then the same rules apply). So no, DON'T BLOW ANYTHING INTO THE CLOUD THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF.

It has nothing to do with 'not invented here', it has everything to do with your inability to outsource your responsibilities.

The degree to which people rely on others to take care of their stuff is a huge blind-spot. Jason's advice is spot on in this respect, no matter what the up-time guarantees of the cloud solution you are using (and no matter what the redundancies), if you store all your data in the cloud without an off-line copy your company is 3 mouse clicks away from being history.
I think you missed the point. S3 isn't free. You pay for that service:

and if you’re a person they are giving it to you without
you signing anything accompanied by cash or payment that
says “and I mean it“.
+1 for the role that guaranteed, subsidized student loans play.

University financial counselors are very well versed at helping students obtain the maximum amount of loans, along with an obligatory brochure cautioning them not to over-borrow.
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BU class of 2018 is only 22% international [1]. Although it is true that most foreign students are wealthy and pay full tuition, [2] I think you're discrediting how much rich American parents (78% of population) are willing to pay to get their children a good undergrad degree. Would be interested to see stats on how many American students receive aid, and what the average and median aid packages are.

[1] http://www.bu.edu/admissions/about-bu/

[2] http://www.bu.edu/finaid/apply/international/
Thanks. Yes, the code-as-configuration thing is difficult, it invites people to do very strange things sometimes.

[children]
replaced_with = site.query('/projects').filter(F.categories.contains(this))

(from the categories example) looked a lot like embedded code to me ;)
Are there any better pictures?
>they don't know enough to even know when it would be dangerous to fly

1. You do realize these pilots can already fly passengers, correct?

2. This is the type of problem companies help solve all of the time. The minimum wage worker making my burger has no idea when meat is safe for consumption, but a whole series of internal precautions allows him to serve me a burger in a safe manner.
I don't see that happening in our lifetime. What's more likely is an increase in the number of interstate agreements and consortia, where two or more states agree to charge each other's residents in state rates.
> My 6 month old is teething and waking me every 40 minutes starting around 3am.

Congratulations!
I believe you can find something about BeOS here:

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/index.html
This Scottish Startup just raised $2.5mil and moved everyone to a 4 day work week
It isn't easy to deidentidy a dataset. It isn't as simple as removing the names. You don't know in advanced what features in a dataset, when combined with a second dataset, will allow an adversary to reidentify data points. It isn't as simple as adding noise either, because reidentification can be treated like a machine learning problem.
In chapter 4 of his book, Okasaki defines a type of both finite and infinite streams (which is really just the type of Haskell "lists"), and, in the remainder of the book, he only uses finite ones.

A stream of infinite length, which you call "stream" without qualification, is what I call "a function on the natural numbers". (Well, up to isomorphism.)
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It's a headline for a reason. Obviously would argue on it...

check: https://teleport.org

or if you just want to compare the cost side of building a company in Stockholm to Berlin see the link below:
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