skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to say: that was the most beautiful article-reading experience I've ever had on a publisher's website.

No sidebars, suggestions, social buttons or anything...just quality content presented cleanly with just enough branding and functionality. The moving images with the sound was an excellent touch, and although it's specific to the purpose of this article, I love the idea of looping moving images that aren't obnoxious and add to the content.

I don't read the NYT very much, so I apologize if this is something that's been around for a while.

EDIT: I had loaded the site with Ad Block turned on...so I didn't see the social buttons. Frankly even those are done very elegantly, and if I were a user of those social networks, perhaps I'd even appreciate them.
cool article and all, but in all honesty I was more excited just to hear some more binaural (3d) audio. It doesn't pop up too often.
Crime prevention at what cost? Keep the bank safe but imperil, maim, or jail the innocent medium build hoodie wearer of your argument? I think you're operating on an fundamental assumption rather than really thinking through the problem.
Take note building developers. I WILL PAY MORE.

There are three potential problems that we frequently come across:

1. Many building developers just don't care, so long as the structure meets minimum code (which is typically based on the International Building Code model standard of STC 50)

2. Many building developers (and architects) may care, but don't have the knowledge to pull it off. They may even design sound insulation measures based on existing designs, but may not be aware that a particular detail difference between the reference design and their design may render the the sound insulation moot.

3. The developers and/or architects may care and may have the knowledge to properly design the structure, but the contractors either don't care or don't have the knowledge to construct the building properly leading to short-circuits or substitutions the render the sound insulation design useless.
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I love how apropos your username is!

But yet - that is the reason why we have sound engineering and Acousticians.

Architects already know sound matters, this is just a puff piece by some who think they have discovered something that is already and actual trade.

Regardless, the execution of the smarmy article's hover for sounds, click to compare, was quite well done.
Fun fact: I actually received an email a month later from Michael to join Livecoding.tv.

I had a good laugh.
But did Google ever promise Explorers stable, non-beta software when they signed up? Did they ever promise open access to the code or hardware?

I get being upset if expectations aren't met. But I just don't understand what set these expectations to begin with.
I was included this "conceptual debt" in the concept of "technical debt" when I think of it -- It didn't occur to be compose it down further and so I agree; I'm not sure it's helpful to do so.
That was a great read! Thanks for sharing!
Yup! I remember my eighteen-year old self being pleased with "Planet does not have Audi, but it does have Audi TTs!"

Looking at it again, I think the game works better spoken than written out like this.
Hey bcohen, understand your comment completely and I agree that a matching system based on partial matches is also a good way to do it.

There are 2 reasons I eliminate candidates after disagreeing stance.

1) It was easier to code and I just wanted to get this site up. :)

2) You can always press the "skip" button to ignore the question.

I think it's an interesting dynamic and really engages you when some candidates are eliminated, then you realize that issue might not be very important to you, click the "go back a question" button and "skip" that question.

What you end up with is a personal list of important issues for you and you can say "I'm voting for this candidate for these specific reasons".

Thank you for the feedback and trying the app out bcohen.
Kiwi Crates (and Koala - haven't tired the older age targeting boxes) are excellent, our 4 and 5 year olds love them. The results don't have a lot of longevity, at least for the Kiwi crates, but they consume an afternoon+ and involve a lot of productive-feeling efforts.

I have been thinking about genius box, the young scientist club, explorabox, and agent ribbit, too. There is so much overlap in a lot of these that it's difficult to commit to multiple without just ending up with duplicates. That probably wouldn't be entirely bad, but it's mildly annoying. Also, not all of these get down to the 3-4 yr range, but maybe something to think about in the context of the impending TinkerCrate subscription.

http://www.geniusbox.me/

http://theyoungscientistsclub.com/

http://www.explorabox.org/

http://agentribbit.com/
Wow, Aqua Data Studio's visual analytics screen looks awfully similar to Tableau's:
http://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio/diagrams/screenshot_v...
Stop and contact is entirely warranted, IMO.

You added maim or jail.
As somebody who enjoys music every day, attends live performances, and keeps up to date with some music blogs. I think it's an over assessment to call music the most valuable contribution our species makes to the universe. Nevermind the fact that we have no clue what our contribution is at all in the universe. Music is good, it's shaped societies, and the like, but so have many other things, and I don't think our species would've died off without music. TBH I think most people would barely notice after a little bit if music just disappeared.
Almost certainly it's the solid door doing most of the work. Doors and windows are absolutely terrible at keeping noise out. I had new windows recently installed, laminated dual-pane, real beasts. In bedrooms that face the street, almost no noise, they're amazing. But in the front room where the front door is? The door might as well be open.
Yeah, it makes me wonder whether his complaint is really with his label, but he can't sue his label without creating friction. So he sues Spotify, Spotify performs discovery which shows his own label is withholding these royalties, he turns around and sues his label (or more likely, settles with them).

Better still - what if Spotify turns out to be right, and he didn't provide the required information to Spotify to allow them to pay him his royalties, so his complaint is really with himself?
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2x4s. I can't remember the specs, but I recall doing research and it was a pretty dense rockwool. I did ask for the drywall panels to be thicker than normal, but I don't recall how much. I found out about staggered 2x4s (http://images.meredith.com/diy/images/2008/12/p_SCTC_100_04....) too late.
FYI, it's not class action yet and the $150m is the maximum based on the statutory damages the complainant details. I'm not a lawyer, the headline just seems to kind of jump the gun a little.
After reading the article and most of the comments, I still find one point unclear: if the period does logically belong inside the comma, does it also end the sentence?

For example:

> He wrote "I live here." Then he stopped writing.

> He wrote "I live here.". Then he stopped writing.

Of course the latter is the least aesthetic, but is it not the most logical?
Anything can be made for sale if there is enough demand and a limited supply. The law of supply and demand applies to everything regardless of whether or not it is for sale.

If an item is not for sale it usually means there is either no supply, an unlimited supply, or no demand. See what happens when the supply of clean air is limited below:

https://news.vice.com/article/beijings-air-is-so-bad-the-sal...

>You remember, the item you claimed it's worthless?

I do. What of it? There are people in this world who will pay nothing for that item because it is freely downloadable through piracy. To them, the item is worthless.
> Eventually the gas runs out.

Well... careful with estimates on that. From the Door to Hell article:

> It was estimated that the gas would burn out within a few weeks, but it has instead continued to burn for more than four decades.
You have renamed "Design Debt," as outlined here back in 2004 by James Shore: http://www.jamesshore.com/Articles/Business/Software%20Profi...

Design Debt is not a new concept. It is a common cause of product failure. Taken from the link above:

"'Design debt' explains the problem. When a team is working under pressure, they take shortcuts that compromise design quality. It's like taking out a high-interest loan. The team gets a short-term boost in speed, but from that point forward, changes are more expensive: they're paying interest on the loan. The only way to stop paying interest is to pay back the loan's principle and fix the design shortcuts."
I'm fairly pro-gun, but I never have understood the appeal of open-carry. Are there any folks here who would like to explain it to me?

In the country or small towns, keeping a hunting rifle or whatever slung over the shoulder while stopping at a gas station or something seems reasonable and convenient--but going to a Subway or something in an urban area seems more silly than anything else.
that's all well and good, but why rot13 your post?

nm, for spoilers. Makes sense.
> nearly four years ago we invented what is now known as “ridesharing”

People, including myself, were ridesharing using Craiglist for 10+ years before Sidecar existed. It was even called ridesharing: https://web.archive.org/web/20011107033237/http://newyork.cr...
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I continue to enjoy my Macbook, and even make money using it, but I don't keep paying Apple. I'm sure those artists don't continue to pay Fender for the instruments they use to make the songs, etc.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, just thinking out loud.
> "don't turn humans into paperclips" is part of the context of "make more paperclips"

The idea in this thought experiment is not that the AI parses this sentence in the context of human culture (then it would likely comprehend that the actual intention is to maximize the economic success and eventually the human preferences of its creator). What is meant is that the objective is crudely implanted into the AI as an ultimate goal, in a similar way to how sustenance, pain avoidance and affiliation are very basic goals in our cognitive system. It is not entirely obvious that this is a stupid thing to do; hence the thought experiment. Will the AI suppress its urge once it comprehends human culture enough to understand the intentions of its creator? Will it rather successfully learn all the tricks to convert matter into paperclips before it considers studying human values? If the AI does not have a curiosity objective, it will likely not care about us very much, apart from the information that helps it optimizing its objective function.
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When a contractor builds an addition on my house that addition could be enjoyed by people for years and years, yet that contractor was paid a one-time fee. Do you find this unfair?
The debt part implies that it can be paid down, which can be applied to technical debt. Concepts will tend to stick (they are often at the very core of the application), so I am more inclined to agree that "bad design" is more appropriate than "conceptual debt".
Clients that don't interpret javascript, typically.
>Average American watches 5 hours of tv a day.

Anyone know where we can get the data for this? It seems to come from the Nielson corporation, who might be biased in the direction of implying people watch more TV. The BLS says 2.8 hours per day:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm

...I'd like to see the histogram of this data. Is it normally distributed? What's the standard deviation? How many people are watching more than 16 hours per day. How many are at zero per day? What the median? How does it break down for different demographics? How about with the seasons? How does it look over the course of a week? Are people binge watching on the weekends?

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch...
"Communicate within voluntary relationships" could be used to describe distributing stolen credit card numbers, hacked medical records, passing child pornography around, etc.

Clearly, they're not in trouble for sending emails. The emails were simply the evidence of the crime they got caught carrying out.
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I was merely answering the question "What DDoS protection does AWS provide?".

Normally you wouldn't expose a EC2 instance without putting cloudfront, elbs in front of it and locking down incoming traffic to cloudfront IPs.
all valid points.
Hey yaur,

Thank you for trying the app out. I'll keep working on it until it's "Good." :)

With regards to the data being off, I'll be providing references when candidates are eliminated so you can see where the data is coming from. (usually I read through the www.ontheissues.org page and come up with an answer).
This is genius, and I wish there was a controlled experiment like this in real life.
I listen to a lot of music off the Ektoplazm (http://www.ektoplazm.com/) label. It's not all great, but I like about 20% to 30% of and maybe 10% is excellent. It's all released free under a creative commons license. I don't even know what pop music is these days since I don't watch TV or listen to the radio.

Music, like a long distance telephone call, is basically free now. Technology has made these things incredibly cheap and the people who used to make money off this stuff have to find ways to restrict the supply using lobbying and lawsuits in order to make a profit. I think other industries are allowed to die a quicker death because they aren't so tied into the big media companies which have a lot of political power.
We don't, generally. It would be challenging.

If it were a volumetric attack, you could walk back links to find the source. But for anything but a huge attack which lasted for weeks/months, that would be inefficient use of resources.

Paul Vixie is really at the forefront of pushing for providers to solve this problem. Until that happens (and they've tried for a decade), it will remain technically difficult/impossible, so you need to use other solutions to mitigate attacks.
The tip is for the person coming up with the rule--even rules that seem very simple will be harder to figure out than you expect.
> I clicked on the extension link earlier...

Ah, I was mistaken. Inline installation is blocked, and inline installation is a special process which is described here. [0] So, AVG could change their site to not use inline installation for a little while until the investigation is completed.

Anyway, it's clear that you don't (and won't) agree with Ormandy. Ormandy has an established track record and is currently employed by a security-focused company, performing security bug elimination work. AFAIK, [1] you're a guy who knows how to spell XSS and nothing more.

Have you... like... even considered that a not-insignificant number of Chrome extensions also expose their users to XSS vulnerabilities? And that... like... maybe that's the current status quo, that the initial issues were beyond the pale, and the remaining possible XSS threat for just two domains -while shitty- is not substantially worse than average?

I mean, just spitballing here.

And if you did consider that, then why on earth would you expect a professional to mention that in a bug report? That's Grade-A gossip rag clickbait.

[0] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/inline_installation

[1] Because, like, you've not offered up any information regarding your work history and training (formal or otherwise).
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I think it has more to do with handicap accessibility rather than anything HIPAA related.
3 backups

2 formats

1 offsite

Local computer has photos you're working with currently, move RAW + JPG to a Synology when you're done, set up a job to sync the synology with Amazon Photos.
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
Concurrency is even easier when you use something like Erlang or Elixir, or apply their principles to other languages.
Another funding round for another AI startup
3. Let's make a deal - we can abolish copyright on recorded music if you agree to abolish copyright on written computer code.

Where can I sign?
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The 2014 and 2015 paragraphs are the most intersting to me.

The effort toward productivity, the 100:10:1 rule.

Pretty good stuff.
Maybe just bad luck but I had two consecutive very poor experiences with Sidecar drivers the first and only two times I tried to use.

My totally uninformed assumption is that all the good drivers went to lyft or uber, which have consistently had higher volume here in DC
But the problem is not computation, the problem is consciousness. I think we all agree that our level of general intelligence can be achieved "simply" by putting stuff together in the correct order. But consciousness? Why is it even there? Why is there something that it's like to be us?
Fairly relevant:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/european-immi...
Agreed! I don't think there's any chance he could get a class action status against his own label, but he successfully got out in public quite a while ago bitching about how he made roughly $17 for a milllion streams of "Low" and that got his profile up. My gut instinct is that the "willful infringement" isn't going anywhere, and after a critical breakdown of accounting, Lowery is probably owed another check that could buy him lunch at Chili's. This doesn't seem anything close to the kind of heavyweight punch that Eminem threw at Universal over royalties.

You're right though, if he's at fault for not getting himself paid, that'd get a chuckle out of me, and also another facepalm for an instance of a musician who should stick to the music part and not the businessman/activist part.
By speaking logic, i meant using a rigourous formalism to express processes and behaviors. Things like state diagrams, or code.

But many specifications today are written in terms of user scenarios, or general definition, in english. A coder would fall in the same trap should he use the same formalism, only he would probably feel the need to specify its problem using rigourous design tools.
Sure, but it's hard to argue they'd be better off acting more like Sidecar.
Despite your glowing praise, I think this is actually an understatement. Every once in a while someone makes a point that is somehow simultaneously fresh and immediately obvious -- so obvious you can't believe you've never thought of it before. To me, this article did exactly that. Sometimes the design of things leaves element(s) that cause the user or experiencer pain, but we learn to stuff it in the back of our minds and forget it's even there. I've never even considered that the acoustic noise a place generates can contribute so much to the "feel" of it. Why don't we put more emphasis on this in our cities and working environments?
Hey brbsix,

Thanks for trying out the app.

That is the intended behavior but I understand the confusion. I was using "I will vote for someone who is not running for president" for debugging (with myself as a candidate who would match on that question). I'll remove that debugging info.

The "initial state" of the page needs some enhancement to make it more clear exactly what's going on.

Thanks again and Cheers.
Your argument would still apply if it was an app for citizens to tell the police who to investigate. "Forget the abuse potential: if they don't like a bad solution, they shouldn't have allowed criminals to exist in the first place."
Guessing the photos are composites. The background is HDR, but HDR looks horrible on people, so they were shot without HDR and layered in Photoshop. In the second shot you can clearly see how the shadows are at different angles.
Fast forward about 15 minutes to where a student in the class codes up a linter for essays which changes correctly presented quotes to the style the teacher requests. LaTeX + Gulp!
So our front-end devs can try their interface designs with different data.
Yes. If a quote ends with a period, then it ends the sentence. If the sentence shouldn't end there, then the period is replaced with a comma (even if the quote was of a complete sentence).

> He wrote "I live here," and then he stopped writing.

This rule only applied to periods, though -- if the sentence ends with (say) a question mark, then you leave it in:

> He wrote, "Do I live here?" and then he stopped writing.
Right under the part where you pledge $100 billion in funding to take on the legacy RIAA and Tech Industry heavyweights! I know this is a joke-style response, but it's intended to show how hard any kind of change might be. It's tough!
You make something sound easy that I rarely see done well. The real problem is willingness to convict cops. Not enough exists. Once that exists, clear guidelines are necessary so cops can get stuff done while knowing when they'd be crossing the line.
True, Overpay is relative as you state and its based on the what the market bears. Like Popcorn in a movie theatre.

In my view and in my post I used overpay for what I considered what I'm not willing to pay for a product. Hindsight I could have used a better word or could have used a better description.

Like you I thought 35K was insane for a jeep wrangler but apparently many are willing to get loans for 7 or 10 year to pay for that 35K jeep. Those peeps are ruining it for the rest of us ;-)
Glass cost $1500, which seemed at the time like a signal that they wanted to aim it at developers. My perspective is as a developer who wanted to do some projects on Glass, who bought it in November 2013 (when it was at software version XE11), which is when Glass was at its peak.

So first of all, they released a software update (XE16) that increased memory requirement beyond the capabilities of the hardware most of their users had, and didn't swap those units. This despite having previously swapped everyone's units for a minor sensor upgrade, setting expectations. They deceived their users about the cause of the problems; they told their support staff to instruct users who complained about crashes and slowness to uninstall any third-party software, which did work, but created the false impression that it was bugs in that software rather than out-of-memory conditions that were causing the problems. (My own Glass unit is one of the ones with 1GB memory, so it can't really run the latest version of the software. The only way to make it usable is to root, flash with an outdated version, and disable the auto-updater by getting a shell and deleting it from the filesystem.)

They took Android, an open-source operating system, and made a closed-source fork. But they did nothing to communicate what was still open and what was now closed, creating a public impression that the platform was more open than it really was. They repeatedly removed major functionality from the software, especially developer-oriented functionality, without notice or justification or in several cases even public acknowledgement. In particular, they removed support for bluetooth keyboards, touchpad gestures in regular Android apps, and video calling. The problem was greatly exacerbated by it being surprisingly closed-source; several of the issues would've otherwise been extremely easy fixes. There was a long period in which it seemed like a fix should've been just waiting for the next release, so as an outside developer with a project I wanted to do, I held on and invested a lot of time and energy into trying to find workarounds.

But they never fixed any of the major issues; development just sort of ground to a gradual halt and then they announced that they were cancelling it. So I've got a useless $1500 device, a hundred hours invested into developing on a platform that will never see the light, and a whole lot of frustration directed towards Google.