skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long-time Apple user and former employee, this is exactly how I feel about the current situation. I still think that my Mac/Apple devices are more solid than my Android/PC devices, but this is exactly what I'm noticing more regularly.

I forgive most faults that happen because it's almost as if I can forgive them not working all the time since 99% of the time, everything is awesome. On Windows, that same forgiveness manifests itself as me not using my Windows machines as much as my Macs. I still love to use my PCs, but not for anything that I need to rely on the majority of the time.

Now, though, Apple is making changes to things (iPhoto/Aperture were a really great example) where it seems like the change is just to bring parity of some sort to OS X and iOS rather than introducing new features. iPhoto was buggy as hell when they added Faces and Places to it, but I totally forgave that because 99% of the time it was making my life way easier than it was before by detecting faces properly. If it crashes every now and then, it at least saved the data, so I was still better off than I was before the update. I still like Final Cut X (I know, I know... I'm an outlier), but convincing me that a switch like iPhoto/Aperture -> Photos is worthwhile is much harder since there's nothing to distract me away from those issues and I've somehow managed to actively lose features that they convinced me were necessities in the past.

I hope this is not an indicator of things to come. One thing that gives me some hope is that they've gone back to alternating between feature updates and stability updates. Leopard was cool, but Snow Leopard was incredible to me. If that pace comes back, I'll be happy again. Until then, Apple needs to get their software game back in line with the rest of the company.
Treaties do not have the power to override the constitution itself.

To quote the Supreme Court case Reid v. Covert (1957), "this Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_v._Covert
Some of us have hated them all along.
Thanks for the note. Softcover is absolutely amazing for my purposes, but at this point we think the educational market is more promising than the market for self-publishing tools, so that's what we're focusing on now. This was always part of our plan; I personally needed Softcover for the reasons you mention, but it was an open question whether it would take off as a standalone platform or whether we would end up focusing on making our own products.

A happy but unintended side-effect of making a platform is that it dramatically lowers the barrier to collaborating with other authors, and I'm currently working with several other people on more advanced and varied Learn Enough tutorials. This sort of collaborative publishing (with full control over the publication pipeline) would be effectively impossible without Softcover.
Appropriate that The Communist Manifesto isn't on the Ivy League list.
I have a related nuts&bolts question. I have started to research the history of my field, mostly dating from the 1940s to 1970. It's a small field (chemical information). The histories are mostly written by the practitioners, who describe what they did, their influences, etc.

This is one of many ways to do history. Historians also approach it in other ways. I would like to learn more about some of those ways, so I can be better at researching my topic.

Can anyone recommend a book along the lines of "So you to be a science historian" or "how to learn to write the history of science"? The book mentioned here, "The Invention of Science", sounds like it's too high of a level - though it does sound interesting.

The author points to https://www.google.com/search?q=%22department+of+the+history... . Perhaps I should just cold-call someone ...
Felt like I was watching an episode of Silicon Valley, just needed the Hooli logo at the end. Think I threw up a little at some parts (am allergic to cheese), great comedy though, would recommend A++
> That they [theoretically] put money in someone's pocket to get the patent in the first place does not change any of these facts.

Actually, depending on your definition of rent seeking, it either makes it rent-seeking or not, so it may affect those facts. Would inventors be incentivized to create as much if there wasn't a market for these types of patents? Even if you discounts the type of patents that trolls attempt to control as useless, can we say that those crappy patents didn't subsidize better inventions?

Now, I'm not defending patent trolls, just noting that it may be a mistake to assume there is no economic value to what they do, even though the net outcome is likely negative. The positive and negative consequences may not be entirely comparable, making this easy to overlook.
My Macbook Pro did which reminds me the extended warranty period is ending.

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
I would agree. I love my Macs for dev work. Web dev and app dev alike are an absolute treat with a Unix-style backend but a much more polished front-end. Ubuntu is probably the only Linux distro that comes close to giving me that terminal power without rubbing it in my face constantly when I'm just trying to manage my day to day stuff and, even then, it's not even close to OS X. Windows, on the other hand, is only usable for me with third-party software for everything and then I feel like I'm spending just as much time futzing with everything as I am doing anything productive.
This is basically the modern version of The Emperor's New Clothes.
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Sent to email in your profile.
This is a great idea, and well pitched, but it's not the first time I've seen it. Therefore it all comes down to _execution_. Since there's no real technical info or even an explaination of who's making it and why (is it a commercial thing? What's the business angle?), it feels pretty pointless.

If it ever does appear as more than a product pitch, I'll be really keen to find out more. But for now it just seems like someone's put the cart (a beautiful website) in front of the horse (an actual product)!
And I'm willing to bet Google will make a special exception for itself. I actually posted a screenshot on my G+ page yesterday of the most recent fake download button I saw online... On a YouTube banner ad, served by Google AdSense.
> A lot of people don't trust JIT and especially GC to do their jobs well.

Practically all major languages other than C or C++ rely on GC. That point makes no sense. The JVM is used in so many critical infrastructure projects (let alone web apps like OP was referring to), and so the JIT point is also incorrect.
> Their business plan appears to include firing all of their drivers.

But this was obvious from day one, and reiterated by all their messages. When the tech is ready, humans will be expelled from the loop.

It is open information, and market seems to be OK with it. Ergo: most jobs will be history soon (also well-known obvious observation). Those who adjust first will reap the rewards.
It doesn't seem like any of these products actually process payments, or is there something I'm missing?

Checkout:

> "Depending on your configuration, you will process the actual payment through your own system, a payment processor, or an e-commerce partner as you normally do."

( https://developer.visa.com/products/visa_checkout/guides )

CyberSource:

> Before moving to production and running real transactions, you must have a merchant account from an acquiring (merchant) bank that can process the credit card payments.

( https://developer.visa.com/products/cybersource/thingstoknow )

Visa Direct APIs:

> However, in order to use the Visa Direct APIs in production, the Originator must either be a Visa client financial institution (issuer or acquirer), a third-party Originator that has been granted a Visa acquirer POS license (geographical restrictions apply), or a third-party Originator that has established an acquiring relationship for that purpose with a Visa client financial institution.

( https://developer.visa.com/products/visa_direct/thingstoknow )

The token and transaction services are very interesting and it's cool to see Visa jumping into decent modern payment UX, but I don't think they're gunning for Stripe just yet...
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Except that it wasn't an agency at all. Kalanick headed the redesign himself, despite admitting that he didn't even know what kearning was when he started. From wired:
>>> Most CEOs hire experts—branding agencies that specialize in translating corporate values into fonts and colors—or tap an in-house team. Not Kalanick. For the past three years, he’s worked alongside Uber design director Shalin Amin and a dozen or so others, hammering out ideas from a stuffy space they call the War Room. Along the way, he studied up on concepts ranging from kerning to color palettes. “I didn’t know any of this stuff,” says Kalanick. “I just knew it was important, and so I wanted it to be good.”

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-inside-story-behind-ubers-c...
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You have to submit your app for approval to get pricing.

"Once you’re ready to move forward and submit your app for approval, contact developer@visa.com and work with our team to complete risk reviews, contracts, system configurations, pricing, and billing arrangements."

https://developer.visa.com/vdpguide#get-started-overview
That is absolutely gold. I have been in rebranding meetings where almost that exact video has been shown.
How is this not a violation of the USA's 4th Amendment?

And seriously, don't people like Attorneys General take oaths to defend constitutions and so forth? Why do "law and order" types take such a careless attitude towards the Constitution? I think the Maryland AG should be ashamed.
I like it.

Somewhat related anecdote: Trying go get WordPress to adopt a CSPRNG was painful for a year.

Then I started paragonie/random_compat and like 30 other people pitched in to improve it, and then I suggested just using that (so new code can be written against PHP 7's API). And so the problem was solved.

I'd tend to agree that, for security matters, a small team of people focused on success with the knowledge and/or resources they need to execute on their own initiatives gets a better result than a large team with varied interests and use cases.
GitHub has to have revenue to continue to operate. I'd rather GitHub go down the road of enterprise and other paid contracts, rather than going down the road of becoming SourceForge and all the ickiness that that entailed.
Do you have some kind of third-party display or window manager installed? I regularly (as in "every day") have my Macbook hooked up to dual monitors and I've never had the kernel crash due to a disconnect or a change on the preferences screen. Does that happen regularly for you or was that just a one-off occurrence?
Google should also just target retail use cases and kill amazon.
>Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous

$ git init
I don't understand why this is an issue for the current employees. Surely you hire a bunch of sales people and a bunch of consultants to help with on-boarding/support and place them in a separate floor or building. They don't really need to interact with developers.

The 'brogrammers' just carry on as normal and some of their work is now adding features to help support enterprise requirements. Unless your sitting a cold calling sales rep next to my desk then who cares? Someone has to pay for that foosball table and fridge full of beers, let the sales people on a different floor do their job.
Counting web ads served to users as revenue generated by the computer's operating system is ludicrous. Oracle is trying to misrepresent the amount of money made so they can sue for damages. The numbers are BS.
Feels like it was made for investors more so than the consumers.
> But it seems to me that you have mostly arbitrarily grouped "restrictions the government does that you don't like" into the category "nanny state"

Well, anybody is going to do that, even the author of this piece, so your observation does not give you as much insight as you seem to think, even if accurate (which it is not e.g. I would not classify overbroad copyright legislation into the 'nanny state' category, even though I think it makes for shitty policy).

> As far as I can tell, that is completely different than the reasons for higher gun control laws in Australia.

No, it is not completely different: both are instances of the governing class adopting policies formed from a mindset that they know better the morality that the people should adopt as they go about their lives. They believe partying into the early hours is wrong, and they give this away with the victim-blaming nonsense and misleading statistics, if not outright lies, they offer regarding crime in Sydney, which this article rightly tears down. Likewise, the Australian government (and most other national governments) would have you believe that owning a gun is morally wrong, and the data they use to support this assertion are generally about as convincing as the arguments made to support these ridiculous restrictions on nightlife in Sydney. Indeed, anyone who has participated in or even observed a gun control "debate" should be pretty familiar with the sort of statistical dirty tricks perpetrated here by the City of Sydney.

At any rate, as an aside, in the future try to keep the ratio of strawmen to sentences in your post somewhere south of 1:1. It's not just that it's irritating to the person reading it - it also weakens your argument: your assertion of what I think makes a nanny state, and your implication about my political philosophy, are both widely off the mark.
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It's like corporate timecube :)

But in all seriousness, how do people even get away with shit like this?
Hard for me to find their icon on my phone now. Maybe I'll get used to it, but the big U used to stand out quite a bit.
IF Super Bowl THEN
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Chrome has Flash built-in. Shipping Chrome with Flash is inane, because if you install Chrome, you don't need Flash. o_o
But what's the alternative? Even physicians haven't consistently self-regulated -- and if you don't have regulation, you get incompetent amateurs and snake-oil salesmen (like the contemporary sellers of homeopathic cures) passing themselves off as doctors and defrauding the sick.
Convoluted pitches and creative ideas exited all along. The problem is no one (from either the client nor the agency side) is willing to come out and call bullshit on bad ideas.
> /u/tptacek

I don't believe he even owns a Reddit account.

The convention we follow here is as follows: 'tptacek
Chrome doesn't use/work with the Flash browser plugin.
Haha, yes because that reads easy. I'm all for being succinct, but the point is to get the message across in a light-hearted, simple manner by using one hop at a time. What you said wrote sounds scientific and cold.
> To use Visa Checkout in production, you must apply and be approved for a Visa Checkout Merchant Services account. (Contact developer@visa.com for more information or to begin the production on-boarding process.)

I guess it will depend on this "on-boarding process" and their ability to make it as seamless as possible.
Xinhua op-ed:  Why doom predictors always get it wrong when it comes to China
What specific problems does LinkedIn have that you think Google would solve?
By the same logic, if you don't want the police to follow your car everywhere then leave your car at home and walk.
What benefit does SDCC have over GCC for most embedded development? And if it's the only FOSS compiler for PICs, why hasn't someone ported parts of SDCC's backend over to LLVM or GCC?
Also Blue's Traveler's The Hook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM

"It doesn't matter what I say

So long as I sing with inflection

That makes you feel I'll convey

Some inner truth or vast reflection

But I've said nothing so far

And I can keep it up for as long as it takes"
I'm thinking of giving markdown a try, for the reasons you say, but I'm not sure how the maths notation looks like when it's not rendered. I think it's all escaped characters, in which case it won't be as readable as plain text, even with rare glyphs that need special fonts.

Some text editors even let you enter rare characters with key combinations (frex, Vim's digraphs). The end result is pretty much WYSIWIG mathematical notation.

Here's an example from my machine learning class notes:

⎛ ₙ ⎞

ƒ̂(x) = θ⎜ ∑ wᵢxᵢ ⎟

⎝ ⁱ⁼⁰ ⎠

So, that looks a mess on HN, but if you copy/paste it in a decent text editor, with a font that has all the necessary characters, you'll get a nice formula that you can keep around for as long as there's text editors supporting ASCII- and you don't have to rely on any special tools to render it properly.

That's what I'm going on about- but there's not enough super/subscripts in ASCII itself. :)
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Yup, here's another: https://plus.google.com/+JakeWeisz/posts/6YMTfeRw2jY
How the decimation of the IPO market has hurt the economy and worse
Making fun of them here is cute. You know what will hurt them? If you start taking Lyft.
You have grossly misunderstood. That "Hahahaha" is directed at Guido (creator of python and self-declared benevolent dictator for life) and his short-sighted arrogant decision to break backward compatibility moving from Python 2 to 3. He recognized it as a mistake but out of some stubborn pride resolved not to fix it. Ever. So damn skippy my response to him is "Hahahahaha". The programmers that have put up with his poor decision making obviously deserve respect. I am sad that you assumed it was directed at the programmers having to deal with Guido.

Fortunately there is a simple solution -- fork Python 2.7 to make the Python 2.8 that Guido refuses to make. A python version that doesn't have compatibility issues with Guido's playground programming. This version would not have the poor performance of Python 3. This version is essentially already made with PyPy. I just wish everyone would have told Guido to get lost 7 years ago and switched to a development group with sane deprecation of features. If we had then all of the programmer effort that was poured into making their code Guido approved would have been saved. Can you imagine how much better Python development would have been without a 7 year lag that included BREAKING the code base of everyone who had previously programmed in Python 2.x?

Guido is the self proclaimed benevolent dictator for life. However, that doesn't describe a leader who breaks the programming efforts of every developer using the language prior to Py3k. He then has the stubborn arrogance to deny a transition version and instead requires 7 years of programming effort. He certainly deserves a "Hahahahaha" that it took 7 years to get "almost there". At least he is not still shocked that py3k wasn't greeted with open arms. Hopefully before 2020 he will swallow his pride and agree to a transition version -- a 4.0 which works with 2.7 or a 2.8 that works with 3.x. If not, a fork will happen.

Hopefully that clarifies the previous comment, and congratulations to the Scrapy developers for powering through and putting up with a language that was purposely broken by the language developers.
Actually NT 3.51, which I used for dev and was great compared to my colleagues on plain windows.
Tell me if I'm doing something wrong: my two EC2 servers both use EBS including for the root device, so I'm not using any device-attached storage. If Amazon "lost" my instance, it would appear to me to be just a reboot.

And yes, I do a nightly backup of databases, webroot, /etc and some other directories.
I simply don't see the implied accusation of lying with "I find that hard to believe." It's merely implying that the statement is wrong. You seem to be interpreting it as an accusation based on the idea that a person making this statement about himself is very unlikely to be incorrect. I don't see that as at all unlikely, and you'll observe here that the statement was in fact quite wrong.

As for levels of uncertainty, I think blanket statements cover a pretty wide range. "I don't use the default apps" could be low or high certainty. If you said something like "I totally definitely absolutely never use the default apps" while you are actually somewhat unsure, then sure, that seems like a lie to me.
No kidding, it's been getting really bad ever since Jobs left. Tim Cook really needs to step down.
tl;dr

Kalanick jumps the shark.
I'll have you know I hated Uber before it was cool.
someone from marketing is Peter Thiel fan http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/08/vc-peter-thiel-you-can-eit...
This reminds me of "Better Off Ted"[0], where the protagonist worked for veridian dynamics[1], a faceless multinational conglomerate.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235547/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8OKMlqxLs
Why doesn't the legal system immediately dismiss such lawsuits by the patent trolls? It is obvious what they're after.
Because the government is evil man. I half seriously want to see if you could get people to protest MS Word's ubiquitous use in overreaching government programs.

I think it has to do with a bit of iceberg effect. The part that shows up in news articles is all outrage inspiring so any mention of it becomes so just by association.

I think it's kind of similar how for some reason every time I say I like Hemingway the only response is "he was sexist". Sure, especially so if you reapply modern norms out of temporal context, however a) it doesn't add a lot to the conversation that wasn't covered in middle school english, and b) it's hardly a whole treatment of the originator of a rather large body of creative work. People jump to it because it's an easy opinion to hold and kinda makes it sound like they've done the thinking about it (which to be fair, maybe they have and have determined that to be the only relevant facet of the author).

Similarly the "Drones!" response is a) nothing that isn't true of many other systems, and b) not a full representation of Palantir's uses. It's hard to get voted down for being cynical on the internet, and it shows that the author has read a WashPo article or two about drones and Palantir, but again, maybe they've researched the company and the product fully and determined the only relevant thing is that there probably exist drone targeting packages informed by the use of the software.
Yeah, my current thinking is that any Uber drivers who aren't planning for this eventuality down the line deserve to be blindsided. Uber has made it very clear that this is their strategic direction.
I see, thanks for the reply.

So basically you've been spending your time and resources on creating the books rather than promoting the platform?

I will certainly reach out to you in the future because having access to e-mails is enough to move me off leanpub. In leanpub's defense they are a great bunch of people. I've had a number of conversations with their developers and they are always on the ball. Also never had any technical issues with their platform as an author.
Mark Cuban is an interesting character. I originally viewed him as the goofy owner of the Dallas Mavericks but now that I've seen some of his talks and blog posts as well Shark Tank, I am really beginning to appreciate his business sense.

300 of 330 employees becoming millionaires within a year of IPO. With the amount of dilution most startups go through after the multiple rounds, this is an unimaginable outcome nowadays.