skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Personally I think CodeAcademy is just a bad meme.

Respectfully, OP was asking for resources related to learning HTML and CSS from a non-technical point of view. From a standing start, JavaScript is a way down the line in the web development part -- not the beginnings of HTML and CSS for web design.

Sure, Codecademy is not the be-all solution, but they're accessible enough to get started for a broad section of non-technical folks, hence my recommendation.

Edit: italics.
Possibly, but I suspect that the address pools for many of the major players (Amazon, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, etc.) are also known and not getting smaller.

There might be options related to IPv6, but since Netflix has been supporting that for streaming since 2012 I suspect those are also covered.
Perception problem is the right description. Let us take a devil's advocate view and try to fit the facts into a narrative that inverts the public wisdom.

Microsoft is making over 4 times what it made in its glory days, growing year by year, across a wide range of products and services. Windows and office account for only half of that, making them a diversified company with plenty of potential for revenue growth. Windows 10 is by far the most successful windows release ever, with more active installs than os x (any version). Basically the only place microsoft is truly failing is phone.

Apple by contrast gets two thirds of their revenue from the iphone. They have nothing else that even comes close, and nothing that could replace it if iphone sales start dropping. Mac sales are down, ipad sales are down, and the apple watch is a dud. Since 1990 apple has basically had two hits: ipod and iphone. I did not mention ipad because it is just another iphone model, which you can tell by its sales slumping as iphone screen sizes moved up. Success for Apple is rare, and most of what they do isn't all that amazing. The apple tv isn't going anywhere, even after the refresh. The apple watch distinguishes itself from other smartwatches only by its price. Basically the only place that apple is truly succeeding is phone.

Perception is everything. How you choose to look at the facts determines which facts you see. Apple is perceived as strong and microsoft as weak, but the facts give you the option of going either way.

Regardless, apple has few excuses for any quality issues. They have the resources, and they have had enough time (given that aside from the watch everything else is half a decade old or more). Personally my mac and ipad anno 2015 have the same amount of glitches as my mac and ipod anno 2005. For me, Apple doesn't seem to be getting worse, but they don't seem to be getting any better either.
I was on the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme responding to pretty much this exact question. Could an algorithm run the government?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02np2dg

I believe not, as Watson is a solution to the Big Database problem of finding relevant information from a massive corpus, but I am not convinced that that's what enables human intelligence, preferring the views that intelligence is necessarily context specific (there is no objective "intelligent" act or being) and is enacted between an environment, body, and culture, rather than processing of patterns of simulation in the brain.
Asked myself the same thing. How much time does one has to loose to write an entire post about having political arguments with the human equivalent of a chatbot..
(I personally also subscribe to the "preventing suffering" axiom, but wanted to show a better contrast)

But then the AI may decide life is suffering, and end suffering by ending life...

Asimov’s laws of robots end up with the previously mentioned axiom, though.
I would argue that you need to sell alcohol to make the live music profitable.
> dogs weren't bred to be gentle house pets back then

dogs have been bred for all sorts of purposes since the beginning of dogs.
I agree with your comments. When I discuss the big picture, I'm talking how their activities and intelligence will be used by politicians on top. The things people in the field are told and what's actually going on often differ enough to impact loyalty.

So, for an example, the analyst might be monitoring aspects of the situation in Syria, including comms of Assad's people, to forward to people who make decisions to compete with that regime. The analyst will know there's others, esp various terrorist groups, trying to topple that regime. The analyst may or may not know CIA and British are giving support to those terrorist groups without regard for blowback that will murder their own. So, their work is indirectly supporting and fueling terrorist organizations that will kill those they claim to protect.

I doubt they knew that. Or their ideology of "protecting" their country was very different than they'd project publicly.

" But I'd be willing to be they're selected for being intelligent and true believers in what they do."

Bingo! That's how the dirtiest stuff remains secret for the longest time. They have to be smart, true believers. They can also be among the most effective given how long they're typically in the game. I like using an easy, fictional example to illustrate this to people. Favorite is the "operator" on Serenity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0GGndnnOqw
I personally agree with you but there are arguments against subsidized health care from the right. It is a cliche, and I think, easily refuted, but there is the libertarian argument that subsidized health care places infringes on personal liberty (forcing one to pay tax, incentivizing the government to regulate your health).

Essentially, what if maximizing individual human liberty was the basis of the program, not a utilitarian notion of maximizing net-human life.

Caveat: even with human liberty as a basis for developing a political system, you could still end up rationalizing mandatory, subsidized health-care i.e. maximizing freedom entails a poor person shouldn't have to lose his liberty to poor health etc. This is my position, but I don't necessarily think it is the inevitable conclusion of attempting to maximize for human liberty.
I'm personally from Stockholm but were in Sydney about a year ago and yeah I must say that your alcohol laws are pretty insane. After 12 you can't order this and after 1 you cant order that and so on. So silly that I couldn't buy drinks for my friends and that they had to go to the bar themselves to order it. Do they really believe that I would order 4 drinks for myself at each order?
> Japanese social media twitter (which I'm labelling as "2ch", though it's not just 2ch) is almost completely distinct from what I'm calling "upstanding japanese twitter" (links to mainstream news sites like news24)

I have no idea what the point of the headline is after reading the above part of the post.
ok, airplay I guess - although I've never used it, I do see people using it to good effect.

Worth mentioning that airplay is just userland software - nothing special, and no reason it couldn't have been added to SL.

I don't know about multi display, though - I've been under the impression that that is broken in new and fascinating ways with every single release...
The trend today is to "discover" that women were warrior princesses and super powerful. The same facts would lead to very different conclusions 100 years ago. The 1916 version of his story would be that the king was very rich and gave nice stuff to his queen or concubines, long live the king.

Prehistorical "history" is more a reflection of what we think than what happened thousands of years ago.
You wonder why you can't convince a scammer to give you valuable info in exchange for a fake promise to pay? You can noodle that out.
I joked about this[1] last year, now we are seriously discussing it. Hilarious.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2015-technology-7-predictions...

EDIT:

I don't think we can trust an AI just yet. For example I had arguments from people who wanted me to feed motivation (cover) letters from job applicants into Watson to determine "cultural fit" (I'm in the tech recruitment business atm). IMO these technologies are way over-hyped for now and we are walking down a very dangerous path, because marketing pushes into this direction and the technology is far from ready.

To prove my point I tried to feed Joseph Mengele, Stalin & Bin Laden writings into Watson to see how he evaluates the data. As expected Watson had some "great things" to say about these characters.
Another feeling I get is that when we read info about ourselves in this context it's like reading a horoscope. People read 2 things that are true (but vague) and the 3rd thing may not be true but they shrug it off as "oh I didn't know this about myself yet ... I'll have to monitor myself in future to see if this is right". We are prone to be "open" to such statements as long as they sound like a positive trait. But is it true? So in that sense the machine learning might fool us into thinking we remove bias (but we can not remove bias like this).
I honestly think that this technology should come with a warning label because people who have no idea about how the data is being prepared or analysed will interpret the output verbatim and take it face value.

Here is the link http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/06/13/using-big-dat...
I think it's worse than that, it's sliding towards Metafilter, where half the conversation is derailed by meta comments and whether it's appropriate to talk a certain way.

Screw that.
Don't use smart phones. Just don't. It works for me.
Well FTA they said it had an average of 27 back and forth messages per conversation, which is way more than the average chatbot.
If you're solely a customer, you're unlikely to ever have any real problems with Paypal. For vendors though they are the devil.
I'm not arguing against the update making the device slower. But the fact it's built so people would upgrade(via irremovable nagging), even when it's clearly not what's best for them.
You use MaxMind's IP database which tells you the origin type (residential, commercial, proxy, etc)
Same problem: https://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-HZA3b/0/1...

"Copy paste this to pass this lesson" - No context given, just do this to pass. That's not good learning.
I don't think there is any explicit shaping / throttling happening on US wireline networks these days. There was a huge blowback against Comcast for trying that ~10 years ago, using Sandvine gear to throttle bittorrent traffic at peak times.

There is still plenty of implicit throttling going on though, with broadband providers refusing to provision enough capacity between their networks and the content source networks. The existing links then become congested at peak times and performance is degraded for the customers trying to access that content.

VPNs may improve performance in this situation not because they are hiding or disguising the content, but simply because the traffic is "re-routed" around the congested links. Assuming that the links from content network -> VPN host and VPN host -> end user are not also congested.
Wait... El-Erian said "re-up".

When did this urban/inner-city drug culture term become mainstream?

(for the etymology geeks here, El-Erian means "of the aryans", no not the nazi aryans, the original aryans)
Twitter's rumored algorithmic timeline switch
Sorry to be the language police (but word choice is important when labeling politicians): I don't think any Sander's supporters would vote for a left-libertarian mode; I think you meant left-liberalist or something like that. Libertarianism would be opposed to the role of government in Sander's democratic-socialist platforms.
I'll leave open the possibility that I'm missing something here, but all immediate evidence points to Nolan Dalla being a man.
Until quite recently, they offered the only way of accepting credit cards without a written application and a substantial security deposit. In many countries, they're still the only realistic option.

The "problematic behaviour" you describe is invariably related to the fraud prevention mechanisms required to offer their service. That's the deal - Paypal are incredibly liberal in opening accounts, but they reserve the right to freeze an account pending investigation if something looks sketchy.

Paypal still fills a very useful role. I've used their services to receive payments for over a decade without incident.
Would it be acceptable for a banking regulator to be paid millions / year for a few hours work by the companies they are claiming to regulate?

It doesn't require innuendo to believe it disqualifies someone for the role as regulator-in-chief. Calling it innuendo is a talking point to deflect that taking this type of money is troubling behaviour for a public servant.
WORK TWICE LESS / EARN TWICE MORE
This is the other side of the phenomenon that was Apple’s relationship with mobile carriers. They put the people buying ahead of the people selling.

It’s the same with PayPal, really. They’re prioritizing the people buying stuff over the people selling stuff.
Martin is the living embodiment of the ethics of Wall Street. He smiles as elected representatives remind him that he will cause people to suffer. We shouldn't blame Martin, we should blame ourselves.
But a good, high level tool solves/abstracts all those issues for it's developers(with the cost of some performance decrease) . The business oriented tools manage to do so.
Didn't they?
It wouldn't understand any key issues. Foreign leaders would trick it into bad negotiations with Q&A schemes. It couldn't read the body language of opponents in negotiations. Being President, not Legislature, it couldn't meet its stated goals because nonprofit set it up to fail. Little known AI developers and admins that build and run Watson would also control our country via proxy with difficulty proving their effects. One may even install Global Thermonuclear War.

All in all, this is a terrible idea for all kinds of reasons that have no connection to the false idea that Watson is intelligent. ;)
schools

ele/mid/hs

http://www.greatschools.org
The Begley paper and the whole debate over reproducibility spawned a worthwhile introspection on behalf of the journals, several of which have adapted the information required from authors in response.

However, I am distinctly unimpressed by Amgen's failure to live up to the standards it expects of others; not releasing the information required to assess their original claims being their worst offense. In this series, one of the studies, as mentioned in the article, is even a repetition of 4 [1,2,3,4] earlier failed attempts to reproduce the original claim that bexarotene caused a reduction of amyloid in mice [5]; while worthwhile, it is not an impressive contribution.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23704555
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23704554
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23704553
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086452/
[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3651582/
I would have said Donald Trump. He comes out and says what Trump only dares to dogwhistle.
Or maybe it actually looked at many successful countries/societies and noticed something you may have missed in your analysis.
Why stop at the VPN provider? Punish the ISP and the device manufacturers. (sarcasm)

This is a stupid move by PayPal.
"what parts of your code are not original?"

Let's start with the syntax, constructs, compilers, linkers, and use of assembler. Very little that's original any more. That's fine as most science and tech that's worth a shit is an increment on some prior development. Evolutionary, not revolutionary.
http://www.nolandalla.com/category/picture-1/
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”"

http://lazenby.tumblr.com/post/30206152130/well-right-natura...
Yeah, that got weird real fast.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
I am one of the network engineers for time warner cable and we don't do any throttling or traffic shaping on customer traffic. We have Netflix boxes colocated but they might possibly get overloaded at certain times because people are using Netflix at an increasing rate. Sorry you aren't having a good experience, if you want to tell me which part of the country you live in I will try and have someone look into it.
> “I call them ‘tech genius.’”

I disagree: You can impress most "Generation Z" kids by introducing them to Ctrl + F in the browser. Using technology without knowing how it functions seems pretty prelevant.
Comparatively, it would be as if they blocked companies which sold knives because they have a policy against murder.
You say "will already have information about postcodes and so on". How exactly do you get your hands on postal code geo data, have you tried that? Have you created your own geo postal code database, or maybe used an API. I'm talking international postal codes too.

I have, and I can tell you it's not easy, for example in Canada there are like over 10k postal code regions. Then imagine maintaining this dataset, no thanks.

Anyhow that's not the point, that's just one data set Tableau does very fast, but tomorrow could be something totally different and the next day, etc.

Sure for complex custom requirements no BI tool will work, but it's sure better than what people were doing just a few years ago with excel or hiring expensive firms.
There are a number of experiments where researchers have reported visible changes to sperm morphology. Here are the ones I found without looking to hard (only extracted abstract; did not read full paper from the perspective of a grad student preparing for journal club)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19578660 " However, rats exposed to RF-EMR exhibited a significantly reduced percentage of motile sperm"

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/10343/1/IJEB%... "decrease ... in total sperm count".

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph250/ferguson2/ "An experiment by Yan et al. in 2007 was conducted to see how cell phone radiation affected sperm quality. [10] The rats were placed in a PVC holding tube and exposed to a total of 6 hours of cell phone radiation per day for 18 weeks. After the 18 weeks were over, the rats were euthanized for tissue testing. They found that sperm motility was significantly different between the control and experimental group. [10]"

That ref is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17628553, "Rats exposed to 6 hours of daily cellular phone emissions for 18 weeks exhibited a significantly higher incidence of sperm cell death than control group rats through chi-squared analysis."

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=476323... "Our findings shows a significant decrease in GPx and SOD of exposed rat sperm (p< 0.001)"
That's a very interesting point! Watson is I essence a robot, so Asimov's laws should be a good starting point. But are they also a good starting point for the president? Why should laws be different for robots than for people? My head is spinning...
The React on Rails Doctrine
> INTERVIEWER: Mr. Dalla, do you have a few minutes to share your opinions with us?”

> ME: “Sure, why not? Go ahead.”
I was hanging on for a while, but he lost me here:

> ME: “I could destroy any one of your arguments in just a couple of seconds. Do you realize you are talking to someone with a degree in political science who has probably written more about politics than everyone in your office put together?

There's an entire subreddit (/r/iamverysmart) for this kind of stuff.

He could have made the same point by relaying the questions he was asked but without his responses, but he opted for self-gratification. Too bad, because he does have a point about push polling being a really dirty practice. I still remember back to the South Carolina scandal with Bush and McCain.
Talking about JITed OSes, that 92 thesis http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/ is still a fun read.
"Real estate values are sticky and will hold up longer than people think."

This may be true in the general case, but there is a more relevant (IMO) general case here, and that is: demand outstripping supply causes prices to ramp up steeply ... but if that condition wavers at all they will drop.

That is to say, if there is even a single marginal house for sale in the SFBA that can't clear, the whole market drops. Right now that doesn't exist. All (normal, conforming) homes in SF are clearing. If that changes - if there are even one or two marginal houses left unsold - the price plummets.
Every time congress starts a war these days it ends up backfiring.

War in Iraq to stamp out terrorism? More terrorists.

War on drugs? More drugs.

Given that Congress is so good at failing to win a war it's about time we try something new. Congress should start a war on the wealthy.

I bet they succeed only in creating more wealthy people in the process.
Or that the barrier to entry for competitors is too high. It's pretty difficult to replicate the synergy PayPal had with eBay, which drove the number of Paypal customers up so high, so quickly.
This is fantastic. We need to do things this way more often.
Of course it will. Investment will ebb and flow in cycles, just like it always has. Back in 2001 was a massive pullback in VC investment, and we very well may see something similar if there's a catastrophic downturn in the tech economy.

But it will always come back. There is no place like Silicon Valley because of the critical mass of talent and greed. There are far too many greedy people who want to make money that will always bring in the money.
This is one of those non-intuitive findings - like that study which showed bicycle helmets increase bicycle accidents due to increased risk taking - that I refuse to believe.
These kinds of problems don't happen in a free market.
If you don't like it, don't have children. Use protection, have an abortion, give your kids up for adoption or send them to boarding school.

However, some people actually enjoy spending time with their kids...
While the big "tourists," eg Fidelity, are investing, they aren't investing in the early stage froth. That's not to say Uber & co's valuations haven't been high, but I've found most investors to be here. Many of them have been here for quite some time too.

This article is a whole lot of speculation without much substance. What I'm most curious about is LP's effect on VC fund distribution. The big funds are still raising big funds, General Catalyst as an example this week. They still need to allocate that capital.

To answer my own question : I guess they'll be allocating it to the highest growth / most safe opportunities though. And at better valuations.
So why not just make a Twitter clone? As in a website that had same functionality? This extra CLI abstraction will just make it harder to adopt, which again might be by design, but at that point a question comes to mind: why not just start a newgroup-ish email feed?

Again I don't quite get what Twitter is for, so maybe I'm missing something, but at least the publicity isn't an issue here since this seems to make it pretty hard to actually find people to follow.
I've only just started down this path, but http://www.theodinproject.com/courses seems pretty good so far. It's more a curated, guided collection of other resources than a resource itself, but that works for me.
Ducket is a little dated these days but it is a great intro in my opinion.
I hope Dalla reads this comment. It'll be a shame if the important part of the message is missed because people took offense at his tone with the campaigner.