skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say you had to pick God, bro. I didn't say I did.

Well, you've said elsewhere you're a "conservative." That suggests you're not a nihilist, since it implies that order and tradition are touchstones of your personal value system.

That leaves doors #2 and #3, God and hysterics. Like everyone else, you know nothing about God that you didn't hear from other men... but by all accounts, one thing most Gods have in common is that they don't like people who waffle about standing up for their beliefs.

So, hysterics it is, I guess. That's believable.
Not quite true though... Piwik, by default, includes EasyList, which has the following block rule:

/piwik.$domain=~piwik.org,script

This will block your self-hosted piwik.js file, unless you perform some redirection trickery.
Workflow / app / developer focused. With convox you deal with `apps`, `certs`, `builds` and `logs`. All the low level details are hidden. I think most people dont want to or shouldn't worry about "containers".
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To apologize, one must first believe in your premise that something offensive has happened. That said, I don't think that he is apologizing.

> There is only sexism, and identifying when we do it casually is just as important as fighting against the "obvious" cases.

I think a different term for it would be derailing. You do it by targeting an unrelated question rooted in facts you might find in the original topic.
It's multiple, interwoven hierarchies, which you can look at by "seeing" a particular DAG (a subset of the actual graph).

You can see this twin representation conceptually as Artist->Album->Song and also as Compilation->Artist->Song, the latter being a small folder with symlinks to the actual song directly.

It's really just two different trees.
yeah!
but:

1) i am no longer a part of the company. i can link you up with the sole owner if you have any interest though.
2) it is nowhere near successful really. more of a zombie startup.

i tried to do all i could to help it out, even prepared to apply to YC, but i couldn't convince the partner (current sole owner, i left it and given up my share) to agree to go to U.S. if accepted.
In what way are they burning trust? I wouldn't have trusted my AirBnB host if it weren't for AirBnB.

Now I say to other people "don't worry, AirBnB hosts won't harvest your organs or anything" and they may begin trusting AirBnB hosts (or hosts in general) more.
But if I deduct my tuition fees (which I can do in Canada, where I am), I am avoiding taxation. Also if I deduct the money I donate to the Red Cross.

So we have to be specific about which ways of "avoiding taxation" are wrong and which ways are not morally wrong. As far as I know, we call that "tax law".
Morality is not hard at all. It just requires thinking objectively.
In terms of now defunct social networks...

Ok, Myspace isn't technically dead, but its heyday is definitely over.
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Weird. And now banned.
Hmm... adding access controls to Git? I'm not sure how I feel about this.
I like how Git is low level and stays away from all of that stuff leaving it up to wrappers like GitLab, GitHub, Gerrit, etc.

When you remove someone from the list of users does it have to go and re-write history? Isn't that a big no-no in Git?
I was thinking about this while driving recently - both the iTunes / Apple Music approach, and the way I go about organizing and sorting my things.

As a guy who grew up with Mac until playing catch-up with Win95 (and some DOS to fit in), being familiar with digital storage techniques has formed over time. I get the concept of certain files being certain places - system files versus personal files versus program resources. This kind of structuring appeals to me.

Thus, rather than totally embrace the "OS as Helper" technique that Windows likes (put everything in "Music") or going the iTunes route (behemoth management program with hooks to other stuff), I maintained some of my fencing habits. Sure, I use the "Music" folder but that's only for purchased music. In a separate folder - which makes things easier to back-up I think - I have my "Music Projects" folder.

In my workflow I've got my DAW projects and output separate from what I'd consider the 'commercial music' area, and this might have saved a lot of stress that Pinkstone went through. Maybe not, but my hunch is it might have helped. iTunes can't touch what it can't see, and letting it anywhere near a collection of bootlegs and/or "less than legal" origin files is something I would avoid out of general suspiciousness. That applies to original works that don't fit any standard cataloging function either; I don't think that would help me.

Personally I'm still satisfied with Winamp, a couple skins and visualization things (it does help me ID3 tag my music as well), and honestly can't recall if I've ever installed iTunes in the past 10 years. I genuinely don't think so, and while my own process has flaws and issues (overlap of versions, DAW files are big, etc) there's some protection I kind of like in a way.
I took it as a joke about "women want to talk / empathize about the problem they're having, not talk about how you'd fix it." Which can be true in social contexts, but is totally absurd to apply to a sinking ship, hence the humor.

But it's 100% possible that I'm reading too much into it and the joke was just "Haha women talk a lot about pointless things," in which case yeah, I probably wouldn't have laughed.
So, complying with the law means you have no sense of community?
Take my advice ... forget about it for a while, and check back in in a few months :) Generally speaking, first payments tend to come in ... it's not until later that lates and defaults happen ;)
OK, yes, people use those. How many people actually use them as replacements for the tools you mentioned? Are they practical alternatives, or "alternatives" in the sense that Gimp is an alternative to Photoshop?
Exactly. Also, I might search on multiple services to seek out a better deal vs. what is the quickest and easiest to purchase. I think Viv needs to have a good understanding of your preferences [across requests] to do that well.
If you are a developer and good at what you do, you will layer your application to buffer against changes.

That's a good place to start. That's 80's and 90's best practice, though. (Most of the industry is stuck in this mindset, to be fair.) I'd say the 21st century version of this would be to structure your code in such a way that transformation tools can be easily applied.
What moral obligation are you referring to here? Or, perhaps I'm interpreting correctly and so it raises the question in another way: is it a moral obligation to contribute as much as possible to society, or as little?
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> No doubt it happens with NPM.

Could you please care to explain why?
The more efficient we can be at completing TPS reports the better. I must spend upwards of 40% of my time on them.
He's allegedly inflated his usage numbers in order to secure/sustain membership in the PHP-FIG. There are several high-profile projects in the group, so I imagine getting your project listed as a member adds some prestige and is good for resume building.

PHP-FIG: http://www.php-fig.org/
So if Ruby and Python frameworks are not suitable web development platforms - what is? The OP gives no alternatives, just a long rant about the problems of web development with dynamic languages.
In recent years iTunes on OS X has managed to achieve the feat of becoming more bloated, sluggish, and yet also losing important features.

I've spent most of the last five years hoping Apple are re-writing the thing from scratch, and have been neglecting any meaningful updates to the current fork in the meantime, but I'm losing hope.
Literally no one has suggested that we silence opponents. I am not sure how you are confusing me and facebook's curation system not giving attention to certain sources and positions based on their credibility and integrity with actively preventing people from speaking.

Whether your statement is based on disingenuous confusion or simple ignorance doesn't matter at this point because you've made your own post largely irrelevant and quite frankly it ticked me off a little bit that this string of non-sense keeps getting repeated as if it's some defense of rational, critical thought when it's the furthest thing from it at the moment.

All positions and view points cannot get equal play time in the larger conversation -- it would be noisy and a waste of time and ultimately be detrimental to progress. That is not censorship.
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I know something has deleted several dozen MP3s from my collection. The end result of which is iTunes would refuse to sync my phone. Because those two features belong in the same app, and all. In the end I had to delete my entire iTunes music library and start fresh, just so my phone would sync
We were in the Summer 2015 YC batch and we've taken some VC funding.

Our other main offering is a web console for managing your team's access to rack(s) and integrations with 3rd party services. https://console.convox.com We charge a subscription fee for that and we also sell support and services packages.
I'm still waiting to see an argument for why a content provider who is making something available to others for free and without obligation has any obligation in return, either legally or ethically, beyond the same basic decency that we all owe to each other. I think a site that is neither actively malicious nor grossly negligent has satisfied that basic decency requirement.

Ultimately, it's just not realistic to expect every little store and niche blogger to either monitor every third party service they depend on full-time just to protect the users who are giving them little if anything in return or to discontinue using any third party services that are technically capable of distributing malware. The former is demonstrably impossible anyway, and if you take the latter to its logical conclusion you undermine substantial parts of what has made the modern web so successful, far beyond using ads as a revenue stream.

Put another way, malware writers themselves may be the scum of the earth, but I don't see why someone writing a blog about how to bake cakes and using a well-known and generally reputable ad network to fund the hosting costs is any more ethically responsible for the consequences of a malware incident than, say, a browser developer whose also freely offered product had a vulnerability that could be exploited in the first place. I don't see anyone calling for any browser with a track record of serious security vulnerabilities (which is all of them, of course) to be banned to protect users from malware, though.
You've been posting quite a few unsubstantive comments to HN. Please don't do that. We're looking for civil, thoughtful discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11660700 and marked it off-topic.
No one is apologizing for shit, because there is nothing to apologize for. That's the response you've been getting. If you want to see what apologizing for content looks like, take note of defenders of e.g. Linus' asshole remarks that say "yeah he's an asshole but he's really necessary and good for the kernel!". In order to be an apology there must be an admission of wrongdoing.
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This is funny. I saw the same pattern in Smalltalk apps: Reports being the locus of spaghetti code.

Reports are added as an afterthought. Then the resulting spaghetti code patterns are replicated cut & paste, where they then slowly melt into surrounding code in a way that makes them impossible to extricate. After some years, it then becomes obvious that reports are the primary driver of value for those clients.
Yes, but who is in control of whether "find me a hotel" searches hotels.com, or Kayak, or Expedia, ...
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Many American liberals are just as hard-headed and difficult to debate with. The Overton Window has shifted in the past couple years and the original leftists are now centrists. America has become radically polarized and the radical liberals and just as dangerous and closed-minded as the radical conservatives.

You should also bear in mind that you're commenting on an article where liberals deliberately censored conservative news media. That doesn't do much to support your assertions.

The fact that the American leftist view would be considered centrist in most other countries (like, for example, the nordic countries) is essentially meaningless. Just because "left" takes on different meanings or extremes in different parts of the world doesn't mean that the US is behind or should become more left. To compare US politics to those of Finland, Switzerland, or even Canada is completely absurd. We are a fundamentally different people, system, land mass, you name it. Our political system must take that into account.
Are you against all kinds of jokes?

We make all kinds of jokes about our neighbouring countries but it doesn't mean we don't respect them. Just recently I discussed it with one of them to try to figure out who made most jokes about who and we both laughed at it.

Same with jokes about men and women: if this joke is a problem, never ever come to work in Scandinavia. Both for your own sake but also because we enjoy laughing once in a while.

Not everything should be destroyed because Social Justice (TM).
So that's how robots will destroy humanity!
The default Piwik Sandstorm install has "piwik" nowhere in the URL.
Thanks for the advice! That's very helpful to fold into my research/analysis of next steps. :-)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11651711 and marked it off-topic.
Off topic - googling facebook.com drives me nuts.

A couple of days ago I went to an administration worker at a university and asked her to help me with getting the vpn to connect to the net via university wi-fi. She told me to google the vpn to download it. I said: well, this is the very problem, I want to connect to the Internet, I cannot google it while I'm offline. People no longer distinguish between the address bar and google search, searching for files on your local drive or looking for them online. It's become one blob of "computer stuff". And you might think that when we moved from command line in DOS to Windows that was creating a new kind "stupid user". There is the next level, certainly.
> What behavioral/psychological changes are there beyond those associated with the regular consumption of any addictive substance?

Not many, and that's precisely the point: in terms of additivity, the neural receptors involved are essentially the same as those involved in other drugs; and in terms of toxicity, it's metabolized essentially the same as alcohol. Give a fruit juice or a whisky to a 4-year old, and it's about the same (minus the dizzy high of/c).
http://beets.io/

beets has done an amazing job helping curate my music. I'm sure it's been covered here before.
I think you are generally right (might argue a few things but at this point wouldn't help the discussion) but you may need to work on your tone. Just a friendly advice.
I've purposley avoided Apple Music for this reason. I still use it as my main library, but i've starting using Google Play Music for their radio stations, which I have found superior to iTunes.

Anyone have advice for moving off of iTunes completely? Do you backup to S3 or a external disk?
Someone has to say it: why do people keep using it? If it's not doing the job it's supposed too, or worse, actively deleting your music it's time to scrap it!
(Assuming you're referring to the James Pinkstone story referenced in the beginning) Sort of. Pinkstone was telling the truth in that iTunes did delete all his music, but after some follow-up with Apple it was determined that it was a bug and not, as he speculated in the first post, the result of a conspiracy to control what happens to music you already purchased (the Apple CSR was just clueless; which is well within the realm of possibility)

That doesn't really matter to this story's context though: the Slate author is complaining that its the general shittiness of iTunes, not any sinister agenda on Apple's part, that is destroying his desire to collect music.
Indeed agrees with you- "Leading Tech Job Trends": http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends
The solution is to have the FDA mandate big bold warning labels stating that long-term consumption of high quantities of sugar has been linked to diabetes and other health problems. Give consumers some information to help make an informative decision.
Has it gotten better at tagging classical music? I used it for a while a year or two ago and back then it was pretty bad for tagging classical music.
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> If you can't, send me to a website pre-filled with data from the command and let me do the rest myself. Anything in between is just a reinvented phone tree.

That's a really neat idea. Unfortunately it seems to be completely unscalable. For instance, booking on an airline site usually involves navigating and fill a complex multi-page form. Some of the fields are privacy conscious information. The form layout and process varies from airline to airline. Those are just two of the biggest concerns.
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You can make your own "PowerShiri" in Powershell, by tapping into the .NET Speech Recognition library [0].

Having built out a novel bot this weekend [1], this became an obvious next step. The PowerShiri demo linked lets you set up a key/value table, and when Speech Recognition matches a key, it executes the Powershell command held in the value. In this way, you can issue the same command, e.g. "What is the time?" - and receive a dynamic response. The voice output is generated by the ubiquitous Out-Speech function.

Dynamic program generation, more like dynamic query generation, is the obvious next step. Instead of generating a massive key/value table for every possible combination of commands, you treat each word as a key, then have each value generate the next set of keys.

It's both annoying and gratifying to learn a weekend project is facing the same technical challenges as a well-funded corporation.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9361594/powershell-can-sp...

[1] https://github.com/Gilgamech/PowerShiri/
The Big Short (Book) is the easiest way to be introduced to these concepts of contracts and risk.

'Margin Call' is an excellent and thrilling film that dramatizes these concepts and shows how they can play out on the trading floor.
Please don't import shallow, inflammatory, off-topic material from elsewhere into HN. We have enough of a problem with the home-grown stuff.

Having done that, you made it worse by perpetuating drama and taking the thread even further off topic. There's nothing substantive here, so please stop and don't do it again.
"hey, soldier, go on this risk thing because everybody will be looking for you. Yes, we are a team!"
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There's still nothing better than iTunes, at least on OS X.

It's the best of a bad bunch.
The person writing the article (in common with most people) equates "looking good" with "working well" because they're unable to understand there may be a difference between those two things.

Also, the blandness of most current site designs makes the few who do anything remotely different stand out.

http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/
This is why I still use iTunes 10. After that point, the program no longer had the organizational features I'd been depending on ever since iTunes 4 or maybe even earlier. It's unfortunate that there isn't a similarly feature-rich music organization app for OS X available (and I've tried them all).
When I was a young teenager in the early nineties I dreamt about having all the worlds music available to me via the internet.

This is more or less the reality today.

Access beats ownership anyway IMO.
So, is this an island parser on top of a Bayes net?

Haven't read the papers for a few decades, but I wonder how the auto generated code differs from General Problem Solver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Problem_Solver

Hope the above doesn't sound dismissive. Was working at company incubated at SRI. We were hand coding similar workflows. My guess is that VIV is a 10x improvement in workflow.

Be that as it may, it still seems to be constrained by Humans creating ontologies. So, may suffer scaling issues. Somewhat akin to Yahoo's Human curated websites vs Google's auto generated backrub.
TLDR: We have encountered Ouroboros
Sorry, when I read this, for some reason, I thought you were saying the author of this article was the guy posting this, and that because he had posted a sexist tweet, his proof that PHPixie was a fraud was invalid.
Similar project, that I personally use quite often: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
The thing with "containers" is that they're portable. I want, ideally, to assemble and test my app build in a sort of local micro-copy of the production infrastructure, then push something bit-for-bit identical to that build to the real production infrastructure. Containers easily enable that; source-code-push services leave it an open question.

Though, really, if your app uses a lot of fancy IaaS service APIs, even the container-oriented approach still isn't a full answer to enabling dev-time local testability with production parity.

(Personally, I'm waiting for a "mock AWS in a box"—a single binary that presents itself as many IaaS service machines on a virtual network interface it creates, without actually doing any of the heavyweight computation required to run e.g. OpenStack's DevStack. So the VMs wouldn't be VMs but just network-IO-level mocks, etc. I'd love to plug that some application Docker containers into that.)
Wait, wouldn't you get the same result from running -U on the contents of the requirements file (after stripping the == out)? i.e.

sed 's/==.*//g' requirements.txt \
| tr '\n' ' ' \
| (read var; pip install -U $var) \
&& pip freeze > requirements.txt
Cargo cults might be an analog.

> Cult members worship certain "Americans" (such as John Frum and Tom Navy), who they claimed had brought cargo to their island during World War II, as the spiritual entity who would provide the cargo to them in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Causes.2C_beliefs.2...

And my personal favorite:

> The people of the Yaohnanen area believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
In an ideal world, it will maintain your price preferences across sessions.

Something like, for example, knowing my preferred seat on a flight is "frontmost available (non-premium) aisle seat unless the layover is very tight, in which case, frontmost seat period"... that would be amazing and truly useful.
Its based on faulty logic. The human mind has a bias against its own biases
I'd have less doubt, if I were to see some examples...
If someone were to decide they were going to file bankruptcy, they likely have already been missing mortgage, credit card, auto loan or other payments. Missing payments hammers your FICO (credit) score. Lending Club requires a minimum 660 FICO, which you're not going to be able to hold on to very long if you're missing payments. I am sure there are people who do this, but I doubt it is rampant.
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