skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, when I was at Amazon, we were taught that "Person X broke the site" is the wrong way to think about things. There should be enough testing, redundancy, code review and so on to avoid issues given that humans are fallible.

So the system failed, not a particular person, and the solution is to dive deep into why the system failed, and improve it.

Obviously there are exceptions for willful extreme negligence or policy violations.
But we can't have more computing power than the parent universe. And if we are only one simulation out of millions, we couldn't have more than a fraction of a percent.
I'm all for exposing Theranos' fraud, but here's a story by the same journalist from Forbes, just 8 months ago: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/07/02/bloody-..., without any real questions about the validity of their technology – just a rehashing of the same PR message.

Forbes did absolutely _nothing_ to actually expose Theranos, instead they added to the never-ending hype-machine that the media heaped on to Theranos. So now they've joined the never-ending dance over Theranos' grave.

Just a good reminder of how much of an echo chamber media coverage tends to be nowadays.
Yui was amazing. Really paved the way for "proper" front end dev.
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> Somehow I feel that this was almost a golden age for computers. When they were still tools and not means of mass distraction.

It seems we always do this. A new tool comes along and immediately evangelists and early adopters are talking about how it will free us of some horrible thing that prevents us from spending time with our families or it will enable us to do something great with ourselves and become better people.

Then everyone gets one and it turns out we didn't need a device to do any of that. We're either still working a lot because we have to or we don't spend time with the family because we're horrible, lazy people and the tool gave us one more thing to do instead of this lofty goal of spending time with the family.

'Spending time with the family' is something people say to make them seem like nice, caring people but it turns out we're all looking for reasons to not spend any time with them at all.
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Minecraft licensed to Lego a few years ago. Lego even just revealed another big set from Minecraft just this month.[0]

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Ad hominem isn't always irrelevant. You would expect a journalist to defend an organization that employs many journalists and it's useful to keep that into account, as it reduces the ratio between the (conditional probability that the journalist will argue for that position given that the position is true) and (conditional probability that the journalist will argue for that position given that the position is false).
> That's a template for private censorship by the rich.

No. Contrary to popular opinion, you can't sue somebody out of existence if they've done nothing wrong. The courts frown on attempts to do that.

For you to do something wrong, you had to cause clearly defined harm. If you're causing harm, why shouldn't you be sued out of existence?

The injustice here isn't that the rich can eliminate bad actors ... it's that the rest of us can't!
What?! You have a seriously messed up idea of the definition of the word philanthropic.
How is this a hit or anything else a hit piece? She very well may be a major-league fraud. This is exactly what we want the press to do.
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Or perhaps you could say, the religio-corporation he has created...but instead of selling jewelry in the midwest through multi-level marketing and talking about how great Jesus is, he's talking about how tech will create a utopia and doing it in Silicon Valley.
Nice work! Potentially I could use this to deploy lambda-comments. :-)
You failed to answer my question, but I will answer yours.

1) No, but it seems most of the world liked it enough to upvote it.
2) No, but it was a low priority for me.
3) I did not know it only worked on Chrome, due to the time constraint I was under.
Isn't Omidyar on Gawker's side, though?
I somewhat agree with you. My comment is more to the general point of people who don't buy/short any shares at all, and not specifically to people being forced to sell during buyouts.
Huh. Pretty sure this wasn't available 6 months ago or so when I set up Google Now. You needed to opt in to search and app history to use Now, which included OK Google, or something.
> Technology advances -> Simulations exist -> We're either the first civilization in infinity or we're a simulation.

Doesn't follow; there could be lots of civilizations in the same reality, so we could not be the first civilization, and still not be in a simulation. If simulations of the detail level of our universe are possible given the laws of nature governing the reality underlying everything, then either we are in the base reality or a subordinate reality (if such simualtions are not possible, we are definitively in the base reality.)

The information we have provides very little basis for computing probabilities here: any estimate is just a projection of the biases of the person providing it.

> However, just because something is true doesn't mean the probability of it being true is very low and just happened to end up that way.

If something is true, it's probability is 1, by definition. (Something may have low probability based only on particular prior information, but that's a different story.)
To me it would only be scary if a media company was taken down by a rich entity simply litigating them until they couldn't afford to fight the lawsuits anymore. In this case, Gawker lost because they were in the wrong.

A media company operating with integrity has nothing to fear here.
It's because element queries are undecidable in the general case. A better approach is a constraint solver, which is how GSS[1] works.

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Looking forward to test the Open Beta! Wish you guys all the best, keep up the good work.
I wonder if you could boost the solidity of the language data by tracing backwards from framework. For instance, I see one posting in your data where the framework is known (Ember) but the language is not. Of course we know Ember is a JS framework, so you could answer both questions.

A big mapping of Python => (Django, Flask, etc.) Ruby => (Rails, Sinatra, etc.) ...

Just a thought.
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post a salary that's at least 50% over market. And go from there. you'll know them when you see them.
Most of the people I've met who talk about how "FB is definitely overvalued" do have some amount of capital. They could safely short FB with X% of their portfolio if they are really so sure, and yet, they never do so.
> I would actually like to know if you had dosed this morning.

I'm curious as well. I've come to use long (but informative) rambles as an ad-hoc indicator of the kind of executive function deficit typical of ADHD. Folks who can write short, crystal-clear, on-point emails are unlikely to be (untreated) ADHD.
How much of this is due to mods and minigames?

No one I know plays stock vanilla Minecraft anymore.

This is even stranger, considering mods and minigames have never been supported by Mojang directly.
Since I alternate between developer and system admin jobs[1], you message hits me both as "Righteous" and "Dammit you $^%& developer". I am so conflicted.

1) welcome to the wonderful and horrible world of a journeyman in the middle
> Her company's tech didn't pan out.

That's about the most generous way of possibly framing it. She apparently deceived investors, the media, and the public, potentially putting people's health at risk in the process. And this deception made her one of the richest people in the world, at least on paper. Like it or not, it's a pretty big story and it will be reported on.
> So basically she got a loan at 10%. Also, you have to factor in that she has an option to purchase which she can choose to exercise. I don't know why they don't just say as much.

That's the weirdest part of me. People who drive for a living can and will put on 30k+ miles a year on a car. If they used this car for Uber work for the full three years as a driver, you probably wouldn't want the car anyway! It would make more sense to lease a new one to continue working for Uber or if you move on from Uber trigger the two week end lease policy and buy a new car. Or trigger the two week end policy and move into a car you financed under your own power.
It's the same deal for me. I stopped using taxis for getting to the airport years ago when they simply failed to show up even remotely on time (either not at all or 30+ minutes late).

UberX is showing that it would cost about $60 to get to the airport with no surge pricing. With even 1.5x, though, that'd balloon to $90, and I've seen it as high as 2x during some times when I've needed to get to the airport after work.
There's a difference between what we want the press to do, and what we want a mob to do. These articles are more like a mob.

What the press (including Forbes) SHOULD HAVE done, was ask Holmes and Theranos difficult questions years ago, instead of functioning as PR outlets. They didn't do that. That's what the press is SUPPOSED to do, not just pile on like an angry mob with a soapbox.
Business capabilities are judged by $$$ even when chance plays a big role. There is no signal of turn around.
Fantastic and frankly hilarious scheme he has developed here. My favorite part is that if you state your absolute certainty in true or false and turn out to be wrong, your score is negative infinity. Only in a math class would I expect a score of negative infinity I suppose.
Hi Chris, thanks for that.

Our focus in the short term is getting more content up on the site by helping people put things into the right format.

In the long term we definitely want to look at making the links to manufacturing easier and your API looks interesting.

I had a quick glance at the way you take in position data (what are xyyrs though?). It'd be interesting to try and standardize on something there even just to do some helper visuals for DIY builds.

Btw. getting a 404 on this: https://macrofab.com/apidoc/v2/raml.zip
Like others are saying, it's just much harder to use. The official tutorial even says "The intended audience for this tutorial is either speech recognition researchers, or graduates or advanced undergraduates who are studying this area anyway." in the first paragraph. It seems like Kaldi is meant for people who actually know how speech recognition works, while other tools are meant for people who just want some text from some audio without really understanding how.

For example, I've been playing with home automation and speech recognition, and have been able to get any Sphinx based recognizer working in a single sitting, in a few hours or less. But I've yet to get Kaldi working yet after a several nights of effort. It seems much more powerful, and based on my reading, it's more accurate than Sphinx. But that doesn't do me any good if I can't get it to run, haha.
perhaps this is off-topic, but what personally bugs me most, as a gay man, is that Mr Thiel can hold such a huge grudge for so long about being outed. is it so humiliating for you that other people know you're gay, Mr Thiel?

i must add a disclaimer, of course: i am strongly against outing people like that (barring some exceptions, like anti-gay politicians). it is wrong, and Gawker should be punished for it. but i would expect that Mr Thiel feels at least some relief that the secret is out. and that this would enable some degree of letting go, and that the whole thing would die down. but, no. instead, 10 years of litigation...

alternatively, Mr Thiel could just be prone to extreme grudges, and just generally can't let anything go (?)
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Flexbox doesn't work in IE. It also doesn't solve the need for conventions around grid breakpoints, when e.g. working in a team.

Doesn't come close to replacing Bootstrap 3 (and similar) grid systems IMO.
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To me it would only be scary if a media company was taken down by a rich entity simply litigating them until they couldn't afford to fight the lawsuits anymore. In this case, Gawker lost because they were in the wrong.

I've read exactly two articles re: Thiel vs. Gawker, but....isn't that exactly what's happening? I don't see Gawker's "wrongness" as entirely relevant to the fact that Thiel is ostensibly subsidizing litigation in the hundreds (edit: tens) of millions of dollars-just to see Gawker go away.

I absolutely loathe Gawker Media, I loathe this even more.
Please go look at the man page for sync(2), which is also the page for syncfs(2). It is explicitly a filesystem-level operation. Obviously, this will cause data to be flushed from the filesystem down to lower layers. Obviously, you can "sync" virtual (e.g. NBD or loopback) block devices by syncing the filesystems that contain their backing stores, but that's not the same thing. No filesystem, no sync(2). For block devices with no file-based backing store, sync(2) is inapplicable. Also, sync(2) is latency-inducing overkill if you're trying to ensure durability for anything less than all filesystems attached to a machine. More often, fsync(2) on the backing files is what you should be using.

> All writes up until a sync are effectively anonymous until a sync().

"Anonymous" means nothing in this context. Do you mean non-durable? First, please use the correct term. Second, if that is what you mean then you're probably doing it wrong. File writes are allowed to be asynchronous (unless O_SYNC and friends). Block device writes are expected to be synchronous, or at least to preserve order. This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be thoroughly thought out before code is even written, and that thinking should be spelled out somewhere for people to help make sure all the nasty corner cases are covered. Your cart is way before your horse.
It's known to the postgres developers, and we are working on it. This specific issue (anti-wraparound vacuums being a lot more expensive) should be fixed in the upcoming 9.6.
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Adding elements just because (and, above it all, just for styling purposes) is wrong, of course. But having - or forcing - a tight coupling between structure (DOM) and layout/styling (CSS) is also wrong. IMHO, standards should try to move in the direction of decoupling; they did the opposite with Flexbox.

Anyway, the most present case for me is really Angular, where DOM elements are usually added because they are needed (and actually beneficial, if you like a component-based architecture and DRYness). Angular 1.x deprecated the `replace` option for element directives a few months ago (i.e. your <my-directive> will be in the DOM). Also, AFAIK, it never supported the `replace` behaviour in components (which are always elements). This means that, currently, Angular and Flexbox don't play very well together...
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Indeed. The upvoting of bcantrill seems to be devoid of understanding that he has been waging a personal vendetta against CoreOS for some time now, and his comments should be understood in that context.
What I find more disturbing and ethically questionable is the that many of the news outlets blasting Thiel have major conflicts of interest that are rarely being disclosed.

For an example of how media is connected to Gawker, take a look at the disclosure for this Slate article http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/05/...

"
Disclosure: One Slate editor is married to a Gawker editor. One is married to a lawyer who represented Gawker in the Hulk Hogan trial. One is a former Gawker Media executive editor. None of these Slate staffers worked on this story.

"

That is three editors who actually have a direct financial impact from the Gawker case. Even if they did not personally work on the story, the fact that a co-worker and likely friend's spouse is going to lose their job would be likely to color your objectivity.

Kudos to Slate for at least some disclosure. Note that by not stating who these people actually are, they leave open that although the person may not have worked on the story, one of those editors might be the boss of one or more people working on the story.

My guess is that if you looked at a lot of the coverage that has been blasting Peter Thiel, you will find a lot of conflicts of interest that are not being disclosed.
As a third party I would be interested in hearing why others feel the arguments don't hold up. Just simply clicking the downvote button doesn't make for an interesting discussion.
Twitter's product is broken in more ways than I care to recount. End users and developers are constantly complaining about it - and they're the power users who see the value in it! Everybody else is "meh" about Twitter despite the potential.

Add Jack in to that mix, a guy who who has a lot of passion and intelligence but is split across Square and Walt Disney and I have to say the answer is 'no', betting on him to single handedly save Twitter is a bad bet.

Twitter is doomed. I get that shareholders want to see the value they were promised but short of a miracle I don't see a resurgence. All the trendy people have already moved off of Twitter to FB, Insta or SnapChat (and I'm sure there are others I'm not cool enough to use).

This Google Trend graph tells the story in pictures: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0b2334%2C%2...

Note that I had to leave FB out because it has ridiculous numbers that make the other values in the chart almost meaningless.

Edit: Square not Stripe
Having contributed a tiny bit to ownCloud, I enjoyed working with the people that now left to start Nextcloud. I think they were the more technical minded people on the team at ownCloud, compared to the sales persons of which there seem to be an awful lot.

Good luck!
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This is an improvement on regular containers but an expected one given it's old news for microkernels and separation kernels. Dresden I think was first with L4 and L4Linux showing you could boot a VM every second on a slow machine with low TCB. I imagine it could've been faster. Then, OKL4 and LynxSecure both showed the context-switch time could be negligible with joint Intel and Lynx work showing 100,000 context switches per second with 97% idle CPU or something. Vastly stronger isolation in both of those since the Linux part is deprivileged plus you can run apps directly on separation kernel.

So, the problem becomes easier once you transition from building on components and architecture not designed for security to those designed to build it ground up. An example of latter is GenodeOS framework. You can have as much or as little complexity in your app deployment as you want.
I remember trying out HotBot, Lycos, Northern Light, and the Raging Search (which was apparently also from AltaVista). But I didn't really use any of them that much, it was straight to Google if I recall correctly.

That was a while ago though and I don't have my browser history saved, so who knows exactly :)
It may specify it within their patent [1]; "Contextual advertising for video and audio media " .

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US9087331
I completely disagree. There is no good reason for these people to need large sums of money.

>then when large expenses come like bank overdraft fees

Simple: ban them. These should not be allowed, ever. If the bank is too stupid to prevent you from overdrafting using technical means, then they should eat the loss. The only reason overdrafting is possible, in this age where no one uses paper checks any more, is because banks can make money on usurious fees. Ban them.

>medical expenses

Not needed. We should have single payer healthcare.

>and general rainy day stuff

Like what? The UBI is the safety net. Maybe if their car breaks down or something. Still, the whole point of UBI is to be a safety net; if someone is such a mess they need to constantly take out loans to try to get to work, then maybe they shouldn't be working a regular job at all. Ban payday loans and let them learn how to live on the UBI. It's not like they're going to lose all their money and be on the street; that's the whole point of the thing.
FYI - this was written by a PR person, not a journalist, and is designed to make Thiel look bad. Perhaps from someone hired by Gawker?

The author, Keith Emmer, is "the founder and managing partner of this strategic communications consultancy helping our clients... manage reputations... through editorial media"

https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithemmer