skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are a few existing decentralized social networks but as far as I know, they have not thought about or focused on some of the privacy-related issues that we want to highlight.
I agree that if you need to pay them more to keep them and they're worth it, you should. I think the argument that employers pay employees the minimum amount is true on the surface, but it is too cynical and unrealistic. The firm isn't "getting away" with anything same as you're not "getting away" with a wage/working conditions higher than your next best alternative. You're engaged in a mutually beneficial agreement, although the gains may not be evenly distributed among parties.

Economist Ronald Coase had an interesting perspective as to why firms exist:

> Mr Coase argued that firms make economic sense because they can reduce or eliminate the “transaction cost” of going to the market by doing things in-house. It is easier to co-ordinate decisions. At the time, when communications were poor and economies of scale could be vast, this justified keeping a lot of things inside a big firm, so carmakers often owned engine-makers and other suppliers.

So paying someone no more than you have to would be the model of purchasing contract work rather than decisions made in the firm. In the firm, you accept some inefficiencies in order to minimize transaction cost, including those associated with finding, vetting and hiring a new employee.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21584985-anyone-who-ca...
The fastest I've ever seen clang compiled, with ccache and in memory fs, was 7 minutes - which is a long time for a syntax check. Just browse any buildbot dashboard. You could use libclang for interactive evaluation - but boy does it suck when the file that you're working on pulls in a page of headers. What you're suggesting is fine for anything that results in an executable named a.out, but it doesn't work for non-trivial software projects.
For more recent buyers I'll bet the market value piece is pretty high on the list. If you bought in the last couple of years while things have been increasing, you want to see that trend increase. If suddenly prices drop because there's a ton more dense housing (which also impacts the other desirability factors of the neighborhood), you could easily be underwater on your $1M+ mortgage.

Given the amount of money at stake for said buyers, I can't say I entirely blame them for voting in their financial interests when the alternative might be a very bleak financial outlook, a decent chance of increased crime, traffic, etc.

It simply isn't a black and white issue.
There's even more irony here because most new suburbs are built on appropriated farmland and I'm sure the farmers in the area are upset at all the new residential traffic and the incessant complaints about their use of natural fertilizer which produces unpleasant odors.

Then one day they build more subdivisions around your subdivision and suddenly your street becomes a convenient way to get to this newer subdivision just as you were driving down roads that were quiet before until your subdivision got built.

Increasing traffic on your street is going to be a fact of life if we insist on building out and out rather than up. Densifying existing areas doesn't create the same problems as with increased density comes other transit options, especially public transit, as well as the reduced need to travel so far since everything's packed into a smaller area.

Instead of grocery stores being a mile apart, you might have two or three within a single square mile because of demand.
You're ordering everyone in the thread to stop saying the article is wrong. How can you not expect downvotes?

Setting that aside, though, the author is not just expressing his opinion. This piece isn't saying, "Well, personally, I don't like syntax highlighting." The OP is arguing for a general truth, not just a personal preference of the author. The piece makes objective claims about the effects syntax highlighting has on its users. Why shouldn't people feel entitled to say the argument is flawed if they see flaws in the argument?
In-app workflow as a service
I'm the PM at a software company. We ingest millions of events that we allow users to search on. We want to allow users to create "thresholds" or "rules" where when an events happens x times within n mins or exceeds a certain threshold that a notification or trigger would be pushed.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Ideally this is a widget like Intercom.io or other where we can insert some code and it would tie in with a widget that could have users create their own workflows.

All our data is REST-API available and can be authenticated with OAuth.

Thoughts?
I operate a CSA and grow thousands of dollars of food every year. I am quite aware of how incredibly simple and easy it is. You are listing off things that aren't really significant issues, and which this device does not address anyways.
Sure there are some things you can't legislate, but this isn't one of them.

Uber and Lyft simply don't want to do this because it threatens their profit margins. It makes just as much sense to blame the companies for this situation.
I'd say CSS is part of a stack for a long time now.
Please tell me how slow would employers consider me as a programmer?
I'm not seeking employment, but want to know how slow I am. I've been learning webprogramming for a few years. Now I implement a new feature in a few days if not complex, including the time to learn new things. Frameworks cut a lot of work but also take time; I also started to write more efficient code than those from whom I learn. But I didnt have time yet to write a stand alone app, I'm still a script newbie. Maybe you know how I could test slowlyness by comparing to others ?
This is pretty much how I see the future of agriculture.
Give the FarmBot a bunch of wheels / robotic feet to move around and it could theoretically handle huge fields.

The key thing here is the possibility to monitor each individual plant and react to changes in its development or environment (in contrast to modern industrial agriculture, were things are done with huge monster tractors).

I'm sure it can/will be improved to serve more functions - like removing weeds and collecting pests without the need for herbicides or pesticides and so on.

Eventually, these will all become software problems which the global programmer community will be more than glad to tackle.

The most important thing about FarmBot and similar tech, though, is the potential to de-centralize agriculture again and make small-scale, local agriculture possible, without needing to employ human labor.
Not only would this create a new market for high-tech agricultural tools and software and make growing your own food easy (even in the city !), it is a very welcome solution to the many environmental problems that large-scale industrial agriculture generates today.

So I'm very optimistic and happy about this tech and I wish you guys all the luck.
"the Titan X do not want to work with any PCIe slot that isn't a true PCIeX16 power slot."

You should try shorting the presence detection contacts, as described in the middle section of my post:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42

That was years ago I did it, but it never failed in making any x16 card work in an x1 PCIe slot.
Oooh, I tried this before. Never quite got far with it, but it sure went far since then, with the Kickstarter and all.
Channels are implemented using locks, but "4x slower" is a meaningless microbenchmark number.
My bad, it's a college wrestling website that does comparisons of common opponents, predictions, fantasy, as well as your standard stats, rosters, schedules, etc. www.wrestlestats.com
May fix one thing, but do not fix another reason why you get served flash. And that is that Youtube puts priority on generating MP4 before webm. Really makes one wonder about Google's commitment to their own codec...
It's tough to get hard data but a 20-30% CAGR from 2013 to the present time seems like a reasonable guess.
"I could easily set up acres of this technology"

via the magic of the internet, those acres need not be contiguous. Which is in itself rather fascinating.

Rather than signing up for the local CSA I'd sign up for someone to monitor and run my robo farm.
Why don't we have something like this that makes being social easier
Gotta get those page views somehow.
How do the LiFePo batteries used in current electric cars change the equation? Not so great energy density, but can withstand an immense number of cycles.
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You misunderstand.
> Fortune 500 are all sitting on record amounts cash right now

Are you trying to tell me that the money isn't trickling down to the underpaid employees working for those companies? LIES.
Aren't Mission Impossible and Civil War both popular, accepted franchises? With fairly simple, clear-cut storylines? Warcraft is not really in the same bucket. It's closer to something like John Carter, where some people are in the know, the rest don't know what it is, and it's trying to squeeze a truckload of information into not enough time. And in the case of Warcraft in particular, a lot of people perceive it as embarrassing.
Onboarding drivers with rosy promises first, and then cutting compensation later, has been their pattern everywhere else.
That's simply inaccurate. Gerrymandering is specifically the redrawing of electoral districts in a purposefully unfair manner. It's commonly prevented by setting up independent commissions to do the redrawing of districts, rather than allowing the incumbent politicians to draw the lines directly.

It's named after the former Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who redrew the districts to ensure his party would win the senate. Apparently, he had to draw the districts in rather unusual shapes to achieve this, and they kind of ended up looking like a salamander. Hence, Gerrymandering.
Not so much batteries, but "energy storage" in general. Batteries being one very important type of energy storage.

If photovoltaics and/or wind become extremely cheap, to the point where the cost is 1 cent/kilowatt-hour, it would even be economical to crack hydrogen from seawater via electrolysis (a process that consumes vast amounts of electricity) and use hydrogen as storage.
I think it was a similar thought that inspired Heidegger to write his Being and Time[1]. But I have to admit while I tried to get the basic ideas I finally gave up on all philosophy.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

To me it seems like the battle that Wittgenstein postulates was lost in the first place. Most philosophy is nitpicking about linguistic idiosyncracies without any real physical or metaphysical value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time
Yes - with Apollo/GraphQL (currently available as a technical preview): http://docs.apollostack.com/apollo-client/meteor.html

I recommend you check out the Apollo Meteor Starter Kit: https://github.com/apollostack/meteor-starter-kit
Roughly the same dynamics that relate cloud apps vs self hosted apps to reliability relates solar power and grid power to reliability. The grid is - for now - the cheapest battery there is, and it gives you immediate redundancy. It will be far more reliable than anything you install on your roof and in your basement on a per-case basis, even if a grid outage takes down your whole neighborhood, town, or even country.

Batteries, at whatever price you pay for them are a really in-efficient way to store and retrieve energy compared to the grid.
Sounds reasonable to me as well. I won't claim to have great numbers, just trying to compare the rough magnitudes.
It's an interesting business.

I'm impressed that

>DHL “bought three of the biggest freight forwarders for $15 billion, then spent $960 million with IBM for an IT backbone, and that failed. They wrote it off completely.”

You'd think IBM could do such stuff.

See also
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syoqjYLDs48&feature=youtu.be...
3D printed sundial displays the time digitally
My solution was more about higher availability, and staggered deployments... but each of about 8 services (including web) would be deployed to 3 servers, identical config with dokku... then there would be a load balancing nginx instance that pointed to the app.foo on each of the three servers.. deployment would update/cycle nginx, deploy to first server, roll over, then deploy to the other two.

That was the plan. (I won't go into the political bs at a company I no longer work with).
The author's point is that people still criticize the useful kind of obscurity as if it were the useless kind.
THIS! I'm shocked to see so few comments discussing the amount of mental overhead syntax highlighting helps you avoid.

Without syntax highlighting, I have to keep the contextual meaning of every character I read in state mentally, and constantly update the mental map I have of the code. I have to actively parse every character.

With syntax highlighting, the relationship of each token to the rest of the tokens around it is preserved, so that meaning is inferable rather than needing to be maintained in memory. I can scan and jump around between meaningful code anchors without having to read every line of code between. It's like getting to jump straight to the AST.

To each their own, of course. I started programming without syntax highlighting and the switch made me a faster dev without question.
This is worse than read-committed because you're not even seeing the old state of the document. If an update moves a document around within the results, and it ends up in the portion you've already read, you just don't see it at all.
I don’t care what the value of my home is until I am ready to sell, and I don’t plan to do that for a long time. I do care if the qualities that lead me to choose to live where I do change. Additional density can drastically change those qualities.

I’ll admit that this motivation is no less selfish than the financial one, but I do think it’s different.
Conversion losses and cost / KWh are the problem nowadays, not the number of cycles, that's getting to the point where it is still a factor but not the factor.
> and it is not embarrassingly parallel

Sounds like you had a problem that was "embarrassingly parallel". It's not going to be as simple if you have graph problems which require lots of IPC in python/ruby/v8. That's where moving to a language which has threading support can help.
You had me until you decided to turn it into a tax thing.
> These packets won't be retransmitted or decoded by anyone for any purpose. They're on the incorrect BSSID. Think of a BSSID like a VLAN on an ethernet segment.

Sure. I was just saying sending packets to IP broadcast will cause IP stack to set ethernet frame dest MAC to broadcast address.

The end result of that broadcast spamming is simple shared medium flood.
The Airbus did make the expected warnings ("DUAL INPUT") when the control inputs conflicted, at least according to this Vanity Fair article: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-f...
Energy STORAGE is a huge bottleneck issue for anyone that follows renewable energy news as well

Very true, but, interestingly, large-scale electric vehicle adoption may help this: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/09/3775606/used-sec... as lightly used car batteries may cease being attractive for use in cars but be very attractive in terms of base-load storage.
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The "core of the religion" obviously supported greater knowledge for roughly 500 years. That's a fairly long time. And yes, they were conquerors. But historically who wasn't in 800-1200 AD? Remember, one of the reasons the Islamic Golden Age ended was that Baghdad was conquered by the Mongols. (We've had a relatively stable world map since World War II... that's historically pretty rare.)

I do think that the last 750 years of the Arab world have been dominated by more stronger church-oriented viewpoints, which is unfortunate for the advance of ideas. But that does not imply extreme intolerance per se or radical violence. To be honest, I don't know anything historically as radical as Saudi Wahhabism or its terrorist spin-offs (well, nothing so "mainstream" at least). The Ottoman Empire and Mughal Empire, as far as I know, displayed some tolerance towards different religious sects (although they were never equals and tolerance varied wildly on the ruler), and the justice / law system in place seems roughly close to what the Christian world had before the Renaissance / Enlightenment days. The forced conversion stats you are quoting are, as the Wikipedia article says, controversial... and the times were different anyways.

Today, although the human rights of many Islamic countries are wretched, I certainly can think of several of non-Islamic countries with worse human rights problems, compared to Islamic countries such as Jordan, India, post-revolution Tunisia, or heck even a middle-of-the-road semi-violator like Indonesia. (See: Congo, North Korea, pre-reform Mynamar)

That's not to excuse the fact that a large portion of Islam nations suffer from wretched human rights. But, again I will ask you: if you really believe that Islam is fundamentally violent and this fact can't be changed, what's your solution to this? Personally, I believe that thought pattern is rather dangerous. This is what 1.6 billion people believe. Are you condemning all of them?

If the focus was more narrow, like Wahhabism, that's a different story: Wahhabism has touched a lot of radical Islamic terrorist groups, and Wahhabism is clearly a religious tool of the Saudi state. Now, many Western countries like the United States are allies with Saudi Arabia. If we were really concerned about Islamic terrorism, you'd think we'd be rather concerned about this relationship. (There's political reasons behind this relationship, of course...)
Are you confusing noscript and adblockplus?
Completely withdrawing from a location is not really "routing around."

This is a case where capitalism is attempting to dominate the political realm.
One benefit of this is that city streets and sidewalks will be forever protected from being damaged by sunlight.
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wow you are really calling out https://twitter.com/fitztepper as a reporter. He got the story just completely wrong?
I’ve owned several houses. The more recently I bought, the LESS I care about the value of the house. It’s just numbers on paper. Money isn’t at stake until I’m trying to sell, which I’m certainly not looking to to do if I just recently bought.
That is absolutely right. Uber most certainly needs to fire their PR people. If I had to design a campaign to ensure Uber loses the vote, that is how I would designed the PR. It was unbelievably bad.

Asking for votes is essentially an emotional argument and you need to play on people's emotions just the way Coke sells their soda or Axe sells deodorants. Uber should have shown "we are creating well paying jobs". "We are helping women", "we are helping environment" type of emotional arguments showing babies, blondes, mothers and cats.

Just to give an example how horrible Uber is at PR:

Uber's surge pricing is an excellent feature. But why on earth would you name it "surge pricing"? It is like BMW calling its cars "Overpriced Metal". Both "surge" and "pricing" are bad words and combined they are the worst possible naming for a feature.

The correct naming for surge pricing should have been "Uber Urgent" or "Uber VIP". The way it should have been designed is that:
1. Drivers opt in for Uber Urgent. Whenever there is a surge in demand driver goes into Urgent Only mode.
2. Let the passengers wait for the usual low fares or select Uber Urgent and get their rides quickly. In fact asking passengers to bid in 3-4 levels would make a lot of sense.

Uber Urgent could have been advertised as:
1. Empowers drivers to earn more by helping those in urgent need.
2. Helps people in need get the cars faster
3. Reduces traffic on road during rush hour.
4. Skip the line as if you are VIP. No more waiting.
Don't like my answer down-voter? Too fucking bad. I'm done answering questions.
What message were they using before the vote?
I've always wondered how necessary something like Uber or Lyft really was. Centralized networks lead to critical mass and that's what I always saw as the appeal. No one wants to hunt for something manually.

I feel like something like craigslist, but with an ebay-like "95% driver approval rating" would do the job well enough. Sure, there are people that won't use it for security reasons and lack of standards, but if that's the case an alternative should prop up that ensures these things with standards for their drivers. One being cheaper as all funds go between driver and driven, the other providing a middle man that spends some of these funds to filter bad actors.

In my opinion, the mandatory regulation isn't really necessary if competition is healthy. If there's enough demand for finger-printed drivers, a service should crop up to provide it. Facebook though sounds like a terrible medium for this kind of thing. People will use what's familiar I guess.
I didn't get very far in the article. Having so many cartoons is like having a commercial break every 20 seconds.
> I operate a CSA and grow thousands of dollars of food every year.

That's great! And at the level you're at, the product probably doesn't make much sense. Everything is easy once you learn how to do it.

I'm curious which of the things I listed aren't significant issues? They're all things I've came across when trying to grow food.

I do agree that the current incarnation of this product fails to address those things, but the maker community will surely expand upon the platform. It appears to be extraordinarily modular.
There is the concept of "Defense in depth", used by the military for many years...

This acknowledges that each layer is bound to have holes, therefore the best you can hope for is to delay the inevitable breach.
Therefore, any additional layer you can add to the security increases the time taken and hence gives you a better chance at rebutting the attack.
The thing is, the grid from the perspective of an average residential user is actually not that reliable. In many places in the Pacific Northwest where trees fall on power lines in winter storms the grid does not meet five nines reliability (52 minutes or less outage per year). A properly implemented whole-building off grid battery system and a few inverters running in parallel can be much more reliable than this. The grid is subject to all sorts of failure modes from trees, landslides, flooded vaults and things involving the environment, while a PV system has no moving parts (perhaps except from a ventilation fan in an inverter), and a larger set up can be run with several inverters in parallel providing AC for a building.
Yes, there was a knitting boom in the 1970's and Passap had a huge period of growth. Then knitting fell out of fashion, and Passap fell off a cliff. (We have a Passap Model 80 with most accessories.)

I saw the Kniterate prototype at the San Mateo Maker Faire a couple of weeks ago. They are using commercial needles on a 5mm bed, so same gauge as a Passap machines. Looks very interesting, and seemed to have automated control over all the interesting operations. The sample knitting I saw leads me to believe that they haven't quite solved the tension problem yet, the tension seemed a little uneven. Still, it looks very promising and it could be a lot of fun for knitting machine hackers.