skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a discussion of tone is a worthwhile discussion to have, although I believe you agree that it does not constitute a valid counterargument against[0] any side. I do agree there is an unfortunate smugness amongst many liberals that is unsettling to me, but it's a little different than the "Jim Crow south." Sorry, but AGW, the economic state of Kansas after the tax cuts, the evidence behind the theory of evolution are not "opinions", they are studied facts and/or statistics, many of them in published reputable journals. However, one's opinions about "the negro" are not scientific facts, and differences between the races has been rejected by most scientists. These are not the same.

And sure, one can somewhat respect the rights of a human being who denies scientific evidence, and I do believe many liberals need to be receptive and open-minded to others' arguments even when they violate their deepest convictions. The rise of safe-spaces and vehement protests against conservative speakers shows that libs are not great in this regard either. You need not and should not make fun of their heritage, their accent or make assumptions about their personality or behavior. At the very least, if you really don't care about being fair, disregarding evidence without offering a counterargument or giving a reason[1] is bad enough of a sin that no one needs anything else to accuse an opponent of.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[1] I really mean this, a discussion is the right thing that needs to happen.
This is very frustrating; can't middle click to open a specimen in another window. I really hate this sort of website. They also seem to disable subpixel antialiasing on some of the transient buttons. I also don't like transient buttons to begin with.

Overall really not happy with most of this redesign. The specimen page is probably more informative though.

I get that OS X has bad subpixel rendering which shows painful fringing on coloured text, but FreeType handles it flawlessly, and I'm pretty sure ClearType does as well. There's no reason to disable subpixel rendering on these platforms.
I look forward to the day RFID tags become so cheap you can just scan the bags/cart and be done with it.
I heard her speak on the radio regarding low-carbon energy solutions. I'm trying to locate the program online.
Replying only to show agreement and because the other guy .. well.. you know. I wish there were upvotes.
During the Falklands war, we didn't have very good naval SAMs worth tuppence - the obsolete Sea Slug, and the then-modern Sea Dart, which still wasn't all that good: 40 mile range, can't hit anything below 30 metres altitude, such as sea-skimming missiles, or even low-flying aircraft.

We now have Aster 30, which has a range of 120 miles, and can hit supersonic sea-skimmers, ballistic missiles, anything you like.

Those ranges are still much shorter than the ~500 mile combat radius of a Sea Harrier or an F-35B, admittedly. But since destroyers are a third the price of a carrier, you can have several and spread them out.
You can fix that. If you go to Amazon -> Your Account -> Your Recommendations -> Improve My Recommendations, you can tell it to ignore certain purchases.

I have to do that surprisingly frequently, myself. I buy things buy as gifts, as one off experiments, or with no intention of using them for their intended purposes. ;)
A little perspective: cheap, unhealthy fast food is not ideal, but it's much better than the previous state of society -- for all of human history until approximately 50 years ago, and still the case in most of the world -- where poor people just went hungry.
Apart from security, are there any other benefits?
One should also create traps on exit, to revert the system to a good state in the event of pipefail.
I'm in the same boat. I don't want a refund either. Just watching this dude create amazing work as satisfying enough.

I do plan to tinker with this engine though....
at least here the belts are loooong
And how much leg room do each of those seats have?
Our understanding is infantile because our technology is infantile and there is no way to escape that. How would you propose we study an ecosystem where we can't even isolate and analyze the majority of bacterial, fungal, and viral species let alone study or simulate their interactions with each other and crops at the scale of even a square meter plot?

I agree that we should be studying this area more (a LOT more), but there will always be existential risks with everything we do, regardless of how much time and care we put into our work. I for one refuse to let hundreds of millions or billions suffer and die when we have the technology to save them just because the unknowable risks offend someone's sensibilities. You and I will likely be dead by the time the consequences are felt, but we can't let all those hungry people die in the mean time just because of FUD.
thanks for the link to seatguru
It's not just poor neighborhoods. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is a mostly affluent area, but there are some homeless. There is a McDonalds at 95th street, on Broadway. I believe it is 24 hours, or at least it is open very late. Any time I walk home late at night, I notice that dozens of people are clustered around that place. It offers safety and warmth and a place people can talk to each other.
Could anyone explain what they mean by 'leveraged loan' as opposed to 'loan'? Or is 'leveraged' just an unnecessary word here?
Everyone is always looking for an exit strategy. You won't know until the right price comes along though.
Hard to endorse - the following quote appears twice...

In more recent years, critics contend IBM has moved into the financial engineering business, generating profits with financial strategies such as buying back its stock.
I never equated anything with assault. I in fact presented using the term "assault" as being melodramatic and an overreaction, just like calling upon the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in this case is being melodramatic and an overreaction, and which Moxie has never done.
The “lead investor” dance
They claim that it has an unlimited number of write cycles.
Waiting for this too. The day 75% of all cashiers in big chains lose their jobs
As you said, this is slowly happening to me. I love being able to prototype systems in languages like python and matlab, but at the same time it feels like building on sand, especially when other developers get involved.

Recently while writing some matlab found a great example of the sort of trouble a decent type checking system will save you. The predict method takes a machine learning model, and applies it to some data. The output however, is up to the model, and not all models return the same data type (e.g. column vector of doubles, or cell array of strings), making it a pain in the butt to do any abstraction over models.

I am excited for languages like lbstanza that let you have your cake and eat it too.
High sodium intake is not bad for you (unless you have a few very specific and unusual health conditions.) Like most late 20th century nutritional guidance, turns out that idea was totally wrong.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-th...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sodium+no+longer+bad+f...
Until additional sources are found, you can export the article with full history and back it up somewhere public and immutable (e.g. github, pastebin), so that the content isn't forever lost when the article is deleted. Include the original license.

Perhaps there are other, subject-specific wikis where this content would be considered welcome and notable.
Twitter Corpus Builder in Golang
I believe the reason for the tiny shelf you have to quickly empty is twofold, it means the tills take up less space, which means more shop space for stuff they can sell, and it speeds up the flow through the tills because peer pressure makes most people just pile it straight back into their empty trolley and sort it out after they've paid.

My strategy is to load everything onto the belt (heavy stuff at the front, fragile at the back), and line the now empty trolly with two or three of those strong reusable bags they sell, I can keep up with the cashier and end up with well packed bags that are easy^h^h^h^h possible to lift straight into the car, but then I'm a bit nutty when it comes to packing things, bags, cars, dishwashers.
I thought that, but I've been tempted over to Office Home, simply because for the same cost as Dropbox, I can get a family of four sync accounts (so I've saved 75%) and effectively get Office for free for the people who want/need it.

OneDrive is a bit rougher on a couple of edge cases, but it works well enough. Well enough, at any rate, that I'm not prepared to quadruple my spend for the difference.

(On edit) The point being, not that I think that Dropbox will stand or fall on my opinion of their services, but for Joe and Jane average "I can get OneDrive and Word and Excel and Powerpoint on my Windows laptop and my Xperia phone and my iPad for the whole family same price as Dropbox on its own is a pretty compelling choice. The missing features like Linux support aren't really going to factor in for most people.
I should clarify "The core issue with XMPP was that MSN Messenger, ICQ, etc. had deeper pockets.", is not precisely correct. The core issue is that they had a captive audience, continual popups and enormous barriers to entry against better technologies, allowing them to bully others out of the market. Another closed network.
Or people are more interested in converting their money into your passion :)

You can't take it with you.
This seems right to me. A cynical view of why he wouldn't want to go public would be that neither growth rate nor profitability paints a rosy picture, and filing for IPO would force disclosure -- the hope is to accelerate growth using the higher margins they realize after having implemented Magic Pocket. If/when they prove that Magic Pocket was worthwhile, they'll look to IPO.

I think they have to IPO, and they would have already if it were good news. Not that every tech company needs to IPO, but Dropbox customers have no switching costs and little feature differentiation, so at some point low prices or great support is going to win the market -- implying scale to me. To achieve competitive scale (of operations, not userbase), you need financing, and Dropbox isn't going to issue AAA rated bonds or anything, so it's a matter of time.
I started shopping at Aldi because I have four children and our grocery bill was becoming unwieldy unless I spent a lot of time preparing for the visit. The local grocery stores play a game where they mark down a bunch of things "with card", but their regular prices are well over the average price at places like Walmart/Meijer. Aldi is consistently cheap and has resulted in me no longer wasting my time couponing or checking ads to make sure I'm not paying $5.00 for salad dressing that's normally $2.50 and often on sale for $1.50.

I was bugged by having to bag my own groceries, put a quarter in the cart (nearly unheard of outside of Aldi where I live) and having to pay cash (they take credit cards now). But a few things happened: about 80% of what I purchased as "store brands" were superior or dead on par with the name brand (a few were misses, a few were dramatically better). The total spend on produce and meat was significantly lower than I typically paid and I noticed when I was purchasing the produce that the quality was very consistent. My green grapes, the kids favorites, were much smaller than I typically bought but it turned out that makes them sweeter and there were fewer brown buggers in the bag.

As to the bagging, I am beginning to prefer it. They always have empty cardboard boxes and a large counter to organize things and because we intentionally grocery shop no more than once per month, I end up with a huge amount of things (we do joke, however, that it's impossible to get a combination of things at Aldi that fills the cart and results in a bill greater than $220 -- my current record highest). Organizing it in boxes according to what fridge/freezer/cupboard it will end up in makes that part of the process a lot easier (easy enough for the kids to do it without our help).

And for the quarters, this tiny little deposit results in the carts being put back in the bay. It saves them money, sure, but it has two other benefits. The bay always has carts -- I don't have to surf the parking lot during the holiday season because all are in use or scattered through the lot. And unlike every other store where more than half of the carts have problems, Aldi's are always in perfect working condition. No stuck or crooked wheel forcing me to push the thing sideways to make it go straight and I'd imagine that has cut down on damage to parked cars, too.
It's not especially safe. You have to depend on the low oxygen and high acid of the bog to have been maintained continuously. You never know what might have grown in it in the meantime.
Which Google services are you talking about? I've been running Chromium for about 6 years as my main browser and I don't remember a site even detecting that it wasn't Chrome, let alone pestering me.
These need to be mandatory installations in all communities. Non-commercial, accessible spaces for people to congregate. It's a human-requirement.
If you snore or your SO snores, there is new tech to fix it
So these doctors at zelegent noticed that plastic surgens started using "barbed sutures" for things like facelifts. Think, barbed wire, a barb is a little pointy thing. Turns out, if you raise the back part of the mouth called the "soft palate" with a barbed suture it holds it in place like never before. It basically cures snoring without having to wear a device at night or have major surgey. A doctor can raise your soft palate in about an hour with very little pain. It's not on the market yet, about to get FDA approval. But if you snore or your SO snores you should ask about zelegent.
It generally does work, but sometimes new blocker scripts will still get through before an update makes it into the pipeline, and it's possible that some are even randomizing or otherwise altering their scripts to avoid detection.
Consider another approach and email users using unsupported browsers. It gives you an excuse to reach out where you can turn the conversation into what their needs are, pain points, etc.

However, if your app doesn't require signup to use, maybe an intercom like message.
The parts I didn't include in the post due to length were the previous ads (boosted posts, promote page, etc) I created and paid for before this very last one that I wrote about on my blog.

Those previous ads raised enough red flags for me to pay very close attention to my last one. That's not to say that I didn't pay close attention to the others; I was tracking data and seeing how well Japan-only targeted ads (that included both Japanese and English language) performed against Vietnam-only targeted ads, and how well those two performed against ads that targeted Japan, Vietnam, and Korea all at the same time.

The data collected and differences among the three were enough for me to conclude that something foul was afoot.

Sure, there may be 30 other variables that could've gone wrong here. However, M's verbal (via phone) approval of how I created my ad and crafted my targeting and the consistently large amounts of garbage accounts from VN leads me to believe that this entire thing was a waste.

Furthermore, again, FB makes it so easy for new FB page owners to believe that they can drop $5 here and $10 there to promote anything--a post, their page, and even their website. I gather that FB WANTS these page owners to pay these small amounts 30 times to play trial-and-error, even though doing so still only puts these page owners 1) up against larger budgets, and 2) in front of garbage accounts that are only cleaned up once a year in FB's annual sweep.
So while the employer could issue new options at a discounted strike price, it has serious tax consequences. From http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d9f306b0-a209-...:

Unless the ability to exercise such a “discounted” stock option is limited to certain predetermined events or specified dates, the option is taxed as soon as it vests, regardless of when it is exercised or whether it was intended to be a non-qualified or incentive stock option.

Now, you could try backdating, but that's probably ruled out by the option plan, and could be viewed as fraudulent depending on circumstances.

Of course, the employer can issue new options based on the current FMV of the company... but for anyone in this situation, that probably means a substantial loss as the new strike price will match the current valuation of the company.

As for paying the employee out, I've never heard of that happening in practice... and it has its own pros and cons, the most obvious being that you're now out of the game if there's a subsequent liquidity event.
Rhapsody rebrands itself as Napster
I do agree there is an unfortunate smugness amongst many liberals that is unsettling to me, but it's a little different than the "Jim Crow south."

It's the behavior/mental stance that I'm calling out. Being the victor doesn't entitle one to be a douchebag. Being right doesn't entitle one to be a douchebag. If one subscribes to humanism and to being humane, then it simply doesn't do to view certain people as being less than human. Just because their views are less valid in your opinion, that doesn't make them less valid.

So long as you can make this distinction, you're fine in my book.
I used both Dropbox and OneDrive SDK, and from engineering perspective, Dropbox wins BIG. OneDrive sucks.
Living in Seattle, with kids about the same age as yours, I love that my local mcdonalds has an indoor play area. Great for rainy days where the playgrounds are too wet and cold.

There are a couple other places in town to grab a meal and let the kids run around and play indoors, but often they're often more crowded, more expensive, and the food isn't any healthier.
Restricting the browsers you support will tighten your funnel.

Have you profiled your likely userbase? Many businesses run Windows and are, therefore, likely to be using Internet Explorer.
Why Microsoft Wanted LinkedIn
No true monopoly?
Again, no. You continue to conflate your ideology with what this ruling actually did.

This ruling was specific, and its specific nature did not preclude Comcast from continuing to enter into paid-for peering agreements with Netflix. You are wrong to say or imply that Netflix will now, as a result of this ruling, be able to peer with Comcast for free.

Objectively wrong.
> How many startups have been killed by other corporations, including Google, FB and friends?

Yeah, that's why I said "Microsoft or anyone else". The only other time I mentioned Microsoft was in reference to RoboVM, which doesn't have much to do with Google or Facebook.

> The RoboVM situation, while unfortunate is a lesson for people not to rely on proprietary tooling for portable projects.

I agree, but the fact that RoboVM started off open source with a GPL licensed compiler was one of the main reasons I chose it. It's my own fault I didn't look to see how contributions were structured, or notice that very little code came from outside RoboVM, sure. That's why I'm advising caution in similar situations.
zelegent CEO on the production line: http://i.imgur.com/Utdsue0.png
Of course, the neutrino feels nearly as young as the moment it was born.
> I moved to other wealthy countries not at war (including, right now, the USA which by any real measure faces no existential threat and is follows a rule of law).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

The United States is at war all over the entire damn world. A couple days ago its ramifications were clearly displayed when 100 people were shot in Orlando.
A chain of inverted pendulums can be balanced by a vertical oscillation
Science is never lost, only suppressed.
Is there any resource as good, that targets a recent version of OpenCL?
This is nice and all (apart from an astonishing—even for Google—degree of browser compatibility regression), but what I really want is for the actual fonts to be updated. Crimson Text, for example, is an outdated version of the font, which it breaks a little further too. Upstream (https://github.com/skosch/Crimson) has seen substantial improvements, but Google has never updated it, ignoring the author’s pleas.
Fair enough - 7X to be more accurate.

Well, you'd have to apply the same "risk" of [Box, Google ..] that dropbox faces in it's valuation which effectively cancels out that component. If anything, given that Dropbox is private, it probably amplifies those risks and lowers Dropbox's valuation.

Box's P/E is very much a fair indicator of Dropbox's valuation.
This sounds like a good encapsulation of the reason why Desktop Linux has died - it is good enough for engineering types who get satisfaction and value out of using it, but who have no idea how to make it useful for anyone outside of the programming community.
> Is this another...

Maybe you should read it and find out, rather than be perturbed by a single word.
Good post on Bog Butter from Nordic Food Lab: http://nordicfoodlab.org/blog/2013/10/bog-butter-a-gastronom...
There might be another cultural difference there: I've never worked in a place that used a dynamic language for the majority of the code base, but from what you're saying it sounds like simultaneously refactoring and adding features is something you'd consider to be a normal task. I'm used to that being considered a big no-no, because it makes code reviews and source control history harder to understand.
Lotus Notes! Woo hoo!
Falling behind how?
It's so rare here I can't think of another time I've seen it. I've always wondered why: comfortable people tend to be less grumpy and the typical cashier job involves "not leaving a very small space for a long period of time". This small space is about the size of ... a chair.

I think the perception of people standing in line is more likely to make them feel that the cashier is working slower because they're sitting[1]. Aldi's lightning quick cashiers would prove that wrong, but perception tends to be all that matters in these scenarios.

[1] People routinely over-estimate their waiting times in situations like this. This became apparent to me when talking to the helpdesk manager at my old company. He would get an e-mail from time to time from a person complaining that they were on hold for "20 minutes". The call stats for the day indicated a maximum hold time of 5 minutes.
AldiSort!
This is all true, but is it not a problem that most static languages don't let you (easily) specify the kind of invariants people include in unit-tests.
I agree that playing, fullscreening, etc, a video should be a /protected/ action. However I believe that an end user should have SOME mechanism of allowing such actions on their behalf.

If this sounds like a security model you are correct.

Currently the lowest hanging fruit security model would be allowing a plugin to run client side and white-listing which domains it can work with (is triggered/loaded on).
> > in the order that they should go in the bag
> is something that you don't usually do outside Germany

That's a basic sign of civilization, after workable plumbing and provision of healthcare.