skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How could you possibly end up in a situation where pain is equal to pleasure? I think pain would only be considered positive when it leads to greater pleasure.

Epicurus has a great hedonistic philosophy [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus ], here are some abridged excerpts from the wiki page:

Epicurus' philosophy is based on the theory that all good and bad derive
from the sensations of what he defined as pleasure and pain: What is good
is what is pleasurable, and what is bad is what is painful. If pain is
chosen over pleasure in some cases it is only because it leads to a greater
pleasure. Epicurus explicitly warned against overindulgence because it often
leads to pain.

Although Epicurus has been commonly misunderstood to advocate the rampant
pursuit of pleasure, his teachings were more about striving for an absence
of pain and suffering, both physical and mental, and a state of satiation
and tranquility that was free of the fear of death and the retribution of
the gods.

Humans have a wide range of pleasures, of varying degrees of richness and sophistication. People sometimes object to hedonism on the grounds that it makes us no better than swine in the mud. But I think that reflects a poor opinion of humanity. Don't we get pleasure from symphonies, poetry, and great works of art?

Epicurus himself said he could be content with water, bread, weak wine and a "pot of cheese".
> Does Consumer Reports have any biases?

Since its made of people, obviously.

What it doesn't have is biases from people either buying stuff for reviewers or using advertising dollars as leverage to encourage better reviews.
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> The small study, which has been funded by ex-Facebook president Sean Parker, will augment T cells – potentially a way to treat cancer – but will be used to see whether Crispr is safe in humans, rather than being used as an actual treatment.

This is misleading, right? Yes, it's true that Stage I trials are designed (and in particular, statistically powered) to test safety rather than effectiveness. But that doesn't mean they are making gene edits with no therapeutic purpose. That would be highly unethical. The gene edits are definitely intended to be an "actual treatment". It's just that the number of subjects is so low there isn't any hope of measuring the effect.
Slack and the other various IRC-reinventions start with the assumption that more communication is always better. I think it's time we challenged that assumption in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary.
I ported my app from React to Vue in 2 days. Couldn't be happier
IQ has the highest genetic correlation out of any trait we've observed in Psychology - r ~ 0.7 if I recall correctly from my college days.
What is the feasibility of having people work in floating dirigibles? (Think GoodYear blimps)
I can't follow. How is this incident related to any genocide, dictatorship, erdogan... what?

I have the feeling you are just cherry picking this to troll on and not interested in talking about the different dogmatics of legal systems. I didn't want to personalize the discussion, just replace "you" and "me" with "any person from your belief system" and "any person from my belief system". It looks to me that you are not interested in thinking about other people's opinion and/or belief system. Now THAT was a personal remark.
I'd bet a weeks salary (seriously) that Coverity (yeah yeah it's expensive, whatever) will catch > 90% of these with maybe a 10% false positive, and Code Analysis in VS would hover around the 80% mark with maybe a 15% false positive (both for C++; for ANSI C, move that up to 95% and 90% accordingly).

ccc-analyzer/c++-analyzer for clang/llvm would probably hit the 90-ish mark for ANSI C too.
Larger orgs never use that license. They all negotiate privately and secure a license for a fixed cost and no rev share. IIRC the cost for a AAA game Is around a few hundred thousand.
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I did, it's incorrect. New accounts are being accepted.
Aren't these kiosks an infrastructure/service to help anyone, including homeless?

Imagine some homeless spends a day at the kiosk and gets a remote job that requires an hour or so a day of online presence. And he/she can _actually_ perform this job thanks to this infrastructure. A couple of months later he/she spends another day at the kiosk and finds an affordable apartment (most likely not in NY). And Voila, we have -1 homeless.
US freedom of speech in action: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/12/after-dallas-shootings-p...
You either get Scandinavian welfare and taxation, or (very modest) UBI without any welfare, but still Scandinavian taxation. Will $10000/year cover any medical expenses? It is barely enough for food.

Also, taxes in Scandinavia (I lived in Denmark) are not that high. True, there is 50% tax, but no other hidden payments like social security or medical insurance. And medicine and education are free. I'd rather run business with 50% tax and no bureaucracy and no social security payments than pay all this.

One of the most expensive and problematic countries to run businesses is France. Scandinavia is piece of cake compared to France.
Alamofire (an all-Swift library) is linked in 31% more of the top 200 free apps than AFNetworking (an all-Objective C library). I guess Swift is still making headway into Big Apps...

Also, 6 apps are still using ASIHTTPRequest, despite the last release being 5 years ago.

Worse still, 3 apps use a combination of ASIHTTPRequest, AFNetworking, and Alamofire - that's a library that was abandoned 5 years ago, an Objective-C library, and a Swift library. Oh man.
More like a reaction to this and other security issues with its cars than being a visionary car maker, but still good to see:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
I just migrated my Kubernetes/Rancher stack from NYC2 to NYC1 in order to use block storage. Eager to see whether this plays well with GlusterFS.
Many of the studies showing this have some serious flaws, because of the types of people they tended to use. The twins used in the studies where disproportionately from higher income families. You don't find many low SES families who adopt, so for this and other reasons it's very difficult to find twins raised apart in low SES families.

The summary is that it's pretty clear that among higher SES families IQ is more than 50% genetic (but environment still plays a very large role).
However, many studies indicate that among lower SES families, environment is the dominant factor.

There's still conflicting evidence here though, because there are some studies that indicate that SES has little impact on IQ heritability. The argument is that SES has a much greater on the heritability of IQ in children than on that of adults.
Well, I commented mainly because of this

> There's One Way™ to do things correctly. Using anti-pattern "hacks" will work for a little bit, but in the long run come back to bite you as your software grows and scales.

This is true, but in the given context that this is not true in the Angular world, that is definitely false. Some of the things you've mentioned are considered known abuses/anti-patterns/etc.
I realize this style of pricing is the new hotness and I get why it's appealing for the company providing the service, but as a developer this is really unappealing to me. The last thing I want to do is have to worry about how many API requests my application is making because it costs money.

For example; if I want to render a complicated page out and the API design will be better if that's done with 10 API requests then I want to make it with 10 API requests. I don't want to have to feel like I need to make some kludgy nasty single request in order to reduce my costs by an order of magnitude.

Similar with queries; I'd rather use multiple simple queries than craft some nasty monstrosity query that gets all the data I need at once.

Am I just crazy?

Full disclaimer: I work for a more traditional web host. But these views are totally unrelated to that (I think), it's just based on my personal thoughts/take on this pricing structure.

PS - I really dig the design of the site and think this is really cool and everything. Just the pricing structure seems like a friction point for me personally.
That sounds great. Evan put a lot of effort in Vue, and it’s satisfying to see it paying off! While this is very tangential to the article, could you elaborate on what you struggled with in React? We are always looking out for things we could improve.
Google deletes Dennis Cooper's blog, erasing years of artistic output
It should be noted that JPMC has been reducing headcount every quarter since 2012, with an active initiative to further reduce the headcount of the tellers and divisions with technology. Make no mistake JPMC's total compensation paid taking into consideration the reduction in the number of employees will be lower after the "raise" for those who remain. http://www.wsj.com/articles/j-p-morgan-expected-to-lay-off-m...
Don't ever use the HDR function on your camera, then. For that matter, you'd probably want to avoid digital cameras in general unless you're RAW-only.
If your primary laptop is a MBP, and then switching over to a Windows 10 tablet, there might be instances where you may get confused on how things work, as both features offered by the OS (Microsoft vs Apple) is very different.

But to stay the course of your question, the best Windows 10 tablet would be Surface Pro 4.
couldnt they just do some sort of dev signing?
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Do you have bug bounty? :)
Actually because I use the DO API and lots of small instances that work together, not that long. Right now I use S3, which blows because I hate the S3 cli and API, so I would love a better solution.
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A corollary to what I'm saying is that the design patterns that are espoused by React authors can be eliminated by using another abstraction, they're specific to React and have nothing to do with programming in general. I wouldn't go so far as to say, never use mixins in JavaScript, for example.

>You don’t “have to” do those optimizations.

Sure, but it seems to be a trade off of complexity for user experience. It's just covering up a leaky abstraction.
No.

https://www.engadget.com/2015/08/12/niantic-labs-splitting-f...
For the alternate perspective: https://www.link.nyc
Land is, technically, unlimited in the real world as well.

Not all of it is accessible (other planets) or fertile (desert)

Not all virtual land is the same, either. Some virtual land is a vendor doing streaming-as-a-service. Some is payment processing-as-a-service. Containers cannot help you regarding the leased farming equipment. No matter what land you move you, you'll still need those third-party services.
Since T cells do not reproduce by themselves, I presume the effects of modified T cells will only last until the cells exist in the body. This reminds me of a question I was wondering about since I heard about Crispr: can we use this method to make permanent changes in the DNA of grown up humans, and if so, do we have clear understanding of how to do it?

The thing that puzzles me most is that if we do it by creating some cells and injecting them, how do we guarantee that these cells replace their existing unmodified counterparts?
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Fat tax in India
And Crimea and Tibetan monks is okay?

Again, we aren't perfect saints, and we have evils that we need to fight from certain politicians and yes segments of the population who are ignorant to the effects of our "foreign policy". I'd even argue the anti-interventionist rhetoric of Trump and Sanders is part of why they are popular, so that group of pro-interventionist, I-Don't-Give-a-Fuck-About-Non-Americans group is quickly shrinking.

But the entire point of my comment, which you seem to have filtered out in your reply is that you read in popular US media about these issues, from many in the US mainstream press. Where in Russian media will you hear about the Crimean invasion? (A negative perspective, at least) Or the plight of Tibetan monks in China?

The world isn't black and white, but the idea of liberal democracy I think is a worthy ideal, even if we fall short of it precisely with what we have done in the Middle East, towards left-ist governments in South America. At the very least, the fact we can even have this conversation is a testament to the (possibly degrading) freedom of speech that we are lucky to have in the US and one that seems to be waning now in Philippines specifically.
Implementing mixins correctly in JS (which React does not) is already a well explored problem space.

I like https://leanpub.com/javascript-spessore for great explorations and derivations of various mixin patterns.

It's not that mixins are bad in general, it's that React doesn't implement them well in particular.
hence when a DMCA takedown is received, i don't see how DO is in a position to assess that something is or is not a violation. they simply follow the process outlined in the legislation.
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> Does that make a difference in the grand scheme of things?

Not really (also, post-7 Player has been re-branded "Workstation Player"[1], presumably so the relationship to Workstation is clearer).

[1] https://www.vmware.com/products/player
It was stated in the article.

> AR-based experiences like the current smash-hit Pokemon Go were also built on Unity Technologies’ game engine.
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Dealing with individual personalities is a reality of the workplace, but obviously there are limits. It sounds like duties and responsibilities need to be more clearly defined one way or the other. If "help desk" is part of his clearly defined role, then he needs to do a better job. If its not, they need to find a better way of addressing the "help desk" need.
It's of course very complex, but three things not always mentioned: Dealing with the insurance companies and their Byzantine billing practices requires hiring additional staff to specifically deal with billing issues, with that cost passed to the patient. Electronic medical records slow down physicians, (fewer patients seen requires billing more for those you do see) and at least the ones I've experienced end up being more expensive than paper records. The insurance companies also are very slow in reimbursements to physicians (sometimes several months behind) which requires billing more to help compensate for the uncertainty.

Also, insurance frequently doesn't reimburse enough to cover the actual cost of a procedure, e.g., vaccines.
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I don't understand. For any framework there are lots of things that you shouldn't do. Are you complaining that these things exist, or that they're documented? Surely it's better to have them documented.
That's actually way cheaper than I expected it to be. Though I supposed an actual spaceflight-worthy camera with that sensor would cost far more than the one you linked.
Not necessarily: http://ell.stackexchange.com/a/71088
You also get taxed when exercising options even if you don't immediately sell the shares you just bought. Something like the difference between the strike price and the current value being treated as income you earn upon exercising the options, so it's taxable.
The taxation structures around stock options in the United States appear extremely complex. Google for something like "taxation of stock options in private company"...

I'm certainly not an expert, so don't listen to me for any financial or legal advice.
> But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers?

> We're net ahead already with auto-driving.

We don't really have enough data to know that. Really, we haven't even scratched the surface of figuring out if that is true. E.g. we have no idea what kind of emergent phenomena will arise when roads full of self-driving cars interact with each other.

History is littered with examples of engineers thinking they were 90% of the way there when they were actually like 10% of the way there.
It's the result of Crashlytics, a crash reporting library, being acquihired by Twitter. Now it's bundled with the Twitter SDKs and Twitter's ad network integration. I'm not affiliated with it, but have written several comments about it [1]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=niftich%20fabric&sort=byDate&p...
True, but doesn't Denmark have big tax exemptions for investments you make through retirement accounts (which are limited in withdrawals until you're older)?

Of course, that probably wouldn't apply to non-public investments, and the caps are two low to be usable by Dane angels (far from home in the Bay especially).
We visit this mall every few weeks and the robots are still somewhat of an attraction there. People will stop and take photos, blocking the path of the robot, which emits a flashing beacon and whirling sound as it's working.

What we have seen is children will run up and hug the robot and dart around the base, which I would assume doesn't expect a human to be at this level. Another incident was a dog owner walking around the robot, but the dog went the other direction, leaving the leash between them. The robot started to run over the leash and almost drag the dog until the owner backtracked and pulled the leash free.
When you receive something of value from your employer, it generally counts as taxable income. This includes grants of stock or other perks such as a housing allowance or a car.

Like most Bay Area tech workers, I'm compensated partially in stock. Every month, X shares of my restricted stock "vest", which means, in practical terms, that I receive those shares. That counts as taxable income at the current market value of those shares. To avoid making me pay a large tax bill come April, my employer actually withholds some of those shares of stock to cover the tax bill.

(I've never been entirely sure how this stock-withholding works from a tax perspective. Do they immediately sell those shares and pay the proceeds to the government along with the rest of my income tax withholding?)
Which is funny because you'll never hear that from Dan or any other authors.
If one day you invent the master algorithm… open-source it
Might want to check how big video games are now as a business. They eclipse all other forms of media.
I remember a friend of mine talking about a horror game working on the same principle as Pokémon Go, three or four years ago. Unfortunately, he's not technical and lacks resources, so it never went anywhere. But the idea is perfectly sound.

Focusing on VR displays completely missed the point in the industry. It can be done with just GPS and a camera phone. VR displays actually get in the way, by making it hard to perceive your non-VR surroundings.
>The camera is for public relations only

This statement made my day. I guess if a phone must have a camera on it then a spacecraft has to have one too.
GitHub Explorer a Progressive Web App
This is the same site that made the rounds with "I fired someone for going to their graduation" last week. I can't help but suspect this is going to become quite baity, quite quickly.
Love the idea. I think you really need an about page though. People need to know why they can't trust you.
A 1996 book about how people learn to kill is a warning
IPv6 at LinkedIn Part I
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If you exercise stock options, you get taxed on the difference between the strike price and the market value at the time you exercise, as normal income (not capital gains).

This can be a big problem if you exercise stock options, then the price of the stock drops. You might not be able to sell the stock for enough to pay the taxes you owe, and although you can take a capital loss, you can't use capital losses to offset normal income (beyond a fairly small limit each year).
As a cofounder of a technical startup (biotech), and a part-time contractor on another technical startup (hardware): I think the main points in your article are right, but maybe retitle it "startup technical due diligence is (usually) a waste of time"?
The interesting part is:

Roger, Nick Mathewson, Meredith Hoban Dunn, Ian Goldberg, Julius Mittenzwei, Rabbi Rob Thomas, Wendy Seltzer are out of the board. Roger and Nick will stay as Tor's research leads.

The new board consists of Cindy Cohn (EFF), Bruce Schneier, Matt Blaze, Gabriella Colemn, Linus Nordberg. Two seats have yet to be filled.

EDIT

Just to avoid confusion: This comment was written before the submission link was changed from a NY Times article that buried the information about the changes in the last paragraph to the Tor Project blog post.
> You don't have to buy a Tesla. You don't even have to like the cars.

If only that were the case. It seems to me that more likely when someone says Teslas are too expensive, or not practical they get attacked as luddites and imbeciles.
Senator Elizabeth Warren joins call for Airbnb probe
If the question is "could a human be trained to use this?" then, yes, you can imagine a human reacting appropriately to the AF447 scenario.

But that's the wrong question. The right question is: does the system incorporate the success of human actors into its design? And the answer here is no. If the Airbus system works as designed, the human pilots will tend to be woefully unprepared to resolve failure modes.

Attempting to create an external training regiment to account for that design failure is a band-aid, not a solution.
Sure, it may be React’s mixin implementation that is subpar. However we noticed we didn’t need mixins (of any kind) with the patterns described in the post. Just components and functions turned out to be enough for our needs, and this is why we wrote this post.

I think the post specifically addresses this point:

>This doesn’t mean that mixins themselves are bad. People successfully employ them in different languages and paradigms, including some functional languages. At Facebook, we extensively use traits in Hack which are fairly similar to mixins. Nevertheless, we think that mixins are unnecessary and problematic in React codebases.

Maybe I should have highlighted that they can work well in JavaScript too—we just didn’t find a good use case in React apps at Facebook.
Do you have cites to support this? My intuition says that only holds if you compare shuttle-as-it-was with other-rockets-as-hoped.
Like a scene straight out of iRobot.
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It's great to see big car makers trying to get in front of vulnerabilities like this.
The founder of surge.sh commented on this on HN and it directly conflicts with Digital Ocean's statement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010521

"""

11:02am - "you need to remove the content or fill out a counter claim"

12:47pm - "we were wrong, no counter claim can be filed and you now have 39minutes to remove the content or we are disabling the network"

"""

Then in the comments:

"""

5 days ago we got forwarded a forward of a takedown request that was sent to CloudFlare from a representative of the trademark holder. We responded to that forward within 22 minutes of first receiving it and have been in communication with Digital Ocean ever since right up until about 1.5h prior to be shut down.

"""

Believe who you will.

Edit: added 2nd quote from comments
They have won some court cases on it in Oslo.
Market valuations are not the same as accounting valuations; American companies also have to use the "sane, conservative" figure in the appropriate contexts.
Great, I'm glad Fusion is alive.
It seems that the Internet and mobile technologies are established technologies at this point. Most internet startups are not technology driven. They are all about marketing, customer relations, service and business as normal. MBA's are more important than engineers.

High-tech startups still exist but they are not the norm.
Can you outline the biggest problems with React's mixins? I haven't heard this complaint before.