skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropbox Infinite has a lot of potential to take the cloud to the next level.
i wouldn't even mind the just-so stories if they were presented in good faith as real anecdata, but having him use a fictional just-so story in "the black swan" was a step too far. it's sad, because the man is a good writer; "black swan" also contained the best write-up of hempel's raven paradox i've seen, including martin gardner's/
>When I tried out Google Drive, syncing was actually incredibly poor.

I've been using Google Drive for years. Since when has it supported local folder syncing? <researching...> oh it looks like Google uses Linux for Android, Linux for Chromebooks, many of their developers run Linux. Lots of their data centres run Linux. But the Google Drive doesn't have a daemon for Linux. The product manager is a shitforbrains and should be fired.
"if you have an opinion about what make a good programmer, you necessarily should be a very good programmer".

AKA, what to say in interviews.
Ubuntu includes proprietary software in the default installation and has done questionable things in the past. Other distributions (particularly Fedora) do better on user-friendliness in my opinion, despite the common opinion that it is otherwise.
> This level of stupidity

Why do you assume this is stupidity? Just because it annoys you doesn't make it stupid. For one, Dropbox makes exponentially more money from a Business user than an individual.
I think the point of Duo isn't to require a signup. Your phone number is the only thing required which lowers the barrier.
You still have to download it of course..
I think more bubble than substance for serverless, but I can easily see the appeal and expect that they'll become more useful over time.

Certainly the idea of microservices is a good one, for me and a lot of my use-cases, and that's the start of the journey towards an API-gateway. (The big downsides being less control, and a central point of failure, obviously.)

Containers I think are different, and are used in production a lot.
I call bullshit! And it's not because of the teleological implication you're making - it's because you're overfitting a pattern - limited existence - where you have no data to observe the correctness of your conclusions!

You think you see reasons why an overly long-lived human would encounter difficulties because of limitations you perceive that they'll encounter, but your observation set is so limited that your conjectures must be treated as conjectures, not as solid understanding!

The limitations on learning we observe in older human could easily be due to a huge number of factors, almost all of which are extremely solvable. The one mentioned here, that crystalized intelligence, which is an advantage in some ways becomes a liability in this case - that one is not immediately solvable in my view -

But when I discuss radically increased lifespans for humans, and I discuss it often because I want to see it happen and am already participating in a startup whose success I believe will hasten that effort, I often hear people giving reasons much like yours are reasons why my efforts are not worthwhile. Honestly, seriously, people are using justifications like yours to avoid investing in efforts like mine, and it's maddening to hear such an unsure, ephemeral hypothesis - and I honestly regard the conjectures you've made above to be among the most uncertain hypotheses in history of humankind - to be used as a reason to deprive concrete efforts of concrete investment.

Absolutely maddening, especially because I don't even necessarily disagree, but if the actual pattern for humans is that after, say, 1,000 or 100,000 years, we've got too much cruft as a part of us to continue, we'll never know unless we investigate it, and we can't investigate it if everyone just blindly trusts in silly design pattern hypotheses!!!
I wrote a set of internal use systems using Lambda and API Gateway. I'm in two minds about it; its handy but at the moment I dont think its mature enough for a critical live system.

I'd like better ways to collect execution data for debugging and more visibility all round. With those it would definitely be a contender.
To be fair, for iOS development, you need a Mac and it is closed source as well. One would argue that Microsoft is closer to Apple than it is to Google.

And Android is not a 100% open source stack, parts of it are closed source.
From what I remember Boston Chicken was a sort of stock scam that turned out a great buy when it went under. I vaguely remember McDonalds bought them out for virtually nothing.
Good coaches are not always the best players, and rarely pretend to be.
> If this was an issue with capitalism in general we wouldn't be discussing it this way, since the issue would date back at lease a century.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what "this" and "it" refer to, it's not exactly a new topic. Identity, ego, happiness, capitalism, consumerism, work, family, and their various relationships and conflicts have been discussed in ways nearly indistinguishable from how they are today since the dawn of the modern global economy (the 50s), and similar issues have been covered by Western writers since at least the 19th century (much farther back, depending on how much you want to stretch "similar").
I wonder if renting servers in a state counts as physical presence. What about using a CDN that has a PoP in that state?
Haven't we already had this for a long time? Targeted drug delivery using Nano technology? A lesser complicated version and less of the sci fi but the technology has been here and proven for a long time with some FDA approved drugs already. Most of the drugs are still in trial but targeted drug delivery looks promising.
They have a DVD center in Pheonixville, just west of Philadelphia.
> If there's a kid who is ahead at everything, the material is not diverse enough.

Or, you know, the kid is just more competent. All people may be created morally equal, but they aren't created equal in competence, even in some kind of "advantages in one area are balanced by deficits in others" way.

> To some extent competence is a zero-sum game.

No, its not. (Also, being zero-sum is absolutely binary -- either a thing is zero-sum or its not. It can't be zero-sum "to some extent". It can have tradeoffs to some extent and not be zero-sum, which is the nearest it can get to that.)

> The likelihood that a student is operating at above-typical levels in sports, art, math, and journalism seems small to me.

Yes, students that are above grade level across the board areas will be less common than those that are above grade level in a narrower domain. (Competence is generally a product of innate factors and effort, and even though the innate factors are correlated across disciplines -- general intelligence applies to most, and correlates with talents in others -- effort may or may not be.)
>I may be an outlier here, but I'm not bothered at all by the way sorting is currently done. It's good enough.

I fear that's also the motto for a lot of Go's design choices.
How do you install it on Mac OSX?
Usually you choose the subculture's value system that you subscribe to, though. You don't choose the advertising you get (although some video ads are experimenting with that).
I like this. It can be applied in a much broader range of professions than just programming, but it's a nice, memorable analogy.
I think it's good to follow niche topics that you have an interest in. For general news, I think it's better to follow certain journalists who've given a good picture of where things are going over time. I'm not going to mention any names, but if you listen to a lot of people and podcasts you'll eventually find trusted people who can read the news for you and find things that have real significance. The people I listen to on political and world issues put out stuff maybe a few times a month.

Sometimes it's good to listen to their old podcasts and read their old articles and ask yourself if anything in those old podcasts and articles is still relevant. Did they recognize events changing the world or where they just focusing on clickbait B.S. The mark of crappy news is that if you read news from it a year ago absolutely none of it will matter now.
It's more of a mutually-consented handholding with small amounts of arm-twisting. Your content needs to make money for you to stay afloat -- if it doesn't, you're not in the target market for AMP -- so Google gives you some tools to that they can surface your content, and you get their ad and analytics infrastructure and their preferential treatment; the premise is both Google and the publisher win more than they lose.
Eh, an interesting comment. I assume you merely skimmed mine, because I was only using the term 'boobs' to refer to getting to see a naked lady without any of the usual cultural impediments (wooing, dating, even tracking down and negotiating for the services of a hooker). It seemed very clear in context. I'm well aware that fixation on breasts isn't natural in the context of human anthropological development, yet the fetishization of boobs is common enough today that I thought it an appropriate metaphor for 'faux sexual contact that's good enough for the lizard-brain yet functionally "free"'.

The thrust (if you will) of your comment is either an extended triumphant riff on my poor choice of the concept 'boobs' (and possibly trying to shame those who do fetishize boobs), or it's an attempt to distract from my comment's thesis -- namely, that the profusion of modern free porno might actually be having an effect on us. I don't think that's ridiculous. I'm well aware that many a society has had pornographic materials under varying aegises, but many were furtive and socially, if not legally, prohibited.

I don't think it's unreasonable to claim that our society has the lowest barrier to access, the highest quality, and the largest diversity of pornographic materials in the history of humanity. Further, this profusion of porno is comparatively recent. Are we supposed to believe that this can't be having an effect on us? I presume you have a stronger argument than merely implying that I'm super obsessed with boobs (and that some Victorian aspect of my maturbatory habits are to blame).
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I'm talking about the right to do things like add another floor to a house, or not have to have a 2 car driveway, or things like that that are very often part of zoning codes.

Zoning turns 100 this year, so indeed, at one time those minority rights existed, and still do in other places:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/col...
I haven't read the book, but is the article arguing that rampant individualism leads to unhappiness, or the lack of detachment and focus on "communities"? It seems to mention both.

For those who haven't seen it, this article also argues the former: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/the-fragmented-soc...
>Why hasn't it happened to me?

Well, don't know about your case, but I've seen e.g. people who are religious about being DRY and dislike any kind of useless boilerplate, and others just copy paste code with wild abandon and couldn't care at all.
More like C#'s "object" than Java's "Object".
..to replace thyself when retired?

sorry :)
Subjective ratings often predict reality quite well.
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Being expert means having ability to recognise certain patterns and having skills to apply then. So yes details don't matter much if pattern recognition works fine (and it's ability to work is in some degree dependant on ignoring non-essential details). Which details don't matter is aldo learned through experience.
There is a danger of miscategorizing if one gets too confindent and sloppy.
aka "Going towards total vendor lock in by basing your system on a proprietary, non portable infrastructure service"
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Ultimately, it doesn't matter. The point of the exercise isn't to get better at those specific skills, but to develop an understanding of high-end proficiency, which you can later apply to other subjects.

Like many (proper) learning sets, the content of the exercise is irrelevant compared to the deeper lesson.
They support everything (including desktop Linux). They support sharing. And organisations.

Many things do some of that. Few do it all.
> I can well believe, however, that any current with a current one-party dictatorial government, something Taiwan had the first time I lived there and something China still has today, will lag in teaching history.

Multiparty liberal democracies allow much more scope for debating and interpreting history, but they still commonly encourage a teleological interpretation that glorifies the nation and its current political system.

I also get the feeling that understanding history in a meaningful way is hard, and that educational systems generally aren't making much headway against this problem, maybe somewhat independently of how much debate or criticism they permit. One difficulty is the conscious and semiconscious propagandization of many historical issues by many parties, together with the desire to see historical figures or groups we identify with in a positive light and those we don't identify with in a negative light. Another thing is the truth of the "past is a foreign country" observation:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._P._Hartley

Getting inside of the minds and cultures of people from the past is really difficult!
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Quite the eloquent rebuttal. You've swayed me with your words.
The `GOPATH` approach forces this one structure upon you.

That's basically the point.

It's like arguing that marriage equality violates your right to believe a marriage is between one man and one woman.

No, it's more like the Pythonic "There's one way to do it."
Very nice, I didn't know it, but that's more like a GPS telling you to turn right, left, etc
Thanks for the comment. The goal is to have it as a portfolio of the projects I have published over the years. The Github contributions are very minor btw :)
My first reaction exactly!
It's kind of hard to tell what's real anymore thanks to said genre of posts, after hearing the whole gamut up to things to the order of "Well Russian children are expected to know calculus by 8, group theory by 9, and complete their mastery of theoretical physics by 11"
Isn't this a technological lesson? The Roomba is at the novelty stage rather than being a mature tech? I can't predict how long it will take for a mature equivalent to arrive but I certainly wouldn't rule out all home automation because the Roomba is lacking in many areas.

Unless something thinks there's a huge technological gap to cross?
Also, those re-targeting ads for that thing you have already bought? Following you around the internet. Those aren't because of a mistake in the targeting criteria like a lot of people think.

You will be so pleased with a purchase that has no buyer's remorse, which you accept as normal, that you will go buy some more stuff from that store. Clearly it is a special rare deal you have discovered.
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As part of an upcoming hackathon we have released an early developer preview of our Worldpay Within SDK, available at < https://github.com/WPTechInnovation/worldpay-within-sdk/ > With some detailed documentation is available at < http://wptechinnovation.github.io/worldpay-within-sdk/index.html >

The SDK Core is written in Go and provides interoperability with other languages via Apache Thrift. We currently have wrapper bindings in Java and Node.JS with C#.NET and Python in development + another few in the pipeline.

For further information on the hackathon please follow < bit.ly/iotpay >

This is an early Developer Preview public release and we welcome any and all feedback. Please feel free to hack the code and post feedback/questions here or either as an issue on the repo.

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Not sure on box, I can tell you for OneDrive and Google Drive, if you have multiple people working against a shared directory - good luck. Their ability to sync with multiple clients hitting the same data is HORRENDOUS. We've got what amounts to FREE Onedrive as part of our ELA and the company still forks over for Dropbox because the shared user experience is lightyears ahead.
>but in the long term the next generation inherit the right skill base to benefit from the new trajectory of civilization and mass prosperity is achieved.

I don't think we have enough examples from history to make this in some kind of universal law. Mass prosperity might just as well NOT be achieved.
Cheers indeed! Thank you for the response.
But how do you know it's not just a random string?
The context here is "first date".

There are far more important things to think about on first date such as "Do I like this guy?", not how expensive his car is.
There are quite a few interpretations of what human-realistic means, but here are my very optimistic, noisy estimates. I'm interested what numbers others come up with.

* Proyas' "I, Robot": 15 years (no evil uprising)

* Spike Jone's "Her": 20 years, but no trans-human A.Is

* Sex robots that feel like "the real thing": 20 years

* Bicentennial Man: 30 years

* Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" (2001) - 30 years.
My wife's told me that if I'd showed up in a BMW she probably would've cut the date short. (I walked to the Caltrain station and we Caltrained up together.)

Dating's a way to get a read on someone's value system and find someone who shares your values. It's a mistake to think that everyone shares mainstream American cultural values, even in America. There are plenty of people who don't buy into consumerism or advertising messages.
You can find instructions in the README here: https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme. But to summarize:

0. Install Go (https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.7.darwin-amd64.p...)

1. `go get -u github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme`

2. `thyme dep`

3. Follow the instructions printed by `thyme dep`
Thank you - that's what I was thinking, but you said it better than I could.

I was pushed ahead a grade, and as a result, was always a year or two behind everyone else physically, so, almost by definition, I was always "behind" in gym/phys-ed classes, but there wasn't much I could do about that. Looking back, I was normal/average for my age, but not for my 'grade', and had a tough time with that.
> For large, long-lived codebases, where there have been effectively many different teams and a number of different managers, the standards, coding styles, and tooling are almost certain to change

Sure, but I've never been convinced consistency matters at that scale. I think it's enough to be locally consistent; Windows doesn't seem to be hurt by its codebase containing practically every style you can imagine.

> level of the language community

Sure, but if you make the language too Procrustean, you risk making that community smaller, even if it's more cohesive. Personally, I'd rather have a bigger community, even if the members don't agree on everything.
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Given that the goal of software development is to build tools, toys, etc... it can help to work backwards from projects to skills.

No matter what level of skill you're at, you can start looking at the software you use day to day and think "Could I build that? What parts would be easy? What might be hard? What might be tedious?"

Try that with a few different project ideas. There will probably be some tools/techniques/skills in common between them, some of which might be ones you have some skill with but don't feel fully confident.

From there, you have a topic of study, and can go dig deep into books, exercises, practice projects, etc. (Or find someone to mentor you and give feedback)

You'll know you're doing it really well when either (a) you're fairly certain that no one has a much better way of doing it than what you've already learned... and you've searched far and wide and come up empty or (b) the area of study becomes easy enough and automatic enough that you don't need to give it much thought... it just becomes automatic.

You'll know when you have something that can be improved when it distracts you away from the problem you're solving... repeatedly and not in an "essential struggle" sort of way, but a "I really wish I was better" at this kind of feeling.

Some level of proficiency is necessary to recognize these pain points and fix them. And the solution is usually to develop more competence, so long as it's in an area that really does matter to your work at hand. These two things work best as a spiral, supporting one another.
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If they're stricter, it's only because they rule out more kinds of incorrect behavior. Go's type system is actually strict in a useless way, because it doesn't allow you to write correct parametric code (for example, sorting generic slices).
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Atlanta used Georgia Tech's campus to house athletes in 1996 (and renovated/added additional dorms as well, at least as I understand it).

Honestly, as bad as Atlanta's Olympics look at the time (with commercialism and the bombing, for example), I really think they deserve a lot of credit for using it as an excuse to provide the city with renovations people could use. Hopefully LA can do the same.
I think it's uncool for Dug and team that google decided to name this the same thing as their product. But, the big dog will always eat your food first.
I appreciate your different perspective on the matter. One quibble:

> either a thing is zero-sum or its not.

A game can have both a zero sum component and an unbounded component. Only one person can win the presidency, but everyone who runs can get a reputation boost.

Learning how to shoot free throws might improve your saxophone playing, but 8 hours a day in the practice room could take away from your knowledge of literature.
Many many years back, I used Sugarsync but ditched them a few months later for Dropbox when they screwed up my file sync.

Recently, I switched from annual to monthly subscription for Dropbox because I wanted to push myself to migrate my files off their service..mainly due to concerns about privacy..

I use Google Drive at work.. it's not great, but it works better than OneDrive. Wanted to use OneDrive as it came with my Office365 subscription..but their Mac and Android clients really need improving.

Almost moved to SpiderOak..but stopped due to their poorly designed Android app.

I can't seem to get myself off Dropbox. I don't use external hard disks for backup now. I digitize everything, so it's important to find a service I can trust...both on privacy and on sync reliability..

The sad truth is Dropbox clients across different platforms and their sync stability is unmatched in this space.
Dang it, he has a year on me! I will never get hired ;-)
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