skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's half-true that you can't export emails. You can't do it directly, but if you save each email address on the user during account creation, then you're covered.

It's not documented, but apparently you can request the password hashes as well.

Firebase's querying methods are also severely limited. Yes, you can be smart about how you structure your data to overcome some of these limitations, but I've noticed that many db operations that are typically simple and inexpensive tend to require trickery and gymnastics with firebase.

I think my least favorite part of my experience with firebase has been the use of their security rules. First off, the "bolt" compiler is really bad, but necessary to avoid writing a huge mess of json. Often times, it compiles your security rules into a single line of json, and then checks for errors, giving you an unhelpful message that the compilation failed on line 1, column 32,513.

The security rules are not only cumbersome to write, and in a language you have to learn specifically for firebase, but also completely different when using the firebase database and firebase storage. For storage, you have a new language and new syntax to learn.

Moreover, it's pretty common that you'll update the schema for some object in the database and then be faced with a "Permission denied" error on all future writes. It's impossible to put the application into dev mode to get a more helpful error message saying which specific field the write failed on. And even with lots of tests, it is really scary deploying changes to the security rules to production in a way I just haven't felt using other dbs.

Come to think of it, that's not the worst part. For me, it's been their support. I really think they use some kind of generic answer bank to generate the bulk of their responses. Half the time the response doesn't even make sense in the context of the request I send. Something like "I'm getting X error message when I try Y using Z setup" will get a response like "Could you send a screenshot of the error message?" -- where the error message was copied and pasted verbatim into the original email. I suppose they hope I'll just give up after so much time wasted on the issue?

After using firebase for over a year, I'd wholeheartedly advise steering clear of it for anything other than prototypes and hackathon projects.
The problem with your theories is that actual evidence says the programs work far better than anything else we've tried. (I don't intend that to be mean or glib).

These programs typically assign a caseworker who gets to know the homeless people and forms a relationship with them. The early period involves a lot of hand-holding and helping the homeless figure out (or re-discover) how to live a productive adult life.

Most people who end up homeless turn to drugs, prostitution, and have any existing mental problems hugely exacerbated AFTER they become homeless. In other cases it is some other underlying situation (abusive childhood, etc) that triggers drug use that leads to homelessness.

There's also a strong selection effect: many people who become homeless quickly attempt to find employment and a new place to live. Those who don't get out of being homeless quickly become unemployable and thus are locked into the cycle.

As a society we seem to be stuck in this Victorian-era meme that moral failure brings calamity upon people (aka the Just World fallacy).

That applies to success the same as failure... being ambitious and smart is a necessary but not sufficient condition to become successful.

If Mark Zuckerberg got hit by a drunk driver (through no fault of his own) and became a paraplegic while at Harvard he wouldn't be a billionaire today. If he hadn't gotten into Harvard would he have had the connections to get funding and start Facebook? A million things entirely outside his control had to go right for him to be successful. It was a combination of his character, circumstances, and pure luck. If you don't have all three you won't be successful.

Similarly it doesn't take much weakness or bad luck to completely ruin someone's life.
> I always liked KDE too and it suggested Kubuntu which might be worth looking into as well.

Try KDE Neon, its Ubuntu based.
Depending on your requirements, a single-node solution like PipelineDB may suffice; it's a PostgreSQL extension that lets you write streaming SQL queries.
The Safe Harbor provision of the DMCA is extremely important to preserving the Internet as I think we all want it to be. It protects joesvideoshack.org as much as youtube.com. If you host a site to publish your own blog articles, I don't think you would want to be legally liable for the contents of someone's comment on a blog post.
Publishers fearing Facebook dependency: fight for your future, reinvent RSS
John Whitney – Experiments in motion graphics (1968)
I have bad news for you.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10677/hp-acquire-samsung-print...
I was told growing up that Ted Williams, the last 400 hitter in baseball, had vision so great he could see the seams on the baseball as it approached him.

While that turned out to be false it is a fact that when he became a fighter pilot during the Korean War and was tested he had vision only one person in 100,000 possessed.

http://www.esquire.com/sports/news/a23050/ted-williams-seams...
That's pretty much how a typical CAS represents algebraic numbers, I don't think there's much impractical about that idea.
In academia, the two most important sources of feedback scientists receive about their performance are the written evaluations following the submission of papers for publication and proposals for research funding. Unfortunately, in both cases, the peer review process rarely supports pursuing paths that sharply diverge from the mainstream direction, or even from researchers’ own previously published work.

Hmmm. All referee reports I receive or write usually revolve around novelty of the idea. Incremental work gets published too, but not if it's only a small delta w.r.t. previous work.
PS All of your "digital property" is now gone. Goodbye.
A 23-year-old man was killed on January 20th while behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S traveling on a highway near Hong Kong when the electric car drove itself into a street-cleaning truck

I would argue the car didn't drive itself, rather that the person behind the wheel drove the car in to the back of a stationary vehicle.

But it doesn't matter what I think, what matters is how the media spin this and how Tesla respond.

A bit more of my opinion: road vehicles with any form of self-driving ability should not allow the driver to take their hands off the wheel at any time for any period of time. I would consider doing so an act of not having proper control of a motor vehicle, which in Australia you can be fined for.
Cool stuff! It's always nice when you can formulate your problem in a way that avoids transcendental numbers and functions.

Your page contains a typo, however: “The Euler-Lagrance equation then gives...”
I evaluated firebase and it convinced me to use couchdb+pouchdb. The things firebase improved were nice but not worth it and ultimately running our own DBs in European providers without external auth was less stressful for legal and estimating costs, performance, etc.

For the criticisms not related to SaaS, some of them look like familiar debates, and I'd say a drawback of using noSQL is that I have something that looks ready faster but then I need to consciously hold it back from production until I've thought through structural problems which I would have worked out first in SQL.
I don't think so; if a MySQL transaction has two separate tables, at some point it has to write one and then the other remembering to remove the first if the second fails with power outage for example.

I'm not rejecting anything, all I'm asking is; where is the code and how does it work? If you don't know then how come you are so confident it does work?

I'm pretty sure the "write some status to a file and rollback if transaction incomplete on startup" code is pretty horrible on all SQL systems. And on top of that it doesn't scale. Defending status quo is always worth questioning.
The traditional way is for Adobe to receive a tip from a disgruntled former employee about the business using unlicensed software.
The article doesn't justify the title. As far as I am aware, while Europeans knew the earth was spherical since the classical period, Chinese didn't.

The article is strictly limited to Europeans in the middle ages, not "everybody ever".
iTunes will never work well
Glenn Greenwald clearly doesn't understand the difference between journalism and editorialising. Does he seriously believe that the WaPo should have ignored the Snowden revelations about legitimate overseas intelligence operations, despite the fact that they knew that other news outlets were going to publish them? Does he not understand that the newspaper's job is to report the news?

What a douchenozzle.
I wrote riko [1] with exactly this use case in mind. Its a simple python stream processing engine.

[1] https://github.com/nerevu/riko

Edit: HN submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136011
a hosted service is a non-starter for my use cases :-/
You sound like an expert on the homeless in Seattle. Do you actually know this for a fact or are you just speculating? Have you talked to the homeless there and seen data? Do you realize mental health issues can cause people to burn bridges even if that's not what they want to do?
And for popular torrents, torrents with a lot of seeders who have at least okay bandwidth, it shouldn't matter. If a file can be downloaded in less time than it takes to use / consume / watch / listen to that file then there's space for innovation.
Yup, It uses the browser's memory to transfer files.

Until browser apps can be given permission to access the file system, this will be yhe case.
How does every illegal immigrant have more rights than you? Mind to clarify?
Neither Sartre nor de Beauvoir where postmodernists (or "pot-modernists"). Poster maybe means some radical left anarchists – also not postmodernists – from the late 70s/early 80s, who had some outlandish (and completely self-serving) ideas about child sexuality.
Extortion as a service
It's actually the other way around. BitTorrent clients should prioritize that most rare pieces, there isn't really a notion of what the most in-demand pieces are.

If you were to combine streaming with a BitTorrent protocol that prioritized the most in-demand pieces you would probably not be able to watch most videos to the end without pauses to buffer or maybe even at all.

By prioritizing the most rare, even if all seeds left the swarm there's a much better chance swarm combined may still have all pieces and the torrent can still be finished.
Except that it's the Dutch author who breached the contract. But bitching about AlJazeera gets more publicity. What a bunch of brats.
Most one-star reviews I see are for anything _but_ the product: "delivery was late", "box was damaged", "came with wrong power cord".
Go 1.8 performance improvements, one month in
I take your point. It's certainly not the end of the world, but it is sub-optimal.
As you yourself pointed out, it the idea that A = !B is an assumption. It's not supported by anything on the page whatsoever. In fact, it's explicitly rejected by what's on the page. Simply reading and reasoning about the answers, which are completely unambiguous, would lead one to conclude that B is a subset of A. Therefore it must be false that A = !B.

There's no mind reading necessary, only rational thought.

Listening to internally-generated assumptions without bothering to fact-check them via explicit reasoning is intuition.
Keep in mind Roth is no longer an option after 120k.
Learning from Data (Introductory Machine Learning)
My take: I try to write it DRY first. If I fail to come up with a good intuitive abstraction after half an hour, I just write it simple and copy code.

The next day or later I come back to the code and sometimes I find a neat abstraction then, which just needed more context. Sometimes I can get rid of the whole section too...

It all... Depends.
Couldn't one issue two classes of shares?

Issue one class of share that is restricted from sale but earns dividends (for the employees) and one that is unrestricted but pays no dividends (for investors)?
The problem comes when a small subset of unhappy users... creates a mountain of bad reviews.

"It never happened to me, or any HP printer I've ever dealt with, but I read online that..."

I'd put a 5 star review on my Samsung Note. Why? Because my phone didn't explode. Hell... my phone has been through the RINGER and it still works. Can I give it a 6 star?

But because of a small SMALL subset of users that have issues with Samsung Phones, all of a sudden there are a thousand 1 star reviews who say "they explode and kill puppies (because that's what the TV/Internet told me)"?

What percentage of iPhones were affected by Bendgate? How many reviews were from Android users who never would have bought an iPhone anyway?

There's a line and, personally, I think that it's crossed when you review something negatively for an issue you've not personally experienced.

Is HP shitty for doing this? Does Samsung need negative press for it? Should Apple have to face their issues? Of course.

But unless YOU PERSONALLY have been affected, you are just part of a mob out on a witch hunt.
What am I failing to understand?

You might be missing that maximizing heat collection while the sun is shining is not the goal, that too hot in the day can be just as bad as too cold at night, that each layer of "clear" polycarbonate (ie, 2 for twinwall) blocks about 10% of the light, and that gaping curtainless windows are not always a desirable architectural feature.

How many buildings have you been in that have expansive south facing windows? How many of them have been comfortable day-and-night year-round in a harsh climate without mechanical heating and cooling? Very few buildings achieve this, and I'd guess that none of them have large windows.

The Introduction to to the article is a good "introduction" to the issues. The rest of the article explains the introduction. If you are interested in the issues, it's a good article, worth reading in depth. But as the author says in the preface, "I’d suggest reading this when you’re in a “learn” mode – because if you’re in “skim” mode, you’ll just be wasting your time."
Similarly, I absolutely loved this gif (5 pitches overlayed, near-identical release point and very different trajectories):
http://deadspin.com/coolest-gif-ever-shows-five-yu-darvish-p...
> There's a difference between taking a position on clemency and a position on prosecution, isn't there?

Suppose the U.S. manages to exfiltrate Snowden from Russia somehow. Do you seriously believe that, in the absence of clemency, there is less than a 100% chance he'll be prosecuted? Being against clemency without taking a position on prosecution is kind of like advocating jumping off a cliff but not taking a position on whether or not you fall to the ground. There may be a semantic distinction, but no practical one.

> am I adequately summarizing your belief by saying that regardless of what they write, if the Washington Post Editorial Page genuinely believes that Snowden shouldn't be given clemency, then they should also believe that the Washington Post itself should be shuttered (or turned over to a different team)?

And that they should also be charged and prosecuted as Snowden's willing accomplices. Yes. At least if they want to be honorable (and logically consistent).

Look at the Post's justification for opposing clemency:

"The complication is that Mr. Snowden did more than that. He also pilfered, and leaked, information about a separate overseas NSA Internet-monitoring program, PRISM, that was both clearly legal and not clearly threatening to privacy. (It was also not permanent; the law authorizing it expires next year.) Worse — far worse — he also leaked details of basically defensible international intelligence operations: cooperation with Scandinavian services against Russia; spying on the wife of an Osama bin Laden associate; and certain offensive cyber operations in China."

It was the Post (and the Guardian) who made the decisions to publish these documents, not Snowden! He had neither the time not the inclination to make these kinds of editorial decisions. He grabbed what he could and ran. (And let's not forget that before he did this, he tried to address the problem -- which everyone concedes was a real and very serious problem -- through the "proper channels" and was smacked down.) He then relied on others, including the Post, to filter what he had and decide what should be published and what should remain secret. If things were published that should not have been, then the Post is at least as culpable as Snowden if not more so.
Physics seeks to find out how things work. Questions might not be answerable but that doesn't put it out of the scope of physics.

The hard problem you pose (positioning atoms... triggering perception of color or pain), what else is that but a physics problem?
The thing is, though, that even if "physics" did have an answer to this, it's not a given that we would understand it. Our incapability to wrap our head around reductionist explanations of qualia does not entail that they are inaccurate, only that they fail to satisfy us. I mean, let me put it this way: what do you expect from an answer?

For example, in order to understand why atoms moving in certain ways produce a taste, do you need the explanation to trigger some experience or memory of a taste? If so, you will never understand.

Or do you expect the answer to be short? What if qualia tend to be as complex as the brains that experience them (for holistic reasons), so the proof for our own qualia spans trillions of pages? I think that's actually quite probable, but you'll never understand in that case either.

The space of naturalistic explanations of things is humongous and we're already mass producing objects so complex no single individual could hope to understand every aspect of them. If you're going to start with "moving atoms at specific positions" in order to understand a defining aspect of a system made out of hundreds of billions of complex switches connected in obscure ways, let me tell you that you're going to need several Libraries of Congress before you're done.
Isn't Tesla a windows shop?
Looks like a) journalists using their platform don't really understand what they are paying for [1]: a license to use the story platform, when they expect to use it as a content creation tool and fully own the result. And b) either Al-Jazeera has copied them before [2] or there is some mutual stealing going on...

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/Hiddemhigh/status/777509638002634...

[2] http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2015/BanishedNepal/
Within the same project, and when you don't want to handle the coupling costs that can come with generalization.
What was the project?
I think procrastination is something we've be taught to believe is bad, where as I'm with Naht Hanh on this one: we don't need any reason to sit, we can just sit because we enjoy sitting. We don't need to be avoiding anything, or trying to achieve anything.

We don't need to always be achieving something or working toward something, or putting something off. That thing we think we should be doing? Well, if you leave it till the last minute it will only take a minute to do.

Yeah sure, hand in the assignment on time, fix the leaking roof, but it doesn't all have to be done right now.
Which type of learning are these meant for? They seem geared towards a very narrow range of subjects and a very particular testing style.

Example: "Don't repeatedly solve problems you already know how to solve." That's great if the test is only looking to see whether you know how to solve the problem. If instead you are going to be tested on how quickly you can solve multiple iterations of the problem, extensive repetition is a necessity.

There are also times when passive reading wholly absent understanding is not a bad things. This is particularly true in law and history. Any law student who properly understands an assigned reading prior to a lecture need not bother attending class. Often you must just read and retain material on the expectation that it will make sense later. Either it will be explained in person, or at some point you will attain a critical mass of knowledge. At law school that is normally at the start of the second year, when you start making links between the various disciplines and suddenly it all starts making sense.
Dear Al-Jazeera: 1) instruct your developers to only use open source code so as to avoid situations like this 2) slideshows are terrible, lots of work for viewer to get through. text or video work great, stick to them, don't use a format only suited for demo-ing the limited capabilities of cd-roms circa 25 years ago.
So... Why didn't you just take the money? I'm confused. Like you said, you could have sent your kids to college, but instead you chose to deny them that?
> I have no trouble understanding people who put forward arguments that, despite his bravery, Snowden should be accountable for the totality of his actions, and not just the ones that produced outcomes we're all pleased with.

I have no problem with that either, as long as we don't forget the accountability of the other people involved. That would include those who initiated and furthered the unconstitutional NSA programs; those who kept them hidden even from Congress; those to whom Snowden gave the documents; and, to some extent, all the rest of us looking on, at whatever distance, and commenting (or not).

> The whole thing, to me, seems like a giant clusterfuck animated more by egos and clique dynamics than by a coherent public policy goal.

Any more than, say, the American Revolution?

I suspect the creation of history is always a bit messy when it involves human beings.
I'm not ignoring any of that. Chronic and migrant homelessness exist, but they aren't anywhere near a majority of the population. The best data we have available shows chronic homelessness to be between 10-20% of the homeless population. And just because they are chronically homeless doesn't mean they don't want or can't benefit from help. Disability, mental as well as physical, is the largest known contributor to chronic homelessness and most forms of disability are treatable, but treatments are less effective when basic needs like housing are not met.
And how do you store the data?
Also, many USPS locations allow you to use the address of the building and to append the P.O. Box similar to an apartment number.
Technically though describing consciousness as emergent property of neural functioning is a conjecture, though a very credible one.

Unlike turbulence, I only have one case where I have ever seen this consciousness which I am trying to explain as an epiphenomenon, namely my own. All others consciousness (if they even exist which I can't prove directly) are not remotely observed in the same way, they are self reported by other people.

So you have the question of why I can only directly perceive that emergent property in exactly one brain and not others.

Likewise you'd have to explain why the emergent property is apparently continuous through my whole lifetime over which my brain changes enormously.

Finally you'd have to deal with the hypothetical case where I am duplicated molecule for molecule and then ask which consciousness would I have direct access to, the duplicate or the original.

So while dualism is obviously patently absurd, the idea of consciousness as epiphenomenon, while promising, needs work too.
Crazy Uber Driver Should Be Fired for This
That is definitely along the lines of what I'm looking for..

the esper stuff was on my radar, but something that works with existing postgresql tools is a huge plus.