skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One of us tried to kill themselves over work, and it seemed like beyond Blind, nobody cared. I didn't see people talking about it, I didn't see any mail from Jeff or my org VP...Life looked normal and mundane. This seems we have normalized this. We shouldn't."

So instead of acknowledging that they have a problem... Amazon prefers to go on promoting the same culture of silence, distrust, and ambivalence to the suffering of others which likely contributed to the suicide attempt in the first place.
Publishers get to try sending whatever they want to my computer. I get to accept or reject the parts that I want. Based on whether I accept or reject ads, they can refuse to let me see content.

This is business, not morality. I have no moral obligation to support their business model. They have no moral obligation to deliver a website without intrusive advertising. (Okay, maybe they have a moral obligation not to invade my privacy by tracking me all over the internet, which is why when it comes down to it, adblocking is probably more moral than putting ads on your website).
How are you finding Wealthsimple?

Can't speak to the tool itself, but the site design and overall aesthetic looks gorgeous..
I just remembered a blog post I wrote a while back about exactly these points:

http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2011/04/13/choosing-a-col...
Would really like to see Ghostery and Privacy Badger make their way to edge. I'm sure once they actually roll out extensions out of beta we'll get more. Supposedly porting is extremely easy from Chrome.
New cheap method to make graphene nanosheets
IBM RFID Grocery Commercial (2006) [video]
Learning without thought is labor lost, Confucius said.

At any rate, symbolic representations of knowledge should be committed to memory (or pad and pencil) at the time of understanding (Hebb's rule), or else your "memory" will be isomorphic to random symbols and therefore inaccessible to future thoughts.

That said, some of the greatest mathematicians (e.g., Gauss, von Neumann, Dieudonné) had phenomenal memory, so I suppose rote memorization isn't a terrible hack to try to approximate the advantages this kind of gift confers, but only in a pinch, since these mathematicians were keeping much more than definitions and statements of theorems in memory.
I agree 100% with your last paragraph. I think the issue for many libertarians, however, is this: should thought be considered personal property, thus under legal protection by the state?
From what I've seen, most fusion researchers are skeptical. Lockheed hasn't revealed much detail, and their people aren't leaders in the field.
They also have a long way to go; when they made their big announcement they were running on about 100 watts of power. By comparison, MIT's C-Mod uses as much power, briefly, as the entire city of Cambridge.

Lockheed claims that fast iteration will make for fast progress, but they're not the only fusion startup taking that approach. Others include General Fusion, Helion, and Tri Alpha. And Tri Alpha, at least, gets a lot of respect for openly sharing experimental data in papers and conferences.
I didn't see it mentioned but what are your plans for the network strategy. Are you planning to run dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 ? IPv4 only? Internal IPv6 only with NAT64 to the public stuff?

Hopefully IPv6 shows up somewhere in the stack. It's sad to see big players not using it yet.
"I wanted to see what was involved in setting up my own DC/OS instance [...] I wanted to keep this cluster as low cost as possible"
I believe the game Streamline, released November 18th, is built with Lumberyard and makes use of its Twitch integration. This game's studio had support from Amazon.

https://steamdb.info/app/252850/graphs/

The game was free until November 18th 9am PST, so the current active ~100 daily players is more representative of its success.
6) Watching "the news" makes you mad because it just seems like sensationalized bullshit when it's on in the background. You wonder... "How do people watch this dribble?" or "How could anyone believe this?" If your "news" ever says that something is good or bad... it's just an opinion piece.

It's very hard to find impartial news outlets that aren't just pandering to confirmation bias, or that don't have an agenda. Sucks about all the competition for attention on the internet... people realized that they can catch more bugs with honey, and so they just tell their audiences what they want to hear.
Apples and oranges, but I get your point.
Puma is great. We tried it years ago and multithreading caused problems. This is likely due to problems in our application and its dependencies, not Puma. We reverted it in https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/commit/3bc4845874112242...
I agree about conditionals and other kind of programming language constructs not belonging in markup. But the point of markup for content-driven web sites is that its a text format and can be contributed by persons other than web developers (authors, site users, syndicated content providers, etc).

You can see a modern approach for this is at work here: http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlweb.html ("isomorphic" rendering to HTML in the browser and server-side using full SGML, no less).

Disclaimer: my project
I applied to your company but never got an answer back (November 29th)
Renaissance has hundreds of smart people trying to beat the market. Same with the HFT shops.

You can start one of those firms; in all likelihood, not all the potential profit has been extracted yet. You can hire a bunch of smart mathematicians and/or smart technologists, and spend time working on the problem. And then you'll be in good shape to beat the market. If you're an econ Ph.D. student hanging out on Hacker News, you're already well on your way to doing this with your life, if that's what you want to focus your life on!

But "you", the person with an unrelated day job fiddling with some investing app on your phone in your spare time, starting with a relatively small amount of capital compared to Renaissance's first year, and relatively small risk tolerance compared to Renaissance's first year, and definitely not enough money to hire a bunch of scientists full-time - "you" who's asking on a thread about passive income instead of lifelong career options - you are statistically unlikely to beat the market. That's what people mean by "You can't beat the market."
The amount of times the word "updates" appears in the commits makes me feel much better at my difficulty of choosing succinct and unique commit messages.
Thanks for the additional information!

I'm assuming you're referring to the method documented in Ch 4 here? https://gwic.ligo.org/thesisprize/2011/capano_thesis.pdf

If so, would it be fair to say (as a simplification) that instead of increasing the confidence in GW events by collecting more of them, you're doing so by holding the number of collected events almost constant and increasing the confidence in the characteristics of noise the detector is reporting?
Thanks, added in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/da003427...
Regarding censorship rape threats, defamation, bomb threats and other obvious and clear exceptions to free speech. Those are pretty well understood and covered by existing law. We are talking about suppressing true statements 1984 style and making the truth disappear ex post facto from the internet. This isn't the same as shouting fire in a crowded theater and you know it.

You still haven't addressed how easy it would be to create a public search engine of illegal truths nor the fact that there is so much info out there that anyone of importance will likely have access to all the info about people that they might want to hide. You wont be able to get a job at McDonald's without dealing with someone who pays a monthy fee for the truth about you.
I can't believe this guy is into credit lending now. A bit sleezy tbh.
I know that. I mean how do you think longer school days help them?

If you think it helps by giving their kids someplace to be when both parents are at work, wouldn't it make much more sense to have some sort of public child care program after school than to extend the school day?
Thanks for posting this, it was really interesting. Everyone who criticizes JSX should have watched it before doing so.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/watch-a-series-of-seven-brilliant-lec...
The local news seems to always be about murders and violence. Why is it beneficial to learn about every instance of "humans behaving badly"?

(Celebrities, ok, maybe, but random people?)
React as it is now isn't going to be React as it is at some future date, it will evolve. Any framework you use has an inherent risk of going stale and being replaced by the next new new thing. Luckily, to get stuff done, you don't need to be using the new new thing, so choose your frameworks based on whether it makes sense for your scenario. Jquery / UI was the rage at one stage, and it still chugs along.

React isn't the only game in town... some other popular ones are :-

Vue

Angular

Elm

All of them have a certain amount of momentum which means, for the short to mid term they are going to be hanging around. But they all have inherent tech risks going forward. It only takes a few innovations browser front end wise to be mainstream to make newer frameworks become the new new thing. For instance things like webassembly / more GUI / vector based GPU accelerated capabilities opens up new ways of putting together apps using all kinds of languages.
Quarter of inmates could have been spared prison without risk, study says
I have a rental property, it's not much, barely breaking even on mortgage payments, but the hope is I will have the principal as an asset when the mortgage is paid off and any payments coming in will be pure bonus.
If the plan is still to build a huge Ceph-backed filesystem to store your git repos on, you are doomed.

Redhat, if you're out there: Now would be a good time to chime in about the limits of Ceph and the reasonable size of a filesystem.
If we assume that ads are loaded through <script> tags then a browser addon could rewrite those to exist within sandboxed iframes.

The tricky part is only isolating the ads and not the functional parts of the website.
Thanks for the tip, I enjoyed their comprehensive readme. I might give this a go next time around.

https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
Prime95! I haven't seen that since 2000-2001! Solid tool for burning in a box and putting the CPU under maximum load.
I remember popups, punch-the-monkeys, and junk on the internet long ago. Things have become more pervasive, but I think our use has also dramatically gone up.
I'm saying that instead of beginning a war to protect US citizens from terrorists attacks, US can just make something useful for a fraction of the cost, e.g. develop and install 100% ecofriendly light.
Hacker News, I could never quit you.
I think they do both but could be mistaken.
Mobx reminds me of Ember and bringing the Ember paradigm to react folks
> It was never about allowing individuals to censor information about themselves just because they don't want it to be shared.

Maybe that wasn't the intent but that is the net effect because the burden of proof is not on the individual to show that the information should be removed but rather on the search engine to show that it should not be. As a matter of simple economics, Google has essentially no choice but to comply with all RTBF requests whether or not they have merit, just it has to comply with all DMCA takedown requests whether or not they have merit. Google doesn't have the resources (nor should it be expected to provide the resources) to actually adjudicate every case on its merits.

> Is there actually any evidence that it's easily abused, or is that just an assumption?

It's a prediction.

> it's impossible to reliably achieve fair outcomes after initially encountering negative information

Why? If you can pass a law forcing Google to remove links, why could you not pass a law forcing news outlets to update stories?

> We're in a shades-of-grey area here

Yes, of course, that's the whole point. What if you were never convicted of the rape even though you were clearly guilty? (Should Michael Slager have a right to force the internet to forget that he actually shot Walter Scott in the back, despite the fact that the jury did not convict him?) What if you were actually innocent even though the evidence against you seemed overwhelming? Who decides which cases fall under the auspices of RTBF? The answer is: you do. Why? Because it's cheaper and less risky for Google to simply comply with all takedown request than to actually try to adjudicate each request on its merits.
I think a storage appliance (NetApp, etc.) makes a lot of sense in the short term. The TCO is lower since we'll spend a lot of time making Ceph work.

In the longer term the storage appliance will lock us in and will get very expensive. I've heard pretty bad stories of companies betting on it. Especially with many small files like us (IOPS heavy).

And one goal of GitLab.com is to gain experience that we can reuse at our customers. Most of our customers use a storage appliance now but are interested in switching to something open source.
I read the headlines of Google news. That way when someone invariably asks me if I heard about this or that I can say "yeah I read that in the headlines". Otherwise people sometimes tell you what they read which is worse than actually reading the article.
> if it snows, now you are carrying tons of snow until you devote a small army of trucks to go clean the snow

I don't think you've thought this part through. Not that snow isn't a problem that needs dealing with, but "carrying tons of snow" is not the problem you have. If this works anything like a traditional conveyor belt then while it is running it is dumping all the snow at one end, the same end where it is dumping all the passengers, whereupon you are no longer "carrying" that snow. There could be heating elements or blowers along the way that melt the snow such that it drains off the side, or perhaps the slowing-down-at-the-end step involve grating separation such that snow falls through to some lower level? Something along those lines. I'm not sure what the precise solution for snow-on-a-conveyer-belt is but surely it would make use of the massive running conveyer belt as part of the solution, not rely on a "small army of trucks".
For me, Anki reviews are a morning ritual. I do whatever it scheduled for the day. Then, I take time to review weaknesses. Then I move onto doing my actual projects. A combination of project experience and curiosity inform me as to what new Anki cards I need.

So yes and no to your question. Anki by itself isn't useful for learning to program. Anki as part of a larger personal development system can be pretty effective from my experience.
To me, it's not about categories (users, companies, developers, etc.). We're all people -- citizens.

The question is: should ideas belong to the category of legally-protected personal property? I'm very aware of the pragmatic arguments in favor of this. However, I (and others) also believe that there are significant ethical arguments in opposition to it.
Those are not the Feynman lectures. Are there videos of those?
Bing search ads are actually a non-trivial amount of revenue for MSFT.

Older article but still valid in Q4 as well:
http://marketingland.com/microsoft-reports-21-7b-revenue-201...
> This means that tweaking Google's algorithm, or filtering fake news from Facebook, will backfire and appear to be censorship. It will drive the people who are interested in reading fake news to work harder to find it, and it will erode their trust in mainstream media. In other words, such a solution would worsen the problem it intends to solve.

Good. Make it hard to find. Make people have to dig into the vile corners of the internet to find it.

Google isn't a public utility that is obligated to serve these hate groups. Stormfront doesn't have to be blocked from having their packets routed. Google just doesn't have to take any part in helping them surface their beliefs.
I think it's okay if the opportunity is there. If people choose not to exercise the saving it may be they know the pitfalls better than outsiders.

Rent seeking is where an individual/business is exercising some kind of monopoly, often granted by the state, to basically compel people to pay him an income at no further effort to himself. Usually they are exploiting some kind of situation where someone needs something and they are erecting a barrier. They are appropriating wealth rather than creating it.

Examples of this would be people buying up land near a new development to profit from it, given land is scarce and more cannot be made (though zoning can in theory be changed). Or grabbing a patent to stop someone developing a rival product as they know the barrier to entry is not high without using the state legal apparatus. Or buying up apartment in the middle of an urban centre in the expectation of being able to capture wages due to an extreme shortage of accommodation. Or abusing your position as an issuer of fiat money to capture labour. Or some big land owner in the UK or USA whose grandfather grabbed land and now they descendants are sitting on this and demanding rent for use.

If someone builds an app and people can replicate it but choose not to then it's not stopping people doing that, also they can choose to simply not use the app.

I haven't read the article yet btw I don't have time just yet, just responding to this comment.

Compare this to the epi-pen thing where they are gouging because people are desperate and they hold a patent. The patent being enforced by the state.

http://ounodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/henry-georg...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552175.Progress_and_Pover...
I agree we need to add new expertise to our team anyway. But I think adding bare metal expertise is easier than distributed system expertise.

Etcd is indeed very interesting. I'm thinking about using it for active active replication in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1381
> "binary option".

I heard than name before. Isn't related to something called "The Aussie method" , or "The Irish method" which are well-known scams.
Petition.parliament.uk- ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED
Version control is the primary tool your developers are using at any org doing software development. It's performance is key to ensure devs aren't wasting their time waiting on version control.

Performance along with reliability are the most important metrics for someone providing VCS as a service.
Just interested: is there a specific reason you are skipping Q1? Virtually everything that is an obvious improvement over Doom in Q2 is in Q1.
What disk would you recommend for that setup?
Try getting anywhere near the same exposure if your site is on page 20 instead of page 1 of Google's search results. This isn't censorship. Lies are not relevant search results in general, nevermind a lies clickyness. It's pushing misinformation out of the public consciousness.
Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart
But just because it's "untranslatable" from, say, Chinese to English, doesn't mean that we can't see many Chinese-Chinese co occurrences of the word, so this Chinese word would still have a vector of significance relative to other Chinese words, right?

That is- if you ran word2vec on a Chinese corpus, this word would be represented adequately in the vectorspace.

Wouldn't it then make sense, if you could find a proper mapping from one language's space to the other (I don't know if this part is realistic, but maybe by finding correspondences between already-translated words), that this word would not land in a bizarre spot were it to be expressed as a combination of vectors from the other language?
Microsoft seems to want to be in the ad business. Ads in Windows, ads all over the Xbox UI. Plus they probably want to think bing will sell ads?

Maybe if MS showed dedication to their hardware and actually cared about users they could pull it off...
There are lectures on Youtube, but I think Microsoft did a great job on cleaning them up and captioning them. You can find them here (link in the article does not point to the current location anymore):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richar...
What information are you being given.

How are any of us supposed to vote in our best intetersts, individually or collectively, when all the bastard politicians are pathological liers.
Or with an algebraic Maybe data type

{this.state.user.case({
some: user => `Hello ${ user.name }`
none: () => `Please log in`
})}

Or for async requests that are in progress, an algebraic 3-state type:

https://twitter.com/Tholle1234/status/804796967222202372
My father put 30 years into the US Navy. He recently passed away. At his funeral, a Marine Corps Colonel got up and thanked him for his service, and called him a hero. However, it was not for his service to the Navy. It was for his whistleblowing activity at the Veterans Administration, where he worked as a full time civilian. He was never put in physical harm, but his whistleblowing put his career at risk. There were unfair retaliatory actions taken against him and the stress of what he was doing took a toll on his life.

I think you're right that most people that work in a contractual fashion with a money payoff should not be considered heroes, but it's also not true that only people who go to war should be considered heroes. Rosa Parks (and the less famous women who did the same thing and preceded her), for example, are certainly heroes.
I admit I have made a mistake in following your choice of wording. The good/evil dichotomy is rather inappropriate as it is an ideological statement itself.

Let me rephrase that differently: as a matter of fact privacy is a requirement for freedom. Tracking by definition destroys (or at the very least entails) privacy, thus effectively preventing freedom from emerging.

Then it is a matter of personal preferences. Personal preferences may differ on the desirability of freedom of self or others. It is said that those who care for freedom will act in a way providing freedom for everyone, the others others will act selfishly and enjoy the freedom provided by those who care.

Though it should be noted that ABP and UBO are two completely different things. ABP is an adblocker, it aims at making money filtering and selling ads. UBO is a general-purpose blocker, its main goal is to help users neutralize the privacy-invading apparatus of which the visible part is ads. That's why UBO features options to block webrtc, remote font, link prefetch, hyperlink auditing and beacon while ABP has none of this but features acceptable ads.
I go back and forth between thinking this is something that needs to be taught and something that boils down to basic critical thinking (which means that teaching "how to use the Internet" would be more or less useless). I know that sounds a little dramatic, but it was obvious to me _as a child_ using the Internet that the search term had an effect on the results beyond the searcher's intent. This should be clear to anyone who realizes that the engine is fundamentally matching text.

Yes, there are optimizations Google has since made that would probably benefit people to know about to make them understand the manner in which information is being delivered to them, and it's not at all unreasonable for people to be unaware of these already. But part of me is skeptical that this will have any non-trivial effect on how people consume information on the Internet. i.e., it's not an ignorance problem, it's a "fundamental common sense" problem.