skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explaining to your manager that your perception of reality differs from hers doesn't seem like it'd warrant losing an ally in the company.

It's all in how you do it.

Humans are fundamentally social animals, hardwired for status. As a nerd that was mainly invisible to me early on. Two books that really helped me see how it works in humans are Chimpanzee Politics by deWaal and Impro by Johnstone (in particular the section on status transactions).

If you correct somebody in a way that costs them face, they will trust you less. E.g., publicly demonstrating that they're totally wrong in an important meeting, especially when done with irritation and contempt. You can have the same discussion privately in a fashion that's caring and supportive and you'll be trusted more because you've demonstrated that you're an ally.
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Some parts of this story are contradictory. The story suggests that the algae emits photons, while the video narrator said the lamp is lighted - the algae simply grows using "a lighted aquarium" along with outside CO2, letting a fraction of the light through in the process.

In the latter case, this is just a lamp with (micro)algae in it. The only catch would be the part where sunlight is required to charge up the internal lamp during the day.
> This is a funny limitation, since JSON came from Javascript and {a:1} is perfectly legal in Javascript.

That's only legal when the key is not a reserved word. I never use that form, as it's error-prone.
This worked for me. When I needed to get work done on a school project, I would get off my home computer and head to the school labs or go in to work after hours. I was far more productive than staying at home.
Right- powers can be added by amendment, for instance the power to levy an income tax as an example. (which shows the "you have to pay your taxes" swipe for what it is.)

I'd be satisfied with a quote from any of the enumerated powers or any of the amendments or anywhere else in the constitution, that explicitly grants the powers in question.

I think their real issue is that they don't understand the constitution because they have never read it, or they were taught that it allows unlimited power, or they want it to allow unlimited power.

I miscalculated that thinking a thread were we have an example of abuse of powers not granted in the enumerated clause would get them to see that.
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Well, if everybody understands that I refer to Naggum, where's the problem?

(That's essentially the argument of the "omit semicolons / pro ASI" people -- since browsers grok it, where's the problem with abusing an error checking mechanism with our syntax?)

That said, what is it to you? I thought that was his name, probably because phonetically it sounds better in my language, so I misspelled it 2-3 times. Only know I found out it is Naggum.

It's not like I did it on purpose, or that I would continue doing it if I knew better, so I find your request absurd.
Studies have shown that Big Pharma spends more on advertising than on R&D: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...
I don't think you can consider the Galaxy Nexus a Samsung phone. Yes, it's built by Samsung, but they're more a contractor for Google in this case.

The Galaxy S II and its differing variants in the US all still run Android 2.3, with only promises that they might eventually get an update.
There can be safe-guards against funding gaps, which are already in-place in some universities (e.g. at least in some parts of Europe). While funding is allocated by politicians the exact distribution of that funding is done on another level. Those levels have their own version of politics, of course, but the closer the people that administer funds are to the actual domain of spending the likelier it is to get informed decisions.

Also, current existing research grant programs could be scaled to fit the size that development requires. I wouldn't trust a politician to manage research money directly, so another layer of indirection could help.
If the Internet was around before recorded music would we have record labels?
As far as I understand it, the British tax code has clauses to the effect of "business structures created for the sole purpose of evading tax don't count". In that regard, they didn't follow the rules.
Slightly off-topic, but this led me to discover whois spam:

(please don't go there and feed the spammers, thank you :-))

$ whois facebook.com
FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM from whois Server: whois.tucows.com
FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM from whois Server: whois.instra.net
FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM from Whois Server: whois.onlinenic.com
FACEBOOK.COM.KNOWS.THAT.THE.BEST.WEB.HOSTING.IS.NASHHOST.NET from Whois Server: whois.your-server.de
FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM from Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
That's the same as "we regret that we can't do dialup modems anymore".Basically they need to find other business models.

Maybe PAYMENTS????

telcos suck.. lets start one
Sounds like they've reinvented Argos, but for groceries instead of mail order goods.
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That's also time they spent working for themselves instead of for someone else. Which is valuable.

Plus the possibility of this app immediately enriching their life if it's something they developed to scratch their own itch instead of the theoretical itch other people have, or the itch that the person who hired them has that they don't share. (Like the time my not-driving self worked on a promo site for an app designed to crowd source the problem of finding a parking spot in a busy city. Fucks given beyond the minimum to satisfy the client enough to get paid: 0.)
No, but using a broken metaphor confuses things. The phrase:

"Don't see things as either black or white, the world has millions of hues"

conveys the message that situations are nuanced as well as being truer to how things are with respect to color.

So, it's better than some constrained metaphor about a BW gradient (much more since lots of people don't even know what a gradient is).
Hmm, no regrets on the ill-posed T-Mobile attempt?
A lot of things on websites these days take their toll. Facebook js files (like boxes etc), google ads and google maps are really heavy. It also happened on my own sites to have issues with facebook components loading very slowly.

I mean if you consider that just to have a facebook like box it involves loading a JS file, that then scans the page for FBML and then replaces it with an iframe (which also causes the page to repaint because its size is set after the dom is ready) and then the iframe requests 10+ additional files from facebook you understand why some pages take so long to render.
looks like a clone of sworly.com: http://sworly.com/
> US system is still better than that of third-world countries like India

I have never been to the US but from what I have been reading about it I have no question in my mind we are in a much better position. Please note I am mostly talking about the privately owned hospitals and clinics here. The government owned free clinics and hospitals are not used by anybody else except the poorest of poor in India.

> At least you might get some assistance.

This statement just reeks of ignorance and prejudice. There is a very good chance that people facing an expensive medical procedure will have higher chance of survival in India due to the abundance of advanced medical facilities throughout the country.
The author's technical criticisms are indeed valid. But Linus Torvalds doesn't compare things to murderous, rapist gang members, or offer offensive social commentary on the culture of an entire nation, and I suspect he wouldn't find your comparison of him to this author very flattering.
Is anybody else getting tired of the extremist headlines?

This is why you're wrong.

This language is superior to this other language.

Anybody running a business like this is going to fail.

Is it no longer acceptable to write something along the lines of "This is what I encountered and I think it may be beneficial for others on the same path" instead of sensational bipolar headlines such as these?
Polite correction: Guerilla marketing. n.n
Not sure why you're at the bottom of the thread here, it's quite true. Up until the iPhone's release, none of those things you mentioned were the norm.

Smartphones quite frankly sucked until halfway through 2007. It's been a nice climb ever since, and you can see the effect the iPhone had on other companies designs and policies. Pre 2007 smartphones looked like they were going after the Blackberry crowd.
Check if you have Adult ADD. 8% of people have it, and if you have it and don't know it, it can lead to a lot of frustration with yourself.

You can print out a preliminary test here, and have a sibling or close friend fill out one half--you'll fill in the other. If you score high, there's a good chance you have ADD and should make an appointment with a psychiatrist so he or she can guide you through the diagnosis and narrow down whether you have ADD or not.

http://www.drstubblefield.com/patient_forms/Adult_Intake_For...
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Actually, I recently read an article by Khosroshahi which included a study demonstrating that "his/her" does not in fact carry a gender bias -- people who use "his/her" in writing were likely to assign a person described without gender terms their own gender, cf. people who use a single gender generically (i.e. "his"), who were more likely to assign a person that gender.

Assuming that because "his" is listed before "her" there is a gender bias is taking things way too far - since language is a linear medium, you have to pick one to be in front, and I think most people understand that it's not trying to give the choices an inherent order.
The expensive part is neither the research nor the production. The rate limiting step is very expensive development and clinical trials that happen after research and before production. Due to the way government funding is legally required to work, very expensive long-term investments like drug development cycles would be difficult to do efficiently under a federally funded program (at least in the US).
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i liked this comment: how much does he regret giving tmobile 6 billion dollars for a failed merger attempt?
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The metaphor isn't broken. What you propose is broken.

The word "gradient" isn't even part of the metaphor, so I don't see how that would cause confusion. What comes between black and white? Gray. Not millions of color hues. Shades of gray makes sense and fighting to try and get colors in the mix somewhere is only serving to muddy this up.

Edit: Actually, here's another perspective: millions of color hues come between black and white only if you're thinking about colors to begin with. (Black and white aren't strictly considered colors even.) So while I can see where you're getting this from, I still think it doesn't serve anyone well to try and spice it up from the very well understood meaning of the phrase.
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We all have dots (events in our lives) that when connected backward from a result lead us to believe that it was these experiences that lead to the result. The human mind is very good at making these connections.

How many other people have had similar experiences with the exception of the end result.

It makes for good story telling, but aside from that, it doesn't show us the way to creating the next big thing.
I wouldn't ever mark up documents like that. JSON and XML are shitty languages for such things. So is html to be honest but we're stuck with it.

Markdown, rst or something are better. As long as it has a simple deterministic terse grammar that is... If you want you can stuff that inside XML or rst and attach metadata.
مسلسل غريب الدار الحلقة 15 
مسلسل غريب الدار الحلقة 15

غريب, الدار, الحلقة, 15

http://video.qlbak.com/11526.html
> and it could be shown that its property would be of such near-infinite complexity to rule out us running in a simulation.

I believe a fractal is not a viable experiment.

You hinge the experiment on assumption any simulation would be bound by memory size or time taken to compute. Practical constraints aside (matter and space is quantized at very small scale, so the depth of computation is finite), I don't believe we can just assume such limitations.

I believe memory shouldn't be a problem for a fractal, because properties of the fragment you are trying to observe can be computed directly from equations describing the fractal, never mind the scale.

As for time taken to compute, it is not observable. We don't know of any reliable timing source outside of the hypervisor[1] to compare time taken for computation to; the supposed VM is free to take as long as it needs to to advance to compute state, before advancing one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time

* * *

It could be argued the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem of all the celestial bodies already puts our supposed VM to a good test ;-)

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[1] if we knew one, it would make the experiment moot, as we would have a direct proof we're inside of a simulation ;-)
Yes, Maybury v Madison contained a criminal action on the part of the supreme court where they usurped power that did not belong to them, under the constitution, and where they correctly ruled that unconstitutional laws are invalid the moment they are signed.

The problem is you spend too much time preening, and not enough time listening to what I'm actually arguing, and too much time making broad derogatory characterizations of me-- which you should know-- I take as a sign of having zero knowledge of the subject.

I'm not debating interpretations of the constitution. I'm debating the actual language of the constitution. This is why I asked for a citation, and generally do, when I say the constitution doesn't authorize something-- quote me where it does.

If you do that, THEN we can talk about the interpretations.

Your characterization of my "interpretations" is always irrelevant, whether you call it "idiosyncratic" or "bad" or any other term. The problem is, that's the entire substance of this post I'm responding to.

If you'd made an actual argument on the point, then we could debate it.

What you've done here is called signaling. You derogatorily characterize me, and then you point to an ancient debate where you lost on the facts, by the way, because you're telling other liberals that I'm one of those "crazy" people who thinks for themselves and has actually bothered to read the constitution. Just like the other guy did when he said "randist"[1]

You want to debate me on the constitution? Read it. Talk to me about what it says, don't just make broad assertions and then refer to some legal case. (courts cannot change the language of the constitution, and there is no such thing as precedent having he weight of law.)

You say you've been burned, but that's gotta be a joke-- here I am investing time in arguing with people who can't be bothered to make arguments and instead spend their time characterizing me. You should know, the moment you do that, you've lost the argument as far as I'm concerned and I'm going to point out that choice to you in the hopes that you have enough honor to be ashamed of it.

[1] Since liberal propaganda is constantly hammering on Any Rand, accusing someone of being a "randist" is liberal code for "crazy person". The really sad thing is- the reason they focus on Rand so much is that she was right, they are an anti-intellectual movement. Rather than debate he philosophy and talk about Objectivism-- which might result in some liberals reading Atlas Shrugged because they believed they were supposed to be open minded-- they focus on ad hominems against Rand, figuring few will take the time and go read the book and discover that liberal ideology was completely refuted by it. Whenever I see the word "randist" or randian-- when rand isn't the topic of discussion-- I know I'm talking to someone whose turned their mind over to an ideology and is just unthinkingly regurgitating what they've been told to think. tptacek I'm borderline believing that about you, because you exhibit some of the same symptoms.
One thing I've discovered from this thread is that Mashable is influential! It had never been in my radar, except in name. It might make the most sense for us, as TechCrunch is too mainstream.
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As someone new to version control, and contrary to some opinions here, it was refreshing to see git represented in such a light. Modern, elegant and easy to use. I'm very curious to watch the videos, if they're what I'm expecting this just might be the time I can get my colleagues to use git. In electrical engineering it's very rare for people to even _know_ what version control is.
Working for every Tom, Dick and Harry sounds like a fucking nightmare.
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It's incredible that he worries about disruption, when if AT&T were to disrupt its own text message model, they'd be lauded for it by customers and technology advocates.

What do large companies gain by not being the first to disrupt their own markets, aside from obsolescence?
It's not fear to react this way, but a desire to be able to fix things.

If there is a downtime on your self-hosted platform you can decide how much effort/time/money to spend to fix it, depending on how urgent it is to you.

If your email goes down, and you need to access an old email RIGHT NOW, you have numerous options; get in a taxi NOW, go to data centre, remove hard drive, pull of that one file that will save the business. Or hire the best person you can find for a very short term contract. Or if the email isn't important you can wait till the morning or whatever. With Google hosted email, no matter how much money you have available, you cannot get it fixed quicker.

Self-hosting means if things go tits up, you can have some say over how quickly it gets fixed.
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You know, I recently helped a friend find a large, but light and flexible, plastic fresnel lens. You can make wood char and smoke instantly and light on fire within seconds, it's really cool.
Meanwhile, I regret ever having given AT&T a single cent, as they're obviously a bunch of greedy, out of touch morons.
That could work in PostgreSQL with the genetic join optimizer. You would not get the best plan or necessarily a stable one but it could be fast enough. I believe the worst reporting queries I have written could have been almost as bad as 35 joins. Of course they were not fast but not as slow as one might think.
Vaadin is on apache license and still makes money on support.

https://vaadin.com/license

https://vaadin.com/pro
It doesn't -- C is analogous to the coffeescript case; it's not at all like Opa. It's the minimal portable abstraction over digital computers. Given some C code, it's not hard to predict roughly what instructions it compiles into. It precisely illustrates the point, because there were dozens of more complicated abstractions (languages) that failed. They claimed to do more for you, but what they did conflicted with reality and failed (in that era, usually because it was hard to reason about performance). C is humble and makes few assumptions.

"Abstraction is layering ignorance on top of reality" -- Richard Gabriel

My opinion is that anything which tries to abstract network communication and make it "transparent" is going to run in to problems at scale. For some reason there is this endless desire of programmers to extend their type system across the wire. It's been tried so many times.

The goal of Opa appears to be "transparency" as discussed here -- making distributed computing look like single-machine computing. This was also the goal of GWT.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=700969849916494972...

Also related:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=170119098329023261...
This sounds like a very naive view of biological systems. The complexity of the most complex thing computer science has created (I would argue that is the Internet) is still trivially simple compared to the brain.

I am not naive about the difficulty of the problem.

Are we spending enough time looking for those techniques?

We aren't necessarily looking for better techniques all the time. It could simply be streamlining a step or two in order to make medical research loop tighter. It could mean eliminating a process or two that shouldn't be running.

Whatever the case, our researchers should be thinking about novel solutions to the problem instead of mechanically running the lab. The world fastest machine might not be able to make an intractable problem tractable, but it shouldn't be a bottleneck.
It's like a Gerber multi tool. You get half a knife, half a pair of pliers and half a screwdriver.

One tool for all jobs never works.
I love it when the down vote brigade forgets that you can't down vote people who are replying to you and tells you to stop down voting people!

You have still failed to provide a single quote from the constitution that supports your position. Your assertions here are not supported by the quotes you did provide, nor any other place in the constitution. I have also cited the enumerated powers clause which would be completely unnecessary if what you say is true. Since nobody is debating the existence of the enumerated powers clause, your asset ions are nonsense -- in fact, rebutted by my very first post in this topic.

The quotes you did provide, prove my claim. That government is empowered to pass such laws are necessary as to exercise the enumerated powers... and no more.

Until you can find the power in the enumerated powers, or in an a subsequently passed amendment, just asserting you've proven your position over and over again is kinda silly.

This document was written to be understandable by anyone. IF you read it, instead of quoting lines taken out of context you found online, you'll find that it is very clear on the matter.

I must conclude that you know I'm right, but me being right goes against the requirements of your ideology and so you can't admit I'm right and you must stick to repeating your assertion. I'll save you time. You can just stop replying here and save me the time of having to write this very same rebuttal once again.
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My take on domains is that they are way too cheap. I would love to pay $500 per year for a domain that I sincerely NEED. Domain is indeed a good start, but because they are so cheap to grab, there is a "dictionary rat race" to hold on to every possible word that dictionary has to offer. I think this fact alone played a huge role in entrepreneurs giving up on "awesome" names and just going along with creating a new words: like flickr instead of flicker, plus hundred other examples.
Though the survey's methodology is a bit on the light side, numerous developers that we spoke to agree that the results—59 percent of apps don't break even, and 80 percent of developers can't sustain a business on their apps alone—are close to accurate.

So still better than the conventional wisdom that "90-95% of business fail".
I'm all for operating as publicly as you can while being prepared that things that you have not made public can become public at any moment.

I think companies should put more effort into looking for ways how to provide service without gathering and storing user details.

Examples being lastpass and various storage services that can't access filess you keep at their machines.
Somehow "startups.com" doesn't strike me as a perfect name for a daily deals business.