skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never meant to impugn the man or his character and I now regret invoking schizophrenia so casually. As you said, his case isn't well put. It is his writing and arguments which I find sloppy and the connections he makes, as presented, smell somewhat delusional. This is not the same as saying that he's "crazy".

I am rejecting, strongly, the assertion that his is a principled stance. The piece is simply is not compelling since his malicious AI would be acting on behalf or under the command of humans, just like all weapons throughout history. I think it's a simplistic, misguided, stance. The kind I remember flirting with when I first took some college-level philosophy courses years ago.
There’s always ever a hand full of designers that manage to put themselves in a position where they are having fun appropriating technological change and shaping the visual language of our culture. Most designers just have to follow trends. But since, when looking at the past, you see the exciting stuff, you tend to forget it was probably dull and uninspired for the most part back then too!
Duplicate the browser tab, then in the 2nd window choose the other phone.
The amount of carbon which could be sequestered, or otherwise, in all the buildings of all of the world is a miniscule portion of the Earth's total carbon budget.
A better createElement function, 2nd arg is hash of attr's
Would love to see this get into standards, so please upvote if you care about great standards!
I was tried to phrase my question so as to side-step that issue. While there is nothing inherently illegal about a file sharing site, many of them host content that is in violation of copyright laws.

My question (genuine) was whether there was anything different about Scribd that has kept them free of legal hassles. My outside impression is that they are just as legal/illegal as Megaupload, RapidShare, 4Shared, but are lower profile because they host don't host music or video.
I just don’t understand how anyone can be reactionary about our contemporary world, without also seeing how much possibility all of this offers to re-imagine visual communication, how little of the potential of open source technology and methodology is yet being employed in design.
Interestingly enough, I know a few people who got hacked, and all of them use the authenticator...On the other hand, none of the people I know who don't use an authenticator have (yet?) been hacked in D3.
I like the "Natural Earth" data sets very much, which I can really recommend:

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
> Fats and proteins are more filling and satisfying per gram than carbs.

Again, that statement makes no sense. You don't eat carbs, fats and proteins. You eat foods. Is 100 calories of olive oil as filling as 100 calories of asparagus (about a pound)? If that's too extreme, I'd still gladly put up your 100 calories of olive oil (a few spoonfuls) against my 100 calories of white rice (a small bowl) for satiety and fullness.

Different macronutrients stimulate hormones differently, so I'm not saying that macronutrient composition doesn't play a role in these matters, only that those effects are mostly irrelevant if you don't go overboard. For example, high GI and low GI foods have virtually identical glycemic loads when consumed alongside a lean protein like chicken breast (GI is measured by feeding food to a subject after a 12-hour fast), so even if you accept that insulin is the master regulator of fat storage (which is out of date nonsense that Taubes can't get out of his head), it still wouldn't matter appreciably so long as you eat your carbs alongside your fiber and protein.

> The pizza example you give is basically wrong.

I was going by the pizza recipe I usually make at home, which per slice has 200 calories from fat and 100 from carbs.
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to call for the US to stop supporting Israel to the huge extent it has been. I don't see why those opinions need to be tamped down.
To me your comment makes a lot of sense. But you have a visceral feel (that comes from practice) for how useful such notation can be. For people who don't, the cultural stretch is probably just too far to consider.

No doubt even a visionary like Iverson found it difficult to withstand decades of almost-universal criticism about the APL symbol set.

The APL guy in the video remarks wryly at one point that Unicode has made their lives much easier. I'll bet it has!

The analogy to music notation is suggestive. Imagine if people insisted on writing music textually with names like "High C Sharp" or whatever - on the grounds that this was more "readable"!
This looks like it's effectively a newer version of the old puzzles, which look like they've encountered problems:

https://www.facebook.com/PuzzleMaster/notes
As to 1: it is in many ways insecure (though bound to be hacked might be a bit much.) While dropbox isn't technically a cloud based backup, it can be used that way and there was a period where a glitch left it totally exposed for about four hours ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)#Reception ). I actually love cloud based backup, but I encrypt my files before I send them and I am dealing with just my own personal data. A company with data they must legally protect would need to be wary.

As to 3: Personally, I love gmail. But from a corporate perspective, you can still exert more control over exchange. This can be significant, especially for highly regulated businesses that need to worry about frequent e-discovery and may perhaps wish to take steps to limit what is sent.
In my (limited) experience sales people exist to convince people that products have value. This is mostly useful when the people purchasing the products are incapable of evaluating them (see: "enterprise sales"), or when the products don't have enough value to sell themselves. Look around you. How many of the things that you've bought have been sold to you by sales people?

The concept used to have more merit. Lots of things our parents bought were sold to them by salespeople. Most of those same things you and I have purchased without.

Today most of the time I see a salesperson, I see a smokescreen for a shitty product.
I have only played D3 in normal, not touched the AH at all, and definitely felt the lack of addiction and excitement. Putting aside that me and my life are very different now than back in D2 times, there's a very visible issue for me: all loot is just a collection of variations on the same few numbers. A piece of gear can be good, it may have a great combination of the right stats for my char, but it's not special, it's not memorable, it's not unique. I like it but I don't love it.
i'd like to send you email, and I believe I have all you need, but... it would be nice to have an address
"NASA EDGE Webcast Schedule:
Please keep in mind this is a live webcast and the schedule is subject to change."

Does Nasa know something about the solar system and celestial mechanics that we don't?
On the other end of the spectrum, for "small data" (i.e. millions of rows as opposed to tens of billons)... check out crush-tools. I love it, use it all the time.

http://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/
Metadata is stored inside the image files themselves. You do lose Album sorting and the facial recognition database is trashed if you fish your files out of the Library, but basically all metadata is stored via EXIF and IPTC.
Does anyone know of such places in the UK?
Rather than the puzzles which are now discontinued, I recently did an online timed puzzle through interview street I believe. By solving the problem properly within 2 hours I received a series of phone interviews, and once I start my senior year at college will be able to begin the remaining full time interviews, so they've had something like this for a while.
Posting 3-4 times per day seems quite high, unless the majority of your followers are really fans. Once postings get above 1/day on average, I'll typically unfollow a page if it was just something I was casually interested in, because it becomes too much clutter. Of course, there are a handful of things I'd love to hear from as often as possible, but they are really a minority.
"Wait, "lower blood pressure is good" has shaky underpinnings? Is there a debate on that? I don't think there's a debate that high blood pressure results in worse (death/disease) outcomes."

There's no debate that high blood is associated with heart disease. There's always "a debate" if you try to go from correlation to cause. You always have to be careful this.

You have to show that a particular mechanism for lowering blood pressure results in better outcomes. You can't unambiguously say "we've lowered the blood pressure, we know the results will be better now".
If there's a 10% chance that carpenter ants are destroying the structural integrity of your home, you should be looking for the cause of the water damage.
Free Templates for Rapid Prototyping Apps
Keynotopia released FREE templates for rapid prototyping apps a couple of weeks ago and I just noticed they've gotten 4000 tweets thus far! So I thought it might be a resource worth sharing :)

The templates have over 1000 vectors that you can drag and drop to create mockups/prototypes of mobile, web, and desktop apps. With just a few clicks, you can turn them interactive, can export them to phones/tablet (or keep on computer) to test them with users, clients, executives, and your team. With a few more clicks you can turn sketch-like prototypes (for user experience testing) to pixel-perfect final designs to get a real feel for how the final app will look/interact.

These mockups come in Apple Keynote format. Keynotopia also has templates in PowerPoint and Open Office.

Enjoy!
-Caroline

P.S. I'm a fan turned evangelist. My background is marketing, sales, recruiting (no design/coding experience). I've tried both their other PowerPoint and Keynote templates as well as their apps. These free mockups come in Keynote format.
Yes, plus all the events/data available in a smartphone. I wonder if IFTTT has something alike in the works.
I'll vote for Google ID or a dedicated login.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5592454673?page=9#176

"While no security method is 100% fool-proof (even Authenticators), please note that it is possible that players reporting to have been compromised while an Authenticator was attached to their Battle.net account may have been using the Dial-in Authenticator. The Dial-in Authenticator does not provide the same level of protection as the Battle.net Authenticator or Battle.net Mobile Authenticator app, and -- more importantly -- is not currently supported for Diablo III."

Post made by Community Manager.
Interesting article about insects that are a millimeter or less (!) in size:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/3...

Didn't know that there was another Crichton book out, thanks for the heads up. Big fan of his.
How long before every government requires this kind of disclosure? What other types of invasive personal disclosure (e.g., cell phone records, health records) will be required, now that it's possible because the data is online?

Requiring this disclosure at an international border is just a convenient pretext in the emerging dystopia. Human and civil rights need to be updated in light of emerging technologies.

Unfortunately, that seems unlikely given, for example, the US government doesn't honor even its own outdated Bill of Rights in the most basic ways (i.e., by asserting its authority to kill US citizens on the President's word).
MoviePass is looking for an authoritative Dev Leader, with the ability to collaborate across departments. You are confident inheriting legacy code that needs improvement. Testing frameworks should be part of your daily workflow - preferably RSpec/Cucumber/Web as well as Continuous Integration (both setup and use). You have experience with:

'separation of concerns', 'skinny controllers / fat models', 'progressive enhancement'
External API's - producing/consuming XML-based data feeds
Payment gateways and e-commerce solutions.
Creating mobile sites
Not required but a big plus -

Experience deploying/managing apps on EngineYard
iOS or Android Develop experience
Required Skills:

Must have excellent communication skills - both verbal and written, able to articulate ideas
Able to break a job into smaller tasks and accurately estimate time to complete overall project
Able to plan and develop a coherent system across various platforms - desktop, mobile, mobile apps
HTML5 & CSS3 - best practices and graceful degradation
Should be very comfortable with Javascript/JQuery/Ajax
Git - should be comfortable with not only basic usage, but more advanced features as well i.e. push/pull branches, gitflow, etc.

We're located in NYC, SoHo area.

Send your info to kristina@moviepass.com or apply via our website - http://moviepass.theresumator.com/apply
Interviewer, Scott Raab: A lot of folks worry that if they aren't available or don't say yes, they'll stop getting asked.

Bill: If you keep saying yes, they'll stop asking you, too. That's a much more likely event.

I don't know if the conclusion is for everybody to start saying 'no' more. Doesn't it depend on where you are? I know friends I stopped asking to hang with because all I have gotten is some form of repeated 'nos' in past. On the other hand, I have very few friends I stopped hanging with because they said too many 'yes' and I'm not sure if the reason was that they kept saying 'yes'.

Now, there are definitely times when you are saying too many yesses but in general, I think more people would do better by saying 'yes' than 'no' in their life.

To actually know whether you should be saying more of 'yes' or 'no' for yourself requires a much more nuanced evaluation than this generic post could offer.
That will probably not be necessary; if they want you to code they'll likely have facilities (whiteboard, etc) for you.
How big are the flatfiles that you're storing in HDFS? I've looked at it before for such a use, but for durability I want to write events in an isolate manner, which means lots and lots of small writes, either to single files or as a series of small files. I was under the impression that HDFS doesn't perform well in a use case like this (due to the size of it's write block size), but would LOVE if I could use it like that!
it's a shame we had to give up battery life for our phones to become 'smart'
The harsh reality is that there are so many variables when it comes to diet and nutrition information that formal studies are close to worthless. That is why I find information like the studies Weston Price did [1] interesting. His conclusion was that any society on a whole food local diet was generally healthy and that pre-mature physical degeneration only happened when "primitive" diets were replaced with "modern" diets (i.e. highly processed).

Here's a simple rule. If you could find/grow it in your back yard, eat it. If not don't.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Weston...
What your opinion about the use of PHP frameworks like Cake PHP, Yii, Symfony, etc?
Great app! Looking forward to seeing more games on your site.
Totally understandable. Just to be clear, I suggested 2-3 times per day with at least 4 hours between each post-- or at least 2-3 times per WEEK for those who aren't able to devote too much time to their page. The thing is, even if pages post 2-3 times per day, most fans will probably only see 1 of those updates due to EdgeRank and whether or not that user is online. I've found that 2-3 times per day is optimal to maximize reach and minimize negative feedback (i.e. unlikes). Hope this helps.
I'm not trolling here, but I have to ask i'm seriously wondering what is 'so great' about landing a job at Facebook? They have a nice tech stack, but it's a social networking site. How is it interesting to be a cog in the machine that is Facebook? Again; serious question; I'm curious. I'm a bit older :) and I would not want to work for any company other than a startup; I learned in life it is not the right dope for me. And so I am interested what makes it so interesting to work for this (Edit: scrapped [kind of]) company.

Edit: I mean; so interesting that you want to jump through hoops to get in.
"and most liberals in the US have an anti-Israeli view."

So you're trying to preemptively stop generalizations based on your generalizations? Honestly, who's paying you for your Israeli propaganda?
Is anyone else able to access the blog or forums? I'm getting a database error.
There's also Llama (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...) which has been known as an 'easier' one to use than Tasker. I've tried both [and bought Tasker] and at the moment use Llama though I'm going to give on{x} a go now.
"The challenge is to recommend missing links in a social network. Participants will be presented with an anonymized, directed social graph from which some edges have been deleted, and asked to make ranked predictions for each user in the test set of which other users they would want to follow."

When has this kind of data ever been successfully anonymized?

From Netflix's attempt: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497 (First link I googled, but has the gist)
Looks good if my 12yo sister wants to build a website about her new kitty. Not sure my father wants to use Scroll Kit to publish a website about is guesthouse. A basic wordpress+template is still a better solution.
She probably lied about the purpose of her visit.
If somebody read the linked articles, it's clear that this has noting to do with her ethnic background, but with her anti-Israeli political and economical activities. Not a terrorist, but still we have full right not letting her in.
I get super a enthousiastic, when a well known designer like Jonathan Puckey works with Jürg Lehni to create a vector graphics platform for canvas and realises it has to be open source and community driven for it to work http://paperjs.org/

Or when people start to put typefaces on Github for collaborative development https://github.com/klepas/open-baskerville (disclaimer: i work on this project), or when Design collectives start to work with libre toolsets http://osp.constantvzw.org/ (disclaimer: i work in this collective)

I just see a really interesting time where the world of software technology is opening up and becoming more accessible, and designers are finally in the position to appropriate and make their own all this technological change.
maybe DARPA has been developing planet-destruction technology and want to showcase it today
"Its true money can't buy you happiness. But it can buy you a big fucking yacht to pull up along side it."

-Diamond David Lee Roth
If you're a top-shelf coder who can write his own meal ticket to anywhere: nah, working at a post-IPO facebook doesn't sound particularly worthwhile.

If you're a so-so coder then, hey, big company, steady paycheck! What's not to like?
Online freelancer needs real world part time job (~4h/day)
I decided not to work in an office as a programmer, but now I feel kind of losing my sanity sometimes for lack of human interaction.

Also I find it harder and harder to concentrate.

Can you think of any job I could more or less easily get that is less than 4 hours a day, so I can still do my other work? I have found it hard so far.

I'm based in London, UK, and I speak another European language and I'm a male in my late 20s if that helps.

I know I could do volunteering, but it would be nice to earn a bit of cash too so I can afford my little guilty pleasures which can get expensive in this country, such as, let's see, green peppers for 90c apiece.
nyellin wrote:

> We also have our warts...

But you didn't mention the elephant in the room in your comment, which is pretty strange:

Israel also has run a 40+ year occupation that denies non-Jewish residents of rights and freedoms while subsidizing Jewish settlements in and around the disenfranchised non-Jewish population. Many many people, including former Israeli PMs and many respected academics, consider Israel's occupation and its settlement practices to be a form of apartheid or leading to it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analog...
> Most "normal" people don't make enough money to set aside additional cash on top of the national insurance they already pay in part to cover unemployment benefits.

please note I always referred to "people who had great periods" work and money wise

> Why should people need to set aside additional money to avoid claiming benefits they are paying towards their entire working life?

because if you are doing great how fair is it for you to be careless only because "if I need it the state will support me?" Looks to me like it quickly becomes your fault and you only subtract funds that should better be used for the people who really need the support (the people you mentioned at the beginning of your reply)
And, there are thousands of welders employed in many other industries - let us not forget that you can't sit around and stop production while you wait six months for the Chinese to make a replacement for a one-of-a-kind machine. On the street where I have my company (a niche-market hardware company), there are, I would take a guess at, at least 75 people employed primarily to do welding. The street is approximately 1 mile long. We also weld quite often - I wouldn't hire an employee whose answer to every question is "we can't do that process until I find someone to sell me the item I need to perform it." Why buy a $75 tool when I can make a functional one for $0.35 in materials and ten minutes of time?

My best-paid employees are those who can weld, drill, operate machines, and do all of the other things necessary to keep us in the business of making products - and also think creatively and logically.

Contrary to popular belief, China is not the manufacturing panacea - for most of us making small-market products (think a few hundred units a month), China is exorbitantly expensive. Most of my competitors either do their work in-house or out-source to other U.S. companies.
Learn Python The Hard Way: Warnings For Beginners
> Dissent in China will get you a prison sentence or worse. Dissent in America will get your karma modded down.

I think Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Dmitry Sklyarov may disagree with you.
Google acquires Quick Office
Also live at Google+ Hangout:
https://plus.google.com/110701307803962595019/posts/gurM6334...
A salesperson gets your product in the door. Without that, any potential customers don't know, or care what you are selling, no matter how great you think it is.
This looks like fun. I'll probably jump through the hoops without trying to get in.
Joel Cohen (Garfield) is different Joel Coen.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169505/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054/
I've been playing around with Facebook and other social media for a couple of years now. I have several fan pages, including one that I associate with my blog -- http://www.facebook.com/pages/What-To-Fix/184671281560277?re...

To me a FB fan page is unlike anything else out there. It's not an email list, though some people use it like that. It's not a group or circle, although it kinda works like that also. And it's not a one-way tunnel.

I liked this article, but I wonder if the real power of Facebook Fan pages isn't communication happening the other way -- getting feedback from your readers and fans. It also would have been nice if the author could have told us a bit about his real-world experiences before tossing out the list. How much did these tips help him, in real numbers? Advice is easy. Proven advice is much more difficult. This article walked the fine line between being useful and just restating generalities. It was difficult as a reader to tell.
Isn't blood pressure a symptom, or an indication of other processes going on? Why would you want to directly manipulate the measuring tool?
I love that this is downvoted with no response.

Realize that I provided evidence and this post was just FACTS.

#1 I was hacked.
#2 Twice.
#3 Had authenticator for both.
#4 My password is secure.
#5 Blizzard's emails/ticket responses insist that it was on my end.
#6 They are claiming the same of all people hacked.