skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a poor analogy and even you have pointed it out.

No, I pointed out why it's a perfectly fine analogy ("more extreme examples demonstrate the flaws in an idea better than more subtle ones").

When drawing an analogy, the things need only be similar in the areas being compared. In fact, the more dissimilar they are in other respects, the better, because the whole point of an analogy is to show how similar features behave in different contexts.

For example, if you put forward the proposition, "OJ Simpson is violent because he is black," I might respond by pointing to other well-known black men such as Martin Luther King, who was clearly not violent and is pretty well known as a good person. This does not mean I'm equating OJ Simpson and Martin Luther King in any respect other than their race — in fact, the differences between the men are at the heart of the comparison. They are similar in the aspect being compared (race), but otherwise unlike each other in nearly every way possible.

If any dissimilarity invalidated an analogy in the way you seem to believe, analogy would be altogether impossible because things could only ever be compared to themselves.

> So using it only creates an unnecessary and invalid connection between stealing and what disqus did.

No, it doesn't! I posted a fairly long parenthetical specifically explaining this. Please take the time to read and think about what you've read before replying in the future. It is very annoying to have to explain this over and over.

Again, the difference between the two actions is at the heart of the analogy. Obviously you'll agree that the painter who steals the TV is in the wrong. Nobody thinks it's OK to steal your customer's stuff. The point is that the same justification — he offered a free service, so he is entitled to monetize it in ways that affect you without telling you and you have no right to complain — would appear to apply to the painter's actions. Thus, it is a weak justification. That was my point.

> Yes They do. But they don't have the right to call the other party malicious.

ctrl-F malic -> 0 results

Uh, cool?

I don't think anybody is calling Disqus malicious. Malice is intent to injure someone, and there's no evidence that Disqus was actively seeking to hurt people. I think the accusation here is that the way Disqus has behaved is inconsiderate and sneaky.
Yeah, I think it's a little unfortunate actually that Elon Musk threw in so many other more minor points of contention. While they did help him spin a narrative of intentional malice (useful for his purposes but debatable as truth), they are also easier to quibble about (well maybe the driving around the parking lot was just trying to find a spot, etc).

The most sensational part of the article was the photo of a cutting-edge luxury car on a flat bed. That situation was directly caused by ignoring common sense. That's the main point Tesla's blog entry should have made; the rest is noise.
> WebGL, WebRTC, NaCL, Web Speech, Web Intents, etc etc etc.

The difference is that all these APIs, with the exception of Native Client (which is unlikely to ever take off beyond Chrome), either are standardized already or have standard drafts being worked on. Mozilla does not have go to hunting around in WebKit code to figure out how to implement them.
Aziz Ansari gets candid about love and technology's impact
It's a big step forward. The games are getting better but they really need a knockout game to push the linux platform forward, something like Borderlands. Something epic. Artsy/Indie games only go so far. Still, happy things are moving forward.
I did an RHCE exam in 2003, in their place in Surrey (Guildford IIRC). I am pretty sure that Red Hat is a long time user and has been using Python to mean the language in their software and documentation in the UK a long time ago. Can you contact Red Hat or users of their software of exams for the last twenty years to confirm that? I imagine they would be happy to help.
No, the point of the electoral college was to elect a set of representatives that would make the journey to DC to cast their votes to elect the president. You have to realize when the US was formed that traveling from California to DC wasn't a quick plane flight, and we didn't have communications technology that could transmit information from one point in our country to any other point in milliseconds.

The electoral college is no longer necessary, and should be abolished as it only causes problems that were acceptable in the 1800s, but are no longer acceptable today.
Probably because he contributes to society in his local neighborhood, likely cleaning up the steps that they so eloquently defecate upon. Paying the taxes that keep the green grass growing in the parks they chill in.
> There is nothing wrong with replication, it’s just that it’s wholly unable to clear anything up in this case.

Sorry, but not only John Broder's intentions are in question here. If a bunch of other journalists replicate the trip, but come out with results more in line with Tesla's view, then this calls into question Broder's accuracy, intent or no.

You know, there's an empirical context underlying everything here.
Does a domain name registration really have any correlation with the concept of trademarks?

How did trademarks work before the Internet was there then?
Furthermore, the GFP example is easy to relate to - people have seen jellyfish before. But now imagine that same scenario but with something that people do not have familiarity with.

Say I study the bonds between metal atoms and carbon atoms. Understanding the strength of interaction can potentially lead to understanding the reactions and dynamics of chemicals used on a daily basis - but not directly. Completing such work would not immediately lead to a deeper understanding of chemistry, but would just be a small step that could one day lead to major technological or scientific advancement. How could something like this be sold?
I'm from the East coast and I recently visited SF again after a long time away. I was appalled by the amount of human feces in public. Street people just pull down their pants and shit right on the sidewalk or on a doorstep.

But what's far more appalling is that straight people in SF put up with it as part of the cost of doing business.
I don't think it's really unfortunate that kids can circumvent technical measures. It's unfortunate that parents want a robot babysitter.

The primary danger comes from breaking the barrier between online and in-person. The best solution seems to me to be parents being understanding and supportive. Want to meet someone you talk to online in person? OK, fine. The parents come along and meet in a public place. If, instead the rule is "no meeting people from the internet ever", teenagers will do it anyway in a much less safe manner.
Sneering at Excel is a sign of someone who doesn't understand the goals of business and in many cases why they're employed. They aren't employed to code nice apps in $language, that's HOW they do their job of making the business run more smoothly.

I've built "apps" in Excel - simple stupid crap for doctors to enter hospital charges, etc. There's no database backend, lookup is "is there already a sheet for this patient?" Creating a new sheet is clicking the shortcut to the template and entering the patient's name, the hospital and the month, saving is closing and accepting the generated file name. Training was minimal, backend is office staff, and it's lasted through 2 separate billing systems. Development was simple form layout, locking cells, adding a few dropdown lists to populate cells, and setting up a couple of button/autoclose vbscript macros.

Cheap, simple, lets doctors capture charges that are worth more in one week than I was paid for the development 5+ years ago.
I'm not trying to claim that it doesn't, but perhaps the tester was a little optimistic about the mileage he would get after it emptied.
>Because the estimated range when he left that charging station was less than he needed to reach his destination and he knew damn well that that was the case.

But the Times article does say exactly that, right? "The displayed range never reached the number of miles remaining to Milford."
I think that's exactly one of the purposes of competition: to attract more attention and analysis. I'm pretty sure we'll see some variant of scrypt there ;)
It is the sad truth of the current trademark/patent system.

I am currently creating my own product, and the very first thing I made was to create a new name, and claim the mark. It cost me some money, but not that much compared to the risk of being in trouble with trolls.

The sad things is that by doing this, I am probably feeding the complexity of the system myself.
I don't really understand your point.

If someone takes the same car and follows the same route and gets the same results, then it's going to prove the reviewer correct. If repeating the trip by someone else who isn't trying to wreck the car gives different results, then that is very much a valid point here.
"We’ve put a lot of effort into being communicative around what we’re doing with discovery and advertising (we call it Promoted Discovery)."

This sentence is a microcosm of exactly what's going on. This is not a sentence a normal person would write, nor would a normal person read it and understand.

The excerpts from the "notice" sent out, found above, tell the rest of the story.

When people use weaselly phrasing like "being communicative around what we're doing" and emails with innocuous and deadly boring subject lines like "Growing with Disqus" with surprise-now-you're-advertising-for-us bombs inside, what conclusion can we draw?

Looks like deliberate obfuscation to me.

And as Douglas Adams wrote, "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands."
I met the guys behind this project the other weekend and they were extremely cool. This is an awesome project and everyone I've shown it too has been extremely impressed.

Keep up the good work gentlemen.
Unigine releases Valley benchmark (Windows, Linux, Mac)
this made my day and ended my grumbling with quora, thank you!
Haproxy doesn't support dynamic configurations as far as I know, which is a serious problem if you're letting lots of people add/change domains and scale backends up/down dynamically. A Heroku haproxy would probably need to be restarted multiple times a second due to config changes. Nginx can do dynamic backends with lua & redis, but it can't use the built-in upstream backend balancing/failover logic if you do.
It's not necessarily that the ORM will give you bad results, it's that an ORM might be giving you sub-optimal results.

A lot of ORMs don't use more advanced querying functionality, and SQL can be a very harsh taskmaster when it comes to decisions about how to structure a query. So on an enterprise-grade DBMS it's not unheard-of for hand-coded data access layer to outperform what an ORM does by multiple orders of magnitude.

Of course a good ORM offers you a way to substitute your own queries. Unfortunately teams that rely heavily on ORM aren't necessarily cultivating strong database talent, so these kinds of heinous performance drags can easily end up going undiscovered and unfixed even though the tools to deal with them are readily available.
I am the pointy-haired engineering director for Facebook's search team, AMA
These guys:
http://formula1.about.com/od/car1/a/kers.htm
The formula has been posted.
Ah, I'm not the one who did this; and as an American, I never would--easier to resolve it more traditionally. However, the client being American and the firm being European, I can see how this became the option of choice.
It is being diluted in multiple ways:

1. The author is "verbing" the phrase

2. The Collins definition starts like "intellectual property, esp. source code..." I contend that (as does the free dictionary), in current usage, "open source" refers exclusively to source code. The author is using the phrase to refer to data, which is not the same thing.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/open%20source
Thanks. Not looking to right now, but I like to understand what options are available for growth paths when choosing libraries/frameworks/etc.
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Not really, no.

The main questions that could be replicated are not at all disputed. The rest cannot be. Simple as that.
Next time the New York Times tests a car in Australia, I'm sure your tip will come in handy.
I think you made the correct decision. BTW, even though I am using Clojure on my own business ideas/projects, in the last 15 years as a consultant I have always used Common Lisp, Java, Ruby, or Clojure because one of those languages was what a particular customer requested. I never try to talk a customer into a particular technology stack.
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I can't blame the electorate either; they're just looking out for themselves the same as the rest of us do, because they are in fact the rest of us. There is no candidate now alive who will not rapidly succumb to the temptations of the lobbyists if given the opportunity. The problem can't be solved by voting for "good" people.

I don't know who the hell to blame. It's the system man!
"• The poor state of passwords protection in web services: passwords are too often either stored in clear (these are the services that send you your password by email after hitting "I forgot my password"), or just hashed with a cryptographic hash function (like MD5 or SHA-1), which exposes users' passwords to efficient brute force cracking methods."

That is a huge issue that I wished was made a criminal action.

But when a user forgets there password, the issue of issuing a new one falls down to verifying the user is who they say they are without a password and falls down to the previous details held by that user.

Be it phone number to SMS a reset code or email to issue a rest code or new password. It is a hard area that will always have a weakness.

I do wonder if the postal system could step in by offering a service which you could walk in - show your passport or supporting ID and have them issue you with a rest code which you could use upon the site.

Certianly would add to the services they offered and whilst it would not be instant or as easy for many it certainly would be far more robust way to address the issue. A service that until something better comes along that would work for everybodies best interests.

Maybe a good opertunity for a startup to pursue.
> The fact is he basically was stupid enough to essentially leave a gas station with half a tank when he had a full tanks worth of distance to travel.

Part of the problem is that apparently the Tesla's displayed range can show one value after a cold night, then will increase when the battery warms up and is providing more energy. So you legitimately can start driving with too little range, and then it will come back. I assume that's why the Tesla rep cleared it too.
Virality used to be a mark of excellence for a video, some way of measuring success. Now that success is no longer a symptom but the actual goal the nature of videos and their promotion will change.

Just like email could be used to reach large numbers of people in a short time, spam attempted to destroy it.

Eventually this will devolve into 'video spam' where you'll be bombarded with links to videos in the hope that they will go viral. Fortunately the cost of producing any video is so large that this will dampen the flood but if there are companies that aim specifically for virality of content then that is a sure sign that we're about to see a shift.

Eventually viral videos will die out because too many impulses deaden the nerve and then another useful and nice to have thing will have been murdered. Virality is the mark of excellence of a successful meme, something that should work its own way because you showed it to a small number of people and they decided to reward your work with a reference and so on. Forcing virality by dumping a video in front of a large number of people will simulate the effects of virality by using a starting group large enough that the eventual effect will be indistinguishable from virality.

But it is not the same as virality. A viral campaign costs outside of the original production costs next to nothing and is proof you got it right. If you have to force virality you are actually saying that your video is not all that good.

So users of services like these should realize that they are essentially admitting their content is not the real thing.
You might want to touch up your blog format so that Facebook finds a more useful title and topic summary to suck in when the URL is posted.

(Yes, I still use Facebook. Keeps me in touch with many "normal" friends... for certain definitions of "normal". ;-)

Since this is a blog and public communication platform, I assume that issues such as the one I point out may be legitimate concerns, in that context.)
You can't convince your company (who is paying you thousands of dollars a month in salary) to spend an extra $2 a month on something that will make you more efficient? What kind of company do you work for?
This argument has nothing to do with facts, it is just one journalist attempting to defend another, and you can tell by the language used. For eg. in Argument 3 about cruise control and speeds, she says:

But the section before he broke down it does look like he chugged along at a pretty low speed.

"It does look like"? This is a graph, it has data points, its not about "looking like" - these points represent facts. At no point in the facts is there proof of cruise control being set at 55mph.

She is taking a graph with real data and attempting to re-interpret it to fit the NYTimes story. This is an emotional argument, as with 'oh no, this was actually about testing supercharge stations'.
I've read all the arguments on both sides, and while both have made good points, there is one that stands out.

This reporter clearly barely made any attempt at recharging his empty vehicle in Norwich, and then attempted a drive well beyond the car's capabilities, then made the "running out of fuel" his headline.

If he would have done this on gasoline, the result would have been the same, and I think that is getting lost in the clutter of all of the other points being made on this subject.
It's just not right. The Senate, in it's current stage of metamorphosis, is a basic violation of democratic principles and the time has come to alter or abolish it.

Does not follow.

Democracy is not the one true form of government. Constitutional representative democracy just has relatively few catastrophic failure modes.
I'm just at a loss as to why my state has the previously unknown name of "Willimantic", a state which also contains Providence, Hartford, Springfield, the Five College area....
I must be missing something. Under your system, the smallest portion of the whole presidential vote a state could get is 1/50 or 0.02. Currently Wyoming accounts for 0.18% of the population and gets a 3/538 or ~0.006 portion of the vote. how is your system more fair?
Great idea - will do.
An Excel form development tip: select the entire sheet and set the column width to 1. Merge cells that users will be entering in. Lock all non-input cells. Hide empty areas beside/below. Yes, it looks like a printed form. Users understand printed forms.
Micron unveils 1TB SSD for $600, which is about what 4x16GB ECC RAM is...

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9235277/Micron_unvei...

Fusion IO is probably as expensive as RAM, so only makes sense for apps that really need persistence, ie databases.
Quite a few newer cars don't draw a distinction between running the heater or A/C: you just set a desired temperature, and the climate control system figures out what to do based on internal and exterior conditions. (Whether this is a good approach for a car's climate control system is another question, however.)
Well, I did too--I started wearing glasses at around age 4. Books and TV would certainly contribute as well--as I understand it, "nearpoint stress" is the main cause of myopia. The eyes are tuned for scanning the horizon for faraway threats; we're naturally more far-sighted. Focusing your eyes closely causes strain, where your eye muscles must contract the lens constantly. Your eyes accomodate this stress by keeping the lens in a contracted position, and by lengthening the eye.
>As we all know Rails is open source and the code is perfectly readable for anyone that knows Ruby.

I beg to differ on the readability of the Rails source code. Even for someone with a strong command of Ruby, there are a lot of layers of abstraction, functions that call other functions that call other functions, and subclasses of subclasses of subclasses, spread across many different files in different places in the folder/project structure. It's quite difficult to figure out what is actually going on when you look under the hood of Rails, because it's complicated to the point where it's "indistinguishable from magic" until you have spend a lot of time with it.
What? I don’t think you quite understand the structure of the controversy here, what is disputed and what is not.
I have no pity for fitnesssf, but that doesn't mean that the creator's actions are okay. (I'm not sure they aren't okay, either.)
All levels of stupidity have precedent.
Why would an obscure IT company want the name Python ? Aren't they guaranteeing nobody will ever be able to locate them with a google search for example ?
Then it doesn't get delivered.

EDIT: Having the "finished" site on a test host (or even just a temporary DNS name) until the final payment seems like a shrewd move. The work is complete, but if you don't get final payment it doesn't go live.
Really, such as? The article doesn't present many of those and I doubt there are. All I am saying is it sounds boring as hell, stoned or not.
> The speed limit is 55 mph on most highways

Really? In this part of the country (pacific northwest) the speed limit on interstates is 60 mph in the city and 70 mph in the country.
Oops--I forgot the book. It was this: http://www.amazon.com/Improve-Vision-Without-Glasses-Contact...

(though mine has a more modern looking cover, I guess I have a newer edition?)
Unfortunately, Excel can't cope with some of the more modern authentication systems being deployed on the web, so it's no longer as easy as providing a URL that spits out an HTML table, if you have to protect sensitive data behind a login (I think it can handle HTTP-Basic, but not anything requiring redirects; this may have changed in recent versions).
Because the United States was created as a union of formerly independent self governing states (Of varying levels between colony and full nation state). Think of a stronger form of the European Union. This is referred to as the Federal Government. Each member state has it's own state government, laws, police, military etc. The federal government is elected by the states, as it's role in general is to govern the states and interstate matters.

If you are not familiar with the US, you may not realize that for instance "murder" is not a federal crime. Each state has it's own laws to cover "murder", and these crimes are investigate by state police authority. Federal laws (historically at least) only govern interstate laws and laws affecting state governments.

The electoral college and senate are designed to give each state fair representation in the federal government. AFAIK, there is no federal requirement that people even be allowed to vote for president. In the past the congress/legislatures of some states would decide who to vote for, but now almost every state now uses the popular vote to decide who that state will vote for in the electoral college.
I don't think enough Model S vehicles have been produced to be considered common in any locale, but there are quite a few of them in the Seattle area. I'll encounter one perhaps once a month. About as frequently as I see a Ferrari on the road, I'd guess.