skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for elaborating on that.

I do think it's possible to do actual journalism. If we keep the error and bias level below a certain threshold, it looks factual enough. I think this attitude that modern journalists have--that we're all equally biased, so just admit your bias up front and then we'll all figure it out on our own--is lazy and wasteful. It's lazy, because if they would simply make an effort at being unbiased they would find they can do it, and it's wasteful with my time, because now it's assumed that I'll go read a bunch of other biased sources and form my opinion. This means I need three times as much journalism, and I didn't want any to begin with. So I'd say, yes, it's a fact that reporting creates a new reality, but it doesn't have to do so with the kind of audacious intentionality that most modern news does. A small amount of unintentional change is a lot more manageable than flagrant, unnecessary meddling.

As for Gladwell, I really enjoy his essays. I have a lot of trouble expressing their content after reading them, though, which made me think of them more as a form of entertainment than reporting. As for his books, I agree with you completely, they're basically bullshit. But they're an interesting diversion.
And don't forget that the larger sizes from vendors vary widely. A Ralph Lauren (black/purple) xl, xlb, xlt, 2xlt and 2xlb fit very different torso shapes and that's just one manufacturer.

Also, monthly auto-clothing deliveries implies a level of replacability for the profitable clothes that would lead me to think they'd look good for a limited amount of time and that quality fabrics and tailoring would be limited. Which then makes me think they're not targeting people with standards and taste so much as people who do not want to think about clothes and that wouldn't be something I'd want to use.
Talk about change in perspective... I didn't see the bus until you mentioned it. :)

But there is a parrot, you know - never mind.
Jeri Ellsworth (https://twitter.com/jeriellsworth) was the name that caught my eye. I watch her youtube's, and her life story is a good read.

She took her pinball machines when she left Valve.
I appreciate the link and have book marked a few of his blog posts.

Another good read on finding perspective with death is "Staring at the Sun".
There is no "source"

"In practice, since the specific implementation details of TrustZone are proprietary and have not been publicly disclosed for review, it is unclear what level of assurance is provided for a given threat model."
... and before IE it was Netscape: people didn't like that either, but you (and most people who talk about browser history) seem to forget or ignore that :(. If you go back and read through the W3C mailing lists people really really hated Netscape (the by-far dominant web browser at the time, for which books on HTML would have sections dedicated to optimizing for and would even go as far as to say being Netscape-only was fine) for seemingly making up HTML as they went along (almost all of the stuff in HTML that is deprecated, including all of the markup that was for style and presentation only, were Netscape-only HTML extensions) and refusing to take up the charge of CSS. Microsoft was even occasionally described as the potential savior that would come in with a second implementation that paid attention to them (and in fact you then find a ton of praise on the list from Microsoft publishing open DTDs from IE).

Despite all of this, Netscape (a company whose business model at the time relied on selling web browsers and getting contracts with ISPs to bundle their software with subscriptions) managed to get Microsoft's hands slapped so hard by the justice department for having the gall to give away a web browser as part of an operating system (something we now all take for granted: no one complains that Apple pushes Safari with OS X, nor do nearly enough people scream loudly about the fact that alternative web browsers on iOS are only possible if you use Apple's rendering engine in a crippled mode, defeating the purpose, despite Apple having near-monopoly status on the mobile web) that Microsoft never quite got back the courage to keep moving forward given the new constraints they were under. Thankfully, in the process, Netscape still died, and from its ashes arose the idea that an open-source web browser would be interesting and viable, leading to the ecosystem we have today.
"While we encouraged the site owner to take advantage of the Enterprise tier of service given their needs and traffic levels, the site would have been brought back onto CloudFlare's network if they had upgraded to the Business tier of service ($200/mo) which included Advanced DDoS mitigation."

This reads like "We encouraged the site owner to pay 15 times more than they needed to."

Which is it, do they need the business tier, or the enterprise tier?

I've been a happy CloudFlare customer so far, but the lack of transparency in rules and pricing is concerning. You don't charge for bandwidth, but can disable sites at your discretion if it causes problem in your infrastructure? This sounds a lot like ISPs that offer "unlimited" bandwidth but start throttling you at some predetermined but unknown cap.
Few more questions if I may:

1) indexing, didn't see any options, I assume it's planned in the future along with more complex query language?

2) self register as a RequireJS / AMD module, is this planned?

Again, this is great. thanks
RubyMotion is a huge win for me because of the super low friction toolchain. I don't ever have to load XCode and I can automate the build process however I like because it's all command-line based.

I was convinced the moment I checked out https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples and just started typing 'rake' in each directory not ever having to setup directory paths for xcode project settings.
Not sure about other db's, but there are several pages on the PG wiki about gui tools:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GUI_Database_Design_Tools

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQ...
Sadly, it looks like they still have the fan placed underneath the motherboard, a design that has lingered since at least the 2006 ThinkPad X60 (both the tablet and the regular laptop version), meaning that you can't replace or grease the fan without taking much of the laptop apart.
The Grammy Museum gets hacked
It's a subset of the misinformation hats, Mr. "HTML coder"
The author gives three very persuasive reasons for NOT "breaking the code of silence", with no explicit rebuttals to them.

Perhaps the implied point is that by calling people to arms to speak up, the peer pressure (reason #2) will crumble, and those who do speak up will not be labeled crazy (reason #1). As for "you'll miss your plane" (reason #3), I'm not sure his solution, but I assume it would be something along the lines of "they can't make everyone miss their plane".

A decent article, but its conclusion paragraph "The next time a TSA agent asks you to do something you're uncomfortable with, say something. [...]" is bad advice. We need to speak up, but not at the moment of the offense when we have least credibility - it must be from outside the queue, where we have a stronger position.
Nothing is as condescending to your customers as a smug "Sorry, we don't like your browser, go get a real renderer, then we'll talk" where 'real' is defined as "What I like to use".

And you're right, there seems to be a strong tendency towards mutual masturbation over the web. "Make what I want" is leading to this tiny little house of mirrors.
IIRC, the employee handbook pretty much said that you can work on whatever you want, and choose your own departments. So when doing layoffs, are peer evaluation scores compared companywide (as opposed to just saying, we're letting you go because we're shutting down your department/project).
^ This.

Irony is flowing in the air from both parties. TPB certainly had better alternatives than being 'angry' about such an incident. It's understood that CIPAC tried to play it clever. However it could've been such a smack to the face to CIPAC if TPB played it out its PR in another way.
The title seems ambiguous (and, oddly, does not match the blog post title).

Did Chase bank hand over all Massachusetts assets (all assets in a MA account) to the state, or did they hand over non-Massachusetts assets to the state of Massachusetts? The opening of the article implies the latter, since the account was opened in Illinois, though it's possible that the account qualified as an MA account.

Even if the address on the account is listed as a California address, the account may still be a Massachusetts account (use an MA routing number, etc.).

I'd be very interested to know if Chase handed over assets from an Illinois account to the state of Massachusetts.
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With regards to changes made to assets, they sync automatically between your machine and your designer's.
Actually, in many circles it is often still taboo to speak positively of any currently illegal drugs. That includes mentioning research studies that found benefits to these drugs. People's careers can be affected if some people with anti-drug prejudices or an excessive concern with seeming "respectable" think you are advocating the use of currently illegal drugs.
> "While we are at it, let's disband the DEA and stop protecting the pharmaceutical companies' market from drugs we could be growing in our backyards."

Drugs != marijuana - the DEA's mandate extends well beyond that of policing pot use. There are plenty of chemical substances of substantial and extreme harm that are currently under the umbrella of the DEA and shouldn't leave it.

It's somewhat funny that this is in the same thread as "a small segment of patents are bad, specifically the patents I deal with personally, so let's dismantle the whole system", since your stance seems to break down to "some drugs are wrongly regulated, specifically the drugs I deal with personally, so let's dismantle the whole system".
Going by that, they had to fire ten guys so that they could hire Chris Welch! :)
That's why you aggregate, section, order, limit and use all the commands to reduce what you are looking for to something that fits on the screen. You can't "view" a billion rows straight in any meaningful way at once anyway, no matter what your client. Most of the time you're interested in some summary statistic. Graphics are often summary statistics as well.

I've found it to be quite good, you can express powerful stuff with the keyboard directly, once you know what you're doing. A GUI is always less versatile in forming joins and search criteria. Once you start having a dropdown query builder, what's the point?

I do use a separate editor often, nano or sublime, depending if I'm working on the remote or local end. Both have syntax highlight, and then it's the natural path to scripts and version control from that.
A statement like: "We are outraged by this behavior. People must understand what is right and wrong. Stealing material like this on the internet is a threat to economies worldwide" should make it clear that they are joking.

They even have a Kopimi-symbol (http://www.kopimi.com/kopimi) on the site, making it clear that they encourage copying.
I think you are somewhat mixing cause and effect. Hardware is more and more made to be small and look good. Replacing a bracket by some glue helps make the package smaller (tip for Apple: make tolerances even smaller, so that batteries fit so tight that you don't even need glue)

Also, labour costs are so high (or, alternatively, electronics are so cheap) that there is little pressure to improve repairability and lots of pressure to decrease construction costs (even for stuff made in low wage countries)

I think hard-to-repairness mostly comes as a consequence of these.

At the other end of the spectrum, Lego and Meccano are cool, but few people would buy stuff made from it.
As developer I certainly wouldn't feel confortable receiving this kind of informations. There is a difference between selling for instance a $100 product and selling the equivalent of a cheeseburger. In the latter case I wouldn't expect receiving so much detailed informations for such insignificant and common purchase.
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I'm a little surprised that science is so surprised that this changes people.

Basically, what it does is teach, rather than chemically alter. The chemical goes away; the lesson does not.

What I'd do a study on, if I was studying this, is combining it with "spaced repetition" - that is, treat the pill like a flash card, to maximize retention of lessons.
That kind of sucks actually... If I was getting fired from a job, knowing that more than half (or whatever percent) of the people felt I was incompetent and should be fired would really rock the friendships I made.

Having a manager fire you gives you a lightning rod to point the feelings at, rather than an entire group of people.
nice.. downvote anyone who complains about cost
Thanks! I knew most of this, but for some reason had an impression that ruby was in particularly nice spot to subclass Obj-C classes. I have to agree, you are right, and other languages could follow RubyMotion's model.
They do need to break down their pricing structure in a way that people can easily buy into their service. The big issue here is the sheer amount of difference between the free plan and the lowest priced plan. In order to get people into your monthly billing cycle you must focus on getting them to take little steps. First get them to sign up. Then move them to a free plan. It doesn't matter if its profitable, just get them to overcome the barrier of taking out their credit card. Second step is to get them to upgrade their plan to a profitable one. This is much more easy because they are your customers. No need to pitch them the idea anymore. All you need to do is show them that the other plan meets their needs. You can also upgrade them for free for a limited time (say 3 months) to overcome the barrier of upgrading, and then start charging them at the upgraded pricing. This way they get to integrate into the new plan. They will feel the pain of downgrading, and will mostly decide to not do so. Third, you upsell additional services not included in plans. Use the same technique in the second step. Give them free trials, and start billing automatically once the trial is over. They can always cancel, but most won't bother or want because they have already been using the product for so long.

Realize that people will pay money in order to not lose something. This is a very strong mechanism to use to increase the profitability of your products.
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I'm sure that "LSD" was added to the title for its name recognition. No one was going to click on an article about psilocybin. :)
But Soylent Green wasn't people. That was a hollywood fantasy to sell more tickets. It was actually an artificial meat product engineered to taste like people. The book was awesome, the movie sucked. I remember in the movie that a front-loader was scooping up people to slaughter.
Curry function in pure JavaScript
Well, I don't know if such divisions make sense in context of this discussion. In Italian, "gelato" refers generally to all ice-cream-consistency-frozen-desert-ish stuff, including for example sorbet (sorbetto). So my comparison was the whole US family versus the Italian family of frozen gelatinous ice-cream-like desert substances. Italy wins hands down, no contest.
Programmers have been struggling with version control for decades now. There's a lot of power and value in the way we do things, which is effectively placed out of the reach of non-programmers by UI issues. (And to be fair, a lot of that power needs to be hidden!)

It seems that Pixelapse isn't quite going this route. If Github can compete, they would have the advantage of easier integration between designer oriented data and program code.
Shame that this seems to have been flagged off the homepage before a reasonable discussion can ensue
The story of Aldous Huxley's death and his wife's decision to administer LSD to him is very touching and well worth reading.[1]

[1] - https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/huxley_laura/huxle...
Laughable, travel to Israel. There have been numerous news stories on the security theatre that is the TSA.
On appeal, Oracle insists Googles Android copied key Java code
While I agree CloudFlare handled this poorly, there is this reply on the blog from Matthew Prince (CEO of CloudFlare):

Both enabling "I'm Under Attack Mode" or routing the traffic direct are both supposed to generate an automated message to the customer letting them know what happened. We've reviewed the logs and don't see a message having been sent. I'm investigating why that didn't happen since I agree it is not acceptable.
Not that it's a great source of truth, but this one says a massive majority of Americans still believe they live in the best country in the world:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/16/fox-news-poll-america-w...

> I've yet to meet an American who didn't think at least one one of these, if not all, were completely broken.

More importantly, what are any of those people doing about fixing the things that are broken?
And billions down the drain.
I don't dismiss the creativity and innovation, on the contrary. I just dismiss blindly following the what other people are doing just because they are famous and/or vocal.

I was thinking about innovation this morning actually - how do we innovate? Is it on purpose? I thought that most of the innovation actually comes in one of two ways - by picturing a bright future and bringing the world to it, and much more frequently by coincidence. You are trying to achieve something you envision and most of the times you fail, but in the process of doing this you discover something new. And even then you can actually not realise that you have innovated. Most of the times a certain amount of time needs to pass in order you and the world to realise what you have done.
"Again, I hadn't lived there or worked there since 2003, but I did own part of a business that was headquartered in MA, and the state was using this fact to harass me for income tax money."

If you own a business headquarted in MA, aren't you earning income (through the business) in MA?

If you work in a different state (even if you don't live in the state), you still owe income tax for income earned in that state. This is non-resident state income tax.

Pretty sure MA has a reasonable claim here based at least on what the author states.
I live in Lawrence, and have lived there for ~7 years now. I just moved into a brand-new (first person in the building) two-bedroom apartment with fiber to the building, very nice appliances, granite countertops, etc.

And I am paying less in rent than my friends in DC would pay for a broom closet.
I had quite a similar experience where our site (approx 10TB / month) was taken "off cloudflare" and all traffic routed direct to our servers at peak load (we were on the Pro plan @ $10/month after many months of free). They cited network issues in the control panel and a "Layer 7 attack" in a support ticket. We quickly upgraded to a Business plan ($200 / month) and traffic was back through cloudflare within 10 minutes.

Also, similarly to OP, we are regularly (fortnightly) automatically put in "I'm Under Attack" mode without any prior warning or consent which is quite annoying as it tends to happen overnight so I am not alerted until someone checks the live site in the morning (it still returns a 200 so current checks don't pick it up)
The site is down, but I mirrored the source code here: http://cl.ly/061Z0b463V2f

(license: https://gist.github.com/micheljansen/4949042)

The article (cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&clien...) also has some cool screenshots of early Photoshop :)
Android Play Store Privacy
That's a huge bummer. Jeri is amazing.
Leaving plenty of qualified people in the 4%, and avoiding a "government gives our jobs to India" PR disaster.
If you're refererring to the Atmel UC256l3U, it's in the same area as other touchscreen components so it could be something to do with them, possibly providing some glue between them and the main processor.
"Its pretty well accepted that one of the hardest things in building stuff with computers is naming things so that humans can understand whats going on." -- Hum... that's pushing it a little bit isn't it? :P

Regardless, I think what you're looking for is commonly known as "naming conventions": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_convention_%28programmin... - I would suggest googling "naming conventions for <insert your language of choice>" as a starting point. From there, if you have more questions, feel free to ask :)
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I suspect that there's no such thing as an Illinois or Massachusetts account to Chase. They are all just accounts held by clients who are US citizens.
Same here. As a user of the VA system this is very much needed and only the tip of the iceberg.
See also

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jon...
Great read, but I'm not sure why he keeps using the term of Chromebook/Chrome OS. It was more the story of a Google OS which eventually a few years after someone else turned into Chrome OS.
Alicia Danforth, research assistant to Dr. Charles Grob (who ran the psilocybin research study mentioned in this article) goes in to detail as to their reasons for using synthetic psilocybin in this recording of her talk at the Burning Man festival.[1]

The talk is also well worth hearing for the other details she gives of this important research.

[1] - http://www.matrixmasters.net/archive/Playalogues/131-Danfort...
They still have a web app that is awesome, this is just another interface to the data you can get to in the web app.
Talk about playing right into the pirate bay's hands. The Pirate Bay can sue the CIAPC and put on a show about how even copyright's defenders mess up.
If i was designing it, you'd need to make it focused on the products. Maybe 50% of people feel these products are not 'viable'. If thats the feeling, I think that those fired can walk away feeling ok about the situation (obviously not great).
Thank you for a detailed response, we're mostly an iOS shop (little OSX experience) few here will touch a private API out of fear of Apple's wrath and Boston based, so it's hard to not get caught by the marketing wake. You've demonstrated knowledge and I'm satisfied with your belief that they are a mediocre solution.

Since you seem to have some knowledge in the field and an alternative opinion to engineers here, what is your preference for iOS crash reporting? We're currently reevaluating PLCrashReporter in our SDK but need things to be open-source.
Someone from Heroku really needs to weigh in on this.
My thoughts on this: http://codebutler.com/2013/02/13/play-store-privacy/

Although there is a legitimate reason for sharing this information (sales taxes), it is not clearly explained to users or developers and goes against reasonable expectations.
This Dorkly comic came into mind
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/43062/behind-the-valve
That is really good advice. This is nothing new. The author seems to attribute it to the times but I had something very similar happen in California about twenty years ago when the state was quite flush.

Whoever didn't warn you that this could happen once there was a lien was giving you bad advice.

I like the suggestion of filing a $0 return because once you get on the radar of the state tax agencies it gets very expensive to get them off your back. As a kid I failed to file because I owed like $20 (but I did file a federal return, which alerted the state). They eventually froze my account and it cost about $1k to settle the matter. At the time that was real money to me.