skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for example if somebody asked me the circumference of the earth and I replied with "40,075 km" how do I actually know that?

I certainly have never measured it, so all I can do is cite sources of information which are assumed to be authorities. I can be relatively confident in my reply by citing multiple sources of information but I'm still ultimately relying on something I can't realistically provide other evidence for.

According to wikipedia the second could possibly fall under "Circumstantial Ad hominem" in that suggesting a source has bias does not necessarily make them incorrect. Though this depends on the nature of the argument.

I think the third is more tricky to pin down because it is going to depend again on the nature of the argument. You may suggest concern about some policy without a concrete example of X leading to Y because it may not have happened before. But again this depends on the nature of the argument.

I think my problem is more with the way in which logical fallacies are abused in internet arguments rather than the fallacies themselves.
For example somebody saying "You are wrong to be concerned about policy X because slippery slope fallacy".
Yeah, I do the same thing with snapshots (and in some cases you're supposed to do work only on client/government-provided equipment, so moving a VM over is helpful).
Between batches we spent a lot of time systematically trying to identify the predictors of failure. Previously we only tried to look for predictors of success. And they are not simply complements.
"I am from Balkans, Balkans conflicts were largely influenced and made worse from the outside, I would even say that they would not happen if there were not desire from Germany and other powers to make as much mess as possible."

Would you mind saying which country you're from? I ask because I have recently met Serbians who seem like very good and reasonable people, but who have very different views on the conflict from the accepted view in the States and "Western" Europe. In particular, they are very nostalgic for Yugoslavia, and seem to think that yes, some bad things happened during the war, but that no one in particular was more genocidal than anyone else.

"For example in present day Croatia there is only 7% of people who would actually stay to live there if they could go and live somewhere else. Danke Deutschland indeed."

This is very surprising. I would love to see the source. Croatia is the only Balkan state now part of the EU… perhaps they'll find it rather easy to emigrate where they please.
Designers and Developers Redux
I noticed that Jolicloud launched something similar the other day if anyone wants to compare https://drive.jolicloud.com
We were already claiming we could pick the top 84 out of ~3000. It's not that much harder to narrow it down to 46.
>There would be an aesthetic difference.

This is my point. People have value systems and brands and styles can be a part of that. An inability to identify with someone buying overpriced goods does not make the judgement process any different that their inability to identify with the practicality of buying things at a fair price that look good.
Nostalgia, Craftsmanship, Fit, Artistry, Fashion, Design, Comfort, Durability.

I have bought a Burberry trench coat because a close friend inherited one from his grandfather who was issued one (maybe purchased, not sure...but definitely worn) as an officer in the Royal Navy during WWII. I admired the craftmanship, durability, and fit, and I wish to pass mine down to my own children some day in a similar fashion.
My post ends on this note:

Wouldn't it be much better to channel all this energy
towards something more productive? Like, say, writing a
few thousand lines of Rails or Django or Node JS or
Clojure or whatever code you like to implement a
replacement, either from scratch, or by contributing to
an existing OSS project. It's a big world out there, we
have not "entered a darker timeline in the history of
the net," and it's always time to make it better, not
demand that someone else do that for you.

If that perspective sounds like trolling to anyone, they can just click on any of the other submissions and discuss the relative merits of the Google Reader population over ordinary people.
Ah. Somehow I assumed app store apps were built into a different format than "regular" apps.
No way they're lack of money to hire enough CS teachers to teach their students

The level of bureaucracy is unmeasurable. Money leaks.
Google doesn't want people to post stuff on their own websites. They want you to post it directly in Google+
We may try that one day. We've been marking such comments for a while in case we do.
Without realizing it I've been sliding towards a vegetarian lifestyle.

This will only drive me further down that path.
...just wrote a column saying the (edit: not Galaxy, just plain Nexus, thanks acchow) Nexus was a phone he would be fine using on a regular basis.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/08/nexus-4-review-finally/
This would make the Google Pixel actually worthwhile. Most of the complaints about the pixel were that Internet speeds aren't good enough to use the Internet as "local" storage. Well, now you can. If you're in Kansas City.
I love the idea of taking equal amounts of money from pro and anti gun groups :) The 'look' on the page is a work-in-progress, as a scientist I have no experience with crowdfunding and am trying to find the right 'balance' between making my page as dry as an academic research proposal, and something catchy enough that would interest the non-academic. Howver, even if you suspect I am biased, it would be extremely bad for my career to do biased or bad research (all the data we will use is secondary, and we will be sharing a great deal of it it on this site too -- so anyone with good statistical skills can double-check my findings). At the end of the day, my research will have to stand up to scrutiny both in peer-reviewed journals and other scientists who want to 'double check' my results.
Although arguably a crowdfunded study has a lot better odds of being impartial than most other ongoing funding sources, so maybe this has a chance.
Investment Crowdfunding is A Ghetto Stock Market
Some people appreciate the beauty and quality of designer items. For instance, I personally find Herve Leger to fit me better than any other brand of dress. The items hold their value and beauty so well, that you can oftentimes sell them for a profit (Chanel is a great example of this).
We actually checked out Jolicloud when they launched. Kudos to them that they have built a stunningly beautiful product. Our focus however is less on giving you one place to view all of your content but much more on organizing them, sharing them and making sense of them.
Much appreciated – thanks so much for taking the time to review, and for the actionable advice! I'm considering living off savings for the next 3-6 months and really focusing on a few self-initiated projects that allow me to boost my UX creds – potentially an iPhone app, a SaaS tool, etc.

One of the downsides about living in Australia is that there's barely a handful of tech companies based here (that aren't just marketing/sales offices), and most agencies are just churn and burn (Facebook pages and banner ads, etc).

Do you think that having a few (i.e 3-4) strong personal projects where I ran both design and development solo would boost my creds for the likes of Google & Co?

Edit: As an aside – do you think it's preferable to have quality over quantity? I.e. ditch a few of the weaker pieces of work in favor of having say, 4-5 really strong portfolio pieces?
This is the research leader. Good points on the visuals. I am discussing with Microryza what the appropriate visuals are to convey the urgency of this research in a way that is also appealing to non-academics, while making it clear that we are proposing hypotheses, NOT guaranteeing answers that please one group or another!
Convinced me; I just contributed $10.
There's at least one person who spent over a year in space during one flight, almost two years combined between several flights. And that's not just in Mars gravity, but in total weightlessness. He's alive and seems to be doing fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov
is this just a wrapper around "ln -s dir/.* ~/" ?
Hi Dani,

It needs new perspectives, I think. I posted this article because I was recently told of a doctor who made close to a $1M last year....making housecalls. He did it by eliminating his office, downsizing his staff to just basic support staff, and using proprietary software to track patients, bill, and schedule. I find this extremely interesting, so much so that I've asked to interview this doctor to gain more insight.

I feel his "reverse innovating" approach is what the industry needs. To look back at what worked and why we moved away from it, and maybe see if there's a potential for going back to it with a better system.
It's the one manual step I have to do. After I provision a server, I copy the IP and stick it in a few places (my fabfile, my hosts file that I then re-copy to every other machine, and my HAProxy config).

While I do provision new servers regularly, I don't auto-scale, so I don't have a need for pure automation. It would be nice, but that's something I look into when I learn about new deployment procedures.
Of course recipes can't be copyrighted, but you running into this issue proves just how much you screwed up at trying to understand your audience.
Don't blame them for filling DMCA requests, blame yourself for not building something that they'll want to use and contribute to.
Think about it for a minute. Does Github grab your source code without asking you and then offers people the option to fork it? No! Devs upload their source code to Github because they get a value out of it.
The same goes for food blogs or anything else. If your target audience can't get any value out of your product, then you're dead before launching.
As devs, we need to keep this in mind: people won't care if they can't get value. Just because it took you days/weeks/months/years/decades to build does not mean it will produce value for anyone. Only studying your target customers and building on top of this knowledge will.
The problem with most of these (informal) fallacies is that they are attempts to prevent argument, either by shutting the other party up, or by diverting the discussion away from the matter at hand. When they are used like that they could be considered incompatible with a commitment to reason, or as fallacies.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer documented these tactics humorously in The Art of Controversy (Chapter III):

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controve...
The dark side of silence
Maybe if you keep reframing your questions you'll manage to weave your way past my original evasive answer of "we decided not to do it that way" to the truth of "we grind up the bones of the victims of our free crypto challenges into a fine meal we use to fertilize the fungus patches we rely on for sustenance down in the pentest mines".

"Free" challenges, indeed. Ah hah hah hah hah haaaaaa! Mwrhwprh -gulp-. Mmmm. Fungus.
Haha, excellent, thank you for helping me. Also "Text" view seems to be missing from the Default View preferences, is this intentional?
Pretty sure 1 Gbit was available in eastern europe before google fiber and it sure is cheaper than $70 now.
"and I don't understand why an arrow follows the mouse."

Really? It is a feature for better reading, so you can can easily see which line you are.
You should probably contact Jim Pitkow (part of Ron Conway's gun violence thing); they would probably contribute funding, since "lack of good studies" was one of their major findings.

The questions I'd really like to see answered are exploring specific current regulations for effectiveness as well as proposed regulations. i.e. I'd like to see if suppressors have ever been meaningfully used in crime, or if striking them from NFA would have limited crime-increase effects. And if some of the other fairly irrational regulations (parts of US origin requirements under 922(r) for imported non-sporting firearms) make any difference to crime. Or California's .50bmg ban.
That article never once mentions the Galaxy Nexus. You must have your phones mixed up.
improve search within the site - i want it to be easier to index and bring back articles i have read in the past. right now i manage this via sharing to twitter + adding to delicious.

if delicious has an API that lets you do it, add the ability to post directly to delicious
Don't think about the past, concentrate on the future, and live in the moment. You can't change the past, but you could change the way you feel and act right now, this minute, hour, day, make your time useful and positive now, it will build.
I am not spreading FUD, I am raising valid points. Rather than providing meaningful response your reply was rather unpleasant. Let me attempt an interpretation.

Privacy: To sign up for Fiber, users will be asked to provide an existing Google Account or to create a new one. You may be asked to provide additional personal information, such as billing address, service address or location, or bank account information when you sign up for Fiber.

We may also obtain and use information about our Fiber users from outside sources for marketing purposes (such as commercially available demographic, geographic, or interest information).

We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like content providers, publishers, advertisers or connected sites.

So, that seems to mean, to a non-lawyer, they associate all your network use with your existing Google account and can release any information on your network use and derived information on your interests as long as they don't give out your name.

Availability: WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS (ie. zero)

Sharing: Disallowed (but intention-based, so fuzzy, and practically you could share with a bunch of neighbours). The Fiber Services are intended for the personal use of you and others with whom you share your residence (including, within reason, guests who are visiting you). You agree not to resell or repackage the Services for use by people other than those with whom you share your residence. If you wish to use the Google Fiber Services to provide Internet service to others, you must enter a separate agreement with Google Fiber that specifically authorizes you to do so.

All in all, less than stellar. Legally, you wouldn't be able to build a business on this without paying more to Google, and you wouldn't have any availability guarantees at all.

Reading between the lines I'd guess it's basically an experiment in high speed consumer profiling against existing Google databases, with potential interest to provide Google related ChromeOS (I guess) set top boxes with enhanced YouTube support, plus DRM protected content delivery from Netflix, etc.
Try http://rssident.com

I am working on making the UI more user friendly and adding OPML import/export.

It's going to be supported by advertising with a subscription service for premium features and no ads.
ai ai ai!!! I am on MacOS 10.6 still... i know i know, i need upgrade :-P
The full feed is essential. I have a handful of subscriptions that require me to click through to the site, and while I understand why an ad supported site needs to do that, it's still incredibly annoying. This is especially true on a smartphone where tab/window management is much more difficult.
Ah, newer versions of Chrome broke (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180007) the htmlpreview tool. Here's a link that should work with the newer Chrome. Please let me know what you think! It's modeled after xmatrix rather than the original film footage, but I think it's pretty good. Still Chrome-only:

http://htmlpreview.github.com/?http://rawgithub.com/briangor...
Yep, I'm saying if you generalize about all of us, that's how you'd do it.

Your point is dead on: if you make a generalization that broad, you lose a lot of information.
Bad things happening? Just make it illegal for anyone to find out about the bad things! Problem solved. /s
I think United States v. Stevens (2010) provides interesting context for this story.

The case concerned the constitutionality of a bill banning so-called "crush" videos: brutal films in which naked women use their high heels to crush small animals to death.

The Court struck down the bill because it was too broad, banning the sale and transport of videos that depicted an animal being maimed, tortured or killed. They cited the fact that such broad language would include hunting videos and factory protest videos like the ones in question.

Although crush videos are clearly horrifying and wrong, I felt a strong sense of patriotism when I learned about the Court's verdict. You know that the First Amendment is strong when the Court will consider freedom-of-speech issues even in the face of something that is universally despised.

Hopefully, the bills in question now will be challenged and same constitutional principles will be applied.
I just watched "Food, Inc" this weekend, it's a very well made documentary. Much more evidence-based and non-preachy than I expected.

They talk at length about what they call 'veggie libel laws' and other laws introduced by food producer lobbies that limit free speech and surveillance about food productions. There's a long history of this, unfortunately it's nothing new.

If you have amazon prime, you can watch it for free: http://www.amazon.com/Food-Inc/dp/B002VRZEYM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U...
At the end of the day it's about personal property rights or the individual right to privacy After finding out about Ragtime-A and Ragtime-B, the abuse of National Security Letters, and seeing the number of surveillance cams that litter downtown Denver, I no longer believe it when officials (private or public, federal or state) say things like this. "Personal property rights" and especially "individual right to privacy" is just duckspeak at this point.
One person's receipt validation bug hardly means the "walled garden" (so sick of that term) is dangerous because his update review is taking a week. He's the one who made the mistake. Other computing platforms, such as consoles, have had centralized approval over software titles for decades. It's only become an issue to desktop users who are used to the Wild West and are experiencing a transition to the software model that has existed everywhere else for a long time.

By the way, anyone wanting automated Apple receipt validation code should look at Receigen on the Mac App Store. It generates a validation solution with each new version number.
> I am not a web developer so that can partially explain my struggle with fabric, Django and multitude of webdev and devops modules that you use.

GitHub is not an app store. You can't expect to "install" a software as a service's code base. Open sourcing a project is opening it up to engineers, providing a self-hosted option on the other hand should be an easy to install alternative that probably requires another full-time engineer to handle as it needs to come with ability to upgrade, get logs, support and documents...
My `bin/server`. It prints all ip addresses binded to the machine, and tries port numbers starting from 8000 until one is available for use:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

import commands
import subprocess

port=8000
while commands.getstatusoutput('lsof -i -P|grep ":' + str(port) + '"')[1]:
port = port + 1
print commands.getstatusoutput('ip addr | grep inet')[1], "\n"
subprocess.call(['env', 'python2.7', '-m', 'SimpleHTTPServer', str(port)])
The point about Apple being "the Man" is interesting. Reading comments here, it seems that everyone hates every company these days, often irrationally. Are there any companies that anyone likes, or has the written word devolved to only be able to share negative opinions?
Conflicts with co-founder, nearly bankrupt, unknown future
First: I am a kinda old HN member, with my Karma above 1000 and I figure into the "superstars" ranking (ie: the top 100 of highest average karma per day). I created this account to avoid more conflict.

I actually wrote a very lengthy post describing my situation, but I guessed that the co-founder mentioned in the title might read the post and things might get worse. So I erased the description of the problem, and will just ask a question:

Where I find a job outside my country?

I am currently trying freelance (without much success so far), and many people told me here on HN that my skills fit what Microsoft for example seek on H1B people (and the entry pay is a magnitude bigger than whatever I can find on my country), can someone help me get a job like this?

I don't grok web stuff (node.js, ruby, SQL and so on...)
Animal rights is one of the biggest swept under the rug ethical issues of our day, and one in which I see lots of smart rational people stumble over themselves to justify their habits (or uncomfortably turn a blind eye). Recommended listening is Peter Singer's Philosophy Bites interview, which links animal suffering to utilitarianism: http://philosophybites.com/2008/05/peter-singer-on.html
I'm not sure why they haven't used karma in a similar way. Why not make up or down votes cost one karma point? In order to shape the content stream you would need to spend your social capital.
Play SkiFree online. Beware of Yeti.
Let's not forget Conde Nast--Advanced Publications--owns Reddit...
Glossi – Bridging ideas into reality
On a related note, Scrivener is the best app I've ever used on any platform. My wife and I use it for legal writing, and I've never found anything that can handle our workflow as well as Scrivener.
High Priest of App Design
So, for iOS, the app store and apple's possibly arbitrary gatekeeping is the only way to get an app to your users.

For OSX desktop... what are the benefits software publishers get, just marketting/visibility, basically?
This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity. While I didn't check them all, every supposed example I looked at was a legitimate user and not a corporate shill. Ryan Holiday could have easily confirmed this as well (and may have) but instead chose to post them and insinuate less than honest intentions by the post authors.

While corporate shilling does happen on Reddit (and other news sites such as HN) it's not as common as the article implies. If it was he could have at least found some real examples. Holiday should stick to what he's good at, marketing, and leave journalism to actual journalists.
Was your first comment intended as irony?

When arguing with others it is best to employ the principle of charity, even to the point of improving the other party's arguments to make them as strong as possible, and then pointing out where you think they are wrong.

It is best to study fallacies in order to avoid making them, rather than throwing them at others in the manner of the proverbial religious hypocrite who 'read ye good booke in order to rake all the blessings unto himself, and to shovel all the curses unto his neighbours'.