skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see any morality inherent in logical statements of the form A->B, B is widely undesirable, therefore A is widely undesirable.

The moral (or, at least, subjective; whether the particular subjective distinction is "moral" or something else is somewhat of a an arbitrary distinction) part is "B is widely undesirable". Desirability is not a factual premise.

> If that's a moral argument, then by your definition, there's no such thing as pragmatism or logic.

Well, no; that is a moral argument (or at least, an argument that rests on a subjective premise), and it is also an application of logic. Logic doesn't provide premises, it applies based on premises which are either sensory observations (which are inherently subjective) or a priori postulates (which are often subjective moral/aesthetic/etc. value propositions.)

Logic exists, it just doesn't get you to any kind of conclusions about the way things should be or what things you should do without starting with premises that are about the way things should be or what you should do.
I agree. When I was selling online more frequently, I had a collection of Priority Mail boxes to use, and this still didn't cover all of the sizes I needed. As dumb as it sounds, shipping me the properly sized box would be amazing.

I'm curious if they provide packing material too - that was the other big issue for me. I typically used newspaper or peanuts from a box I had sitting around, but I still ran into trouble a fair amount of the time.
2x Dynos enter General Availability
EdX Source Code Released
Contempt of court. Also, even though some FBI NSL demands may improper, others would have a valid anti-terror component, and no company I'm aware of would intentionally interfere with such an investigation.
It's starting to sound like this is the right idea.

For you I have questions 3...

1. How do you avoid friction between the cable and the sheath?

2. Isn't the process of using eddy currents to generate motion very ineffient?

3. Would it be possible to build a small scale low speed version as a proof of concept?
I’m the PlowMe* founder (the Uber for snowplows).

At first I didn’t care much for the Uber metaphor, because it's not accurate (it turns out, less than 20% accurate), but I’ve warmed to it, to convey the gist to the listener.

We had a mobile-first product, and while getting ad hoc snow plowing is useful the day of a storm (and from the supply-side, mobile solves a problem), most of our business is from repeat customers. That is, snow plowing is a route business, and mobile is a companion (e.g. for one-timers, to get info. on your plowguy’s eta/location etc).

Like others, I find the Uber metaphor useful for telling people what we do in 3 seconds, though interestingly, it’s hardly ever to customers. Most of our customers have never heard of Uber in fact, probably not a surprise given their age (many 55+) and where they live (suburbs). I imagine this is different than other Uber for X companies.

By the same token, I find it helpful to invert the Uber metaphor to further explain what you’re doing. For example, Uber would be like PlowMe if it had the option of picking you up at the same place and time automatically.

*PlowMe is now part of ServiceRoute.
“If you live in the future”
A recent post by Joseph Walla used a catchphrase of Garry Tan's "if you live in the future ..."
the idea being you can identify a trend and then an opportunity

"If you live in the future, all cars will be electric, so build Tesla Motors"

What are your quotes about the future and its opportunities ?
Good UX and UI designers require a period of acclimation to a certain industry. Be prepared to educate them so that they can best optimize for your product domain. It's unlikely that you will find many within specific niches, so you will definitely go through a period of education.
If you live in the future, there will be a thread on HN of "if you live in the future" quotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5801697

Enjoy !
Besides the obvious point of neither you nor the bug poster being Linux Torvalds, his famous excerpts are generally taken out of context after long arguments, and they're still more socially functional than this infantile bug report.
And I know Alamogordo as the site of the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
Well, that's quite a change in branding.

Your sword? Your shield? The cute little octocat is now a scowling angry warrior robot?

I must be old and out of touch: I don't understand the appeal of this violent imagery. I thought GitHub was about working together, helping each other out, not slaying your foes.

I like the old octocat and octokitten better:

http://assets.github.com/images/modules/dashboard/bootcamp/o...
If you live in the future, a diagnosis of most symptoms will be done from a pinprick at home, so become a medical researcher not a GP

(Ok an example of what not to do - far too negative)
Perfect todo app is simple: a text editor. Each line is a thing to do. Done.

Works for me, anyway.
Like I said, this is an argument of degrees and extent, not yes or no. It's not "disclose everything right now" or "disclose nothing ever". Please don't pretend like those are our only two options.

It is an extremist position (and one that will get you absolutely nowhere, like it or not) to demand the FBI disclose information about ongoing investigations.
Collating all the tradeoffs and bugbears would benefit both the existing community and newcomers. Things that bug me that immediately come to mind:

* No public bug tracker

* epmd's security (or lack thereof)

* Can't insist that epmd be started separately (`erl -no_epmd` won't start epmd but it also won't start epmd's gen_server)

* Can't swap out epmd because while `erl -epmd_module foo` is there, `net_kernel:epmd_module()` is barely used. (Although I don't think it's interface is documented anyway)

* No built-in way to hook UNIX signals

* While the documentation itself is pretty good, it's presentation is lacking and it's difficult to quickly correct mistakes as you run into them

* It can be difficult to reason about when a shared binary will be garbage collected

* OS packaging (I'm thinking of Debian/Ubuntu) of Erlang and Erlang apps tends to be more harmful than helpful (old packages, namespace conflicts, etc)
Crashy Compiler Flags
Seems like this is testing 101. the guy is right, he should have tested it on major browsers before showing it. Getting excited and posting it is no excuse for not doing some preliminary testing. So please refrain from being a dick by calling someone else a dick. Thanks
That would be a very cool way to traverse Australia. Do most travelers circumnavigate Australia to get to the other side? I've seen some videos of the "road trains" hauling six trailers across Australia.
I remember reading about someone looking into this years ago. Just googled the story: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/66637-ataris-landfill-adve...
I recently took a resolution downgrade to get a vg248qe for the 120hz with lightboost. See here: http://www.blurbusters.com/zero-motion-blur/lightboost/

If you ever have a chance to play with a monitor at 120hz, especially with lightboost, it's so obvious that you wouldn't feel the need to have a double-blind test. If you're not playing games, it's most noticeable when scrolling down a page in your browser or moving the mouse.
If you live in the future, 80% of all office jobs will be remote working - so build service office spaces and lots more coffee shops.
Sounds cool and the mechanics of it seem to be really well thought out. However, the service seems to provide a lot of value-add that will eventually have to be paid for. "Sold" will have to make a pretty compelling argument to the seller that losing 25%? from just doing it themselves is going to be worth it.

Which gets me to thinking, do services like Gazzelle make money?
If you live in the future, laser guns will be able to shoot down jet fighters from miles away, so build trade agreements.
TSA has completely removed revealing X-ray scanners from America's airports
DevOps Dave Comic: Declaring Success in Enterprise DevOps
Context worth noting: Penny Arcade also runs a webcomic about gaming QA: http://trenchescomic.com (humor style is consistent with that of normal PA webcomics, so it's love-it-or-hate-it.)

More noteworthy is the "Tales From The Trenches" section, with horror stories about gaming QA: http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/14999
Surely, you must be talking about "Uber for farming." I just don't think it'll have legs.
IIRC that was actually the best (although not the biggest).
This is a hilariously fantastic response to the original article. The author does a great job of cutting through the self-congratulatory bullshit of the original post while simultaneously giving an accurate picture on the current climate in the industry.

Kudos, Ben Kuchera
Ask HN: What is the best provider for .io domains.
I am having so many problems with Network Solutions, and I want to move to a better provider any good recommendations for .io domains ?
How does equity work in SaaS? Does accounting just cut you a check for your percent of the profits each quarter, in the form of a dividend? Or do you only get a percent ownership that you may not see materialize until exit, in the form of a capital gain?
The Cronut Business Has a Scaling Problem
I know for certain that there are previous non-asm.js optimized builds of Firefox that run it fine (with a performance penalty, naturally.)

Chrome currently crashes because Chrome can't handle enough variables per context. This is a bug with V8 that is allegedly getting fixed.

It wouldn't surprise me if mobile support is currently minimal to none though; but this is something that can and almost surely will change independent of asm.js optimization support.

(And this is the Unreal demo specifically - smaller projects should be supported by virtually any modern browser* as far as I know.)

* Caveats: IE doesn't support WebGL, etc.
There are many 24 inch 16:10 displays. The dell u2412m, hp has their zr24w. You can get these between 300 - 500.
It's not a fallacy or a cheap cop out. You're of the opinion that what we know about the weather now is all that we need to know, but it's not.

How does the orbit of the moon affect weather? What about changes in the magnetic currents in the Earth's core? Earthquakes? Solar winds? Can you tell me what solar activity will be like in 10 years?

"Everything that I am describing is standard and has been known for decades." How many times have we heard this, just before big leaps in understanding have occurred? Several times, just in my lifetime. It's hubris to believe we know that much about the weather.
I would say machine learning & cloud need more expertise coaching than just programing languages.
Can't un-choose. If you choose in a particular department you cannot just take the choice away and it filters by it, forcing you to reload the page.
iwantmyname.com have always worked great for me
I fail to see why an NSL is even necessary when a warrant should suffice?
I agree that we don't have anything close to a perfect record. And when dotcom was raided at gunpoint I really felt that this was it. Everything you wrote above was now just the new normal, and we were just a passive conduit of foreign and corporate interests. But this pushback seems quite real and give some reassurance that some part of the NZ legal system is working in a way that can make us feel (sometimes) proud.
<_< you're right. It's been a long while since I've seen even a part of that movie. Honestly, I don't know if I've ever seen the whole movie; but, I do remember that part.
Twitter to launch automated ad exchange to let brands retarget you via tweets
Actually the test was closer Socorro and the small town of San Antonio, NM (birthplace of the Hilton dynasty.) It was on what is now White Sands Missile Range which is very close to Alamogordo, but there is a mountain range between the test site and Alamogordo. The blast was visible from San Antonio though.

I would add that Alamogordo was the fictitious location of the giant ants in the film "Them!"
> For another thing, it only worked on the Chrome Web Store

Actually, it works outside of the Web Store, but turning it on outside of the CWS is behind a defaults-to-off flag in the Chrome's settings, because Google didn't want NaCl code getting deployed widely on the web, because they didn't want code that would be locked to one architecture being widely deployed when they knew the plan was for PNaCl to be the long-term replacement.
I do agree that both would and should be public goods, but on the other hand I am all too familiar with the inefficiency of government in actually overseeing projects like this, and that's not counting the very large pool of people who oppose government involvement in this kind of thing anyways.

But I wonder why that wouldn't work in Europe... it seems Germany, France, even Hungary and other EU nations could combine to beat Monsanto at their own game... of course, U.S. farmers would then just use those seeds if they ended up being really good and so the EU would have subsidized the U.S.'s development on that. As long as that's acceptable to the EU that could certainly work though.
The message appears to be "buyers suck", which should not be surprising if you've ever worked retail!
See 1939 New York City in vibrant color
And that's three books on Agile practise in eight paragraphs.

You just ruined the consultancy market for three states :-)
Thanks for linking. There's still some features that .draggable() doesn't implement that I personally need in my plugin, but it looks like Draggable can take care of creating the handles for us. I'll investigate more later, thanks again!
I like the idea, I just can't picture someone like my Aunt Jeanne using the service.
USPS will ship you free boxes, for free.

https://store.usps.com/store/browse/subcategory.jsp?category...
Exactly right. If you want to say something snark then human-up and say it, don't try to hide behind a throwaway account.
Hmm, that's the workflow already. If you're shipping at least one Priority package, the postman will pick up your packages for free. They'll deliver boxes to your door for free, too.
It routes a single IP address to different DNS servers depending on a user's location. It generally provides lower latency/faster DNS queries by routing users to closer DNS servers.
Facebook's Open Source Issue Tracking Swiss Army Knife Getting a SasS Product
Nice example, but (nitpick warning) that's not a Fibonacci (http://oeis.org/A000045) computation. It computes triangular numbers (http://oeis.org/A000217)
Video is great. App/service looks solid. But marketplaces are so tough that I feel you almost HAVE TO START IN A NICHE and take the bowling pin strategy [1].

Look at Yardsale–they're a YC company and doing essentiall the same as Sold. I haven't seen much press about growth or follow-on funding.

Poshmark, on the other hand, is niche-focused (women's fashion) and seems to be growing well. Raised $15.5M. [2]

[1] http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/04/poshmark-nabs-12m-series-b-...
Quantum Computing Meets NASA and Google
> I'm pretty sure PNaCl was created to solve the disconnect between ARM based Chromebooks and Atom based Chromebooks.

I think PNaCl was announced (as a long-range project) before ChromeOS was, and I'm certain it was announced before there were any actual Chromebooks, muhc less a concrete disconnect between ARM-based and x86-based Chromebooks.

It was created to solve the problem of high-performance software being tied to a particular native platform, which was clearly an issue for Google's long-term vision of web-as-dominant-platform long before there were concrete issues of different platforms for Chromebooks.
Fun fact: Anticipating that their whizzy new machine was going to be hooked up to plenty of spare televisions from attics, the Amiga developers conducted a variety of tests on as much display hardware as they could get their hands on, from high-end color computer monitors to cruddy black-and-white and color TVs from junkyards. What they found was that the four colors most readily distinguishable from each other regardless of quality of display were black, white, blue, and orange. Which is why the Amiga 1.x GUI is based around those four colors.

Blue and orange constitute one of the highest-contrast color pairs, even occupying opposing corners in the YUV color space. This explains their extensive use in movie posters -- to attract the attention. It also probably explains their prominence in the Portal games and the Reddit user interface.
I imagine my dad, a man so engrained in the craigslist marketplace, would really struggle with any sort of technological advancement in this system. He likes the "old-fashioned" way of posting the item himself at a price he wants to sell for then having someone come by to check it out.

Anything else is going to be too complicated for him.
If you live in the future, people will no longer trust the cloud with their plaintext, so build end-to-end encryption systems.
Dust is not logic-less, even disregarding the helpers.
…so build the sensors
This page opens up the App Store after loading it on my iPad.
GoF is, in my opinion, about establishing a language to talk about commonly used constructs in languages - especially given it's providence in Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language.

Referring to it as 'a set of tricks' would suggest to me that you've only given it a cursory glance and assumed that it's just about copying out example blocks of code, or that you've not worked in a wide enough set of languages to realize that every language has commonly used patterns for doing particular things, no matter how expressive the language is. Having a way to discuss the architecture of a piece of software without having to explain every implementation detail because there's already a shorthand refer to various parts of it is invaluable when working on larger projects. Being able to call a block of code as a flywheel is no more a trick than being able to refer to an options pricing equation as a 'modified black-scholes' - the important part is that other person knows from that what you're talking about and so you can get to the important part of the conversation.
UN report says killer bots could fight WAR WITHOUT END
Aha! Much better :-)
Nothing the TSA has ever said about this program has turned out to be true, so I'll believe that the machines are gone when I stop having to opt out of them.
I don't think you can refinance, what you can do is take out a home equity loan. Regardless, you can get those at fixed rates or (currently cheaper) ARM rates, I'd imagine someone intending to stay in the Bay Area would choose the former.
Amen. That original article wasn't even worth a rebuttal.

I started in QA (on EverQuest) when I was 20. No degree, just a couple level 60 characters. After 2 years of overtime, hard work, and taking programming classes at the community college I got a junior programmer job in another department. 12 years later I'm a cofounder and CTO at my own indie game startup. The system works!
Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S.
Augmented reality display of air traffic for amateur drones
Oh for fuck's sake...is smoking a bowl on a weekend anti-social? What about trimming a quarter inch from a shotgun barrel? Or issuing well-formed GETs against a public API?

Banishment or death? Really? You do realize that pretty much any inventor or programmer of note in the US--the folks on whose shoulders all of us stand--are likely guilty of several "anti-social" actions?

Prisons, as implemented, are a bad answer to a stupid question.
Correct! The machines still take dirty pictures of you -- they just provide an abstraction layer and a human ostensibly doesn't view the raw image. They removed one of the two types of machines, only because the backscatter scanner vendor couldn't provide the abstraction layer in time. The millimeter wave machines are still in place.

I heard a TSA agent basically tell a nervous traveller this when I was in the U.S. last: "Oh no, we go rid of those machines, these are totally different -- see it just shows me a picture of where any hidden items are. Not any different than are old metal detectors! Safe as can be!"

Millimeter wave machines still violate your privacy, and still expose you to radiation. But, freedom, amirite?
If you live in the future:

You won't drive, autonomous cars will come to pick you up and drop you off, including round trips. That's why 14 out of 15 car dealerships went bust.

You won't use paper, all of your receipts, tax documents, contracts, and mail will be digital and sent to a i-mail address assigned to every US citizen. And you'll view all these documents on your "wall screen".

Power cords will found no where. Nearly every device will be powered by wireless electricity.

You won't have a tv, you'll have a "wall screen" a giant thin film like flexible plastic sheet covering one of your walls which will display a crisp high definition picture.

Touch was so last century. "Look and Think" technology is where it's at. Calibrated Brain wave readers and eye cameras in the corners of your room can see what elements on the screen you're looking at and can execute commands based on certain thoughts.

You'll have 1 super computing pc in your home to which you will connect all your devices and. It. Will. Be. Bad Ass. Because it'll be like a server for every device your family has it connected to. And contain pretty much all of your media, documents, and data which will be streamed out to external devices. Contrary to popular belief in the future everything is NOT in the cloud, because the cloud costs a corporation money to run and maintain. Back in the early 2000s era cloud services were popular before companies like Google and Microsoft realized they were losing money on services that didn't and couldn't generate a revenue and sunsetted them. Consumers have also lost trust in someone else keeping their data. Your super PC will be so cheap and software so easy and automated you'll have no reason not to set one up. Plus the technologically uneducated of the early 2000s have already died off, as have several generations of their semi computer literate offspring, leaving a society that is truly very very tech savvy.

You'll have an e-ID issued by the government which you can use to sign on securely to important websites that manage your taxes, benefits, payroll, etc... It will be created in 2021 after facebook (the former issuer of online IDs) suffers from a massive security breach caused by Chinese Hackers.

Taxes will also be easier, and are no longer done by person but automated. Employers will upload all payroll information to "intelli-Tax" automatically, point of sale, e-commerce, even wordpress(which expanded into a life managment software called ) shops will collect and report payments.

If you live in the future, you'll still hear people talk about how 2087 is the year of consumer linux, and you'll still roll your eyes and laugh. And linux still won't get it.
The manipulation of human behavior. USAF study.
Agree 100%! The point that's important to remember about discoverability is that it is usually mission-centric.

e.g. - you want to discover the 'right' kind of people to follow, as to have better or more entertaining or more useful or _____________ information. What is 'right' for you may not be 'right' for me, since our goals most likely aren't the same.

I love Naveen's idea (and more importantly his implemention) & will be playing with it a bit more this weekend. But, the value may not be apparent right away.

Aggregating and mining one type of data across a relationship may be more valuable. It may be that I have to track a similar set of data for myself and my significant other to make sense of the aggregates.
ModelBox 3D: Artists Launch Kickstarter to Bring 2D Images to Life
I'll actually put things in there when I want to remember them. Firefox makes it a little better because you can attach keywords to them to help you search later.