skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because when you make a bunch of rude and unfounded accusations against not 'an' authority in the field but 'the' authority in the field you come across as not having done your homework

But why? In the same situation but talking to a non-expert, do you magically come across as having done your homework?

What's wrong with telling Abelson he doesn't understand the basics about lisp? Are these people infallible? Does your hero-worship allow for all-knowing experts to sometimes forget shit? Does senility factor into the equation, or do we drop to our knees at every utterance until they die?
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i don't think this is off-topic. this was this first thing that popped into my mind as i read this article. Moz is in the wrong here, legal or not.
I believe that he was told that "people who do well get brought on full time" was a lie from the start. I can imagine the HR/agency people trying to sell candidates on how great it will be in the future, if some of the conditions are crappy now. We've all been there right?

But at 32 I never ever would have taken a job for $11 an hour. If he was paid $40 an hour, would he have been happier in the end?
> First of all, if you really are an anarchist you need to think a little bit more about the implications of an anarchist society (or whatever) and grow up a little bit.

Are you serious? Do you really think that, as an anarchist, I haven't considered the implications of an anarchist society? I can guarantee you I've spent more time thinking about it than most people have (probably more time than you have). Maybe you have thought about it a bit, and maybe you have come to different conclusions than I have, and that's okay, but it's ridiculous for you to assume that the reason your conclusions are different to mine are just because I haven't thought about it enough or that I'm just not mature enough, especially as you haven't given any supporting reasoning or facts or even stated what you think the implications of an anarchist society are. It's pretty disrespectful as well.
"Detect" and "resolve" are two different things when it comes to imaging.

You can detect the lines on the court because they're bright white on dark background. However, you can't tell if it's one line or two parallel white lines less than ~1m apart.

In other words, you can't accurately measure the width of an object less than the resolution of the imagery, even if you can tell that it's present.

The Niue imagery is ~1m resolution. If you hunt around a bit, you can find a few cars. Note that you can measure their width, but it's difficult to do.
I love Austin! Vastly prefer it to the Bay Area for a number of reasons.
Please cite your source.
To answer your question (flat vs. artifact) directly: It's flat. Sorta. Bear with me a moment. If this is confusing, please let me know, and i'll try to clarify. Molecular symmetry isn't my strong point, unfortunately.

The trouble with all of this is the "picture" is not an actual picture-made-with-photons picture, but a visualization via computer. That isn't to say it's a poor reflection on reality, but that the limitations of the techniques should be accounted for. In this case, the electron density of the overall molecule is being measured. The brighter signals correspond to an increase in local electron density.

In such chemical structures as these, the aromaticity [1] is the main force at play. Without getting too technical, the brighter regions are those with increased electron density. (See figure 4 at the IBM Zurich page on pentacene [2])

The hexagons (and square and pentagons) in fact do not have idealized geometry, but not due to any curling. The unique environment of each carbon is more at play. Symmetry plays a large role; imagine a symmetric vs. unsymmetrical tug-of-war between the carbons with the electrons as the rope. The left hand side and lower right have a dihedral mirror plane, simplifying the density somewhat, where the upper right has a more muddled situation.

Getting back to the flatness, the target molecule is 'mounted' on a suitably uniform surface, such that only one side is being scanned/read by the probe. In a vacuum, the tug of war in the Z direction (into the plane) will cancel out between the +Z and -Z vectors, giving a 'flat' molecule. (Depending on your point of view, either because of this or due to this, each of these molecules has a mirror plane in the plane of the molecule, bisecting each atom.)

Setting all that aside, the entire process is really #$%*& cool, particularly to a chemist. (Yes, those crazy textbook pictures are often reflected in reality. If only the different atoms were color coded, though!)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromaticity
[2] http://www.zurich.ibm.com/st/atomic_manipulation/pentacene.h...
Why would you need 6v for a phone? I got feeling this was pulled out of his ass. Everything works on sub 2V there if I am not gravely wrong (not sure for the light source for the display)
My first thought was "this is about as narcissist as you can get". But, it's still pretty damn cool. Nice job.
What about Moz and Mozilla?

Mozilla uses "moz":
-moz-box-sizing,
-moz-zoom-in,
-moz-appearance

Would this be ok too? IE, IE Analytics
It could be. In game development for example, often a game asset is nothing more than a bunch of key/values, and they are slapped either into individual file per asset, or grouping several such asset into one file. The text format is not important (now), but I've seen "ini" style ones, or using lua, xml, or nowadays json.

It's important for these files to be kept this way, because they can be submitted to a SCM (perforce, svn, etc.), and this is the typical workflow. An SQL/noSQL db won't cut it here, since there is no revision number, or even if there is, it introduces a problem of syncing what's in the DB vs. what's in SCM.

So such tool would become interresting, if after syncing your latest data of the depot (repo), you run a tool that imports them into the DB to be used by other tools. And when you are done, export is done to the same files, and submitted.

Some automation could be done as well.

And having such tools would be beneficial, since you now don't have to write another tool to be ran manually, or being resident as service to get the latest file changes and update the DB, but could be make as an PostgreSQL worker that imports on the fly changes and updates the DB at the same time.

E.g. - if you use Perforce:
- Someone syncs
- The DB automatically picks up the changes, informed by the file system, and updates the DB.

The more of such things the better.
100mg of caffeine (half a nodoz) taken 30 minutes before I need to get up. I set alarms for both events, but rarely need the second one.
All fair points, and don't forget the ever-present parking enforcers. I pay $100/month in accidental tickets despite being here for years knowing all the rules.

On the positive side there, there's an "energy" (please excuse hippie nonsense) to people here I haven't seen in other places. A kind personal momentum that is intoxicating - hard not to get crazy shit done around here.

Certainly not for everyone, including me on occasion, and it's got its downsides...but I haven't seen a place better for the ambitious to design their future than SV.
Yep, that's why I said we. :)
http://www.arte.tv/fr/le-monde-selon-monsanto-de-marie-moniq...
Insurance companies - for adjusting rates based on lifestyle.
But the housing market in California is arguably distorted; it doesn't actually reflect "free market" economics. So I think you're being a bit petulant trying to claim it's just about what the market will bear.

The market only bears it because the government (federal, state, and/or local) in some cases has arguably helped place realty companies and others in a position where they essentially hold a monopoly over vast areas of land and housing.

California also has a unique problem in the form of proposition 13:

http://www.nber.org/digest/apr05/w11108.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-19/jerry-brown-s-last-...
That idea is probably worth a lot of money. Pairs of contractors knocking out massively scoped quickly needed solutions that can afford to be (mildly) wonky if they're timely. Like you might end up with a billing system written in Haskell, but you'll have it next week:)
I actually started hacking on this idea a few weeks ago. A personal API could have tons of uses. Many others have commented on the benefits of aggregation, but this could allow users to control and selectively sell/provide information to companies, apps, and advertisers. Applications could be built which utilize the personal APIs of friends. In Naveen's example, my app could compare my fitness level with my friends, recommend new restaurants based on ones my friends actually went to, track progress on goals, etc.

What I'm trying to say is that with a personal API platform, apps simply become a front end to standardized personal data. Switching costs would be reduced significantly, which would encourage a lot more innovation.

Here's a spec I've written out for my work on my own personal API. It's not done yet, and the code isn't open sourced yet, but hopefully it will inspire others to hack on the idea.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/570656/spec_public.md
An Octopress theme. It's the first repo that I've made with the intention for others to use.

https://github.com/alexgaribay/octoflat
> No. I know absolutely no people who would choose to be put in prison simply because they would be fed. I cannot imagine a wealthy society (and make no bones about it, our society is wealthy enough that people can be fed) which would permit that.

Have you seen The Green Mile? I think that's the name of the movie, where the lead character contemplating committing a crime just so life would be easier again.

Some people do chose prison; or, enough of their friends are in prison that it's not actually seen as a 'bad thing' for them to be in there. Add to that how we as a society feel about people that have come from prison and are a felon; and sometimes, life may actually be easier for some people on the inside.
I am curious as to the mathematical properties (definitions?) of the hexagonal shape that make it common in natural structures (http://www.space.com/3611-bizarre-hexagon-spotted-saturn.htm...).

I probably learned it in some chem course, and later forgot as all my math and science got applied to business :(
Most people pay more into insurance programs than they get out. That's how all forms of insurance works. Sheesh.

Ayn Rand ended up taking government benefits because she had to, not because she was trying to get back what she paid in. That's the key part.

Even if she could afford to take care of herself and was just trying to game the system to get her money back, that's morally pretty suspect, too. Imagine trying to mount the same argument about someone who deliberately crashed their car to "recover some of that money" they had to pay in insurance premiums.

Rand spent her whole life decrying people who are dependent on government assistance as looters and parasites, and then she spent the last few years of her life completely dependent on government assistance without it changing her stated beliefs. If you don't see the hypocrisy there, you're trying awfully hard not to.

She is an illustration that you can lead a successful, productive, non-moochery life and still end up needing government assistance at some point.
So, let's look at other three letter words that differ in only one character and see if a reasonable person would find them to be overly similar:

fog - dog. No.

bet - get. No.

top - pop. No.

foo - moo. No.

It's easy to say "oh, they're only one letter different" but when you're talking three letter words, that one letter carries a lot of weight, IMO.

In fact, I'd argue that something like the "macrosoft" / "microsoft" example would be a better example of something that could legitimately be confusing (albeit still a stretch) than "moz" / "doz".
Multi region failover is seriously inhibited with their current VPC setup as cross-region traffic is ridiculously complicated to get working.

We are on the "EC2 Original" setup with a Cassandra cluster operating over regions via Elastic IPs. We tried to setup a multi-region cluster on their "EC2 VPC" mode and gave up. A VPC can only span a region and currently no easy way to manage traffic between them. We looked at getting a VPN connection but the cost for a decent connection gets way prohibitive.
After reading this article, keep in mind that Andrew Auernheimer is also in a SHU, for having someone update his twitter account on his behalf.

And the reason he is in prison in the first place is for changing an integer on the end of a URL.

Do these punishments make sense to anyone?
No, it's not comparable to 227ppi on a Retina MBP, not even if it is slightly further away. Desktop monitors' ideal distance is usually arm's length, barely further away than where a laptop screen sits. This isn't enough to make a 140ppi screen appear equivalent to a "Retina" screen.
It doesn't sound like that whatsoever. Here's what I interpreted:

"If Google were pushing Go and it were on Android, it may feel as though Go's goal was political, ie another way for Google to assert control over the development process and bring people under their umbrella.

"Given that Go isn't on Android, it feels more like Google is trying to contribute a useful tool than push an agenda."

You may disagree, but that's what was implied.
The time dimension is important for diabetics, and perhaps also arguably important for non-diabetics and/or pre-diabetics.

If you're diabetic, having fruit juice handy during an insulin reaction is preferable to having a sucrose-based product, IIRC. (I had a family member who was diabetic, although it's been many years since they passed.)
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According to some random cost of living calculator I just pulled up on google, I would need 150,000$ to live in SF based on my current salary, and that is a lateral move, are there dev jobs paying 2-300k in SV?
Yes and your point is? This is exactly the point the boss of MI5 made over the Woolwich killings.

Are you seriously saying if you where caught in a third country (and expelled) trying to cross to a failed state with an Islamic insurgency that the FBI should not be able to tap their phones which is what you are implying.
Absolutely right. But who needs all that space anyway? Apartments are for sleeping...you'll spend all your waking hours at work ;)
Wait until you have kids and you want to put them through a decent school...then house prices go up to $1M easily. For a good public school district. Or you can try a private school, but they are crazy expensive and contribute nothing to your own equity.
Any tips on figuring out good startups/tech companies in the area?
Can you please stop turning every thread into a diatribe against Google or pitching open allocation as a panacea to all organizational problems?

1. Your definition of open allocation seems to be "work on whatever you want". You don't need a PhD in organizational theory to know that this doesn't scale. I think what you really mean is "I want to work on whatever I want".

3. From what I can tell, you were at Google for less than a year. Your anecdotes about Google are neither representative, accurate, nor interesting anymore.

Every time you go on a rant about Google, you alienate people who, through first or secondhand information, know that what you're saying is not representative of the organization.

Please -- moderate yourself, or you'll probably end up hellbanned.
you're an idiot. if you're so great, start your own game company.
oh wait.... you already tried and failed.

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This is actually remarkably similar to the Silicon Valley Internship Programme (http://www.siliconvalleyinternship.com) except that SVIP targets itself towards British CS/SE grads specifically.
I think you proved the usefulness of the open-ended question: filtering out people like yourself, who clearly aren't interested.
I've been spending a bit of time thinking about this lately, too. Here are the things that I think need to be answered for this to be truly useful.

* Secure access. It's great you decided to share everything publicly. I'm looking at fairly confidential data like blood tests, though.

* How do you express permissions? It's likely you'd give out sets of data, not per-url permissions. (I.e. my photos from date A to date B, in this general vicinity - your vacation pics)

* How can others discover what data sets & types you've shared?

* Related: A type description. Some events cover time ranges. Some are momentary samples. They all use different units. Some have location info attached, some don't. (I.e. my heart rate doesn't. Pictures do. Steps/day - geolocation is meaningless)

Either way, it's exciting to see people push ahead on this - many of these questions will probably be answered as we go.
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I've seen some proposals of building a train in the median of the interestate, a raised track. However, even the interstate isn't straight enough for hypersonic travel in most places, so dunno. I think 'bullet' train speeds in the 200mph realm might be feasible on existing right of ways doing that, but not sure how the hypersonic vehicle would work.
Not really. This is no different than running your own, say, Haproxy with a heartbeat between two boxes next to each other on the same rack or some such.

That Amazon now with a bit of fiddling will fail over to another region if your ELB instance is down or because it detects errors is great - but hardly bullet proof.

What if your ELB instance is ok but your app is returning garbage.. its still returning something, right? And ELB will happily forward that traffic without thinking anything is wrong.
Cool idea. Make one for NYC!
I think D has more features than C++ at this point. Also you are expected to heavily rely on the GC (the standard library itself does) which puts D into a whole different league i.e. the Python and Go league. It can never be a replacement for C++ for that reason alone.
>If you just mean that patent enforcement is inherently scummy and antagonistic, well, I have no snappy response for that.

Well then finally we can all agree that Monsanto is detrimental to the development of GMOs. No one is claiming that Monsanto is "waiting for the wind to blow IP-encumbered seeds onto fields", so that might explain why you can't find any evidence of it.

What people do have a problem with, is a patent troll and a litigious one at that. That's what Monsanto is and there are plenty of cases to prove it:

http://www.nature.com/news/monsanto-may-lose-gm-soya-royalti...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser#Schmeiser_v._Mo...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#India
We're deep in the extend phase and start to see some extinguish attempts.
A much cooler (but obsoleted by improving capacitor technology) was flywheel based pulsed energy:
http://www.bevoware.com/research/cem/IEEE/PR%2071%20Werst%20...
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A reasonable person should see that by picking such a short of name they've forfeited their right to be nitpicky about pronunciation.

My name's Ben, I've very often thought someone said Ben when they actually said something else. I don't get mad at them for saying something that sounded like "Ben". If my name was Prometheus I would have people say similar things much less often.

Seomoz certainly could have chosen a more complex name.
Forget Silicon Valley, move to the Research Triangle Park area. We have great weather, a burgeoning startup scene, great food, good public schools, great universities, "day trip" access to both the mountains and the beach, reasonable cost of living, a decent (but not spectacular) live music scene, and the largest research park in the world[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park
Only in that they both end with "oz" and sound nothing alike, don't share any common meaning, and have no other obvious connection. Personally, I don't see how anybody could ever confuse those two words.

Right, because everybody has perfect memory of everything they've heard in the past. No wait, it's actually quite the opposite. People have crappy memory, especially for things they're not already familiar with. Neither word has any meaning to an English speaker, but they sounds very similar. I can easily imagine how someone might get confused.

If someone else launched a company "Fogdeam", which sold similar software to yours, surely you'd go after them.
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Ok, I'm almost convinced - at least I'll give Elixir a try after I finish with Joxa. Any tips for someone who would like to learn Elixir fast? Is the "Getting Started" on Elixir page OK or should I search somewhere else?

As for Scala and CoffeeScript... well, that's a tough one. On some level they are very similar, but the differences are huge. I'd say they both, and Elixir, are in the same class of things with CS being on the lower level than Scala and Elixir.
There are some languages that are so difficult that they have never been successfully learned as a foreign language and are only spoken by native speakers who started at birth.

I am enormously skeptical of this claim, and would like to see evidence for it - and it would have to show that people had made significant efforts to learn the language, had access to a level of resources similar to those available for other languages, etc. I suspect that the examples that would actually come up would be some dying tribal language where nobody has been able to learn it properly from the remaining three grandparents who speak it, which is in no way evidence for 'the language was simply too difficult'.
GMO might be different, but people are going to err on the side of caution.

All the hype about how GMO will end hunger and nutritional deficiencies and such is part of the problem. I'd say at this point breathless hype is seen as a contrarian indicator.
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So the CIA station officer has a word with his counterpart - hint south Americas security services don't exactly have a shining record.
Take what you can get. The biggest obstacle right now is getting over the 1080p "hump"; once 4K is common, you'll see a variety of sizes available.
Once you get above a certain population density (and India is way beyond that), you have to apply significant technology to the problem. Example: London in the 1840's, where there were repeated cholera epidemics. Their solution was to build over 100 miles of sewage line to move it closer to the ocean. That's not an option in much of India (the Ganges and other major rivers are already toxic with human waste), so they'll have to spend hundreds of millions of rupees on advanced treatment & reclamation systems.
> and don't forget the ever-present parking enforcers. I pay $100/month in accidental tickets

A sad reality.
Take a look at how Dan Martell's clarity.fm handles the scheduling issues.

They have a really nice "rule of 3" UI process (it's easier for humans to pick 3 times, or narrow 1 of 3) for each side selecting availability, and then match down from there through a back-and-forth until a mutual fit happens.

As a business/purpose model, it's quite similar; one side wants consultation and the other wants to get paid. This means it should be solving very similar commitment level issues when it comes to the scheduling hurdles.