skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be Priceonomic's MO. See their earlier article entitled "Diamonds are Bullshit". It's largely the same (a few non-controversial facts mixed in with anecdotes and straw man arguments)
Great work guys. It shows.
> No one is saying that opinions aren't important. What they're saying is that their place isn't StackOverflow

And that's where you wrong, they would fit perfectly if you made an effort to accommodate them instead of being dogmatic about them.
We define the word habitable to be the ability for a planet to have life on it. But that is by standards of Oxygen/Nitrogen breathing, H20 drinking lifeforms. Who's to say that there aren't carbon life forms that have evolved to live off elements that are toxic to us
Running a business vs not is already pretty well established in tax law.
Is it that hard to separate 'I like' from 'is good'? Wine flavors are often described as citrusy or fruity. What happens if you didn't like citrus, and drank a wine that had a very good but Citrus flavor. You would not like the wine but it wouldn't be crap. Or going the other way if you like Twinkies you shouldn't be under the impression that they are a culinary delicacy.
Aaah, very interesting. That is a much more elegant solution.
this.

I would add, I usually give myself twenty four hours between drafting and submission of any seriously emotionally charged communications.

sometimes you don't need it, but you want to be as calm (hah) as possible.
Yes, poor people take cabs.
That guy has balls of steel and fame to fall back on. While I think Elon is a man to be admired I wouldn't recommend copying all his decisions.
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/nsa-whistleblowers-for-dum...

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/nsa-whistleblowers-for-dum...
A semi-smart terrorist could get in a Battlefield 3 server and talk about blowing stuff up with his terror buddies and no one would think anything of it. Context is Key, do you think the NSA monitors all game servers worldwide? No? hmm.. Well then who are they really trying to spy on?
There does seem to be some sort of difference between the beer world (and to a lesser extent scotch) and the wine world.

Not one single beer enthusiast is going to confuse a Rochefort with a Dogfish Head IPA. Doesn't matter what bottle it comes in, or if you are blindfolded or what. Same thing with Laphroaig and Dewers. There are simply different drinks.

Now it is entirely possible, probable even, that marketing, labeling and price has an effect on which beers or scotches you identify as good, but that's different from treating things that are indistinguishable as distinguishable.
The Newsroom had a storyline about PRISM
I was watching The Newsroom and in episode 8 they have a story line about a source in the NSA who has evidence on a big data program used to illegally wiretap Americans.

It is not exactly as PRISM, but pretty darn close. It was to be expected that the American government was doing such a thing but I found it remarkable that it was so close.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2362655/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
It's not a micro-improvement on my phone. It's an additional device.
I had the same thought as I read it again. The results of too many emotionless requirements/business/functional documents.
I would imagine that behavior precisely why these sorts of regulations arose in the first place.
the impact/influence/experimental marketing world has a few source texts and starting points but by and large we keep that stuff in-house.

people get upset when they realize "ten cool uses for Milk" is an ad for milk...
There is Open Dylan http://opendylan.org/ and it actually seems to be actively developed from the looks of it.
>"Which is better, Ruby or PHP?"

Note that this would fit perfectly in the "too broad" reason for closing.
You mean to say that taste is subjective? What's next? Music and Cinema?
It's not even a one-way trip unless you count procreation. It's likely a part-of-the-way-then-die trip.
That would be difficult. Our positive experience was certainly a direct connection to the welcome nature of the product development team and the sales and evangelism teams. Without them, we would have had a much more difficult time making inroads into a sales channel.

I'm sorry about your experience and I really hope it's the exception and not the rule.
You have to use click and drag to move around, scrolling probably would have been a bit more obvious...
It seems that they weren't very effective...
Of course there's need to analyze it. Understanding why "it tastes good", why "some tastes better than others", and - oft overlooked - what leads to a reliably enjoyable experience for which you are willing to shell out considerably more money on a regular basis, necessitates analyzing it. As for the conspiracy, some do exist (taking shortcuts to larger profits), but most are imputed because the ignorant don't believe there is any objective backing to what they don't understand.
Food for thought: What is the flavor of "crushed red fruit" anyway? Cherries, strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, and tomatoes are all red. Oh, and watermelon (unless you count the outside). They don't taste very much alike.
> Most users just don't care that they are anonymously being tracked or monitored.

Most users don't know, because you didn't tell them.

> Anon analytics make better apps.

Highly debatable.
...it's stuff like this that makes me think i'll never be able to cut it as a professional web developer... I would never even consider making something this bloated. I'd complain that the UI is a terrible, pointless bit of eye candy that adds no value to anything. 'You shouldn't need a physics engine to navigate a website', I would protest, and then they would show me the door...
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It doesn't appear that greghinch was harping on the semantics. He's harping on the frustration about investors getting to call the shots on feature X or schedule Y.

As I understand it, that's the startup game. If you want to call the shots and build your own dream, don't take the money.

Makes perfect sense to me.
> I would argue that all granted monopolies are flawed models.

Sure, granted monopolies are (at best) a blunt instrument for internalizing externalities; the questions aren't whether they are imperfect (they are), the question is whether more finely-tuned mechanisms of internalizing the externalities have their own costs which outweigh the benefits. (Also, of course, whether the externalities are accurately assessed.)

> Either they require the use of force to prevent illicit competitors (who are making consensual business transactions with customers)

You seem to suggest that consensual business transactions are always desirable, which (even making the usual assumptions that make this true when considering only the effects on the direct participants) only is sensible if you completely discount the possibility of externalities.
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Everyone knows Star Trek films are terrible. :)
> 3. How they defeat the warhead's PAL.

Not that I think this whole scenario is a credible threat, but I would say (barring an explosive anti-tamper mechanism): spend a weekend in a shed beating the shit out of it with a sledgehammer.

The core material is the important part, the rest you can reconstruct yourself.

(If there is an explosive anti-tamper mechanism, you might have some luck with those water-jet bomb disarmers.)
Nothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music

Please support that argument with evidence.
A better forum does exist. http://www.slant.co/
I don't think that having different transit prices in different regions is itself a market failure. I disagree with the implication that the only two options are universal same-price coverage and certain regions having no service. The regions you mentioned (which I'm assuming are either rough or remote) would most likely simply have higher prices than downtown areas.
headsets don't cover your face. big difference.
I was having the same issue... I've had fun with the classic platform emulators so far.. but really hoping for more... would have expected a "Media" section, not just "Apps" for media streaming as well. I also am not as nearly impressed as some with the controllers... really stiff buttons.
The creator of this (Mat Groves) is also behind [pixi.js](https://github.com/GoodBoyDigital/pixi.js).

As an aside, I love the sound effects. I actually wish more websites played subtle "pops" and "clicks" when I interact with them. I can't quantify this, but I think those types of sound effects are one of the reasons why mobile apps feel so snappy. Clear is a good example.

I'm surprised that I haven't heard anybody complain about sound on mobile apps. I have two theories as to why this is:

1. The context is different. People use computers in quiet offices where they're expected to be working. Zips & zaps doesn't sound like Excel.
2. The mute button is physically closer. Muting an iPad feels much less interruptive than clicking the sound icon and dragging the slider down.

I'm seeing more and more front-end developers learning the fundamentals of animation and illustration. I predict that I'll start seeing the same with sound design too.
If that argument were valid, none of the current taxi companies would buy transportation licenses or commercial insurance.
Then they are lucky Uber exists. Don't believe in your purported indirect harm, do believe in downward price pressure, and upward quality pressure.
Absolutely.

If you're starting up you should be questioning the ROI on everything--and trying to figure out what it may be for a VC is part of that.

There's no free l(a)unch.
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I tried to watch a video of Portal. I failed.

It was clear to me that increasing the field of view would not help.
There are many uses for the profesional. Most of them related to imagery processing I guess, and reporting.

For example:

1. A police will start a suspect detention, then he starts recording the procedure as well his partner, so that video goes directly to the cloud and the police station officers can have for later reviews. This could be really nice for example it would provide many point of views of the action done and a police would not be charged for abuse of force if everything is recorded and, a citizen can be protected in case the officer abuses force.

2. inventorying. Scanning code bars, access items in a database, ask for availability, many things related to store management can be done by employees.

3. Medical: doctors can record procedures and save the images/videos to their systems, they can ask talk other doctors for opinions without even picking a phone. They can check a patient historial with better specifics. They can access facts inmmidiately, like "What's the level of O(2) blood has in case X, with person who drink remedy Y". Imagine the possibilities. Or access a vademecum, etc.

There are many uses. More than the ones I would use for fun i guess.
That would be a pretty miserable 3 months. Can humans stay conscious for long at 9G?
It's one thing to make it illegal for cabbies to do that.

It's another thing to actually stop them.

A "requirement" that taxis service a neighborhood is a sop. Call up and ask for a cab from someplace they don't want to service and they'll say "be there in 30-45 minutes," aka "go away."
Hell I used to eat fish I yanked out of the dirty stink hole that was the river Thames in London when I was a kid in the 1980's.

Still here three decades later.

Not everything is going to kill you.
no it's not, it's growable+cloneable.
FB's data structures are hugely messy and decentralized. There's so much information that even FB can't reliably delete all of it for an individual user. Instead, they erase or hash the IDs that represent you in the system, insuring that the links between your data and the front-end are broken.

The jobs that do this are scheduled, and every time you log in you create new IDs and nodes in the cache, which means they have to rerun the processes that erase the data. The delays are probably related to that.
> Wait, poor people take cabs? Isn't the primary cheap mode of transportation in a large city the bus and train system?

Buses and trains, in many cities, don't go everywhere, and don't always run when you need to go, so, yes, poor people take cabs.
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Yes, some people will do silly things.

I was familiar with both those stories, and neither is about the NSA hacking into domestic computers (by which I mean, computers in the USA, which is "domestic" for the NSA). Voluntary cooperation by firms is not the same as the NSA surreptitiously installing keyloggers.
Still no rbenv love?
Which country? We were in the UK and is was the guys from Reading (partner support).
> You seem to suggest that consensual business transactions are always desirable, which (even making the usual assumptions that make this true when considering only the effects on the direct participants) only is sensible if you completely discount the possibility of externalities.

Not at all. I recognize the existence and inevitability of market failures. I just think that regulations will lead to more market failures ("government failures") and will (on average) decrease economic efficiency.
no i'm not
There has been some precedent with this... Oracle Spatial does this, and wrappers for SemWeb projects like d2rq do this.
Raw?

Edit: Even if so, I don't really care. Your attitude is the same one people use to justify all sorts of uselessly stupid things right up until it hurts them or someone they love, then suddenly they're not so tough.
"I know," says spook1 to spook2, "We'll put up a web page where the rubes can enter their address, and have it automatically send them a FOIA_GLOMAR_GO_JUMP_IN_A_LAKE_HA_HA.pdf"
Just like you can't expect a scorpion not to sting? So far, the main argument for the continued existence of secret police A is the existence of antagonistic secret police B. Even the "bad guys".

Sounds like a great opportunity for an AI of the future: "find any group of people working together against everyone else, start subtracting members from the group until coherence reaches 0". That would deal with the spooks and the ones that create work for them in one swoop. Ahhh, I can dream, can't I.
This reminded me of a basic consumer thing that must have a name and several good discussions, could someone help me out here? The thing (framed as wine)-

Lots of people like some accessible, simple tasty wine. Some keep drinking it, others develop a taste for some other wine based on their initial like of the first wine. Some of that group then develop another taste based on the second (which was based on the first), and so on. The point is that by getting one wine a couple times, you tire of it, and it also prepares you palette/preferences to really like something that has some continuities and some contrasts with it. It seems like the audience narrows as you go through each step, partially because you probably won't appreciate the Nth wine until you have gone through the others, in order more or less. As you go along this chain, you are more willing to pay higher and higher the further you go.

Some other chains I could think of like this (minus the "paying more as you go" where it doesn't really apply): Music genres, Coffee (almost any food really), Fetish porn, Text editors, so many more...

What is this concept called?
you're accepting it. Just by mere being present while your freedoms and rights are being raped, you're accepting it. Something along the lines of "estoppel" and "laches" concepts.
What you're thinking while it happens - doesn't matter as you'll get used to it with time.
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EDIT: I had previously asked what exactly Docker is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wW9C... gives a super quick overview. Very interesting technology.
Love all those use cases. I wonder if their launch would have been more successful if they picked one of the above, gave it away for free to X doctors at St. Luke's in NYC with software adapted to their niche, and waited for word to spread about how useful they were for doctors and had metrics for the impact they had.

Your examples make me think of segways...great for cops apparently...but not so awesome for domestic use cases.
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You're just missing the point. This site is designed to be fun and engaging. The physics and sound accomplish that goal.
We have those life forms here already=) Microbes that eat arsenic. I am sure there are a lot more examples in extreme areas of our planet if there was a bigger budget to find them.
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The Sleepy City site is also a great time sink:

http://sleepycity.net/
I do think dtrace is awesome, and would certainly not make an argument against using it. We may very well use it in the future.

There was no active decision not to use it at dotCloud, our "visibility toolbox" is simply based on other tools - a combination of collectd, nagios, distributed rpc tracing, active and passive checks from the http frontends, and a decent logging setup. I'm sure you could accomplish this with dtrace and probably a dozen other tools, but I guess the same is true for every problem. At some point you just choose a tool that works and move on to the next problem.
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This looks like an easy way to get basic user feedback without thinking too hard, but "you're gonna want this" is a bit over-enthusiastic.
Asking permission to record a crash is very different than silently sending user-identifiable data to Google (or elsewhere).
A poor person sometimes needs to go someplace very specific on short notice.

Of course, in some cities the cabs don't go the places they are technically "required" to go -- they give a very long estimate of arrival as a way of getting you to go away. Or don't show up at all. I suspect this varies a lot by geographical location.
I've never had a problem calling a cab to get to SFO, which I've done over 20 times. Calling a cab to get to the airport is probably the least painful cab usage scenario in SF. Uber doesn't do much to improve upon that situation, but does make it about 20 dollars more expensive.

The worst cab situation in SF is trying to find a cab at night, which Uber has greatly improved upon.
I'm guessing all Commerical OSINT is. I read http://kgsnightwatch.com nightly and used to read the DHS OSINT open source report daily. (Both are available to the general public.) I want to be informed as a citizen and as a human being living on this planet where the events of the world do effect us.
On top of those we have Twitter, which is really kind of one sided when you're limited to English language views of the middle east conflicts and social struggles.
Well, the legislatures of many cities don't agree with you.
Well to be a bit more accurate, the media will interview them but with kid gloves. The last time a TV station aired someone obliquely criticizing the MQM political party (as Vice did), all the cars in their parking lot got torched and the windows got shot out of their studio while they were broadcasting live.
There's a Youtube series called 'So you think you know wine' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGNMpqfwhUk

Each episode is a blind taste teste of a single wine with 4 experts who are asked to guess the varietal, country, region, year and price. They don't always get it right, but they're significantly more accurate than you would expect if wine was a hoax.
Products like CipherCloud reportedly work like you suggest. Unfortunately it's not very secure.

If you split the text into words, discard case and encrypt each word, the NSA can just e-mail you a dictionary file, match the line numbers in the dictionary file ciphertext to line numbers in the dictionary file plaintext, and they've got your secret decoder ring (at least for every word in the dictionary file).
I have been on the grand interwebs for a good long while now, and I don't think that I have ever once clicked to respond to a "help us improve our website" or similar surveys. And I'm usually a sucker for surveys. Maybe this will be different, but I don't think I'd see myself ever responding to this one either.

I wonder what Google's getting at here?
I'm really sad to hear about this. Dr Martin was an amazing man. His work helped change our world, but few people have heard of him.

Most of all, I respect his philanthropy. He cared about cost-effective philanthropy. He focused on the most important problems facing humanity -- I think he more or less bankrolled the field of existential risk research.
Not one single cork dork is going to confuse a late harvest reisling with a dry sparkling wine with a chianti either and yet reliably once or twice a year some one brings up that oh hey look some people can be tricked into thinking an unspecific white is red, as if that were the only distinction between wines.
Wine? i don't think so. i know it's difficult to get working, but with a bit of coaxing it's actually pretty compata..

oh. the alcoholic drink produced from fermented grapes.
There is some research in this area, e.g. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/se.pdf
If your business deals with a lot of fraud, it's very useful to add it to your metrics.
Is the rationale behind PRISM really terrorism?

Here in Germany there's a lot of talk that PRISM is ultimately a tool for industry espionage. The Boundless Informant world map shows Germany in bright orange. People are wondering: Is Germany breeding terrorists or is NSA simply interested in trade secrets?

Going by that logic, terrorism is a red herring. By making details about PRISM and NSA's hacking activities public, Snowden is undermining the US's ability to covertly vacuum up trade secrets, thus weakening the US industry. That's why the US government is freaking out. You can bet that German companies are now reconsidering using cloud services hosted in the US, or cloud services at all, or American (closed source / potentially backdoored) software at all.
Did Roger Ebert ever give 4 stars to a movie he didn't like?

Often. He frequently made clear on the point that he gave high ratings to movies which achieved what they set out to do, and did so with skill ... even if he didn't particularly "like" it.

No, I don't remember a suitable example off hand. ...though the closest I do recall is The Human Centipede: he refused to give it an N-star rating at all, because it earned 4 stars for its quality for achieving what it set out to do, and zero stars because it was so hideously offensive nobody should see it; unable to reconcile the two, he just didn't.

ETA: That's summarizing what I recall him writing about it, which includes material beyond the official review thereof.
Keep in mind that McDonald's is an established brand. They don't have to explain what "McDonald's" is anymore -- they're past that point. Now, they have to convince you to eat there by associating themselves with health-conscious imagery and family-oriented messaging.

This is an attempt to make McDonald's seem more "fun" than the average restaurant.

Most companies looking to build a web site are trying to solve a totally different problem because most companies are still trying to explain who they are. You definitely don't need a physics engine to explain who you are.
The Muddy Pig still exists.
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Take a look at http://useartisan.com/

Basically, it removes the 2-week development cycle, and you can essentially make changes in real time. I've seen it demo'ed, and it's much more impressive than the website makes it out to be.