skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to argue originally that the original iPhone is a nice example, if you compare it to other 2007 high end phones like the N95, but a theoretically perhaps clearer example is the evolution of soccer formations, they evolve to beat the currently used formations. To pick a specific example, the 4-4-2 with diamond midfield is a formation which is good in two situations, beating itself and being perfectly suited to the 1998-2000 French international squad, which did win the World and European Championship. After this success suddenly everybody wanted to play a 4-4-2 diamond. Interestingly it is not very good against the dominant formation of the late nineties, the 4-4-2 with flat midfield.[1] The solution to this problem was the development of the modern full back, [2] and suddenly the best players are playing the position with the least influence. And this in turn leads to shifts in tactics, such that the full back position can more easily join the attack. [3] So I would argue, that if France did not have the specific players they had in the late nineties, then modern football would look very different than it actually does. Especially we would still see very unremarkable players at full back.

[1] A flat midfield has two wingers on each side, a diamond midfield only one.

[2] http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/01/19/twtc-the-advent-of-at...

[3] http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/04/22/is-the-sweeper-set-fo...
Isn't it obvious? They want you working as an engineer.

Their goal is to generate revenue. They don't want a vacancy on the team that's supposed to be generating revenue. Your jump to the statistics team makes their engineering team look like a sinking ship.
Userbase. If you don't develop for iOS and your target market is using iOS you are losing out on A LOT.
Wikileaks blockade is a good example of the power that can be used when parties fail to come to an agreement.

Most companies though prefer to settle out of court because the court is quite a gambling, that's why we do not hear it more often.
It looks like it was created in FrontPage 98. That said, the buttons on the left work and he is actually running a small business selling computer products and services (such as programming @ $90/hr).
If you were in a one-party consent state (ideally without notification required), you could just transmit audio logs of "all incoming phone calls, for customer service and quality control purposes" to a third party, and the third party could choose which to publish. The third party would be under no obligation to keep it secret, and the caller would not know which third party to contact to get an injunction to prevent publication.
It would be more easy for you to switch to other providers if you own your domain - now you know why Google removed the free Google app for custom domain last year...Don't forget the story of XMPP, who know they will not remove pop3/imap access in the future because these standards are not able to catch up the Gmail's upcoming revolutionary features?

After all, all these moves are understandable - they now have nearly 50K employees, shareholders have high expectation on the "growth" and they need to invest on projects like glasses, self driving car and maybe mars exploration! Where does the money come from? I would expect Google will receive less criticism if they simply remove the "Don't be evil" from their company motto - then we can say Microsoft/Yahoo! is doing the same thing, why complain?
I love read receipts (of iMessage variety). They make my life easier. Notably, I don't have much to hide, and I don't let social pressure affect my behaviour much.

I honestly don't mind letting people know that I've read their message, and read receipts does that automatically for me.

One of the advantages is that I can go afk without having to announce it. The person will see that their messages are no longer being read.

(Note that it's possible to "peek" at iMessages without them being marked as read, and that's one of the reasons I like the way Apple has done it. From what I gather, this is less so with Facebook messages.)
> IMO

Note: science is not about your opinion.

> unambiguity is essential

Is it? We function in the presence of ambiguity all the time. Sometimes, we let the ambiguity ride. Sometimes, we take a sentence that is (by itself) ambiguous and let the context disambiguate it. Sometimes, we use the ambiguity for some rhetorical purpose and then resolve it later. There are many sources of ambiguity in natural language---it's one of the things that makes NLP so damn hard---and you can't wave that away by saying that everybody is doing it wrong. (Not that generations of prescriptivist grammarians haven't tried.)

> Usually modifiers attach to the closest thing they can, as a matter of well-established convention.

First of all, attachment ambiguity is a difficult NLP problem specifically because modifiers don't always attach to "the closest thing they can". Second, to the extent that the statement is true (that low, i.e. "closer", attachment has a higher prior probability than high attachment), it is not a matter of "convention" but a fact about the grammar of a language. Third, "not" is special in all sorts of ways (as is negation in general, in many languages, not just English), and as I mentioned before, this specific kind of ambiguity is well-known, and interesting because it seems so strange, and once again you can't just wave the logic stick and declare that it ought not to be so.
They were mirroring the port of a single server, not capturing all traffic to the entire site. The TOR node would have been unaffected.
Exactly. Major elections arre infrequent. Nate got his start with sports. Let him do sports the majority of the time, but when elections come around, give him an outlet to do politics as well. Disney is a pefect fit.
> Anybody who wants to sue you must post a $25k USD bond to the Nevis government before even proceeding.

Why would they do that? o_O

They will file at their local US court. You're free to sell to Nevis all that you want -- but do not come with your product into US until the US litigation is won.
It is, probably, the stupidest pagination scheme i've ever seen.

Though back in the day, I thought using form dropdown lists for page navigation was cool too. Of course I never had 500+ pages either.. and I got over it.
Well there's a lot of difference in all those games, and they're going to attract different types of players. Just compare Sword Girls with Solforge, for instance.

Just as important if not more than competing with other games is competing for awareness. I've done surveys of what other games people play, and the majority of players know about Magic but are unaware of the other games out there.

So I'm not overly concerned but I have done my research and follow what the other games are doing.
The Courts answer to that concern is: If you don't like the Executive, pick a better President.

Ultimately, this is a systemic problem, and it's not clear it's even possible for a small number of people to fix.
The USA has three branches of government, intend to help solve this problem. The federal government is not the top-level enforcer. The govt is for the people. The people are the top-level enforcer.

"The tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
But could the FISA court order the datacenter operator to loop the feed? We'd never know. And that's scary.
"Save Github" is a ridiculous title, I don't think Github is anywhere close to having a problem. They've also got a lot of really smart employees and I don't know what to contribute that they wouldn't already think of. Web services have outages. Github's outages are not significant to me in any way.
Well, could someone make a Greasemonkey script for this?
I'd do it myself, but I'm not familiar with scripting extensions.
I don't disagree with you, but it took me all of 2 seconds to disable the new tabs. I haven't seen any of the ads mentioned in the original tweet, so maybe this is a solution?

To do it: Hit the Plus sign at the edge of the tabs, and uncheck everything except Primary. You'll be displayed a message saying that you disabled the new tabs.
President Obama Speaks on Trayvon Martin
Stick to the comments about node and ember, guys. Your views about humanity, civilization, and anthropology make me embarrassed for you.
There are whole categories of new startups that cater to e-commerce sites:

* new analytics tools that understand the need to segment customers and track LTV

* abandoned cart recovery

* automating lifecycle e-mails

* making e-mail marketing easier for non-technical store owners

* connecting stores to all the comparison shopping / product ad sites with their separate feed formats (Google Shopping / Amazon Product Ads / Shopzilla / etc)

* rehosting stores to multiple platforms (e.g. take your Shopify store and sell on Facebook)

* automating fulfillment or quoting and purchasing individual shipping labels for small sellers

* improving customer service

If you're interested in who's servicing e-commerce companies, just look at the app stores of the new generation of e-commerce hosts like Shopify: http://apps.shopify.com/
Right. The troll was just bluffing when he was saying: "You’ll stay in business and license from us, or you’ll go out of business".

He's just joking, right? Surely he has neither tools nor intentions to put someone out of business?
Unsurprisingly, car insurance has a high cost per click rate.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2095210/How-Google-Make...

maximum $54.91 per click back in 2011.

Since then, the ranking has been taken over by mesothelioma lawyers.

http://www.spyfu.com/TopList.aspx?listId=3

$370.53 per click.
I wonder if it's better to return an "optimized" DNS MX record or just anycast.
They could, but they would have to change their TOS, which business customers would have to agree to. Most of these customers would not, thus destroying this portion of Google's business, so they would never do that. Ads are not a part of Google's Enterprise business model. I don't know how to state this more clearly.
I do not believe for one second that you would say anything to the effect of "Microsoft doesn't owe you that" in response to her reacting to the change

Why not? My mother's no idiot; she may not understand the intricacies of her computer works but she doesn't expect Microsoft to automatically accommodate her tastes any more than she expects Volvo to keep making her favorite model from the 80s. If anything she helped instill this attitude in me when I expressed disappointment about my favorite kids TV shows going away. As a consumer I don't expect producers to be sentimental about their offerings; if I think some particular change is foolish then I argue that on economic grounds (but if it turns out to be the profitable thing to do, then I have to accept I was wrong).

I mean, there are certainly choices I'd like corporations to make - I'm into synthesizers, for example, and I really wish that Roland corporation would start issuing TB-303s again, especially now that their competitors have chosen to resissue some of their classic designs at affordable prices. But after analyzing the numbers and potential profit margins, I'm 99% certain that it's Not Going To Happen no matter how much I and my fellow synth geeks beg for it. It's not worth the risk involved, and they don't owe me such a product. (On the other hand, it would make good economic sesnse for them to reissue certain classic drum machines...)

Not so in the New Coke case. Nobody bought a lifetime subscription of Coke.

They bought bottles and cans of Coke, and when they discovered that they didn't like the taste of New Coke I presume the they stopped purchasing it. I guarantee that Coke executives paid a great deal more to consumers' behavior than whatever it was they said.
Physics is just mindblowing. When I think deeply about the fact that things that are moving will keep on moving forever unless a force acts on them, and the fact that no one knows why it's true (and that the question may not even have any meaning), and that my body is nothing more than a very advanced method of propagating genetics, then... well, it's just a lot of fun to think about!

The fact that there are mysteries that no life will ever have answers to is quite humbling.

If you find physics interesting, then you'll love these Feynman lectures. Feynman is so good at explaining these concepts that you don't even need any formal training to understand them.

Lecture 1: The Law of Gravitation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk&list=PL8976CAAD2A...

Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics to Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0xTfdt6qw&list=UUR3AOHJ5xJv...

Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_IfV9fkBhk&list=UUR3AOHJ5xJv...

Lecture 4: Symmetry in Physical Law http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6o1cDxV7o&list=UUR3AOHJ5xJv...

Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6o1cDxV7o&list=UUR3AOHJ5xJv...

Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja0HSFj8Imc
Every time I see that quote I'm forced to wonder whether the person making it is really willing to take a gun and a rope and go out into the streets and start shooting representatives and hanging their corpses from lampposts as an example to the others, until their demands are met.

This is not addressed to, or accusing you, specifically. I'm just sick of hearing the bloody rhetoric.
With our VPN thing we're doing "nearest hop to destination outroute" for traffic (essentially the opposite of most network providers who try to get shit off their net as fast as possible); doing the same thing for incoming for services is essentially what CDNs do. A CDN you could trust (for policy + technical reasons) to handle this kind of thing for all kinds of traffic, combined with DoS protection like CF or Prolexic, would be kind of baller.
Not significantly simpler. I'd imagine that the module that parses malformed HTML into a hierarchy is separate from any rendering-related behavior. EDIT: But I'd love to be proven wrong.
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OTOH they outsource a lot. From the people I've talked to at vendors "they (Apple) just don't fucking care" is what I've been hearing on this incident, which makes me think it's nothing technically interesting.
There are also lot of people making a lot of money in the energy industry. Is it time for Microsoft to start drilling for oil, too?

"Mobile" has little overlap with the markets that MS has built 30 years of competitive advantage in. Phones and tablets are not general substitutes for PCS.

Microsoft's venture into the "mobile" market has resulted in them slapping the Windows name on products that are almost - but not quite - entirely unlike Windows, and this has brought a good deal of frustration to many people.
> Taking the web owners rights out of the equation, ...

Why would you do that?
While I'm sad that Nate Silver is leaving the Times (I work there), I'm also really excited to see what he's going to be able to do with all the sports data that ESPN has. I'm expecting incredible things to come.
Few personal computers had protected memory until the late 1980s. Unix didn't run on PC or Mac until protected memory hardware was available.

Emulation was always popular, and it is a type of virtualization. Few people wanted to emulate the same platform they already had. Pure software emulators were pretty slow in the 1980's, unless the target platform had the same cpu as the host.

My family had an Amiga and we had both a bridge board and an A-Max. The bridge board was a full PC on an expansion card, so its not really a VM. The A-Max was more like a VM. Its hardware contained the Apple ROMs and a floppy disk interface because the Amiga floppy drive could not read Mac disks. The software used the ROMs and Apple floppy drive to emulate a Mac.

Now that I think about it, I think the real reason was ram and to a lesser degree hard drive space. My first encounter with virtualization in Linux happened when most people were running between 8 and 64mb of ram. 64mb of ram was very expensive. That's a pretty big constraint.
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Thomas has explained this in more detail, but:

+ The minimum billing increment switching to 8x your 40x your previous increment will, by itself, scare away the worst pathological clients in the pool. (If you have a $50 hourly rate, some clients might naively assume that they can get meaningful software development done in 3 hours. Where's my website? I've paid for three whole hours. What do you mean you're still setting up the dev environment?)

+ If you bill hourly, you have to account for your time in fractions of an hour. This will lead to more overhead (spend 17 minutes on a phone call? Record that fact somewhere! Maybe dicker over whether it's really .25 hours or .5 hours and whether this totally inconsequential $12 difference matters to the client.), more stress from your client reviewing your work on a minute-to-minute basis, and more friction about clients misunderstanding the nature of knowledge work. I can't just slam keys for 8 hours straight, and you wouldn't want me to do that if I could.

+ [I'll add something here in a moment but Ruriko wants breakfast.]

Good clients don't care about you charging daily/weekly. I never lost a client over it. I'm the professional, my standard practice for doing my thing is the standard way for working with me. If you can't deal with that, that's fine, there are other people out there. (Relatedly, I never, not even once, got a contract from a "job posting.")
Your statements are all valid, but it still doesn't detract from the parent's statement that [sic] something about companies being paid to spy on users is just plain wrong.
nissan.co takes me to a super shady website.
http://betterlivinginsider.com/biz/AU/lp01A.htm?t202id=79166...
Ditto here, K-9 + FM works as well as any desktop IMAP client that I have.
> a final injunction which allowed Nissan Computer Corporation to maintain control of the domains Nissan.com and Nissan.net so long as it neither advertised nor mentioned/made disparaging comments about Nissan Motor.

First thing I see on nissan.com is a massive "Nissan's motor lawsuite against us" with crossed Nissan logos and "it could happen to you too", then a massive ad below this. Doesn't Nissan have a case that not only he doesn't respect his side of the bargain but he's obviously using Nissan's popularity for his own benefit?
That they violently defend themselves is of course a highly complicating factor.

I feel that this is a choice of theirs that should be respected rather than considered as an inconvenient obstacle. True, it's an ignorant choice, but nothing is preventing them taking a more curious stance.
The xbox is such a small percentage of Ms overall sales, id highly doubt it...plus Amazon and other retailers have sold out of pre orders already
Codeschool to Internship
Well hold on... Karl Rove refuses to concede that he's actually left.
I and I think everyone else heard of spaced repetition software from that Wired article in ... 2007, was it?

Here's my favourite writeup so far:

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html

My main problem is having a fixed time to do the reviews.

The second "problem" is that repetition just helps you to remember. Until you understand what you're memorising, it's useless. (This is the first thing you're told, but I'll tell you again).

So the truly hard work -- wrestling with material until you get it -- is still there. You just get to cut down on how often you'll have to do it in future.
The Riseup folks had a webcam running when one of their servers was seized for running an anonymous remailer. The FBI returned the server two weeks later, without ever notifying anyone that it had been seized or returned.

https://mayfirst.org/fbi-returns-server
8 hours later, no response. Somehow I'm not surprised.
Sounds like you're juggling C, C++, Ruby, Python and Javascript. You must have one busy schedule.
...except Canonical has done a ton of work over the last decade to make Linux accessible to casual users. That said, your viewpoint is the party line in the webdev crowd. And at this point, I'm not sure why I should give a flying fuck, because there isn't anything that Canonical or the Linux community can do to convince Apple devotees otherwise.

I've been using Linux for the past several years without any issues with its design or integration, and I haven't had to "fiddle endlessly". And I'll continue to do so, regardless of what most everyone else thinks and says. Although it is quite hilarious when people express amazement at the fact that I don't own any Apple products.
Articles like this make me wonder if one of the reasons Steam opted to open up Linux support was in the event that Microsoft imploded and Windows no longer was a viable gaming platform they would still have a decent target. Seems far fetched, but you never know these days. People sure do complain about Windows 8 a lot. I don't mind it, but I'm just one guy.

I don't immediately see how this would all happen in the short term, but stuff like this tends to catch a lot of folks off guard.
No one is saying that its their right to have their blog indexed, they are simply expressing dissatisfaction with a change in service, which is a completely fair way for consumers of a product to interact with its creators. Tumblr has every right to not grant it, users have every right to be upset. Tumblr also has the right to remove EVERY blog of theirs from indexing, that's not the point.
I upvoted you, but understand that people are thinking with their gut (Stephen Colbert "Truthiness"-style) on this issue. We as a community seem to be embracing "no surveillance ever" over "spy on our enemies". I'm not sure I can disagree with it, but it's definitely not for the most noble/informed reasons.
Rudd announces deal to send all asylum boat arrivals to Papua New Guinea
Which? How? Did they do a writeup about their experiences?
This sounds like something that warrants a hyperlink, even when considering the cost of making one.
I don't think we're going to get anywhere further in this conversation, although I really appreciate everything you've posted so far, and I heartily second your recommendation of Okasaki's book, even though I haven't finished it myself. And I hope that I have avoided being anything like Erik Naggum in this conversation, despite my frustrations.
Here is the VC question: how are you making money off a box in the living room? Who is buying it? Why?

What does it bring that a tivo that plays netflix and hulu doesn't already? Of anyone I know, they either have no cable (younger gen), where they just hook a computer into the tv to watch online content, they have cable and a tivo or provider DVR (mid aged families) or they are >60 years old, don't want anything to change, and can't learn to use a dvr even when I guide them through it (my grandparents).

Who is your audience? Why? What value are you delivering they don't already have in their living room? How is that going to save your company? How is an xbox one, which, while not sale-subsidized by license fees like the 360 or ps3 were, isn't making you healthy margins but supposed to provide revenue generation?
I've been on the "Enhanced" plan for years now and have at least a dozen domains and maybe a dozen and a half email addresses configured. FM will also let you (if not encourage you to) to use its DNS servers instead of your registrar's, but that's up to you. I generally use FM for DNS hosting but you absolutely do _not_ need to do this to host domain mailboxes with them.
Meh. Pay an intern to drop a copy of today's newspaper in front of the camera every morning.