skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just sidestep the whole issue and encrypt the contents with a key only you know/possess. Then the choice is simply "who gives me the simplest offsite platform with the fewest layers of abstraction (preferably none) between my data and the underlying filesystem".[1]

Switzerland is not some magic amulet that solves these problems once and for all.

[1] You know who that is.
"Mobidia obtained its findings via its mobile app. Millions of mobile users across the globe use Mobidia's "My Data Manager" app on iOS and Android to manage their cellular data consumption"

Until 5 minutes ago, I'd never heard of Mobidata. I wonder how relevant their stats really are?|
It seems that the 'bigger is badder' mentality has snuck its way into this discussion as well.

The Humble Bundle allows its customers to donate every penny they spend and promotes up and coming artists. Why would its success be anything but favorable if neither of these characteristics have changed?
How confident are you dealing with companies based in the United States? I've always been wary of signing up for VPN services with everything going on, and especially using a method of payment that is able to be tracked back to oneself. How do we know these sites won't be under similar gag orders we saw LavaBit be subjected too?
Hmm, there are some superlatives ("highest resolution") in here I'm not sure about. Lots of groups create maps like this for modeling purposes. One for sea surface temperature is:

http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SST/

This is a blended product (i.e., multi-instrument, and gaps filled) with 1km resolution. There is also a 1km MODIS land surface temperature data product:

http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/dataproducts.php?MO...

Neither of these is real-time (more like daily).
I've heard from a number of friends that are saying that the thumbstick and buttons appear to be in a more natural position in the 2DS than they are in the 3DS. I'm thinking it's going to vary for everyone.
Ok, so this blog post is spot on. Very insightful.

The problem is the punchline. iOS and Android programming is low on the list of topics that I see as really extending your abilities as a software engineer and thinker, are not deeply challenging, nor do they require close mentorship to learn. Mobile application design, yes, but mobile application implementation, not so much. (Yes I realize these are sometimes inseparable, but this does not seem to be a design-focused offering.) The shelf life for mobile APIs and design patterns is really measured in months, and StackOverflow actually fits the bill nicely for most of it since you have to throw out most of what you know every 6-12 months.

If you're really "thinking bigger", why not offer a class that focuses on applications of cutting edge but fundamental computer science research, topics informed by the current trend of mobile applications? Or research in other domains altogether (robotics, materials, mecheng, etc) as applied to software? Build something with a mobile component, sure, but that is an implementation detail and anyone who has "plateau"'ed and is looking to climb the next hill is going to be bored by a class focused exclusively on the sausage making part of writing mobile apps. People like that have already seen 5 or 6 generations of platform-hopping, can pick up the basics in a weekend, and instead want to learn how to think about things differently and learn things they can use for the rest of their careers regardless of the latest platform or API. In other words, focused education should provide massive, long term leverage, not a short term boost to the resume. There is no shortage of topics out there right now that fit the bill. Just browse Coursera to see for yourself.

Learning how to hack together an iOS app to market yourself to the "most competitive mobile startups" seems completely at odds with the mission of CodePath outlined in this post. This type of topic surely belongs in there in the long run for practical reasons, but having it as the "launch offering" is weird.
Could be due to the fact that a lot of people don't have a weekly need of a maps application. I'm a heavy phone user and google apps user but only need the maps app maybe 2-3 times per month at the very most.
it's somewhat automatic if he puts them on hold shortly after receiving the call, and maybe checking in once in a while to assure he'll "be right back". could even be scaled to multiple lines!
The color palette adjusts based on the zoom level in order to improve contrast. Roughly a bazillion people pointed out that it's "broken", so I guess that was a dumb call on my part!
"It's the storage version of a 'dumb pipe', maybe we call it 'dumb containers'. Everything else is marketing bullshit..."

Ding!

If only there was such a provider that gave you the dumb pipe version of an offsite filesystem ... it's on the tip of my tongue ...
I have also lived in weird places (eg. China/Burma border) for extended periods and know exactly what you mean about cheese. We also had matoke equivalents (ie. multiple versions of starchier bananas, almost always tastier than 'normal' bananas).
i liked that aspect as well. surely a good, unexpected story-twist.
> if docker makes the assumption that, say, 'ubuntu-12.04' on 5 cloud providers is equivalent, then sooner or later it's going to encounter problems.

You misunderstand how docker works. 'ubuntu:12.04' refers to a very particular image on the docker registry (https://index.docker.io/_/ubuntu/). That image is in fact identical byte for byte on all servers which download it. So any application built from it will, in fact, yield reproducible results on all cloud providers.
>scientists and tinkerers of yester-year once appropriated the term Engineer from the well respected steam engine operators,

engineer (n.)
early 14c., "constructor of military engines," from Old French engigneor, from Late Latin ingeniare (see engine); general sense of "inventor, designer" is recorded from early 15c.; civil sense, in reference to public works, is recorded from c.1600. Meaning "locomotive driver" is first attested 1832, American English. A "maker of engines" in ancient Greece was a mekhanopoios. [1]

It looks like the steam engine operator meaning of the word didn't show up until the 19th century.

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=engineer
So you think there should be laws to prevent people from behaving in a shortsighted way?

Some people's utility function is simply short-term oriented. I speak from experience -- I had the fried chicken (at a variety of different NYC gastro pubs) four times in the past month. Definitely short-sighted and foolish for my health and BMI.

Similarly, doing a startup is not rational. Most fail and the expected returns are worse than if the money were invested in an index fund.

Unless you advocate some kind of police state that enforces constraints on aspects of peoples' utility function that most of us happily enjoy choosing, I don't think you'll be able to achieve the kind of world you envision (corporations or not).

Even if we try to "nudge" behavior using subtle approaches, as Thaler and Sunstein advocate, there are practical limits, and a system of laws to enforce "good nudges" gets absurd pretty quickly.

I think my argument is supported by Michael Moore's conclusion in Bowling for Columbine. America is a unique and odd place. There is something about America that gives those who are down on their luck the hope to put that last quarter into a slot machine. It's the same thing that leads people to drop out of Harvard or Stanford to do a startup.

America's healthcare debacle is just as much a function of our unique psyche, and it's inseparably linked to some of the greatest aspects of our culture... for example our faith in medical breakthroughs and the optimism that fosters, our desire to fight mortality and disease through science, and our odd secular crutch of granting doctors too much authority.
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Sure, but that's not the standpoint that matters. Current boarding passes work well enough, I guess.
At that data rate, you would be almost certainly better off encoding 1/4 the pixels and letting the recipient's machines upscale.
You already have what you want. The source is here:

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

Actively in development, stable, ready for enterprise use.
I have it installed but never use it. The maps situation on the iPhone is really too bad, it used to be Apple's app with Google's data. Best of both worlds. Now you get to choose between Google's janky app and Apple's incorrect data.
You can already screen share with hangouts. Are you just asking if they intend to keep that feature?
Yeah, mistype on my end. He answered it correctly :-)
Thank MapBox. If it were up to me, I'd do something funky like a blackbody-esque color palette and then get yelled at because it'd be hard to read. :-)
I applied for the iOS dev course a few weeks back and never heard from you guys. When should I expect to know if I'm in or not?
When I write Erlang and I hit ":" after a module name, I immediately see a list of functions with arity and docs, thanks to Distel. The same is true when I hit a "." when writing JavaScript, thanks to js2. It's the same for Python, too, thanks to elpy.

There is a great support for refactoring too - for Python it's Rope and it works quite well. It's a bit slow to start sometimes, but that's equally true for "bloated Java IDEs".

I don't think there's anything my teammate can do in his PyCharm which I can't in my Emacs. And if there is something like that, and it's useful, then I'm sure it will come to Emacs soon enough.

To summarize: Emacs is an editor for programmers and can be programmed (with 3rd party or your own scripts) to have any feature you'd like. Setting up an Emacs environment which is on par with other IDEs takes a bit of work, but is possible.
> You appear to be suffering from a misapprehension.

Both are studies of the mind. Psychiatrists are psychologists with an M.D. degree.

Psychology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

Quote: "an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors"

Psychiatry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatry

Quote: "the medical specialty devoted to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders."

See the word "mental" in both definitions? Neither studies the brain, neither is scientific, and the distinction between them is more a matter of history than topic.

I ask that you think about what you're saying. If human psychology were a science, then its two major subfields, psychiatry and psychology (there are actually 54, but never mind), would be looked on as intimately related to human psychology and to each other.

Would you argue that cosmology and particle physics aren't related to each other because they study different things, i.e. one studies the universe at the largest possible scale and the other at the smallest? Most scientists would disagree because these two fields rely on physics and physical theory for their scientific standing.

> but it applies to psychiatry (more specifically, the DSM) rather than to psychology.

False. Both psychiatry and psychology rely on the DSM as a diagnostic guide.

Link: http://www.psychiatry.org/practice/dsm

Title: "DSM"

Quote: "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States ... It can be used by a wide range of health and mental health professionals, including psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational and rehabilitation therapists, and counselors. "

> I agree with your major point, but it applies to psychiatry (more specifically, the DSM) rather than to psychology.

On the contrary, it applies to both, because both psychiatry and psychology depend on the DSM's imagined authority for diagnosis and treatment guidance.

If the DSM were to suddenly disappear, psychologists would have no therapeutic guidebook. That wouldn't stop them, of course, but it would be disrupting and embarrassing.

If human psychology were a science, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because psychiatry and psychology would be looked on as branches of a science with more similarities than differences, just as with cosmology and particle physics.
We are big fans of Hack Reactor and similar programs. I think they fill a real need for aspiring engineers who want to jump into the field.

The key differences for us are we are very focused on existing experienced engineers that want to learn new technologies in a hands-on accelerated way amongst peers. We offer our courses in the evenings around a job schedule and the courses are free of charge. Our business depends on helping those interested find jobs they love. See http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/26/job-recruiting-in-silicon-v... for more information.

"Highest quality" is a complicated thing to define but suffice to say it is in part about creating ultra high quality. We provide detailed videos, extensive wikis, hands-on projects, open-source and closed-source libraries, and extensive mentorship. We also have a process for selection of our candidates that involves a phone screen and a short in-person interview to assess background and commitment to the program.
If you actually read the first link, you'd see that Google Voice won't connect to exchanges where "traffic pumping" occurs.

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/10/sex-conferenc...

AT&T filed a complaint against Google for this behavior (and lost).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping#Role_in_disput...
Perhaps LinkedIn will get the message when everyone endorses each other for King of France.
It's worse. It's really 55% of users who use Mobidata, allow them to collect the stats and have google maps installed, use it weekly.
This is a good breakdown. I was hoping there would be a difference between the two other than just a reason to make a program for a buzz word. Thanks for this.
>If one of my emacs buffers locks up (which can happen for any number of reasons), the whole session is hosed.

I have used Emacs every non-vacation day for the last 22 years, starting with version 18 and extending through version 24, on over a dozen computers, on Linux, OS X and a proprietary Unix, in text mode and with a GUI. I think I understand Emacs internals pretty well, and I cannot imagine what you mean by "if one of my Emacs buffers locks up".
If one's character meaningfully predicts job performance on top of whatever other methods you are using, then assessing on their character is the same as assessing on whether or not they can do they job (or at least, how well they can do it). Integrity tests have demonstrated this in many contexts, even taking into account the possibility of faking.
I'll throw my hat in the ring on this one. Just applied to a job and got a response saying:

"Thank you for your interest in the ! Your resume appears to have many of the relevant skills we are looking for in our open * position. Please tell us more information about yourself and attach your resume. We look forward to scheduling an interview."

I reply back and this is what I get:

"...We have had an impressive response to our ad for our open position. At this time, candidates with backgrounds closer matching our job description are being considered."

So, got approved by one HR rep, then rejected by the next. It really frustrates me knowing that I have the qualifications and yet, for whatever "undisclosed" reason, I can't even just get an interview. The world of getting hired....

Edit - blanked out company name so that is why it reads odd.
Groovy (or, less common, "Groovie" or "Groovey") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "cool", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy
There's no requirement

Cost per kg from Earth to Lunar surface argue otherwise.

A multi-national consortium can barely manage to sustain operations of a 6 man crew in low-Earth orbit.
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Confident and connected, yet a jobless generation.
Am I the only one who prefers Google Hangouts to Skype even for one-on-one calls?
> They could call themselves, cognitive scientists, or behavioural economists, or something!

Yep. I'm hearing "cognitive neuroscientist" more often, even though those so named haven't changed their practice and are still psychologists.
"Real-time" is the key. As far as we know, there isn't another real-time global data product that is this high resolution.

And while we actually use MODIS data as an input to our temperature correction model, it is, as you mentioned, land surface temperature, whereas our map represents near-surface air temperature (i.e., what you'd get in a normal weather report).
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It would be handy for me if the little stub had some more information: when the plane is scheduled to land. When I have connecting flights there's usually a point when I'm in the air thinking about whether I have time to do such-and-such before I have to board the next flight, and I can never remember when the arrival time is meant to be. It would be nice not to have to look this up on my phone or in my own notes.

In the same way, there could even be information like "You have 48 minutes before your next flight (BA55)" or "You need to change to Terminal C for your connection".
> It's a game only lawyers, IP trolls, or paid industry shills love.

I think it's a major problem when something like 60% of all IP litigation is over software patents, a relatively obscure area of the law until recently, but I disagree with this statement. I worked for two entrepreneurs who founded real R&D companies and considered patents to be a basic protection that allowed them to operate a small R&D company independently of a massive manufacturing company. These guys couldn't be further from the description of "lawyer" or "IP troll" or "paid industry shill." They're PhD's who have spent their entire careers inventing.

If you characterize everyone who relies on the existing patent system as a "lawyer" or "troll" or "industry shill" you'll make no progress in achieving the reforms of the system that need to happen. You cannot figure out how to solve a problem while understanding only one side of the issue.
Well first it doesn't matter what you individually would do (because your idea would never be adopted by others who aren't bothered as much) but more importantly what about junk mail bothers you so much?

Also in theory you have a greater chance of getting your important mail if you get a lot of mail than you do if you don't get any mail at all. Because there is a bundle of mail for you.
btw, this is why you should apply for an internship on the Identity team next summer :-)
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I like your style and your sentiment here. We are committed to exactly the ideals you outlined here. Tim and I are both startup founders and very product-minded engineers. Our program is less about "whipping together a cheesy iPhone app" and more about helping people learn design, product development, et al. Every engineer is put onto a team which involves planning, designing and building a product idea of their choice with plenty of mentorship along the way. We have big plans to expand curriculum in all sorts of directions. Mobile happens to be in demand and highly sought after in the valley but this is bigger than iOS training.
My reading is that the cap is per company, not per OS.
"You might ask, why should the idea be mine just because I got to first? And I would answer, why should the tree be yours just because you got to it first?"

The difference is this: share your tree with me, and there will be only one tree. Share your ideas with me and we can both think about them, utilize them, and benefit from them. This idea is self-evident; just as I am communicating it to anyone who reads this post, it was communicated to me by someone else:

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....

It is true that creative expression should be valued and that people should be encouraged to be creative. I would add that society should set up a system where creative workers can derive an income from their work and that such a system will be vital as more and more things are automated. Property rights are orthogonal to this. I happen to be a creative worker, but there is no need for me or anyone else to "own" the products of my work; my research group's salaries are paid with grant money, because the government wants to encourage the work we do, and we want our work to reach as many eyes as possible.
Calling a Roomba a robot ... is somewhat on par with calling a blade of grass a tree. A Roomba randomly careers across a floor probabalistically providing sufficient coverage to fully vacuum or mop it.

Yes, we've got more intelligent robots, but they're a tad more expensive. Industrial manufacturing robots exist, but the reprogramming costs exceed the manufacture cost of the robots themselves. They make sense in very high-value, generally high-volume production. They're not particularly adaptive, though they can switch between different modes (programs) fairly well.

Flying through empty space is a reasonably simple problem. We've had ICBMs for ages. Navigating through complex terrain (ground-based robots, autonomous vehicles) is a markedly more complex domain space.

Most robots we've got at present are very, very highly specialized. Or incredibly stupid, though good enough for the task at hand.
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not even possible to look at the item
While I appreciate him not publicly shaming the hosting company, I'm curious who it was so they can be avoided.
I'm not arguing for it's protection based on that fact at all. I'm pointing out that this idea that junk mail is bad because it annoys some people is wrong.

Guess what? Not everyone is annoyed or bothered by junk mail. Not everyone is annoyed by spam either and I'm not talking about idiots who respond to spam or even read it. There are people that get so few emails that if they login and don't see any mail they think the mail is not being delivered at all. So they'd rather have something show up to show that "the system is working".
I have this nagging urge to take a step back and examine the necessity for a piece of paper in the first place.
Typical "those guys know nuthin and we got it all figured out" comment that seems all too common on Hacker News. Calling psychometric evaluations voodoo is akin to doubting climate change or casting a wary eye on vaccines. The evidence, methodological rigor, and results are there for all to see, but it just doesn't mesh with your gut feeling. Of all the things in the field of psychology to call voodoo, this is almost certainly the least deserving.

Like everything, competent implementation and use are key, so I'm sure you have had experiences that give you reasons to doubt their efficacy. But every field suffers from some form of that in some way or another, and the degree of transparency into the process varies greatly.
The work "inalienable" implies that it's outside the moral authority of culture, society, and government to remove those rights. It doesn't imply that those rights can never be infringed. That is, violating those rights is immoral, not impossible.

In fact, the consensus that rights are infringed proves they exist. This is a correct example of the often misused phrase, "the exception that proves the rule".

But you are right that the specifics of weighing rights against each other are tricky. That's where cultures, governments, and legal systems come in. To be clear, those human organizations do not create inalienable rights, but they are responsible for enforcing them. And a failure to do so would be a moral failure, not an impossibility.