skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you can certainly change your mind. But there is definitely a line where something is crossed.

An example is with the revelations about the concussions in football. Some parents, even ones who may have played football in their day, may not want their kids playing football. This doesn't cross that line and is not hypocritical.

Another example is with a fair number of religious fathers that I've met as a young man and and adult. I dated a girl who's father was overly concerned about her safety. Fair enough. We met at a Dairy Queen so I could ask her to a dance. He proceeds to tell me that he knows 'how boys are' because he partied and caroused when he was younger, before he found 'the Lord'. Now, I know how boys are as well - I was one at the time, heh - but I wasn't that boy. I wasn't him, yet, I was lumped into a group I wasn't a part of and lectured on how to be a gentleman. That's hypocritical.

Another example. I fucking hate 'The View' yet still end up seeing way too much of it due to my wife. One of the hosts has said that she's had multiple abortions in her lifetime but now that she's had a kid she leans pro-life. So while it was fine when she was poor and had no way of supporting a child (multiple times I remind you), now that she's rich she would've chosen differently. That's hypocritical.

I guess the line is where you don't own your previous decisions instead of making excuses for them. I think we can all accept the 'we didn't know the consequences' as not hypocritical but the 'I just don't want you to do what I did' is right out.
"Temporarily embarrassed millionaires" syndrome?
1. Most of the tubes would need some bowing anyway for curves, since they can't find a perfect straight path from LA to SF

2. Tests show that tubes where L >> D, thermal expansion is linear along the length. If you restrained both ends you'd get the buckling in the interior sections that you describe. That might even be a bigger problem though because it would affect the path geometry and alter the attitude control requirements of the pods. I think the wrinkling in the tube skin would also be more dangerous than just letting it stretch.
Depends. I think with consumer related startus, sexy is pretty important.
I'd bet on Fred Wilson being right. As a VC he has access to raw deal data that this author does not.
Because they seem to elude you, especially if you think Racket was given an "Java-style static typing".
Negligible, once you care to make backups of yourself. Continuous backups, ideally. In time, it will probably possible to blow up half a Jupiter Brain without killing anyone.
Call me crazy here guys, but what exactly will Calico produce/make/do/etc?

The top comment makes me feel like I'm missing a magical paragraph in the OP that details their cure for death, ugliness and stupidity.
I mean... behance allows you to present your work in a way that's similar to a case study so people often do writeups and show sketches of their process.
Losing our hands
Dave Eggers' 'The Circle' takes vengeance on Google, Facebook
Can see it as a nice way to give them some money and sure, if you upload big files, useful. However, would really liked to have seen data encryption rather than stickers. Everything you do in Trello is stored in plan text. Not a huge fan of that.
I agree, the humanist touches and concordantly superior identifiability in the one OS clearly identify it as the modern iteration compared with the cold, chilly 70s-style pseudo-futurism of the other.
> death can be a traumatic experience, but it's also simply part of being a biological organism.

This tends to be glossed over in discussions of his work, but Aubrey de Grey is specifically interested in reducing the (currently inevitable) human suffering associated with aging. Clinical immortality would be an eventual side-effect of succeeding in that mission.

Every manner of treatable and correctable disease and condition is "part of being a biological organism," but it seems absurd to hold such a standpoint if you're not also in favour of discarding modern medicine in order to die slowly and painfully from cancer.
>Err... catalyzing a paradigm change makes perfect sense to me. I think Thomas Kuhn might have used that in his book, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

And I think he wouldn't have touched that phrase with a barge pole.

>Management speak is just a jargon.

No. Jargon comes out of necessity and field-specific needs.

Management speak comes out of the desire to unecessarily dress-up bullshit.
This just proves that every Catholic is also a man (or woman) perfectly capable of sin and malice, and so we would be pretty happy if every single one of them would stop moralizing forever. Stop thinking that they are more right and more good just because; and behaving after that.

Where can one unsubscribe from ever hearing of how religion tells us how to do good and from ever facing any religion-based opinion?

Because I feel I still live in the medieval times when I do.
What made you get the S4 over the HTC One. I have an S3, and will be upgrading to combat its depreciating value...
My guess is an alcoholic person would be less susceptible since they drink more alcohol than the average person, alcohol being the waste product of yeast would make for a bad environment.

In a person who doesn't drink much the stomach environment would be better since I am picturing the waste going downward towards the gut leaving the yeast to live in peace.
It's not a vacuum system ... I don't understand where people are getting this idea.

Seismic activity will be taken into consideration.

Land rights are part of proposed cost.

Estimates based on current costs ... and Elon said likely to find more efficiencies to make it cheaper ...
As an occasional, friendly and with warning and consent? Nah, sure, that might be friendly teasing. Even sporadical exceptions, nobody's perfect.

As a staple of entertainment? Yeah. People can be very, very mean using just plain old boring snowballs.
I'd rather have Lua in the browser.
Are we talking < 6 months or > 6 months?
The other way to look at this is apartment rental prices are merely "correcting" upwards to be less out of line with the housing prices.

A $1 million SF home has to charge $6000 in rent each month to break even, to cover cost of capital, taxes, and maintenance. Apartment rents cover utilities to varying degrees, as well.

A nice three bedroom apartment is the equivalent of a $600k or $800k condo, which "should" charge $4000+ per month. What is the going price for that rental? Across the bay area, the median is $2500. That makes sense in San Jose, but in other areas, not so much....

So is the issue that house prices are unsustainably high? Or is it the renters have gotten used to prices that lingered unsustainably low for a surprisingly long time?

IMO it is a bit of both. But we have probably under built rental units in some markets.
>It's Google. They have the right people, the right ideas, the resources, and they started first.

I believe we covered the "fawning from fanboys" part already.

>Source: I'm a prof in a related field with graduated PhD students at Google.

That's not a "source". That's at best a "full discosure" and at worst a "conflict of interest" in this discussion...
I wonder why they chose today to announce this.
The design is intended to be robust with regard to leaks (pumps can overcome some leakage to keep interior at a near-vacuum). This would not work underwater.
The most important one is this: http://agilemanifesto.org/

Yes, it is only 3 paragraphs and a title, but if you want it in book form you can print it out and put it between some covers. The important thing is to read those 3 paragraphs carefully and to think about them. Avoid getting caught up on the bandwagon of some management methodology that claims to be Agile, because it probably isn't.

And read Clean Code by Robert Martin, one of the writers of the Agile Manifesto. One of the things encouraged by Agile is TDD, that is to say, a cycle of coding that starts by writing a failing test, then writing code to pass the test and then refactoring code to be better according to principles like DRY and YAGNI.

If you work in this Red-Green-Refactor cycle, then you will have a tough time when faced with a tangle of spaghetti code written in Java or C++. That's when books like Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers come in handy.

In general, steer clear of books about Agile, and focus on books that teach something real, but happen to fit into the Agile Manifesto philosophy. Talk to some developers that you know are truly Agile developers, not practitioners of a methodology, and ask them for book recommendations.
"To your knowledge?" What, do you not know what point you're actually making?

More seriously, I don't think that's an accurate comparison. What fundamentally is the problem with the people saying "God gave us the Earth to exploit"? Well, it's what you said, overconsumption. But what is actually wrong with "overconsumption"? (That is to say, at what point does consumption become overconsumption?) Is there something inherently wrong with pumping lots of oil out of the earth? No, of course not. What's wrong with consuming too much now is that it leaves less for us later. Or that it has other ill effects, such as polluting the atmosphere and making our environment unlivable. There's nothing wrong with unbounded amount of consumption per se if we can find a way to deal with the ill effects (and make sure to leave enough for future people). The value against overconsumption is instrumental, not terminal. If you are in a situation where such consumption would cause a problem, well, don't do that then; but if you're not, go ahead.

Similarly with overpopulation -- there's nothing inherently wrong with a universe full of people; the worry rather is that you'll have so many people with so little space and resources for each that they'd have a terrible quality of life. Once again: Well, don't do that, then! Anticipate problems and avert them (or fail to anticipate them and then solve them, possibly by reducing population or consumption). Eliezer Yudkowsky is not suggesting anything close to the idea that we should make as many people as possible even if all of them would be miserable, or that we consume every resource as fast as possible even if we render the world uninhabitable for our descendants.

In short, the problem is not a large population, nor lots of consumption, but the side-effects of these things, and the shortsightedness that leads people to disregard them. Gotta maintain the distinction between terminal values and instrumental ones.

...OK, there is one obvious thing I'm glossing over. Namely, the idea that it's good to leave some space for the non-humans, as well; their disregard for other forms of life is I think something else we would agree is wrong with the "God gave us the earth to exploit" people, and there the comparison with Yudkowsky is perhaps a little more accurate. But, regarding animals, I don't think Yudkowsky's position is really different from that of most people. Yes, we'd like to have a world with, say, polar bears in it, and not just ones in zoos, or ones who are miserable all the time; but we probably wouldn't want to have a world that was partly ordered according to polar bear values. (Whatever that means.)

Now, other intelligent forms of life is a another can of worms, but I don't think the "God gave us the Earth to exploit" people worry much about those, so I'm going to stop here because I don't really know how to compare there.

(Also I'm not really sure that your earlier "tiling" post is really an accurate representation of Yudkowsky's ideas, but I didn't really want to argue about it, partly because I'm not prepared to right now and partly because it seemed essentially irrelevant.)
80˚F in San Antonio right now.
That's not correct actually. The second checkmark means its been delivered to the device, not necessarily read.
I live in Oregon and you can get cash from the store for that receipt. Some people (homeless, poor, frugal) collect bottles and cans from public trash bins for this exact purpose. Sometimes schools have fundraisers where you drop off bags of cans and then they take them in and get the cash value for them.
I agree that top researchers should be paid well by someone, I just don't think we've got the right someones.

No man, or organization, can serve two masters. Either these schools are about undergraduate education or they aren't. The counterargument about presige isn't completly wrong. Prestige of the school is valuable to a degree holder. But all the universities chasing after the same limited pool of prestige is socially wasteful, and these heavily tax subsidized institutions are supposed to be advancing the social interest.

We should have separate institutions that do research and perhaps train grad students.
I'm not a billionaire, but I love my life and death/ageing is one of the few real problems I have.
I'd rather have billionaires thinking like me and investing their money in solving real problems than buying yachts and marrying/divorcing every year.
> Besides the fact that I think a 'soul' is a poorly-defined construct and thus hard to crush

Ah, I see, you're engaged in a 'War on Metaphor'.
Why is it so slow? You're just grabbing about 5 items from a db and rendering a few svg paths. That should take a fraction of a second, but your site it taking over a minute to do it.
One rather large way that they can distinguish themselves is version updates. I'm pretty sure that that reason alone is a large factor behind their success (not primary, or even majority, just large).

Many android users have two options: keep using an older version of android or root their phone and pick up a new OS to get the latest and greatest. CM is the best OS for many models and makes of phones.

I also think their current success up to this point indicates the potential in the market. Something has brought in their millions of users. I'm don't think there is a problem of how they can distinguish themselves as much as there is the question of what have they already done to distinguish themselves and will it scale?
Doesn't whatsapp have infamously bad security, despite its popularity?

http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-is-broken-really-broken/
http://samgranger.com/whatsapp-is-using-imei-numbers-as-pass...
They recently released this for the corporate side of things. "Secure Workspace" is a self contained BB-based email app, which connects to the BES stuff on the back end.
Looks very nice from a corporate security point of view.

But I'm not sure how good it is if you're looking for a "Blackberry UI". Anecdotally that seems to be as much about the old (non-touch) BB devices and their physical keyboards.
People who care about accuracy like to correct inaccurate/untruthful statements, perhaps?
Evil Plan, first draft: Build a Matrix, scan and emulate everyone, recycle the meat.
It boils down to jobs. Texas is a fine place to live if you work in certain sectors. California is great place to live for other kinds of work.
1) Sure, yeah, any day now. Yet Flash is ubiquitous and Youtube uses Flash for most of the video I view.

2) I see no evidence of Windows dying either.

Flash has been "dying" for nearly two years now yet looks pretty damn healthy from here ( and I still can't watch Youtube on Linux). It's absolute rubbish to use an OS w/o access to Youtube and other (usually Flash) video sites.

I run Windows on a second machine just for Youtube/Flash but I'm about to abandon Linux due to the clumsiness of this arrangement.
It's the same as security always is. "What are my enemies capable of" is an absolutely critical component of the security equation that cannot be overlooked.
It has a big yahoo icon in the corner so I'd say yes they did this.
Thanks for the comment.

1) We include asset sales/talent acquisitions but yes, private company data is imperfect. That said, we have the best in the biz (highly biased)

2) Runway in months and millions is semantics. If you have more millions in the bank, you have a longer runway in months almost by definition. IRR of exit - not sure I follow how that is better (and more importantly, an impossible metric to get at scale for private companies)

3) Agree :)
No, it really doesn't imply that...
When i was a teenager, there was a deal where if you bought a box of cheerios, you got a pass to any Cineplex Odeon theatre.

So for a few months, we would buy boxes of cheerios at walmart for <$3 and then go see a movie (~$8) and eat our cheerios out of the box in the theatre.
After so many years, Google Voice still doesn't support MMS. I am afraid Twilio will have the same issue dealing with the carrier partner in the US. I hope they support it soon but I am afraid it will be long.
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I dunno – I upvoted it pretty much based on this fragment:

" … but work that doesn’t address real business goals, solve real problems people have every day, or take a full business ecosystem into consideration. "

That's a conversation I have almost every day with clients, designers, co-workers, and friends.

"Pixel pushing" visual design is something that some people are very highly skilled at – and the difference between good visual design and bad visual design is obvious even to those of us without the skills to create "good design", _BUT_, in terms of a product or web project it's the last ~20% of the time/money budget. Unless you've got (in the article's terms) the "Mission" and "Vision" properly articulated, and then the "Outcome", "Structure", and "Interaction" properly thought through, you don't really have enough actionable data or goals to appropriately brief a visual designer.

(Having said that, for some businesses and budgets, choosing "existing artwork" and jamming your businesses specific requirements into it might be the right way to go - the same way as most retail stores don't build spaces like Apple Stores, but make compromises based on what's available for rent in the area they want to trade, then "making do" with the space/architecture they end up with. I've helped many clients build inexpensive websites by articulating the solutions to the business problems, then cutting costs by choosing something off somewhere like ThemeForest that's "close enough" and either living with the deficiencys or bodging/hacking over them like a quick paintjob instead of a major shop refitout…)
Structural superiority of Tacoma Narrows beyond question. Automobile farers can expect to enjoy bridge commute for centuries to come.

--top 1940 scale-model builder
What is this actually doing? I.e. are the emails being edited on the server or is the extension storing a set of edits and applying them when you view the edited emails in Gmail in Chrome? Are the original emails still accessible? How?
Does he though? Sure, for USV investments it would make sense. But I'd be surprised if other VCs shared data on their failed investments with him or his firm though.
I recall reading, perhaps 20 years ago, of a case in Japan where a man showed drunkeness/detectable-blood-alcohol without drinking alcoholic beverages. In that popular account, it was attributed to an intestinal strain of e coli creating alcohol, and a genetic difference (more common in Asia and among Native Americans) that interferes with alcohol-breakdown.

Yeast seems even more likely a culprit, and I see the references in this case study detail Japanese cases/research back to the 1970s.

This newest case study does not mention the 61-year-old male's race... but if of Asian or Native American descent, or maybe even if not, they should have also checked his genetically-influenced ability to metabolize alcohol.
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It's nice that momentum scrolling for overflow is now native both in iOS and Android. It was a pain in the butt to simulate it in JS. It's just so weird how it wasn't there from the start.
How do you go from Apple not including a feature in the MAS (in this case, upgrade pricing) to "abusive relationship?" I and every other small Apple developer would really love some analytics capabilities in the app store, but we don't go around calling its absence "abusive" on Apple's part.

The MAS is just another sales channel and Apple doesn't force you to use it. It's not incumbent on them to add features just because some people want them.
> It's not a vacuum system

(S)he didn't say it was. (S)he said "near vacuum." And that comes straight from the hyperloop paper:

"Just as aircraft climb to high altitudes to travel through less dense air, Hyperloop encloses the capsules in a reduced pressure tube. The pressure of air in Hyperloop is about 1/6 the pressure of the atmosphere on Mars. This is an operating pressure of 100 Pascals, which reduces the drag force of the air by 1,000 times relative to sea level conditions and would be equivalent to flying above 150,000 feet altitude."
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I'm still hung up on what happens if there's an emergency on board? Yes, bathroom related would be one, but what about something like a heart attack? Are there any other forms of mass transit that don't allow for an emergency stop or at least the possibility of gaining reasonable assistance from another person on board? I guess the closest comparison would be an intercontinental plane, but planes have space to move around and bathrooms.
> It's not a vacuum system ... I don't understand where people are getting this idea.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachme...

Page 12: "The pressure of air in Hyperloop is about 1/6 the pressure of the atmosphere on Mars."

Sounds like a near vacuum to me.
Facebook doesn't want to be cool, it wants to be electricity
"I think it is quite viable."

"beyond question"

One of these people is speaking in foolishly strong terms.
I can see a lot of effort went into interactions and some screens. Then I'm left with the impression they just winged it on the rest [1].

The redesign of the messages app limited itself to removing the graphics. The app still shows messages as bubbles, it's just bland now. I can think on a couple better design solutions for chat threads by looking at other apps and Adium themes.

The Newsstand is another example of redesign-WTF. It still has bad usability and small thumbnails, it just replaced the background with some random grey background.

Noteworthy are also those icons on the home screen. There's no consistency between them, as pointed by multiple designers already [1][2]. I can't believe Apple is pushing these as final.

Overall, it looks like a rushed job, not something I would expect from Apple. I see no compelling reason to update.

[1] http://tristanedwards.me/what-ios7-should-look-like
[2] http://ianstormtaylor.com/whats-wrong-with-the-ios-7-icons/
Find a new job, while you have your current job, but negotiate with the new company to start after N weeks.

The difference between a good job and a bad job is night and day. It's quite possible you can find somewhere that's very enjoyable. At the very least you can find something better.
I wanted to go so bad!!! We're over at TC3 today, but I think Shells from our sales team is out there. If you can, you should corner her! She's awesome.

Congratulations on this feature. You and I both know how ridiculously hard this is and I commend you for going after this.

One quick question: is mms a short code only thing or is it available on long-codes as well? Some of the language in your marketing materials left me unclear.

Thanks, and again, Shoutout to you, Jeff and all the other amazing folks at Twilio. MMS access in telecom is my definition of "killing it".
OK, you hit a nerve, so I'll keep beating a dead horse: says who? Who made a side by side study of all the efforts in self driving cars?

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-mercede...