skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"stop investing in ... smaller plants."

Thought experiment... begin the experiment with the assumption that the "system" can produce and sustain 2000 brains capable of safely operating a nuke plant. You can build 1000 slightly less safe but bigger plants, or 10000 smaller slightly safer small plants, but you've still only got 2000 usable nuke level brains to staff them. Either half the big brains are going to be unemployed, or 80% of the only very slightly safer plants are going to be run by morons. Don't amuse me with deus ex machina about automation; I'll counter by changing my thought experiment to only 2000 nuke-capable sysadmins are available or whatever.
And this is how HN threads get derailed and ruined. Your comment is valueless, please consider deleting it.
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I hope a progress bar would be too slowly moving to be of any use!
I don't know about that. The Dick Wolves debacle was the Penny Arcade guys reacting to those who hate rape jokes and not only continuing the joke, but making things hostile for those who spoke out against this sort of behaviour.

Both stories are about someone or some people who are marginalised by a larger group. I think it's very relevant.
> I think this is a problem we have to live with. It sucks, but it's better than the alternatives.

I have more optimistic take: it's a social problem so technical hacks won't work but social methods do. Investing time reinforcing the desired community behaviour does work so part of the question is really figuring out how to make that as easy as possible.
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Interesting - he gave a talk on this at Microconf Europe which was this last weekend, and a very good conference with lots of cool and interesting people. There was (I thought) something of a feeling in the room of "hrm, maybe this is a bit over the line?" although everyone was appreciative of the fact that it was a much stronger validation of the idea than just handing over an email address. Watching Adii talk, I certainly got the impression he was not 100% happy with the approach himself, and wrestled with it some.

OTOH, I can understand the risk avversion: if they've given you a CC number (they were not, however, charged), they're a Real Customer and your product is far more likely to have legs than just getting an email address, which is in turn better than not even having a pre-launch page and just hoping people want whatever it is you've slaved away building for months. Spending a lot of money to build something only to find no one wants it, or wants a fairly different version sucks big time!
It is pretty simple though to lose weight, from a logical level. You need to consume less calories than you burn every day. The problem is it's not fun for most people and it can take considerable dedication.
But maybe she doesn't really need to focus on losing weight? Maybe as someone who actually knows something about her own life, she is in a position to decide that there is other things with a higher return of investment that she can focus on, especially given her medical situation (which we are almost entirely ignorant of)?

Meeting arbitrary beauty standards to be perfectly attractive to the worst of internet commenters isn't and shouldn't be everybody's first and only priority.
Gotcha! And I'd like to mention I wasn't trying to be snarky (not to you, just in general).

I've always had a pull away, out into a large unpopulated area and it makes complete sense that some people have the opposite. The hustle and bustle can have it's allure and with that many different people around, things are always interesting. It's night that gets me. I love stepping out into a clearing on a star filled night with no noise besides the bugs and my own feet in the leaves.
> The difference seems very clear cut to me.

Then perhaps you'd be good enough to enlighten us all as to what it is.
+1 much more "understandable" with the metaphor of snow
How do you know that it's the right personal information you just published? That's what due process is for - giving the accused a chance to defend himself before justice is served. Anything else is by definition vigilante justice.
As a Swede, it feels very important to point out that even though all the science laureates are chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, we have nothing to do with the Peace Prize! That blame goes to the Norwegians.
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Does a deadline produce better work and happier employees?

I doubt that this kind of think will have a motivating a effect. Reminding you of the estimated point in time when your body degraded so much that you will die does not sound great.

It's also purely egoistic. How about making some else's life better by doing things you don't like?
I don't think you get it. Life I mean. The Internet is not your personal zoo.
I'm a Type I Diabetic. If I eat something containing glucose, my blood sugar will rise to unhealthy levels. Clearly the solution is to never eat anything containing glucose again. It's as simple as that.
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By definition it is. Vigilante Justice is extrajudicial punishment of any kind, not only lynching or other forms of violence.
Thanks, glad you're liking it! Any issues, let me know. There's still a lot to do but it's very usable right now.
Does anyone have an argument better than an appeal to coincidentally self-serving authority or claiming it doesn't matter? No? I guess that's settled then.

I've seen better arguments in the "bible says the earth is flat" threads.
Nicely made, however most visible mass (i.e. the mass of protons/neutrons) is generated dynamically by the quark interactions.
A good read. However, the first rule of using white lies is you don't talk about it (in public - this would be a great thing to use PublicBeta for! ;-)) otherwise you get the sanctimonious types in the peanut gallery excited, as some of the comments here demonstrate.
We really need more companies (and those in control of those companies) that stand up for their customers this same way. A public company would not have been able to make this play, so keep that in mind when you are making decisions about where to put your data.
" I learned that people you approach through intros will probably meet with you as a favor to someone else but they won’t use a new product unless they have a good reason, time and will."

There's a lot of truth to this. We once approached a team in a "big telcom". Another team at the company referred us to them because the product was relatively successful for their purposes. The new team took the time to listen to us, and I think understood our value proposition, but these guys were dinosaurs. The prospect of changing how they do things, and taking a risk buying an expensive product was not interesting to them. They seemed more interested in coasting until their upcoming retirement.
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Off topic, but if you're in pre-release, how do you have enough metrics to say "most developers" pick the Coffee Shop plan or is it just marketing fluff?

I really like the color scheme and if I wasn't in a "boring" contract I'd be looking directly into your services.
The more I read the more sympathy I have for the government here. They had a (presumably lawfully obtained) warrant against a specific user; it's not they who designed lavabit such that it was impossible to execute this without obtaining access to every other user. The proposal that Levison would extract the information himself rather than turning over the keys strikes me as completely unrealistic - any information so obtained would be quite rightly thrown out of court, because there's no reliable evidentiary chain, only (in effect) Levison's word. Even if he had turned over the SSL keys, the US still has a fairly strong "fruit of the poison tree" doctrine: any information the government happened to obtain on other users would be invalid for prosecution because it wouldn't be covered by their search warrant.
For Pebble owners, a "watch app" would suffice?
That's not in question. But the lady who wrote the post has Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which has no cure and can only be managed. For many sufferers there is no way to reduce their weight. It's a quite serious endocrine disorder and they're still looking for a cure.
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http://copypastecharacter.com/graphic-shapes

Better site for this, IMO.
> I don't see the relevance of this comment to the story at all.

“don't see” or “don't want to see”? This is highly relevant: the original discussion is about how people behave horribly when there are no consequences for doing so. As long as the Penny Arcade fan-base insulates them from criticism by dismissing it and attacking anyone who speaks up, they might not be anonymous but share the same basic ability to avoid significant consequences from their actions.
They can. But both tend to get out of date as a codebase develops. It's very useful to have an automated tool that ensures the documentation lines up with the actual code - i.e. a type checker.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Preventable_causes_of_deat...

It seems pretty important to me.
This book is less about being a guide and more about learning how to experience the world at a human speed. The chapters are just guide-points or koans.
That's not what I meant.
"18262 days" doesn't say much, but a progress meter (or maybe a pie chart with "Life lived" & "Life left") is more informative IMO.
Yeah. I'm not strong enough to take this kind of abuse, I know it, and I take steps to shield myself from it. I've never posted photos of myself online, and I actively ask my friends not to as well. They've all taken it well and done as I asked.

I think it helps having grown up on the Internet back before it had "safe" places. If you think of everything posted on the Internet as public (because it is), it really changes how you interact with it.
Population density alone should not be be used to determine the cost/complexity of setting up a network. Even with the same density of population, the overall geographic size (and land features) of the network is still important.
Of course, but that wasn't the context. 'marknutter' said that she should try and lose weight. You replied to that that for all we know, she's tried everything. 'marknutter' did not criticize her for not curing herself out of the disorder.
The government guaranteed AIG's losses. They opened themselves up to earth shaking liabilities.

But very little was actually required in the end ( their hope / educated guess at the time it was entered into ).

If the losses had been spectacular, the situation would have been desparate and the US would've had to take further evasive action.

This is a far cry from stumping up that amount of actual cash required for research.
> And the answer is that rates would be lower than they would be in a maturity-transforming system. Maturity-transforming banking is redundant – it only gives us recurrent financial crises. The idea that in the absence of bank maturity transformation, lending rates would explode has been disproven.

First, serious writers don't need to bold their punch-line sentences so you know that they're punchline sentences.

Second, showing low P2P lending rates in a tiny market during a period when lending rates are generally in the toilet does not "disprove" the need for banks.
>It's all about punishing people now.

I'll quibble: It is all about controlling people. Punishment is one, of many, forms of control used in modern society.
NB The JOBS act is supposed to enable this kind of crowdfunding for startups, but the SEC are dragging their feet over it apparently: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/business/smallbusiness/why...
Rather than use the criticism to put you down and make you depressed. Use it as a motivation to drive you to achieve what your goals.

Saying that though, if you are happy with yourself the way you are. And you are healthy. Then why do you care what faceless people on the Internet think of you?

The Internet is full of hateful, little people who hide behind the facade that just because they are online they can be whoever they like. I've been through all this before and I would never let it get me down. Instead I used it to drive me harder to achieve my goals.

You are beautiful, keep thinking that and don't let these people get you down!!!
Which are both bad platforms if you want to maintain privacy.
Do I think that this technique can be refined? For sure. :)

One of the reasons for publishing this and being open about how this worked is to be a catalyst for a conversation around this, which would hopefully see a refinement of the technique.
Agreed. And I would pay quite a bit of money (in the context of what apps cost ... i.e., $10 or so) for an app that did this with this level of quality.
Why not Eclipse? 65% of java developers use it. Only 9% uses IntelliJ. Just asking.
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The advice in this post combined with Dan Shipper's awesome post the other day (http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made) serves as a great blueprint for how to kickstart your startup's sales.

Not sure what it was about Dan's post, but it really resonated with me and motivated me to make 8 sales pitches yesterday. Already got 2 replies, one negative, one positive. Point being, if you don't shoot, you can't score.
I don't have an iPhone5c/5s to attempt this myself but what I was informed is that you have to:

> place the unit into "Do Not Disturb" mode be sure to turn off any type of call from anyone, and always silence.

> place the unit on charge

> let the unit sit flat on the backside for 90 min (home button facing up)

> check status.

Someone want to try this?
This rule apply pretty much everywhere and especially to VC. If you want to talk to a VC find some one who can introduce you. If you can't do that then work on your network.
Added an issue above.
The time you have remaining is not a fixed number. It is increasing at about one year every decade at the moment, and that rate of increase might leap dramatically in the near future.

You can either be a freeloader, roll the dice and see where the work of other people on medtech takes you, or you can help to increase the amount of time you have left. Participate in initiatives like http://healthextension.co/, or donate to the SENS Research Foundation.

It is interesting to see that in a community ostensibly focused on creating change the first response to length of life line items is usually that length of life and trajectory of life is fixed and immutable.
Noone implies that diet can actually cure the disorder, only that it can mitigate one of its side effects.
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The parent referred specifically to "the school of your dreams," which implys elite schools. The situation is obviously different for schools outside of the top 25.
It is rather spooky at first, but once I got over that its excellent for blocking background office noise.

Now what would amuse me NO END would be if once, (and just once) after a few hours, it was coded to fade out and play a distinct voice along the lines of "You're going to die today". I'd love to do that to someone!
For they go on saying that the big fish eats the little fish,
without asking whether little fish swim up to big fish and
ask to be eaten. They accept the devouring dragon without
wondering whether a fashionable crowd of princesses ran after
the dragon to be devoured. They have never heard of a fashion;
and do not know the difference between fashion and fate.
The necessitarians have here carefully chosen the one example of
something that is certainly not necessary, whatever else is necessary.
They have chosen the one thing that does happen still to be free,
as a proof of the unbreakable chains in which all things are bound.
Very little is left free in the modern world; but private buying
and selling are still supposed to be free; and indeed still
are free; if anyone has a will free enough to use his freedom.
Children may be driven by force to a particular school. Men may be driven
by force away from a public-house. All sorts of people, for all sorts
of new and nonsensical reasons, may be driven by force to a prison.
But nobody is yet driven by force to a particular shop.
>This is one of the (probably positive) arguments for Google's "real-name" policy on G+

The key is having a community with behavioral standards - a persistent identifier that a reputation can be attached to is a prerequisite for enforcing said standards, but without the community to set and enforce those standards? the identifier doesn't help.

Also note, communities often contribute to this 'problem' as much as they help. Nearly all communities consider certain types of bullying of certain types of people acceptable, and with that community backing? people seem to be much worse than they would be on their own. Most of the time? most of the truly terrible things people do are done in a context where that terrible behavior is normal, or even accepted.)

I think the real problem with a 'real name' policy is that I may wish to participate in different communities with conflicting standards for behavior. A good reasonable example that most of us face is our professional selves vs. our sexual selves. Behavior that is completely acceptable in a nightclub is going to be completely unacceptable in an office, and vis-a-vis.

Google tries to address this with privacy settings, but really? I think that's the wrong approach. The context trumps the relationship; Even if I meet someone from work in a nightclub, that doesn't mean I can apply nightclub behavioral standards to my interactions with them in the office. (I would argue that I could apply nightclub standards to our interactions in the nightclub, but some would disagree.) - At least for me, (and I am told that this is very different for other people) the thing I am concerned about is not so much keeping my non-professional self secret, but in allowing people to choose a context in which to interact with me, and allowing them to be not made uncomfortable by personal issues. If they want to dig and find my personal issues? that's on them.
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Im a web developer ,looking to upgrade my old laptop, im currently thinking about purchasing a hp laptop here are the
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This isn't excusing bad behaviour at all. In fact, I've been very up-front about the fact that this technique relies on deception and that I didn't like that bit.

I stick to what I've said though, which is that putting up a landing page with an e-mail signup and a "Request Early Access"-kinda thing is similarly deceptive. The only difference is that I actually asked for CC details. To that extent, I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to see my startup succeed.

This is obviously not for everyone and that's why I posted the quote from Lincoln.
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"aren't backed up by experiment"

Sadly, I was expecting arguments by string theorists along the lines of the longbets.org bet for $2000 that no one is going to get a Nobel for anything related to string theory, but I guarantee we'll get ten times as much "Obama" instead.

Can't we please argue about that instead of making fun of our "concentration camp warmonger in chief", maybe just in one thread please?
to elaborate on this excellent (though rather confusing) wording, I think you really don't get it. She didn't mean that they made her ashamed of the act, but that they were being hostile to her by saying stuff like "how DARE she dress up as a sexy video game character!! How dare she have FUN!!" get it?
I'm not arguing against investment in big science and R&D, I'm arguing against it as a form of stimulus spending.
As a big proponent of open source, I would agree your statements completely. There is little a community could do with this that can't be done with existing tools already. Furthermore, this succeeds primarily because of the author's specific execution of the idea and the way it is presented. Open source just risks a "too many cooks in the kitchen" scenario.

Furthermore, because of the high quality, someone is extremely likely to turn this into a paid mobile app and make money off of it (irrespective of the license it is released under-- unscrupulous people don't care about pieces of virtual paper).

I used a white noise generator app for a long time with my first child and this is far superior to what I had. I would have gladly paid several dollars for a solid mobile execution of this.
I was half through and I suddenly had a click in my head, thought this was written by pg.

Same clean and efficient style, same nakedness without any philosophical scaffolding, while being bullet tracing a straight line through many philosophical stand points.

Two very clairvoyant minds. Let's go back reading.
I prefer to start sending messages via LinkedIn InMail to pass spam filters. That's their main advantage. Another positive thing about LinkedIn is adding context: the recipient is aware that the distance between him and you is short.
Putting the S(ervice) in PaaS
The guardian said Snowden is to release US gov't assassination program documentation in a weeks time. So perhaps we will get insight on the in inner workings of systematic killing.
1995Vaporware = 2013ProofOfConcept.

Sigh.
Hahaha yep, my thoughts exactly :P though i didn't think someone would say it out loud!
Yes, they released their code under the Apache license. I checked with them before deciding to go ahead with this and they didn't have a problem with the idea.
Just realised: these are all under various CC licenses, so OP you could easily integrate them into mynoise.net
I am currently doing a startup too. It seems that I can handle all the design, coding and technical side of things but I cannot market and do sales.

Although I agree with some of the points such as launching early and the communication aspect of it. I'm against deceptive tactics to get sales. Even though he said that it didn't feel good, then why continue with the same tactic? Does getting the sales and numbers justify the actions?

I'm in the same boat as the author at the moment and if anyone out there has any advice I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
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I'm pretty sure this tactic would cross a line for me personally. Different story if you actually started out with even just 1 video, but to base a sale on a lie of content not yet created is a bit dubious.

I wonder if you looked in to your legal obligations at all? I know in the UK a company has a duty to trade fairly and not mislead consumers....I'm not sure to what extent you fall foul of the law if you do something like this?