skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I think this is an east-vs-west thing. Orwell focuses pretty narrowly on the problem of Nazi aggression. They're killing Jews and attacking other countries. So we go to war and 6 years later, the problem is solved. Except... decades later, Europe is still dealing with the after-effects of WWII. The current economic crisis can be traced pretty directly back to the war.

Ghandi and the Dalai Lama, on the other hand, have a much broader goal, which, yes, involves lifting oppression, but also includes more subtle aspects of the well-being of their followers once that goal has been achieved. I think that contra Orwell, practitioners of non-violence appeal not only to free societies elsewhere, but also to the humanity of their oppressors. And so they try to eliminate the conflict, rather than winning it. Except... decades later, Tibet is still oppressed by China.

My point is not that Orwell is wrong, but that he misunderstands Ghandi.
When you have an environment when 45% of the trading activity for a heavily traded stock is obscured for many years

I'm not sure what you mean by "trading activity," but this article says 45% of the trades, _not_ 45% of the volume. We don't know what fraction of volume because the author doesn't bother to tell us. That's why the article is crap. It makes a bunch of extremely contentious claims and doesn't answer any of the important questions.
Those people may have a family, and would much prefer a suburban home in a good school district.

For the last 50 or so years, "urban" has always had the property "bad school district." I wonder how preferences would change if urban school districts were functional, or at least more functional than most of them are now.

In addition, safe and functional urban neighborhoods tend to be expensive because of zoning (see Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City for more on this). What would happen if we had cities in which housing weren't so expensive?
I watched a video demo of the OS, in which he shows how he generates the text. In all likelihood the parent I responded to was referring to parts of the comments that do not appear to be generated, just troubling.
Any long-term parking vets here?

I didn't take a ticket and instead swiped my CC to get into the lot. They repeatedly mentioned to don't lose your card since the day I left is tagged to it (I assume).

Given the chaos of this, I probably won't even get my new card until I'm back from vacation.

Does anyone know if all I need is another card with my name on it or if I can just allow for 30-60 minutes of searching through records to locate my original swipe in?
With all respect, crypto (and broken crypto) is wrt difficult to explain in a user friendly way to a lay person without just ignoring the technical details. Once you do that, it really is just "fuck telegram use snapchat", which doesn't help anyone... I am going to give it a bash tomorrow to try and write the article you are after. Good technical writing practice :)

What makes the Article here not sufficient from your perspective?
Pick three
"As many relational databases such as MySQL do not have native support for inheritance this concept is approximated by joining normalised tables which together have all the attributes necessary to build a subclass object."

This suggests to me that their problem is not JOIN but a dogged insistence on a particular style of object-relational mapping. If you're having to do complex joins to retrieve a single persisted object you're probably coupling your objects and the database too closely.

That said, a customizable CMS is a natural fit for both document databases and graph databases. All of the ones I've seen built on relational DBs have extremely generic schemas that allow users to build their own quasi-schemas on the fly, at which point you've sacrificed pretty much every benefit the relational model brings.
A dreaming javascript machine
I think if you don't like the idea of closed salary (I don't), you should just go ahead and publish yours publicly (on FB or something), if you have the guts to do it and face potential conflict with your employer (I don't have the guts, I wish I had).

Because, quite frankly, it's your money. No one should tell you what to do with it, much less to count these, publicly. And if, as the result of this, you get smaller salary, it will be there for the others in the company to see. How motivational.

I think even with this unilateral action, you will get most of the benefits - good people around you are likely to respond back and tell you if you're underpaid or overpaid.
Yes, this idea that they are hopelessly boring strikes me as wishful thinking. Everything would be so much easier if that were truly the case.
Economic value is a measure of the benefit that an economic actor can gain from either a good or service (first sentence at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics) ).

My post was comparing the current system that allows millisecond scale trading with a hypothetical one that slows trades down to something on the order of minutes. Your observation that people are willing to pay to exploit information asymmetries in the current framework doesn't address the question of how my proposed change would affect net economic value.
> Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the execution that matters.

And you are right. And if I had done absolutely nothing in my life. If I was a kid either dropping out of school or just out of school your sermon would be well applied. I'm not.

After over thirty years of entrepreneurship I tend to use "idea" to really mean "opportunity". Most ideas are utterly worthless. They are great as thinking tools. Never stop generating ideas! A few ideas are worth millions, o billions. Instagram started as an idea. Of course, that idea happened thousands of times. One team executed it well and at the right time.

What this means is that ideas are not always obvious identifications of market opportunities. To over-use Instagram, I know I would have thought that was a stupid idea. I wouldn't have given the Instagram idea the time of day. I would have discounted it as useless and moved on. So, here's an idea, worth billions when matched with the right team, timing and execution, that most people would think was just plain stupid.

As I got older I've tried to be less critical of ideas. I listen to them and I log mine assiduously. I allow myself to generate and consider ideas that, on first inspection, seem utterly ridiculous. I try to review them from time to time. What happens is that sometimes two or three combine into one. That's the case of the quadcopter opportunity I have uncovered. It's the combination of a number of thoughts and an interest in a couple of market segments I've had for years, decades, possibly. Now it's just about execution.

Still, inspired by your comment I edited my post and replaced "idea" with "opportunity". That's what I am talking about, opportunities, not ideas. I have hundreds of ideas, the vast majority of which are not opportunities.

Thanks.
Ah-ha nice co-incidence - I was in your office today and telling my co-founder you are the master of SaaS metrics. :)
This is what i was thinking too. Will have to review their terms of service to see if this is allowed.
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This is an astute comment and I hope it gets the upvotes it deserves; for more on the subject, see http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/11/25/bay_area_zoni... and http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/10/housing_costs... .
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Yes, I use gmail.
Apple is already spread out into many buildings all over Cupertino.
I don't get the supposed benefits of direct links over joins. Index lookups are O(log n) or close to O(1) for B-tree and hash indexes, respectively. You can model any kind of graph in a relational database.
Given the inherently interconnected and international character of the Internet, as well as the fact that many of its key network peering and exchange points are in countries fairly high on the "Eyes" hierarchy, I would be deeply sceptical of the viability of any effort to become "the Switzerland of data".

So, you build a data centre in a "Switzerland of data" and throw something like national government-level resources into its physical security, and buttress it with legislation highly supportive of nondisclosure and customer privacy. So what? To get any utility out of such a place, outside users need to send traffic to and from it. Unlike, say, copyright enforcement takedowns or what have you, the NSA's surveillance isn't highly reliant on physical proximity to that kind of facility, or nearby listening posts. Much of the Sigint took place at vulnerable transoceanic Internet traffic convergence points in countries like the UK and Germany.

How would a Switzerland of Data stop that? :-)
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Ternstroemiaceae contains four es; anyone else hit that issue / know what that's not in the valid results for Four? I'm guessing there's a pun in there that I didn't get :/
Sometimes the best love you can offer is benign neglect.

Timothy Treadwell was very loving/caring toward bears. Then he got eaten by one. Some people will do the same to you. Keeping a respectful safe distance is not hateful.
It's not really about a choice of language.

My point is that if Om claims to be superior to other JS MVC frameworks - as it is presented as "the future of MVC frameworks" - it needs to be good (if not superior) in many aspects. Performance is a big deal all right, but another aspect (which seems essential to me) is that using this framework should be easy, concise and intuitive. And I've been kinda disappointed to see that the sample code given to present Om in action is not. At all. If I wanted to fiddle a bit with this code right now, to add a few features for example (like adding a timestamp besides each item indicating when it was created), I wouldn't have any clue where to start.

What bothers me is that Om has clearly been written with ClojureScript in mind, so in a way this framework is supposed to be sublimated by the language. It should "feel" right. And I know it's possible with other frameworks (and my comparison with Knockout+TypeScript was meant to illustrate that), so I expected it to be the case with Om.
So everyone is mad cause they used their own approach to security. Now no one managed to break their crypto so far. Don't say it is bad unless you can break it. Don't go around write a full paper about how bad it is while you still can't break it.

I still don't get why there is all this hostility toward telegram.
I always thought that your right to free speech was as a citizen, not as an employee. For example if you work for the President and you badmouth him, he can have you fired. The distinction is that once you don't work for him anymore, you're now free to say whatever you want.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. If my mental model for how free speech works is wrong I'd love to find out. Especially if you can give me case law to look at.
Might anyone be able to comment on his employment in all these years?

Every time I've come across this article it's seemed to me that the work he's done, whilst notable, is an entirely reasonable and very achievable amount to have completed over the course of the at least 20 years that he has been developing.

If he has held a full-time job that takes away the majority of his time or something similar (as many here have) then I could understand these codebases being particularly notably huge. Otherwise, as has been commented by others here, this level of productivity, whilst admirable, seems to strike me as similar to many, many programmers working around the world - in their cases simply behind closed doors, instead and not working on their pet projects, but on those chosen by their employers.

Thoughts?
> Integer/float semantics and support for large integers don't work (it seems like they didn't implement them manually, so it just falls back to doubles?), and there are probably other things I don't know about missing.

That's going to be really unfortunate if pages start relying on the proper behavior and become Chrome-only as a result...
Combined with the Forbes article today...

The premise of this article is that Apple's Most Desired hire is a hip-and-with-it 22-year-old, so I can see why they would ignore the Forbes article about where the 30-somethings are moving.

Not to say, of course, that I believe Apple is gunning for the fresh-faced crowd with this campus.
They probably pay an information broker for the info. It is common for stores to submit all the information they have about a transaction to someone like Experian so that they can use "big data" to figure out who you are.
Methinks you and yours are projecting.

There is absolutely nothing "sensible" about intolerance and racism.

Your arguments from numbers and history are not "sensible" or rational either.
The next message in the thread is interesting too: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03555.h...

A request to replace him with Bruce Schneier.
You can just write: foo
> The theoretical one is that universities are not like "every job". The whole point of universities is to encourage bold intellectual inquiry. Academic freedom is at the heart of what universities do. Whether or not they can legally get away with trying to treat professors like serfs seems less important to me.

Then maybe universities shouldn't be funded by the state. A CIA operative, military officer, cabinet member, etc. doesn't have a broad freedom of speech, because they are paid by the state to do a job. If you want to be free, don't take the 'dirty money'.
If you haven't used Enigmail with Thunderbird, then you wouldn't know how easy it is to use GPG.
Spying on foreign governments because you think they might present a threat to you in terms of war/foreign policy is generally defensible, while using the apparatus of the state to support select private enterprise through espionage is not.

I am genuinely curious why the former would be defensible while the latter not. The former in this case would trend toward causing (at some point) some level of death an destruction, the latter amounts to high level piracy.

Is the basis for the former's defensibility the assumption that it is strictly defensive in nature?

Why would a country not have a program to enhance it's own industry through espionage?
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Why ask a question whose answer you already know?
Target knows everything about their customers. I'm not even kidding. There's a whole outline of their data mining in the book "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". It's scary.
I had the impression at the time that it was a purely timing issue rather than conscious intent to be closer to the city. Oracle was finishing up it's assimilation of Sun at the same time Facebook needed new digs with room to grow. Not that many properties available in the valley of that size even in a down turn...
In the last 20 years several American tech companies have grown huge with very little challenge from European antitrust or tax authorities.

Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft...

Rules regarding abuse of dominant position could have been applied much stricter. Some of these companies have 90-something percent market share on several of the geographic and product markets they operate in. But not one of them has been forced to split up. MS was forced not to include IE in Windows and MS and Intel were fined (fined!), but not one of them have been forced to open access to (or just make it possible to export) their social graph. Apple is still allowed to block other content providers from selling movies and music iPhone and iPad. The iphone costs more or less the same all over Europe as does the music and movies on it. Amazon has been allowed to apply predatory pricing for more than a decade.

Tax laws could have been designed so that companies were taxed on their European profits, just like the European companies they compete against.

These companies barely employ Europeans, barely pay any European tax, but they hold thousands of European patents and make hundreds of billions of euro in Europe and operate in markets where there is curiously enough still not/no longer serious competition from European companies.

I don't believe for a second that NSA hasn't used their spying to improve American competitiveness.
Also, the combination with having a military mestastazing like mad all over the world is what makes the spying kinda extra creepy. I guess there were times when France was declaring itself as the beacon of freedom and democracy while waging war on the poor and non-aligned (internationally, that is), but that was before I was born.

That the spying itself is out of control, too, doesn't help. Then there is the amount of international communications that go through the US, versus the amount that goes through France.

There's not even a comparison -- a far cry from "the only difference is media spotlight". (reminds me of Bush voters talking about liberal media btw... if that offends anyone, good, because it takes real energy or natural talent to dismiss differences of orders of magnitude that easily)
In general yes, but as a someone who that fits that story arc, I find the dichotomy of insanely overpriced tiny city vs desolate parking lot, well, lousy. I love the idea of what apple is building but there is still no walkable / bicycle friendly place to live in the bay area. In central Tokyo i can cycle to work in less than 15 minutes or walk in 40. Or take one of the many many buses or trains departing every 2-4 minutes. Does that quality of city planning exist anywhere in the US? I have not seen it.
that's right. 'freedom of speech' is about the right not to be thrown in jail for your speech, not about your entitlement to a sum of money, or a position with a title.
This article is just full of it in every regard. Menlo park is one freeway exit and one train stop closer to SF than Palo Alto. It would probably save you about 5 minutes (at most) in a ~45 minute driving commute.
Why not? 350 miles in a straight line, 380 by road; Paris to Avignon is 390 miles by rail, journey time of 2:39 in service. I don't see why 5.5 hours is needed?
Start a blog on both your ideas. with a way for people to sign up with email. check out twitter and follow people that might be potential customers. next look at a kickstart campaign for the quadcopter idea. For the mobile here's a way for you to build your app.
check out http://www.coronalabs.com/: it's $16/mo. you can build a mvp to field test your assumptions.
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Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces
I got 187 with this

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It's sloppy and certainly not correct, but a decent score.
TextSecure is in my (and that of crypto professionals who opinions I respect immensely) opinion the best secure messaging app on the market today -- and what they've achieved is a very difficult thing to do, as Telegram sort of shows. It's not about "hating" one or the other, this is maths and trust. TextSecure has proven maths and has spent a lot of time and effort (and open sourced their code) to build that trust and address all the issues these types of apps face.

When you're dealing with a market that can have literal life or death consequences, you go with something proven. That's why everyone touts it instead.
Well, I switched to Emacs from Vim exactly because of ELisp. Or rather because of Vimscript: I thought that Lisp or whatever, even Forth would be better than Vimscript :)

After 3 or so years of using Vim heavily I started hit the limit of what can be done with defaults, simple options adjustions and even plugins. I honestly tried to use Vimscript, but I couldn't bring myself to do this for real. I knew some Scheme then, so I wasn't afraid of Lisps. I switched and I immediately started implementing things I wished I had implemented months earlier in Vim. My Vim config was ~700 loc and it had only a few custom commands defined in it after 3 years. As I mentioned in another comment my emacs config is ~4k loc now and defines a multitude of advices, hooks and plain commands after half a year. It grows almost every day and what's most important is that coding to Emacs APIs in ELisp gives me much more pleasure than coding in Vimscript.

Lastly, modality - somehow I'm not missing it. It's not that I've seen the light and now think that modal editors are an abomination, but I came to appreciate modeless-by-default model of editing. Emacs ofers many ways to enter modal mode, so when I felt that modal interface would be better for something I just coded it so it's modal.

In short - if you're a happy Vim user who doesn't feel the need to write your own Vimscript (or you're happy with Vimscript!) then I see no reason to switch (maybe org-mode or something, but that's a very specific case). But if you thought at some point that you'd like to code up something in your editor but didn't because it was too much of a PITA then give Emacs a try.
My interest has been piqued.
I'm waiting until the next MacPro looks like the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey. The entire grey black slab could slowly pulse a über faint glow like the power light on late model PowerBooks. The idea would be to eliminate all indicator lights and make the entire monolith surface into the indicator that it's on and replace brightness with area.

I present to you, your next MacPro:

http://atypicalsnowman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2001_mono...