skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two more points:

(1) Regarding the word "anxious", you wrote: "the word was not used in isolation. It was contextualized in an utterance about the particular anxiety about the loss of livelihood--predicated on the very real perception of profound expendability--of people in a capitalist system."

No, in fact, it was NOT so contextualized. Read it again. Maybe YOU saw it that way because you already had some framework to hang it on, but the original claim was a standalone question, the start of a discussion point, and the first mention of anxiety in the whole piece. It said: "Why are we all so anxious all the time?" That is a question, in English, not written by Marx, so we shouldn't need to bend over backwards to interpret it in some explicitly Marxian context to decide whether it would be a sensible assertion to Marx. What matters is whether it's a sensible assertion to us. If not, then we don't need Marx to explain anything here. My conclusion: it's not true. So maybe the rest of the essay is fine, but that one point is unnecessary.

(2) It takes real chutzpah to claim in the same sentence (a) somebody else has ignored the Principle of Charity, and (b) that this person "should be personally ashamed" to have made "a very basic error". You don't seem to be following your own advice. :-)
You are right. There are tons of terrible articles on the web that claim to "have the key to success." Replicating what successful people do isn't the key.

I'm just saying that your comment ("I viscerally hate these articles") belongs on a thread about a crappy article. Not on a thread about great article. This one is by a great entrepreneur and one who interacts with hundreds of smart CEOs. This article is the one others strive to be like. It shares how smart people work - it doesn't tell you how to be successful.

Your comment also belongs on the thread of an article that you have actually read.
I think debate is going to be present in the creation of anything, even amongst those with experience, so that part doesn't bother me too much.

However, to me Soylent feels as if a bunch of business experts with no software experience sat down to have a detailed debate with an open internet forum about what design decisions should be made in the construction of an electronic banking system or FEA modeling software, the whole way using only Wikipedia as a resource and without consulting anyone with past experience building such a system.

Actually, Soylent's development process reminds me a bit of many Bitcoin products: overconfident hype-prone attempts to design high-value systems with limited domain knowledge and a certain disdain for regulation, authority, and expertise.

If I weren't opposed to giving them money I certainly wouldn't be opposed to trying Soylent and perhaps using it as a meal-replacement shake at times. After all, the stuff is almost certainly more nutritionally valuable than a lot of the things I eat. But as a complete meal replacement, I feel things need to be pretty damn right and I don't think Soylent have the domain experience or testing to market their product as such.
I think it's interesting in that it proves that the web components approach is going to be a valid and attractive way to solve certain types of problems.

I think that it started us off into a bold new direction, and due to it's popularity will increase the general audience who would be attracted to it or related systems.

I don't know if it's going to still be around if/when we reach whatever the 'platonic ideal' of this approach to web applications is.
My parents signed me up for the Evelyn Wood speed reading course the summer before college. They thought that it might give me an edge over other students.

Speed reading took away all the joy of reading for me. Thought my comprehension was way lower but they give you tests afterward and I scored highly. But studying the tests revealed they were super simple.

The whole idea was to build your confidence and convince you it worked so you'd bring them more customers. There was no way it was going to help me in the real world classroom.

But my parents meant well, Evelyn Wood's marketing was really well done. Just found out the courses are still on the market.
> Just because things are uncertain doesn't mean they're equally uncertain as you learn new facts!

But that's the foundation on which science is built -- the null hypothesis -- the default precept that a correlation has no meaning without evidence supporting one. The idea that unexplained correlations are assumed to arise from chance, not an uncovered cause.

Until there's evidence that cannot be explained any other way, two apparently connected things are presumed to be connected by chance.

> ... but both become more likely relative to "there is no causal relationship between A and B whatsoever"

You're starting out making an assumption that has no basis. In science, the default assumption about a correlation is that it has no meaning whatsoever.

> Probabilities sum to 100%.

Yes, they do, but the initial probability is 100% that the correlation arises from chance. This is why the scientists at the LHC refused to speculate about the existence of the Higgs until they had acquired a p factor of 5σ. Details:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/17/...

"Scientists use p-values to test the likelihood of hypotheses. In an experiment comparing some phenomenon A to phenomenon B, researchers construct two hypotheses: that “A and B are not correlated,” which is known as the null hypothesis, and that “A and B are correlated,” which is known as the research hypothesis."

"The researchers then assume the null hypothesis (because it’s the most conservative supposition, intellectually) and calculate the probability of obtaining data as extreme or more extreme than what they observed, given that there is no relationship between A and B. This calculation, which yields the p-value, can be based on any of several different statistical tests. If the p-value is low, for example 0.01, this means that there is only a small chance (one percent for p=0.01) that the data would have been observed by chance without the correlation. Usually there is a pre-established threshold in a field of study for rejecting the null hypothesis and claiming that A and B are correlated. Values of p=0.05 and p=0.01 are very common in many scientific disciplines."
I really like the design on some of the posters from the article: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/...
> It's a good point, that different interpretations of the same sentence can lead to pointless debate.

I'd take it even further -- different interpretations of the same sentence always lead to pointless debate except to the extent that such debate is expressly aimed at maximizing mutual understanding of the semantic interpretations (rather than the derivative views) of all parties involved. The focus should be on dissolving the question[1], then opinion comes into the picture whenever dissolution fails.

> Unfortunately, I guess the main way to improve semantic clarity around an argument would be with more information up front, which would simultaneously raise the barrier to entry.

True. Right now the size of the discussion is inversely proportional to its complexity. I think we all overestimated how much that would change due to the architecture of the internet.

> Perhaps the answer is to allow 'splitting' an debate when it becomes clear that more than one issue is really being discussed. That would mean you could retain the simplicity and low barrier to entry, while avoiding situations where discussions get off topic.

It makes me really optimistic that your mind went directly to that. "Semantic threading" as a replacement to "people threading" is the core of what I'd like see in a discussion platform that actually hopes to achieve the goal of "meaningful, balanced debates".

Taking that to the extreme, I've long wanted a platform that takes the form of a single discussion, where structured branching and merging from various parts in the discussion makes a lot of the actual writing redundant. Though I'm not sure what sort of effects on motivation that would have -- people like to feel like they're contributing in a more substantive manner than "me too", and there's often an unwillingness to quote oneself which could dramatically slow down conversation when the community is still small. If I ever get around to specifying a protocol or building a service like that myself, I suspect that it would make the most sense to specify the protocol as an extension of git or build the service on top of github.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/
As a result of issues with those kinds of lanes, Copenhagen changed direction a bit ago and now puts in only bike lanes physically separated by a curb from the car lanes, at least where possible (excluding some narrow streets). If there's street parking, the lane is also typically on the other side of the parked cars (the sidewalk side), making it even more impossible for someone to swerve from the car lanes into the bike lane. Also reduces "door" incidents, since the lane isn't on the driver-door side of parked cars. In addition to being much safer for cyclists, it also helps reduce drivers' need to watch out for the other direction, cyclists unexpectedly swerving into the auto lanes, e.g. to pass another cyclist. That part becomes particularly important if getting people to bike is actually successful: if you have a major route with a steady stream of >10 cyclists/minute, you really want that stream managed in its own space, segregated from both the cars and pedestrians.

I believe some of these kinds of "really separated" bike lanes exist in the U.S., but not many. The last statistics I saw were that the U.S. (in total) has about 200 miles of physically protected bike lanes (including bike-only routes), while Greater Copenhagen alone has 600 miles of them.

edit: some photos of various configurations, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Physically_separ...
The CIA is sometimes referred to as "the President's private army." Presumably, this provides a counterweight to the Pentagon. But now we've reached a point where Americans need a counterweight to the both of them.
> NOTE: This site is the official version of 2048. You can play it on your phone via http://git.io/2048. All other apps or sites are derivatives or fakes, and should be used with caution.

Might be good of you to remove that bit.
I thought the 2014 Technology Roadmap [1] was an interesting read. For an organization as "young" as Netflix, I was surprised by the technology debts that they've accumulated and the aggressive tone that they've set to transition.

I think it's amazing the decisions that get made with explosive growth/hiring that end-up on roadmaps that read similarly to organizations that have been around much longer.

There's no criticism here. I think Netflix is an amazing company and it is the this sort of strategic vision (and the openess of both it and the organization overall) that reminds me that we're all on this rocky ship together and it's amazing that any of it works sometimes.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/mdkail/it-ops-2014-technology-road...
Neither Turkey nor the Ukraine is in the EU, that point of yours is a bit off. And for our treatment of the African refugee seekers, well I compare that to the US-Mexican border. No side is better in any way than the other.

But agreed, how we Germans treat Greece is disgusting. Basically, everyone claims "how bad the Greeks are", but the bailout money does not go to the Greeks but to our own banks. This has never been to "rescue Greece", but to rescue our fucking banks.
There Was One Big Problem With Sunday’s Cosmos Episode
I have two invites.
[Edit]: One left.
main reason for me was that i kept on beating the 2048 one, so lets see if this one is beatable :)
That's not entirely fair. Maybe in some of the cases; but, I've seen people do some really, really, REALLY unwise things as pedestrians that they're lucky someone was paying a huge amount of attention so they weren't hit.

The most pressing example in my mind is a woman cross the street in the middle of a rain shower, within 15 yards, probably much less (my mind's eye paints the memory as 'the edge of my car was here and the lady was RIGHT THERE!!!'), of me and crossing several lanes of traffic with her umbrella all out like she owned the place. She wasn't at a crosswalk, she was crossing the road a 100ish yards after a major turn, and I don't remember if I was the first car in a long line of cars or there were several cars passing and then she elected to walk in front of mine, but I'm very glad I was hyper-attentive so that I could brake in time and that my brakes were 100% up to spec, and my tires had enough tred on them.

She intentionally put herself into harms way and any number of minor failures, including me looking to where I needed to be, because it was RIGHT AFTER A TURN (think of where your eyes go when you're taking a turn, it's not to the far corner ahead, it's to where your wheel-edge is and where your lane is placed, so you don't hit someone more likely to be hit, like the car that's attempting the exact same manuever beside you), or having just that little bit less attention because I was adjusting a radio dial to not have her thumped up onto my roof.

It's not always the driver's fault. Some pedestrians need to realize that we, focused drivers, are still rocketing a couple tons of steel in a direction.
As it says in the article:

>Due to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed upon definition of the Third World.
They are already storing the phone calls...

* http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs-july-dec1...

* http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telepho...

I'll quote the slip up of Tim Clemente, a former FBI agent:

> All digital communications are uh uh... There's a way to look at digital communications in the past. And I can't go into detail of how that's done or what's done but I can tell you that no digital communication is secure.
+1 for Singapore, at least from a business perspective:

http://gyrovague.com/2013/10/30/half-the-donut-why-an-entrep...

Personally, I'm going for Australia though -- there's more to life than low taxes.
Given how frequently public schooling fails children, I think we should probably be somewhat liberal about permitting other options.
I think you made an arithmetic mistake. Look at it another way:

10 minutes per person per day * 8kbps = 600 kB per person per day.
600 kB / person / day * 365 days /year = 214 MB / year.

That's nothing. Consumer flash media is something like $0.30/GB. Let's mark that up 100x because the three letter agency doesn't care about costs and has an inefficient procurement process, so $30/GB.

0.209 GB / year * $30 / GB = $6 per person per year.

There are 300 million people in the US, but phone calls are between at least two parties, so:

300 million people * 0.5 * $6 per person per year = $900 million per year.

You can't even build a mile of highway for that little. Hell, some big cities in the US have a bigger annual deficit than that.
AT&T U-Verse is the only thing available in my apartment complex. I chuckled at Unwired...I can pay twice as much for half the speed? Sign me up!!
Why would I ever form-reject someone?

You can shoot me an email and I can figure out when this happened and maybe, if it's helpful for you to know, give you an idea what we did wrong on our side. Obviously, if you're still interested, we're happy to talk to you.

It's funny, one of the things I tell every person I talk to in our first-call process is "we won't go dark on you if we think it's not going to work out; we'll tell you ASAP --- but I don't promise not to go dark on you by accident". Everyone in our company is billable, which is good, but we're always hammered with stuff.
Look out for the offers that periodically give you free storage for a year for using bing.

Currently sitting on 100GB of storage for free until 2020.
Could you point me to some tutorial how to implement client side business models in Angular autosynced to the server, backbone style?

From what I've seen on Angular people are really hyped about extending html and two way binding but when it comes to communication with the server they just wrap arbitrary ajax call done via $http or $resource in Angular service or factory or provider and call it a day. After seeing what backbone does, this seems to me to be as reckless as manipulating the DOM using jQuery.
I'd really like to see that broken down by type of transit, as well as deaths for transit passengers versus people killed in e.g. private cars involved in accidents with busses.

My guess, and this is very much a guess, is that buses will be disproportionately dangerous, and a fair number of those killed by busses are in cars that collide with them.

For one random example, the DC metro has seen 9 deaths in the past five years and appears to run at about 1.8 billion passenger-miles per year, for a fatality rate of around 0.1 deaths per 100 million passenger-miles (or 1 per billion). This is very rough as deaths are spiky (those nine deaths happened all at once almost five years ago) and the long-term average is tough to judge.
tl;dr you still can't Taylorise clue, but that'll never stop the Mgt. from trying.
Moderation is key. If we can cut down on driving, things would be even better.

Making telecommuting a standard business practice would be huge in reducing pollution, energy usage, etc. It would also allow people to spend more time with their families & live where they want.
It means nothing. Causation can exist without correlation.
> It's not trash. A single-blind trial is much better than nothing.

Let's test this idea with a thought experiment. Let's say I'm a doctor and I've created a revolutionary cure for the common cold. My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until he gets better. The cure might take a week, but it always works. My method is repeatable and perfectly reliable, and I've published my cure in a refereed scientific journal (there are now any number of phony refereed scientific journals). And, because (in this thought experiment) science can get along without defining theories, I'm under no obligation to try to explain my cure, or consider alternative explanations for my breakthrough — I only have to describe it.

Because I've cured the common cold, and because I've met all the requirements that non-scientists recognize for science, I deserve a Nobel Prize. Yes or no?

The answer is obviously no, and to establish the reliability of dried gourds as a cure for the common cold, we would need a double-blind experiment -- both the experimenter and the subject would need to be blinded about which treatment is being applied.
good note, adjusted the page to give credit where credit is due
We furiously encourage this sort of thing.
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Which clients use NAPTR? Can't you have a SRV record without NAPTR?
> The notion that something needs to remain on-premise is really an Old World way of thinking and feels more like someone wanting control as opposed to there being a valid argument.

No, it's the business continuity way of thinking. Outsourcing commodities -- such as servers, virtual or otherwise -- is one thing.

Outsourcing your core operational tools, software, and all your data is another matter entirely. Preferring SaaS at a company large enough to afford on-premise solutions is just nonsensical, and I expect it'll either blow up in his face, or just create a never-ending tax on end users who are constantly dealing with a mishmash of vendors, accounts, disappearing services, broken software, and instability.

At scale, stability and continuity is worth more than the opex/capex costs of internal IT.
and a Turtlebot!
Just wondering, how often in the past have you purchased some kind of meal replacement shake to solve the problem?

If never or not often, why will Soylent be different?
Found: The Fastest-Approaching Object in the Universe
I stopped using Dropbox when their OS X client repeatedly got stuck syncing on most of my machines, and started pegging the CPU and draining my batteries. Tried reinstalling a few times months apart and promptly hit the same problem each time.

Google Drive could maybe be useful if there existed some working FUSE implementation that would fit on cheap single board computers like the BeagleBoards and Raspberry Pi.
I agree. I don't have the exact numbers, but I'm sure that in the first 3 days most of the energy comes from the cotyledons in the seed and not from the light.
Can't you say the same thing about stores and credit cards? I dont think gambling is really much worse.
Try Singapore!

VW Golf 1.4 TSI DSG (A) S$132,800 (104.9k USD)

http://www.sgcarmart.com/new_cars/newcars_pricing.php?CarCod...
Venture capitalists face a more competitive, global market
Interesting ideas - definitely going to give this more thought. Saysaw wasn't initially intended to be such a formal process as this would alienate the majority of users (I can imagine my mum trying to use StackOverflow), but theres definitely value in something along the lines of what you described. It would be a completely different audience & business model though, probably similar to stackoverflow's, and would probably take a bit more than a week to build :-) Email info@saysaw.org if you want to discuss more
The Functional Side of JavaScript
"to be in latinamerica"

I'm in a dark corner on the planet on this...
I'm not really arguing against that point
No corporation gets to count "peace" on their balance sheet, but man those bullets pile up on the bottom line.
I completely agree that predictability is an important aspect of money. We don't know that inflation will be 1-5% over the next 20 years with any certainty.

This makes planning very difficult with money. I suppose my point was to hold a mirror to society and show how we value ourselves using money as the barometer.
Actually the best choice is to store your data with both.

This announcement just made that significantly cheaper, and there's opportunity here for a "cloud RAID" offering to take the hassle out of mirroring one's data. Dropbox already has the API, so they could turn this to their advantage.
I think the average user would get very confused by all those words whereas if you say online back up he will instantly get how it is useful for him.
Wow, please do go ahead and make it happen :) I'd love to contribute to such a project.
I guess an obvious difference is that Go has these stuff built into runtime and syntax, which makes those light-weight threads / tasks a first class thing.

Furthermore, is there a way in "Java SingleThreadExecutor" and its related components that allow automatic scheduling tasks on different threads? For example, you are on a quad-core and you want to have 4 threads running together, with millions of tasks mapped to 4 threads and dynamically balanced.
Most of the things we all eat comes from dubious origins. The average meal comes from several different continents and from animals and plants grown under a wide range of conditions. If you buy all of your ingredients in their least processed form then you have a shot at knowing roughly where it came from. Good luck if you buy anything canned, in a box, or pre-made at a restaurant and don't even bother trying with supplements.

Soylent isn't from another planet and isn't made of some crazy chemicals just invented. Looking at its ingredients list isn't any stranger than looking at the ingredients list of almost any product in the supermarket.
Not for my OS. And thanks for the downvote.
Jetliner 'Pinged' Satellites With Location for Hours After Disappearance
Of the 5.4 deaths per billion passenger-miles, are there any statistics to show what percentage of these are the result or have a contributing factor of cars involved?

It would be fascinating to see if the 5.4 statistic would drop significantly if the car-related deaths were factored out.