skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Causation can exist without correlation."

True, but I'm pretty sure I didn't rely on an assumption that it couldn't. Too much correlation without any thing causing that correlation is unlikely. How unlikely depends on just how much correlation. When something is way more unlikely given X than Y, that is evidence for X over Y.
Uh.... I think its fun to write about cyberpunk topics....

Its called "creative writing", try the googs.
Inside the Pixar Braintrust
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Why Magic Realism ‘Gets’ Us
which do you think has the lowest learning curve, I am leaning towards Magento but read somewhere that it is complex and harder to pick up.
Atom package: scroll past the end of document
When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep In Trash (2013)
Pebbles and Projects
If guilt can't be proven for sufficiently to assess which driver's insurance should pay for the costs of an accident, how can guilt be proven for the much stricter requirements needed for manslaughter? I think this would be especially difficult if the courts are overloaded with all accidents that involve deaths, instead of only the ones where drivers today are being charged with manslaughter and murder. (eg: cases where there appears to be intent to kill, rather than just accidental killings.)
They won't penetrate a car doors

Actually .22 LR can indeed penetrate a car door.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LS0ZRk1y0
Maybe it's not about the shipping. Lots of people are "cutting the cord" of their cable or satellite providers in favor of online video content. Amazon sees the opportunity to get more from those customers with little price push back because $99/year is still cheaper than $99+/month for cable or satellite.
Let's use a gambling example. You observe that a man named Ralph wins the lottery. This is a correlation--would you now say that it is slightly more likely than before that men named Ralph will win the lottery?

No--that would be silly, right? Well the logic works exactly the same even if the data set is larger than one.
I have it. Its not bad for lower back support but I still put a thin pillow on the back for a little extra support and its wonderful. Its also great with a laptop thats elevated a little via a small holder.
I'm recent to the party. I've discovered magit-blame-mode; any other goodies I might be missing out on?
I just typed in my credit card number, and paid for the paid content.

Crazy, I know.
Sure, you can replace SingleThreadExecutor by Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4)
I was a user of Google WiFi in Mountain View, and indeed the terms of service (which no one reads) allowed Google to collect information by watching what you did on the Internet. No PII, of course, but we all know that metadata is enough to identify people.

I solved this problem with a VPN, just like you need with AT&T or Comcast.
Web Inventor's Bold Call: Time For 'Online Magna Carta'
Holy crap. That's the most heart-breaking web page I've ever read. I literally had to stop reading after just a couple so that I'd have any chance of sleeping tonight.
Here's a way [0] to lock in another year at $79.

[0] http://slickdeals.net/f/6784580-heads-up-amazon-prime-price-...
Mind sending one my way? Really wanna check it out.
I just did a survey of Greenwald's usual haunts (twitter, The Intercept, Guardian, etc) and haven't found anything mentioning Ukraine or Russia at all. Care to link?
can we stop with the atom posts, please.

atom has built-in support for git? wait, no way!
Sorry but unless you live in R. as well, I know better. Internet users of the West have plenty of ways to fight back, and yet they don't really use any. They don't value the freedom they have — so they will soon lose even that. The strategy I suggest is completely valid. It worked in the past, and it would work now if executed properly.
> Obviously there is a massive syntactic difference between your Java example and the equivalent Go code

With Java 8 and lambdas, syntax will be much cleaner, i.e. you can write something like:
executor.execute(() -> "step1");
Get back to me after you've been cycling around autos every day for 10 years and we will see what your interpretation of "full attention" means.
"While it is true that high speeds clearly enlarge such risks, it is a bit disingenuous to claim this as a primary concern while simultaneously forcing cars to be made smaller and smaller out of concern for increasing car mileage per gallon and promoting environmental goals. "

Great point. In fact, I think the published collision ratings are based on colliding with a car in the same weight class. That is required because weight is such an overwhelming factor in your survival in an accident.
why are there a lot of links in this article referencing cialis? Site been hacked?
Guess it's time to crack out the Chemex for a simple pour over coffee, then hop on to our bikes! At least that will help with some of the brain fatigue.
You need a better fire than that if you want to properly cremate someone instead of making some barbecue.
Your basically just described a scene featuring Joel David Moore (as JP) in Grandma's Boy:

http://youtu.be/bHLR3faI7lU?t=12s

I still think of that setup years after having seen the movie.
Nice job making the site!
Also in Germany there was a very good (for Hitler) historical context that didn't need many of out-of-@ss facts (you can get from mass media these days). Anyway, J. Goebbels was the god of propaganda and still is I guess a role model of some political journalists even these days.
Max Levchin learned to code in the Soviet Union writing Tetris clones on paper
Yes! Having seen the "Nixon in China" images of a surging wave of bicycles at every green light at an intersection, I was shocked to see in person how completely cars have taken over, and how badly Beijing drivers treat cyclists, driving within inches of them. The only reason there isn't carnage on every block is that nothing moves faster than 10mph.

Taipei, meanwhile, is overrun with gas scooters. These pollute worse than cars. The mainland Chinese could not allow gas scooters because of their pollution output. Every office in Taipei has racks in the stairwells for hanging up your very necessary rain poncho.

A great irony is that the Chinese have mastered the ability to make cheap electric bikes. Some Chinese use them. Very few Taiwanese, because they can't keep up with gas scooters. But you'll see lots of Chinese electric bikes in New York.
Minor anti-Comcast rant:

I have an important event coming up on April 29th: The Comcast 2 year contract expires. I can't wait till I get to make that phone call and cancel the service. Amazon has such a superior product to anything out there right now. Amazon Prime + Roku and Netflix + Roku/Chromecasts have been a much better experience and cheaper.
It's generally more efficient to have a delivery truck bring a range of packages to you vs stocking a local store which you need to dive to. Of course efficiency = fewer jobs which people often object to but from a consumer perspective buying online takes less time and costs less so it's going to keep 'wining'. Now in theory amazon could raise prices but setting up a website with distribution costs far less than setting up a nationwide network of retail stores which should keep them reasonably honest long term.
Do you have a cookie whitelist and/or automatically block cookies from all websites?

I also used to get irritated by articles linking to the NYTimes until I discovered that it only redirects to the login screen if you have cookies disabled. If you enable cookies the links take you to the article just fine.

Try using a plugin that allows cookies, and deletes them automatically when you close the tab.
Turing test for dogs
Isn't it the difference between 2-day shipping (and sometimes faster) vs. slow shipping (typically 3-5 days for me)?
I think the point is that Qualcomm is quite similar. I wonder why.
The author seems to present two main points in this essay:

1. I have a lot of really cool brand new stuff.

2. Instead of having 100 different UI's, let's have less.

Is there any value in either? Half bragging and half common sense does not an engaging essay make. And while I appreciate what I understand to be his second point, I don't think it's necessarily right.

Sometimes it makes sense to have more or less buttons on something, depending on its functions. A TV remote with anything less than 20 buttons is probably useless. A UI which does not take advantage of the wide-ranging input is equally useless. A car's GPS can't really work well with just 2 or 3 physical buttons, and vanilla Android is obviously ill-fitting, even with a touch screen. The author, a serious Mac user, shouldn't even be satisfied with OSX. Has he read the UNIX Hater's Handbook? It criticizes OSX's underlying operating system with the same points he makes against everything but his beloved iToys.

I have a simple solution to the problem of too many UIs. Stop buying so much shit. Keep the growth of technology in check by voting with your wallet, and keep your mind clear by not filling it up with anything other than what is absolutely necessary. Use your phone as your GPS and TV remote. Watch TV on your computer. You can really reduce a lot of your bulk, both in terms of hardware and software, by getting more out of what you already have.

[Obligatory comment against software patents.]
Stress-Testing Software with Error Injection
Protip: the government scans and keeps the exterior of all mail that is sent. So, put the returning address on the inside of the envelope so that it is harder to work out who is sending mail to whom.
The difference of course being that Dropbox has a significantly better user experience than GDrive, while the Nomad was a significantly worse one than the iPod.
There are five quotes explaining it that way right in the wikipedia article. The only company quoted that doesn't admit to complying with court orders is Dropbox; they flatly deny involvement in anything such as PRISM.

I'm not saying there is proof of lack of wrongdoing, but it would be great if people would stop claiming without evidence that these companies made deals with NSA. Evidence-based decision making is better than paranoia.
I expected to read an article about how awful the Magic Mouse is, since I don't like the current Apple offerings of mice—at all. I find them poorly fitting and quirky (holding a mouse with just the tips of my fingers doesn't work for me). OTOH, I love their trackpads and find any other laptop trackpad almost impossibly insensitive and powerless.

I, however, really enjoyed their previous mouse offerings. So I was glad to see innovation happens the old fashioned way. An "Oops." An "Oh wait…" Then a "This is genius!"

Edit: grammar.
I've thought the same myself but reading that post made it clear to me that such thing couldn't really have much in common with what we call Ruby today.

The solution for the performant/distributed/concurrent/data-intensive problems of today and the future seems, to me, to be in the functional space. I know it's trendy to say that but it's the smart people - Rich Hickey, Simon Peyton Jones, etc - who are driving this evolution. A language with a GIL and zero immutable primitives just doesn't seem to have much to contribute. The idea that Twitter was at scale as a Rails app once upon a time is just absurd to me now.

Incidentally I creeped on your bio and saw you created obvious. I read about Obvious a while back and, although I must admit I haven't used it directly, it really had a strong influence on how I think about structuring Rails applications.
Perhaps you (like I do myself) look for the Prime Shipping item to create some self-justification for the service.
You also get other perks such as their instant video catalog and access to their kindle lending library (although if you don't take enough advantage of them, it isn't worth the cost.)
Tactile morse code
There are many cases where guilt can be proven sufficiently, both to assess insurance responsibility and legal culpability.

Just because New Jersey has decided to punt on the whole question doesn't mean it's impossible to answer in all cases. Sure, there will be cases where somebody kills somebody else due to negligence and they get away with it because it can't be proven. People sometimes go free after murdering people with guns and knives because the crime can't be proven too, but that's not a reason to give up on prosecuting all murders.
I really wanted to share this article with my friends, but it was so filled with buzzwords that even my dev friends wouldn't ascertain much.

Keep in mind I'm an idiot, and I have idiot friends.
Classic Steve. Form first, function if you have time later.
Two communications systems on missing jet were deliberately shut off 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579955/US-officials-convinced-two-separate-communications-systems-Malaysian-jet-DELIBERATELY-shut-14-minutes-apart-emerges-aircraft-pinging-FIVE-hours-vanished-flying.html
It's not a plugin, but Incognito Mode works perfectly, as do the kinds of cookie management tools that purge non-whitelisted cookies after a configurable interval.
"Really depends on where you live, but unfortunately true for much of the U.S. and Canada"

What is unfortunate about this? Americans on average are so rich that most of them can afford a car that allows them to both live where they want and still get to the job they want even if those two places are tens of miles apart and there is no public transportation.

Sounds terrible.
The idea being that most Prime members use more than $79/year in shipping costs, that Amazon is subsidizing the difference to gain market share.
Stronger user lock in once they convert users to GDrive. If your plan is to lock users into Google services, then having all their files in GDrive, integrated with Gmail, GDocs, G+ etc. is going to work towards that. Plus it allows them to corner a market as I suspect Dropbox easily has a majority (I'd guess 80+%) share in consumer cloud storage.

Do I think that is worth what Dropbox would cost? Probably not, but Google has heaps of money and hey, what would I know?
agreed, this is a bad idea and is likely to be abused shortly
Exactly. Without a doubt there was a literal conspiracy to undermine urban mass transit during the 1930s and 1940s. Firestone, Phillips, Standard Oil, and GM were all convicted of conspiracy, for Pete's sake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
Well, to beat the game you need a score of ~41000. So you are in the bottom 15%.
http://www.typematrix.com/dvorak/

Dvorak, and a compressed format with vertical key spacing - tbh if I were learning a keyboard format from scratch I would probably use colemak instead (fits my key distribution slightly better, but both blow qwerty away).

As to the keyboard, I really like the movement of enter/backspace, and arrow keys/home/end etc.
They'll just blacklist every single one of these sites for enabling access to illegal materials and you won't even be able to read EFF from Russia. And if a Russian citizen creates a public proxy, they'll convict him on anti-terrorist charges. That'll deter the rest.

I am not convinced that pushing Putin to exercise his dictatorial abilities is a good idea when his approval ratings among the general population are so high. I mean, if people already hated him, that might have pushed them over the edge. But as it stands now, general population is more likely to rationalize blocking than admit that Putin is evil.
> How do they explain why Google is getting special treatment?

Not exactly special treatment just the benefit of not being an incumbent telco/cable provider. They don't have to face the same regulations (both state/local) and that translates into lower costs to build infrastructure. Google's more likely to get special treatment because they are a very wealthy company. You can bet they are already dreaming up what regulations they will apply to Google once they have sufficient skin in the game. It also acts as a nice bit of leverage against the incumbent telco/cable providers. This is not exactly a bad thing overall. It probably is in the best interest of the tax payers and voters.

It's just ironic to see people cheering this on when it's the same exact strategy of self interest that created cable/telco monopolies. Why should we expect a different result here? I bet you 5-10 years down the road the exclusive rights to operate a 10G-PON FTTH network in San Antonio will be for sale to the highest bidder. Google will have to pay up to remain competitive or exit the market. The incumbent cable or telco provider will buy up the rights. The municipality will have a nice little payday. Rinse & repeat. I don't know why people are cheering.
Let's be perfectly clear here:

> Metadata is "data about data"

Just shorten that to "Metadata is data." That's what it is, and always has been. This weird idea that it is some sort of second-class citizen of data is the problem and allows the government to hide behind "it's just metadata": it's still data, and should be treated as such. I wouldn't care if it were an empty file: it's still data, and you still need a warrant or probable cause, not a terrorist witch hunt.
I promise that my intention isn't to shit on anything. It just seems to me that most people are trying Soylent either because it saves time or because it's easier than cooking proper food. And those two reasons, to me, don't sound like a good reason to try a nutritional supplement.
A van and a house purchased under the expectation that you aren't going to die at 35 doesn't seem like negative excess.

I don't know what branch of psychology castigating people that have more than you falls under, though.
I think it's more "stop thinking of the children, you pervert".
Among the reasons I work as a coder rather than a Physicist is that coding accomodates my Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder in a way that Academia does not.

Whenever I go back to school I always end up spending a lot of time in nuthouses.

I wrote this particular piece in a locked Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland. While we were not permitted our power cords, the nurses were happy to juice our devices behind the nurse's station.

Stanford Medical Center even has complementary wireless for the patients.

However I was not permitted even my iPhone at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington, not because it was regarded as dangerous, but because the staff did not want to have to pay for replacement of repair if my devices were stolen or damaged. That actually happened once, as they did at one time allow patients to possess computers in the locked wards.

So I continued working on Warp Life, my iOS App, by writing out its source code by hand, on paper with a pencil.

Back in the day, that was the only way one COULD write software, as keypunch machines and their operators were expensive, precious resources.
To clarify, I was commenting on the fact that introducing the notion of bipartisanship to the discussion was moot (unworthy of talk) in the sense that issues like this should transcend Left/Right ideology and moot (worthy of talk) in that it's an interesting phenomenon to me that someone immediately commented on parties, as though the American system has very deeply ingrained this sense of parties that there is no alternative to.

Your point about the words though is even more intriguing (I love words!) and I had actually never thought about the two together like that -- I don't often see "nonpartisan" -- to the extent that for a second I thought what you were saying didn't make any sense.
You are the one who mentioned "disadvantaged".

The default is just tuned for pretty to look at and show to your friends, not accessible. Fitting for a status item.
haha. Well, I doubt you're an idiot. Buzzwords serve a purpose insofar as they're a good shorthand for defining categories of product offerings. E.g., ETL, Data Warehouse, Mobile Device Management, etc. all have pretty well understood parameters within which the vendors, buyers, analysts, etc. operate.
Elegy for a Country’s Seasons
My family has both Prime and a Netflix subscription. Lately I've been finding that there is a lot of overlap between the two for streaming content. The price increase from Amazon is just the nudge we need to think harder about which subscription services are worth keeping ... and the most likely result is that we'll be cutting Netflix. I wonder how many others will come to the same conclusion.
> In Beijing, the idea of yielding to pedestrians when turning doesn't seem to exist.

It's odd. I remember when people were bemused by the bicycle city, and yet I also remember when I learned that the way to cross the street in Beijing was never to indicate that you could see a car coming, because then they'd assume you'd stop. Instead, you watch for traffic out of your peripheral vision and keep your eyes forward so that they'd feel you couldn't see them.

I wonder if that's still common wisdom.

> It got to the point where I measured the difficulty of any walk not in terms of distance but in terms of how many intersections I'd have to cross.

One of the possibly most frustrating moments I had was recently in downtown San Jose. My cousin and I (and others) had finished lunch and left into an alleyway. Her four-year-old son cheerfully ran out to the sidewalk, and we panicked because it would have been so easy for him to keep going out to the street itself.

There was no harm (he indignantly pointed out that he had not gone into the street), but it perplexes me why we find these kinds of risks acceptable. Every block, we've essentially put down a death trap for the young. I could understand it if this was the edge of the untamed wilds and we couldn't really do anything about the wolf pack in the area, but... we built these cities.

> The Chinese are strangely cavalier about cars in general. Essentially nobody wears seat belts, for example,

I've noticed this is prevalent elsewhere in Asia: there are often similar claims made about Mumbai or Bangkok.
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I have a good reading speed. When I'm caught up in a book, it increases because I want to know what happens next.

The fastest that I ever was timed when I read Clan of the Cave Bear in a single sitting. Afterwards my mother and I worked out that I'd done it at an average of 900 wpm.

So no, I don't find that reading fast hurts my enjoyment of fiction. At least some kinds of fiction.
I would like to add, the service provider that has built software for MAC, IOS, Windows, Linux and Android might be a better choice as well. I do like both Google Drive and Dropbox, but Google can't even make the time to support Linux and obviously can, so would you trust them when they have motives other than a universal storage device. Heck, even Ubuntu One does this well.
I like the lighthearted approach to cross-selling in the article. ☺
Apple mice are comically frustrating to use. I'd rather carry around a mouse of my own than use one of those pieces of crap.

Edit: even more funny is the "Magic" Trackpad. Watching people mouse around on big desktop monitors at the speed of molasses with one of those always cracks me up. The only "magic" in it is that it makes any mouse-intensive work take twice as long to complete.
I was responding directly to the parent poster's comment about dangerous jobs. But everything is on a spectrum. If we acknowledge that something is important in the extreme case, it's worth thinking about how important it is in less extreme cases.
Do you mean link to original article you submitted?

I found it by following your comments.

It's an interesting article. Personal relationships are important part not only of our life, but of any business. It's good to know how they work and what the dangers are.
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