skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see why they would release it as a product for free (even if they came up with something solid)

Brand perception is huge thing! Twitter can heavily push brands towards improving the positive sentiment by promoted & recommended campaigns. Giving a Free tool to Tweeps is a great way for lead generation and getting people bought into sponsored tweets, hashtags etc.
A fun sidenote: There's also salt with the GM free label.

http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/facepalm-of-the...
It is not a virtual machine, it is just a separated process space that looks like a VM though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC
Just abolish the FDA and let everyone go shopping with a radiological, chemical and bacteriological assay kit.

Do you really think that having an "FDA" somehow alleviates all concern about the content/quality/integrity of the food you buy and eat?!????? C'mon, man...

I, for one, can't see why anybody assigns any particularly special level of trust to a government agency. Government agencies have been shown to be corrupt, incompetent, ineffective, and/or some combination of "any or all of the above" time and time again.

There are plenty of good reasons to get rid of the FDA, and "I just plain don't trust them" certainly belongs pretty high on the list.
I find Clojure to be a very pragmatic language that excels at getting real work done and also happens to be interesting intellectually. On the other hand, your ability to quickly get stuff done in Clojure depends on a fairly radical change in your approach problem solving (functionally, and without mutation). Until that happens most people will find golang a much simpler, more intuitive language.
> The fact that you're using "earliest date of discovery" as supporting evidence

It was a fun discussion while it lasted, but conjuring words out of thin air and putting them in my mouth is where it ends. Thanks.
That's the same thing I have... They promise a lot, however the only new thing added is a HTML 5 console and some Ubuntu 14.04 images. Oh, and 2 new datacenters, which do not apply to me... But come on, it is really not that hard...
As far as I'm aware, all merchandise is sold through a separate partner/portal.
Isn't this a YC company they acquired previously (2 or 3 years ago)?
Could you explain what's going on in this video?
They bought Bluefin (biggest acquisition pre-IPO) which did a ton of really great sentiment analysis. They ended up shelving Bluefin's product (which was targets at brands and TV networks), because they'd already signed a deal with Nielsen. A shame too. Bluefin's data was amazing. And they had lots of paying customers.

It could be a very easy add-on play for big users, but Twitter hasn't historically wanted to be in the services business.
You would be willing to trust what you put into your body to Consumer Reports

I'd trust Consumer Reports at least as much as I trust the FDA. It's not like the FDA isn't a "member in good standing" of the agri/pharma/military/prison/industrial complex. Government Agency / Megacorp? Just two sides of the same coin.
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Gentoo with grsecurity for example, but also just experimenting. For example, with kernel compiling. Booting Ubuntu 12.04 from a 14.04 kernel is always fun. Or, to run Arch. They are deprecating Arch now because of high maintenance, but that is just because they use images instead of letting the OS boot its own kernel...
I think it was just available to business accounts and verified users. At least, when I got access it was just for verified and twitter for business customers.
Haven't they been breached before? Sad.
> If you truly want to bypass learning the basics, then use Heroku or another similar service that handles much of that for you. Docker is not the answer.

IMO Docker is a no-ops thing in the same way Heroku is. Not because Docker is especially good at taking care of all this but because Heroku isn't especially good either. Some things are taken care of by Heroku for free that aren't taken care of by Docker and vice versa. One example is that when you set up a Heroku app the number of logs it keeps is very short. This could be a disaster. At least when Docker is set up it keeps a reasonable number of logs (with most that are on GitHub). The developer may not know how to get them but can learn it on the fly.

The other no-ops solutions often suck in some ways because to the difference between the needs of the companies that sell them and the developer. So even though Docker might have some problems I'm not convinced that a naive Docker setup is worse than a naive PaaS setup.

Either way the developer who doesn't get the basics right (not your exhaustive list) is likely to be embarrassed at some point.
> And yet entanglement causes changes to occur instantaneously over unlimited distances

That is an interpretation; specifically, it's the Copenhagen Interpretation. The other interpretations you mention all say different things about what is "really happening" with entanglement. The only other one I'm aware of that would describe it similarly to "changes occurring instantaneously over unlimited distances" is the Bohm interpretation, but AFAIK that interpretation only works for non-relativistic QM; there is no relativistic version of it, which means it can't be right as it stands.

In any case, one thing all the interpretations agree on is that entangment cannot be used to transmit information instantaneously over unlimited distances. So entanglement can't produce the sorts of phenomena that are claimed to occur in psi. So the experimental facts are still just as I described them.

> if you'd asked anybody in 1900 what the likelihood of quantum physics existing was in the form it has ultimately been found, you would have been laughed out of the room without an answer

That's because nobody had actually done the experiments we've done now. We have quantum physics because experiments forced us to it, not because theorists thought it was a cool idea--i.e., because experiments ruled out the "classical" view of the world that everybody had before quantum physics. So it seems perfectly reasonable to me to rule out psi based on experimental data that rule out the existence of any interactions that could cause it.
As someone just now learning how docker works, I absolutely agree.

Personally, I think there are some new-ish interesting immutability ideas that can be explored with regards to static files. It's not clear to me whether static assets (or even static sites) belong inside the container. I would be really interested in experienced folks' opinions on the immutability of the image. Where do you draw the line on what goes inside it and what's mounted in?
The connections are not all on the same layer in Knockout. It does not seem like you have ever used it? It uses a hierarchy/tree of binding contexts. For dependent values you have a computed binding which creates an implicit dependency which triggers a change whenever it's dependency changes. It works very well in my experience.
I was under the impression this "application-state" issue was something that the MVVM pattern was invented to solve.
> Do you really think that having an "FDA" somehow alleviates all concern about the content/quality/integrity of the food you buy and eat?!????? C'mon, man...

I do, if FDA worked better. I certainly do not subscribed to the idea of abolishing it because it is broken. I subscribe to the idea of fixing it. Closing the revolving door as much as possible, making it stronger.

I have lived for many years in a country with an effectively missing FDA. It was there de-facto but it was a joke. So anyone could sell you anything. The joke about baby formula and chalk mixed with water was not a joke, it has happened. Other foodstuff is just like that.

"Organic" farmers live there too. You know what they do, the spray the shit of their produce with pesticides and put those in a different garden plot from the real organic food they grow for themselves. I have seen it myself (a relatives' neighbor does it). "Organic" there is a joke.

The best eggs and produce we got was a from a relative out f the "growing for yourself" lot not from the "growing for selling lot". Otherwise we just kind of guessed in the dark.

The alternative without the FDA is many many times more scary and only those who have no idea what it looks like would advocate for it.

This is not science fiction. You can buy a plane ticket and be within a day in a such a place in the world.
Don't you find it offensive that you're purposefully misled by the two industries - who prefer to not defend themselves directly and instead use Porn as the innocent victim?
I can only say I hope to live to see the day the death penalty is abolished once and for all in the United States.
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->The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad.
HAHAHA so true
"...libertarian dream. Just abolish the FDA..."
I just do not get why folks think that 'libertarian' -- means abolish regulatory bodies of any kind.

I would suggest that you take the following view:

Libertarians in US would like to reduce federal government regulation. This means regulatory function just like general economic and political power has to be split across states, local government, and free consortiums'.

Where the job of a federal government is to enforce contracts between free entities and referee disputes
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/libertarianism.html#A9

While not clearly articulated (and and indication that Libertarian party platform is far from fully developed), I think the Libertarian platform must include a position about 'normalized contract language' for common contracts.

Otherwise this is where lawyers working for larger corporations -- always win the disputes and this would cause a completely unfair system.

Are there federal government regulations that must remain? -- yes of course.

A FDA related discussion (albeit subjective) is here

http://www.dailypaul.com/257985/do-libertarians-want-to-elim...
I'm glad to see people (besides DHH) finally beginning to question the necessity and/or wisdom of complex client side MVC frameworks.

If you want something even simpler than react.js: http://intercoolerjs.org
They don't use the embedded ones in most parts of snow countries like Canada, because it's hard to get them flush with the road so that they work with snowplows. AFAICT, Toronto still uses just plain old paint on most of its roads.
Because there's no money in juggling?
Just look at this: organic, gluten free, wheat free, whole grain, nature's path, happy panda!

Yet the nutritional info shows 2g protein, 2g fiber, 3.5g fat, 7g sugar (almost 2 teaspoons!) per 30g serving. Also no vitamins. Not much nutrition there.

Imagine dropping 2 teaspoons of sugar into a child's glass of milk. You wouldn't do that, would you?

http://us.naturespath.com/product/panda-puffstm-cereal
> Do you really think that having an "FDA" somehow alleviates all concern about the content/quality/integrity of the food you buy and eat?

In countries with reasonably effective/trustworthy government agencies, it does a pretty decent job. Can't speak for the US FDA though.
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Not a general purpose CPU/GPU, but related: http://www.nervanasys.com/

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I fucking love this!!!
I hope they replace the workers in the warehouses first; since UPS/FedEx/Amazon own them, they could put QR codes on the floor or other craziness to automate those workers first.
Can I publish docker images I create with vagrant to the index? What does that workflow look like?
It's quite amazing how many words (and phrases) in common usage are actually nautical terms.

For example...when was the last time you said:
'Everything is above board'

'That company needs a bailout'

'A storm is coming, we better batten things down'

'Did someone just let the cat out of the bag?'

'We better clear the deck so we can start this new project'

'This project is doomed. We need to cut and run'

'My son is an excellent student. He passed his exam with flying colors'

'They successfully used a loop hole to get around the rules'

'You better toe the line' (usually mis-spelled as 'tow the line' on the internet these days)

There are many, many more.

But then you have to remember, at one point in history, all things shipping and nautical were the high tech of its day, and for a long time period.

As for me, I'll be giving any more phrases a wide berth and waiting until the sun is over the yardarm so I can pop a beer.
They say they can't detect amounts less than 1%, and it's pointless to assume there's even that little unless you scan the entire portion of meal you're eating (there may be no gluten in the area you scan, but there may very well be in another).
Not just lose the nicotine, I would lose my mind or would need to take a pharmaceutical...better, right? I quit for seven months and not a second of the day or night was I not jonesing for nicotine. I am an addict, my mom quit 20 years ago and got breast cancer last year, my 93yo grandfather is one & his deceased 92yo father was one(neither ever stepped foot in a hospital). Our genes seem to abide the smoking, the other things we all have in common is we never stop moving...well except for great grampa that one fateful day he never got up to fill his pipe. If I too last until I'm 90, yay! If not, so what? Nobody gets out alive & I'm going to live well until the end. The 7 billion of the rest of you will have to go on without me. Try to be strong.

Oh yeah, TFA: The pedometer on my phone tells me I walk 2.5+ miles a day... while smoking. My uncle was director of IT for Fortune 20 corp and does the same thing, he swears it is 'his process'. I concur, however, YMMV.
For that matter even with Touch Screen, a gesture is extracted/identified by touch Algorithms (either in Touch controller or SoC). Only later, an action is taken. So there will defenitely be an inherent delay. These algos involve similar classification methods as mentioned in this demo.
I definitely prefer hg but github has pretty much won war so I'm stuck with git. At the end of the day I'm not going to get religious about version control, I have vim for that :)
- interface is clunky

- no nice mobile app

- does not integrate with third-party systems (yea "not their problem" but they should do something to promote 3rd party system to integrate with them)

- spam filter is not so great (false positive is the problem - I'm ok having occasional spam in inbox, but email from wife linking some stuff I need order is really annoying.)

It is kinda hard to pinpoint the main reason...
I'm not up on what the plans for that team are right now. I can say that it is an explicit goal to expose more and more of Google's infrastructure through cloud -- including how we route traffic globally.
I always wanted to try this! I imagined having two antennae, though, positioned orthogonally to give a 2-d signal.
This is strange, where I typed localhost, Chrome prompted me if I really meant localhost/
"Why are EFF and Reason and the largest bank lobby campaigning against OCP?"

Because the DOJ shouldn't be using the regulatory bureaucracy to make an end run around congress to close down businesses they don't like that are otherwise legal? What happens if they decide next that they don't like gun shops or abortion clinics or businesses that are owned by <insert discriminated group> here.

If these businesses are doing something wrong then shut them down legitimately under the law or have the law changed to outlaw them but allowing some official in the DOJ to use bank regulation to for them out of business is not right.
Is there a punchline there? Let me try...

"Why did the greatest juggler alive quit to open a concrete business?... Because juggling is insubstantial!"
Actually, Office 365 is currently the best alternative. But I kinda don't trust MS - this is startup idea.
"But, but, but... who will build the roads!?"

> And who decides that those tests are rigorous?

Really? Who decides those things now? That's the whole point: look at all the disasters the FDA has approved (and the high barrier to entering the marketplace they create, which kills an unknowable number of things that could be tremendously beneficial).

People have to make decisions with the best information that they have. At least with a commercial entity, you can see where the interests are aligned, instead of operating under the delusion that benevolent agents of the state are out there working on your behalf.

Here's a parallel example: the FDIC exists to insure bank deposit holders up to $100k (formerly $250k, but oh well). Now, with the FDIC, you have every incentive to ignore your bank and assume that your deposits are safe. What about without the FDIC? Maybe you're more concerned with how your bank invests your money. Maybe you ask to see their balance sheet. Maybe you see how disastrously over-leveraged they are and take your money elsewhere. If that happens enough times, look at all the financial crisis you SUDDENLY DON'T HAVE.

That's a pretty over-simplified example, so here's a more direct one: there's a program operated by FEMA called the National Flood Insurance Program. The purpose is to provide affordable flood insurance for houses which the market has decided are too flood-prone to be insured, but for a very expensive policy, if at all. Just consider that for a second: FEMA is literally reinforcing their own existence by incentivizing people to live in places where floods might destroy their homes and kill them. I don't think it gets any more perverse than that (though realistically it probably does).

The state can't help you. All it can do is provide concentrated centers of control to attract those with power and influence, and all you get in return is a false sense of security. You're literally walking into a trap and turning your brain off.
Likely true for those longer ones but the site notes a 54 km/h conveyor belt in Germany. That could be a bit risky...
This is my first fulltime job, having just graduated in December and spending most of January traveling. It was actually the only job I got an offer -- it was near the top of my list of choices but I was still pretty disappointed. I probably applied to maybe 300 places over the course of a year, but after getting an offer (following an internship over the summer) I probably only applied to 3-5 places I was serious about.

The employer doesn't use any words to describe it, its just part of the culture I guess. Just get your work done, no one cares when you're in the office. We have a scrum meeting we're expected to attend and a few sprints meetings/allhands, but everything else we are free to schedule whatever suits us best. Initially I was a little disappointed about how little vacation time I was getting, but I've taken a few days off and have never been docked days from my balance.
This seems like one of those things people will eternally argue about, much like 3rd person video game camera controls and to a lesser extent, plane simulator controls in games viewed from a chase camera.
I also use a service like this on all my bank accounts (4 different bank accounts in the US), companies etc. I do not hide the fact that it is a post box with the bank, I just tell them this fact, so I don't see any issue with this. All the mail is scanned and then forwarded to another location or trashed, whatever I prefer.

I think receiving physical mail is insane.

I do all of this for my US businesses, and it's essential to do it this way as I don't live in the US so I would never be there to collect the mail in any case!

In any case there are lots of alternatives to outbox!
Those are interesting, and git has some similar large file extensions too. However during some years of experimentation I have become convinced that these features have to be part of core or they will always be second-rate citizens and not work well in practice.
I don't see any tragedy here and I doubt Gatto/Commarota does either. He did something amazingly well as a kid and young adult, had fun with it and has now decided it's time to move on. The tragedy with top sports-people is often when they retire and have a lot of trouble adjusting to not being the best in the world at something. From the article it sounds like Commarota finally got tired of the constant stress on his body and the difficulty of supporting and spending time with his family while professionally juggling and is now successfully transitioning to a very 'down-to-earth' career. Good luck to him.
That's an interesting idea, although I think it'd be hard to make a piggyback battery pack light enough. The Tesla's swappable battery pack module including frame/supports, armor, and coolant weighs over 1,300lb.

Nobody wants lithium batteries in their passenger compartment, but I do suspect it might be possible to make a ~200lb pack that would fit in a Tesla's frunk and move it at least a few miles. Thermal management would be a tremendous challenge in that area unless the "auxiliary battery" port could somehow interface safely with the car's existing liquid cooling system.
Even if Congress LET the USPS charge $1.50 per letter that doesn't guarantee that they would stop the dramatic discounts for presorted mail.

If Congress MANDATED that the USPS charge $1.50 per letter with no discounts the deluge of junk mail would be vastly reduced. When the price goes up 10x the volume would go down dramatically. Maybe only 5x or maybe 50x. It probably wouldn't be linear. But it absolutely would go down.

Even better is that what little junk mail you got might actually be useful because at the $1.50 price the company would have to be statistically pretty damn sure you're interested.
I think you're absolutely right. People aren't used to dealing with the functional paradigm that React has introduced and it's interesting, and in many cases the benefits are immediately apparent and in others are only apparent over time (meaning, with direct use). With Angular, however, there was very little philosophical "newness" but a lot of immediate "wow" and the momentum from that was enough to carry it quite far (and rightfully so).

What's happening with React is different though, and happens only once in a very long while: engineering complexities that seem to have spun wildly out of control become radically simplified by something sitting right under your nose.

It's exciting. Congrats to all of those who have contributed to React.
Most people who face the death penalty are guilty a few are not. Is it worth killing the innocent to serve up "justice" to the guilty? No.
There usually are dependencies between the game and its assets, but sure, these dependencies can be managed.

Historically I've dealt with the problem by keeping code and assets in separate repositories (using different version control systems). While it's worthwhile to do so in order to use git for code it really is a pain.
On top of that, they call it 'Panda Puffs' and it actually contains NO panda! How do they get away with this?
The inmate still died. It's almost double-talk to call it "botched" when you accidentally kill someone a different way than you were intending to kill them.
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