skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the scope of my research, a feminist programming language is to be built around a non-normative paradigm that represents alternative ways of abstracting. The intent is to encourage and allow new ways of thinking about problems such that we can code using a feminist ideology...

> The idea came about while discussing normative and feminist subject object theory. I realized that object oriented programmed reifies normative subject object theory. This led me to wonder what a feminist programming language would look like, one that might allow you to create entanglements (Karen Barad Posthumanist Performativity).

Somebody please tell me, is this like the Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, or is it serious?

This is actually a sincere question. My first reaction was that this must be a parody. What in the world would it mean to code using any kind of ideology? "I believe strongly in this principle, therefore my code is correct!" That's what it sounds like to me.

But maybe there is something I missed entirely. If so, please enlighten me!
MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain
The problem isn't "NYT needs to engage more with social". The problem is that the Times needs to figure out how to be RELEVANT.

Let's start with this: be hyper-local. I should be able to easily plan a trip and tour to New York without ever leaving the NYT website. I should be able to know every single Broadway and off-Broadway play that will be running when I get there and be able to get tickets NOW.

Reporting: How about being actively antagonistic toward government? How about real, hard-hitting government coverage? How about tracing every single dollar, favor, and deal until the politicians don't just hate you, but actively FEAR you.

Editorial: how about some informed opinion pieces? How about starting to peel apart complex topics in multiple parts and report TRUTH rather than both sides?

Gee, you know, that sounds like a ... newspaper. Shame this country doesn't actually have one anymore.

Sure, the NYT gets their lunch stolen, but mostly by one offs.

An aggregate of clever obits. A repackaging of Nelson Mandela's death. Could you predict those IN ADVANCE? Doubtful. Chasing them is like saying "We need to create Gangnam Style". Great. But it isn't going to happen.
Well, they contributed it certainly but it belongs to the British Government in right of the crown.

Both parties were engaged in currency manipulation of their own free will, no one forced the british government to take their currency position.
I wonder what this means for the future of OpenStack?
Portal: Control your garage door from anywhere
Portal is a simple, an add-on device that allows you to open or close your garage, check if the door is open, and schedule automatic opens or closes. It works in real-time, is always connected to the internet, and is incredibly simple to setup and use. No more remotes, just use your phone! (or anything else with a web browser)
Hmmm, okay, let me think this through a little bit.

An elephant passes the mirror test. An elephant can be trained to brush it's own teeth. Over time, a well-trained elephant develops an understanding that the habit of dental care is beneficial and rewarding, and teaches other elephants to do the same.

Thus, we might conclude that all tooth brushing elephants are sentient, self-aware beings.

This would mean that some of the possible pre-requisites for intelligent life are now either eyes OR teeth...

Now, to extend beyond elephants, we'd need to find another behavior, trait or defining aspect that elephants can share with another species that humans cannot. Thus if elephants must be the bridge-species to self-aware-intellect without natural eyes, they must carry three intelligence defining attributes.

1. Eyes, to relate to humans, enabling primary confirmation

2. Teeth, as a shared attribute, for secondary confirmation, especially in elephants stricken blind by randomized misfortune

3. Other: something that does not relate to humans, but can confirm intellect

So, sticking with elephants, let's say elephants have a prehensile tentacle like organ, in that they can grasp and articulate objects with their trunk.

This means that elephants can see themselves in the mirror, so humans can know that elephants are fellows in individualized personal experience.

A sighted elephant might manage to teach a blind elephant to brush it's own teeth, thus, elephants that fail the mirror test can still be confirmed as intelligent, if they can carry the capacity to brush their own teeth.

Elephants can be encouraged to brush their own teeth, and hypothetically devise opportunities to teach other creatures to do the same, if they recognize that the other creatures have teeth, but no eyes. Emphasis on the HYPOTHETICALLY, since this is a thought experiment.

Elephants, furthermore, can reach beyond the normal capacity for humans to recognize intelligence, in that they can operate their trunks in a manner that confirms intelligence in other creatures with trunk-like appendages, such as ant-eaters, snakes, octopuses, squids, worms and even certain, very long slugs.

Now, given that elephants act as the bridge species to these other creatures, could we extend beyond elephants, and use elephants to confirm intellect in these other creatures that can confirm intellect in creatures humans and elephants, otherwise, cannot?

Does this hold hypothetical water? Possibly, but man, does it ever feel like a long shot. It's like the Monty Python test for a witch.

How about insects? For example, what if we start with bees as a likely candidate? How do we confirm self-awareness in bees? Could we extend this logic from bees, and beyond, over to another type of insect, through a recognition of mutual traits shared with bees?
36 hours of activity sounds very long, especially as a "natural" tendency, and in the dark. I remember seeing some references to a roughly 30 hour cycle, but I can't seem to find any references. Apparently there's also been some recent studies that suggest "most" have a pretty strong circadian rhythm around 24 hours. [1] quotes some summary text from wikipedia and provides a few links.

Having grown up in the Arctic, with polar night in winter, and polar day in summer, I've always been somewhat sceptical that we supposedly can't adapt to different cycles than what is common further south. But even if I frequently shift my days by having an extended cycle, and compared to many of my friends function longer and better on less sleep, if I am active I usually get quite tired after about 20 hours. If I do stay awake through that period, I can hit 36 or even 48 hours without making much of an effort -- but I have a hard time believing that that would be a "natural" cycle (36+12) for me -- or most people.

Now, if you're forced to be physically passive, and given some other stimuli, be that books, computer games -- what have you -- I could perhaps see a longer cycle as "normal".

For a different (animal) aspect, see [2].

[1] http://www.circadiansleepdisorders.org/info/cycle_length.php

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20226667
If trading currency is immoral then the british government is no more moral than Soros, like tango trading takes two.
The saddest part was The Huffington Post would repackage syndicated New York Times content and get way more traffic.
I get why Pinterest is interesting. I don't use it, but I get why people use it although maybe I should. But what I don't get is why a site with pictures to pin needs $200M. It's basically still the same site it was when it had $500K in funding. Does it cost $200M to scale from thousands of users to hundreds of millions? Wikipedia doesn't need $200M to run.
I'm one or the TakeItAparts. I definitely agree that text descriptions are essential. The site is just getting going and we wanted to have some content on the site, but we haven't had a chance to fully annotate the guides. That said, the guide creation process allows you to add Markdown text blocks to each image (or video) as well as the guide itself, and images can be annotated with hover-over photo notes. The photo notes themselves can optionally be tagged as "components" (for part numbers), making salvageable or repairable components easy to search for and enumerate.
To be honest, I think most, if not all design was done by the carpenter here. Without any dimensions or details or notes or specifications, this is more like: "The pleasure of commissioning someone to design furniture based on your own sketches."

It's akin to someone saying, "I made an iPhone app! I drew a bunch of pencil sketches for a wireframe, and gave it to someone who then built it for me! Everyone should make their own iPhone apps."

Never mind, of course, that the 'someone' had to interpret the sketches, create mockups, create design assets, develop and test the iPhone app.

If he gave dimensioned drawings with a standard 4-view layout, with some pencil sketches, specified the materials, and/or created the design through an iterative process with the carpenter, then sure, I'll call that design. But design, this isn't.

HN would understand that most of the importance is in the execution of the idea. This is a furniture analog to "I have a great idea for an app/website - I just need someone to build it!"
Corollary - customers look for exit options...

Glad we moved everyone off to AWS... pricing is an issue - everyone is lowering prices dramatically... tough market.
I would say Toronto. There's a growing startup ecosystem here and the entrepreneurship culture at UofT is taking off.

I'm building my second startup here (and also helping UofT with entrepreneurship initiatives). If you have more questions, send me an email: f.ananta@gmail.com
#cleanUpGitHub
It may possibly be that search today is used to find a particular thing that you are looking for (directions, a way to fix code, a specific book). Whereas in the future, search will lead you to new things that you didn't specifically know you needed to find. More like browsing random sections of a book store.

But yes, it definitely sounds like it's saying that search will be a tool to search for things.
This long argument is a wonderful example of a straw man.

We are testing theory of mind after all - so perhaps choose a test that speaks to that instead of teeth?
> What's the strawman?

I said: >They did not follow the idaho stop law.

The straw man is equating someone who runs a red without stopping or checking for traffic with someone who follows the idaho stop law.

> Paying attention to your surroundings is how you predict

Huh? Making assumptions based on past experience is how you predict.

If you are relying on your assumptions about what people are doing and not carefully watching what they are doing is a danger.

Obviously, all three (attention, prediction, and muscle memory) contribute to safe driving. However, I would rather have a driving that is watching what I am doing than a driving that thinks he can predict what I am doing. That is why I objected to this line "When you're driving a car, predictability and muscle memory are pretty much the only thing that keeps you alive".

>>> Solely relying on muscle memory and predicability means you are a very BAD driver.

This is how I see most drivers operate. This is why there are certain areas where as pedestrian I have to yield to traffic even though I have the right of way. Very few drivers pay proper attention to their surroundings.
I remember a paper on "Superoptimization" back in the 80's. It worked by starting with an algorithm, and doing an exhaustive search of every instruction sequence to see if the sequence implemented the algorithm. Of course, it only worked for very small algorithms, but it produced some very interesting results that were promptly incorporated into about every compiler.
If this were a matter of prioritizing traffic on the internet backbone, then I would be in favor. There is nothing wrong with charging congestion fees.

However, in this case, we are talking about cable companies, and the bottleneck is presumably the last mile. So what these laws are really doing is enabling cable companies to extract even more monopoly rents, in the form of discriminatory pricing (even though it is the content providers that pay, the pipeline in question is closer to the end user than the content provider, and so if the issue were congestion pricing, and not discriminatory pricing, the charge would be on the end user, who is already paying).
Love the game, the sheep handed it to the wolves that day.

The british people made a huge bet and lost, if you don't like losing on trades don't make trades. They blinked to a guy who didn't even have a bank, let alone an army or a navy.

Soros simply had more gumption than the British Empire.
That is precisely why I created this little project. It generates the boiler plate code to leverage jdbcTemplate and organize the data access objects.

http://huherto.github.io/springyRecords/goals/

Also, this fellow HNer has been experimenting with Java 8 features. Pretty cool.
https://github.com/benjiman/benjiql
Thanks for the reply!

> HN isn't a purist's kind of place.

I feel like that statement belongs in the guidelines... :-)
Actually it is Dr Marchioni (or Prof). He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics and Computer Science.
This is incredibly helpful - thank you.
Verio might be a good match... NTT could afford it... and make them a player.
The author mention a great little app in his previous blog post called Moom [1] I just tried and it's awesome! You can resize, full screen, put windows left and right immediately without the mouse.

[1]: http://manytricks.com/moom/
As someone who both walks and bikes a lot (currently in NYC):
Bikes often run lights when they shouldn't, and that's dangerous and shitty. But even more often than that, pedestrians stride out into the intersection against the light in front of a bike that's riding through with a green light. Pedestrians stop for cars, but many don't think bikes are worth stopping for no matter what. The problem is on all ends (and as I said in my other post, systemic)

Everyone, no matter their means of transit, should try to prevent collisions. You're endangering yourself and others if you don't.
ShortCat App for OS X
Maybe. We don't know their future plans.
The existence of TiVo suggests that the answer is 'lots of people.' And 'a few' lower third ads? In the US, an hour of prime time usually means 15 minutes' worth of advertising. DRM is a heck of lot less distracting when I'm trying give my attention to a program.
What we fear
Umm... you can. You are welcome to ride in the middle of your lane and you should only be passed where legally allowed.
Given that, maybe one of the big players who want an entry in to the hybrid cloud/enterprise cloud space could use Rackspace's popularity as an entrypoint.

I am a huge fan of Rackspace. They're a bunch great people who sure have a refreshing view on how to take care of their employees, their community, and their visitors.
Exactly. And the ordinary person (even through an ibank) will not be able to gain access to the best funds.
I do this either. This way, if you CMD+TAB to it, it will get revealed.
The issue is they want a below-average skill set for the position. I can't exactly sell the fact that my below average skills matches the job well.
I don't have the data to back it up, but (for example) data loss as a whole have probably considerably gone down with transitions to SaaS.

Sure you can self-host, but who do you trust more: some guy on your team who has other things to do, or a team that does only that? And a team whose livelyhood depends on uptime/data protection.

Here people can't work, but imagine the amount of work if there was a data failure on your machine? Your example (laptop being stolen) means you probably don't even have access to your data.
I'm sure your words are comforting to those graphic designers who missed print deadlines due to this outage.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842021.
The amazing thing about the video is just how bad the rendering looks in still images and how not-terrible it looks in the video. It's almost a cool effect, something you might see in A Scanner Darkly. I'd love to have his setup to play around in.
I see your pre-sales engineer and raise you an entire office full of Japanese salarymen. M-san once came up to me at 7 PM and apologized profusely for having to leave early. "It's my little boy's birthday and, you know, we've been in crunch for the last 4 months and I only see him on Sundays [+], so I really wanted to make it this year."

Seriously. Actually happened.

[+] Edit for clarity: No, this is not because M-san and his wife are divorced. This is because M-san was routinely working during substantially all of his son's waking hours Monday through Saturday.
>>A little downtime from time to time can't be avoided. People just love to complain.

If you feel this way then image-editing isn't your core task in your job.

Imagine if the github.com maintainers had your attitude. "Meh, some downtime here 'n there. Whuchagonnado?" A github outage for _OVER 24 HOURS_ would freakin' wreck me and my coworkers. The image-editing department for a high-fashion magazine in New York or Paris with those already near-impossible deadlines losing 24hrs is going to make some execs somewhere very angry.
You said that cracked software has additional problems. I guess they were lucky there, because in many other cases pirated versions provide the same software as the original just without the DRM nonsense.
That looks pretty cool.

Does installing the gem install the latest stable 2.* version?
Disliking patents doesn't mean I think ideas (and this idea in particular) are worthless -- the opposite, ideas like this are hugely valuable, and as you say, they can become even more valuable when they are shared and improved upon. As things stand today though, I agree with you that patents are a necessary evil in many cases for helping attract that initial investment.

If that really is the main role patents play, it seems like there ought to be a better way though. One that is more sustainable and less abhorrent than keeping a huge, increasingly unknowable set of mechanisms/solutions "you may not use" when solving problems. I am cautiously optimistic that something like widespread crowdfunding, along with with a better social safety (universal basic income?) that makes risk-taking easier, could possibly fill that role instead and make patents unnecessary. Then again, maybe I'm overly idealistic...
This seems right. I work with monkeys, and some of our monkeys have mirrors attached to their cages. They don't use the mirrors to inspect themselves, but they do seem to use the mirrors to surreptitiously spy on other monkeys. It's likely that a monkey can quickly figure out that the thing in the mirror isn't another animal and when they move, the thing in the mirror moves, but drawing the connection that they are the thing in the mirror seems quite a bit harder.
Try Beeper - https://beeper.in
It uses Telegram to send your push notifications.
I know the article was about technology companies, but I find it interesting that there wasn't a single reference or comparison to the trustworthiness of government with data. It would seem that with all the recent leaks/news/reports, that this would at least have been brought up.

In other news, Amazon is a surprise. Then again, it is a surprise (head scratcher) that they still do not use https everywhere. Snapchat on the other hand is....snapchat. Nothing is gone forever this day in age.
Say goodbye to capitalism as we know it
I used FB connect to sign up way back when and I followed my friends. Some of my friends in UI design started pinning cool stuff, so I followed the original "pinner." Then I started following Pinterest's suggestions for me.

Recollecting this makes me realize what a great product is -- it just evolves with you. It couldn't be simpler.
Rackspace should have invested more in PaaS. Its only offering that could it semi-accurately call PaaS, Cloud Sites, is lacking - it supports few runtimes, without things like git-based deployment that would enable it to fit into a CI Pipeline, and it seems intended to host static websites with some dynamic features rather than full-fledged web applications.

I think they are also failing by trying to differentiate themselves in a business that will end up being much like a utility. When your business acts like a utility it's kind of a race to the bottom on prices. Furthermore, in attempting to differentiate themselves, they failed to characterize their primary customer properly - the kind of person who interacts with RackSpace directly is not the kind of person who calls support a whole lot, and yet the quality of their managed support seems to be their sole differentiating factor. My company did take advantage of managed support a few times, and when we did so it was enormously helpful, but it wasn't enough to keep us there when we saw lower-cost offerings elsewhere, because we have enough expertise in-house to solve 99% of problems that come our way.

That said, I own RAX and I would very much like to see the stock stop tanking. An acquisition proposition could send the price back up to near where I bought it - and who knows? Maybe I'll end up trading it in for some more AMZN ( a stock that has also been tanking, by the way.)
Hey mate,

you are in a similar situation to me, why aren't you going into back end/digital marketing (analytics) stuff?
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893756.
[0]: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/

Agreed. Optimal layout is great, I can't recommend it highly enough. Watching the video on the site gives you a good idea of all the things you can do with it. Also the developer is very responsive to support questions and feature requests.
I won't touch Adobe products anymore. Their products are great, but for the average shop there's barely anything they can do that can't be done with open source or reasonably priced alternatives, and often with much less bloat.
http://hypertiger.blogspot.ca/

911 x 2 = 1822

July 3 or 7x3 =777 Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine", a forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions.

You all are committing suicide fighting to the death to remain asleep (ignorant of Truth) to continue to enjoy the daydream (cherished delusion) you are awake (knowledgeable of Truth)

The Internet is going down at some point it's inevitable.

Qubit = YES and NO at the same time or MAYBE

Maybe eventually becomes a certainty.

That is the certainty of the uncertainty principle.

The invisible order or reality of the basic system operating in the background powers the visible chaos or fantasy of the graphical user interface believed to be reality.

At the core of the banking algorithm is the compounding interest/exponential growth/take more power than is given...or greed equation.

or Ignorance = bliss.

Your speculations over the past 2 decades amount to nothing at the logical conclusion of the reasonable assumption.

ignorance = bliss

deflation = inflation

The same as chopping down trees faster than they regrow or causing hyperdeflation...or implosion down to absolute 0 to power hyperinflation up to absolute 1 or bliss.

It's all timed by atomic clocks...every second of the fantasy you believe is reality demands exponentially more power than the previous second.

It's counting down to the absolute 0 or end point...where the fantasy daydream up to absolute 1 polarity shifts into the nightmare or reality to absolute 0

The enlightenment or illumination turns into the memory wipe of the dark age.

You all have had 2 decades to wake up...and all you did was fight to remain asleep.

at the 0 or end point you will be forced to wake up from the daydream into the nightmare.

There are those on the front lines in the war against deflation...and those sitting in the rear with the gear...goofing off.
I was referring to the British taxpayers, not the government.