skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny, because not having to write "spaghetti code" is one of the reasons I tell people to use Meteor. Perhaps we have different definitions.

For web apps, I tend to define spaghetti code as the huge layers of glue and boilerplate you have to write to get your data out of your database in the server, serialized into some JSON or XML format through your controller in order to send to the client and into an XHR callback hell or confusing promise-driven architecture, all so that you can finally concatenate everything into a string inside some jQuery function where you then have to manage your own state.

None of which even comes up when building with Meteor, since it takes care of all of that for you, leaving you more time to build your app. So as far as I've experienced building apps in Meteor for two years, spaghetti code is a thing of the past. Not to mention that just the fact that the API works this way dramatically simplifies your application architecture just as a side effect of how the templating system, reactivity and javascript-everywhere approach work.

Yes, there are MVC frameworks like Angular and Backbone that help you take care of the client side of that. But they don't handle the server at all, so IMO they still haven't matched Meteor's feature set.
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Great, I was just thinking the web needed another package manager this week. I'm already tired of duojs.
I didn't downvote (nor upvote) you, but the other party absolutely does not want to blow its $2 million on a lawsuit.

The OP's chances of recovery strictly went up when these company got funding. Compared to before, the OP has everything to gain and nothing to lose -- before, he had already written off this project as a bad project. Now, the company that has gotten funding needs to make sure that everything is on the up-and-up.

Assuming OP's story is true, it's entirely in OP's power to say "we won't license the code, FOAD," which would force an expensive and possibly fatal rewrite of the code at this late date. OTOH, with that leverage, OP can name his price. If he demands too much, the VCs might just pull the plug. If the OP's goal is revenge, mission accomplished. But revenge doesn't put food on your family.
> Society would be better if no one had any secrets.

Maybe, except that because information asymmetry provides an advantage, and sometimes a huge one, there will always be an incredibly strong incentive for each individual to keep secrets. An overwhelmingly strong incentive, I posit.

Enforcing total transparency would basically require us to read everyone's thoughts.
But wouldn't government have less of an advantage over you in that respect in that society than it currently has?
hence the word "rare" in the title.
Yeah and a good thing too, otherwise we'd have Comcast/NBC/TimeWarner, oh, wait...
interesting. the "fast vs deep" comment intrigued me; i find i can go exceedingly deep when i can let things "simmer." to your comment, i had an intelligence test administered as a teen and the two outliers were basically symbol substation (< avg) and pattern matching (high).
Assuming true, this is exactly what made everyone hate Microsoft back in the day. Google "knifing the baby" or "cut off the air supply," the top hits of both are ways Microsoft tried to deal with Netscape.
"If there is any value in a terminal text editor at all, it's the ability to operate that editor remotely."

How can you take this for granted in this Vim world we live in?
Kuto for iPhone -Buy and sell things nearby.
Particle Clicker (CERN game)
I heard about them a year ago, but they started out in like 2010 and had to switch from Clear WiMax to Sprint at the time, and yeah, I had no confidence in their long term viability.

A year later, they were still going, so I gave it a shot. I don't regret it. If the floor falls out, every sane MVNO in the US is Sprint based anyway and I can move my phone to any of them.
I would use cloud9, if I had a better connection when I'm out in the library or a café...
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In Greek, it actually sounds more like the "lis" in "lisp" (short i):

http://vocaroo.com/i/s07xxGjtkQB1
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Making images in css is like making a game engine in cobol. it wasn't a good language/model to begin with, and this is a particularly difficult application of the subject that only occurs to people because we're stuck with the technology.
The French and their allies also invested more in tanks than the Germans, they had about 1/5 more in the Battle of France. Also per Wikipedia, they had the most after the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_France#Inter_War

The content at that link does a pretty good job of explaining why this numerical and in many respects qualitative advantage did them little good.

As for your latter point, from where will those missiles and drones be launched, and for the latter, recovered???
LizardSquad launches DDOS against Twitch
I can't help to think that this man's views are very short sighted.

They remind me of what happens when people decide not to lie any more.
Works great in theory until you start hurting other people.

I'm still fundamentally in favour of strong privacy laws.
That some choose not to exercise their rights is their own decision to make. They are however, not entitled to make these decisions for others.

A simple example of why strong protection is needed is when you have to travel to countries that, if privacy in your own country was weak, would gain access to more information than you'd want them to.

So you're a gay atheist who likes to smoke pot from time to time? Please follow this nice man with the rifle.
Given that funding for elite colleges is largely about social signaling, if the poor and rich were fairly represented by ability in these colleges, wouldn't the rich move their money out and set up new elite colleges?
Well, MS Research's approach required large amount of computing power - not a possibility to do on the phone.

The main advantage I see for Instagram's Hyperlapse is that it's a real app on the app store. It actually exists and isn't just a research project.
You're attempting to look back into 1983 with the knowledge that we have today.

In those days, the LGBT community fought against attempts to close the bath houses where the disease was spreading because they didn't know what was going on either.

The sentiment that you're expressing here is precisely why discussion is dying.

There is nothing shameful about Eich's activity, he chose a side, his side won and the side that lost were so outraged that they began to threaten the business of his employer.
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Privacy is just a cloak. Hypocrites and liars may hide behind privacy but so do journalists and pregnant women. The same is true of hammers which has been used to build dog houses and murder children.

Ultimately, I don't think getting rid of privacy will do much to hypocrisy and lies. The sharp edge of embarrassment would be dull, allowing people to behave with less care for what others think. People would still lie and behave hypocritically but they would be better at evading. The comfort afforded by privacy would be transferred to the comfort in knowing that someone would have to sift through the information to find your lies and even if they did? Well, who doesn't lie? The less privacy politicians have the less I'm convinced privacy has an affect on lying.

I do agree though that a world constructed so that privacy isn't necessary would be a utopia and I believe it's possible to some extent.
I think this kind of thing isn't born out of necessity, since we're locked in with the tech, but more because its a challenging experiment that requires some pretty clever CSS to accomplish. You should certainly not do this in the wild.
StavrosK, I spent a moment saying both and we have been saying it your way.

We've been saying: po as in police, lis as in lisp

I have heard that a valid pronunciation of the Greek is also:

po as in hot (closer to the 'a' sound that 'o' can make) lis as in lisp

You'll have to let us know if that's right!
s/untitled/entitled/
Is it just me or is this hugely unsurprising? When I talk to most people (non-tech), Amazon is not high on people's minds as a place to get phones/plans.
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Feynman seemed like a particularly quick thinker. I suspect a fair number of "geniuses" would need him to slow down.
On land there is a seemingly unlimited supply of idiots with backhoes, though.
The whole "taxi cartel" thing is stupid. It arises out of this really distressing attitude that every dispute must involve "good guys" and "bad guys." Yes, the taxi companies are trying to shut down Uber and Lyft using regulation, but they are just trying to enforce a legal monopoly granted to them by the cities in which they operate. It's a legal right they got in return to agreeing to measures like rate regulation and "common carrier"-esque regulations concerning routes.

I personally think most of the taxi regulations are stupid, especially the price controls. But they're not irrational, nor did these legal regimes arise out of nefarious lobbying on the part of taxi companies. Rate regulations, forbidding surge pricing, requiring cabs to serve the whole city, etc, arise from cities treating cabs as a part of the overall municipal transit infrastructure. The "last half mile" of transit, as it were. I don't think regulated monopolies are a good idea, but they're certainly a common solution when it comes to industries that resemble public infrastructure.

Given that the taxi companies were granted monopolies as part of a larger regulatory regime, why are they "evil" for trying to enforce that privilege in the face of companies like Uber taking the high value routes out from under them, using techniques like surge pricing they aren't allowed to use?
> They would just get better at appearing to be ethical, which really isn't the same thing.

There's a long and hard-to-kill tradition of thought, both in the West and in other cultures, that says something along the lines of "If you try hard enough to look like you care about X for a long time, you'll end up actually caring about X."

It's the idea behind every educational system that requires students to wear uniforms: "Make them dress like ladies and gentlemen for several years, and they'll actually become ladies and gentlemen." It has also been the idea behind many state religions, both ancient and modern: "Make them participate in religious rituals from birth to death, and they'll actually come to have faith in our god(s)." What's scary is that this often works. It's an extremely powerful tool of social manipulation.
see eg quantcast's experiences with why hadoop is slow on big jobs [1], the design of their sorter architecture [2], and some benchmark wanking [3]

[1] https://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2012/10/letter-fr...

[2] https://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2012/10/quantsort...

[3] https://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2013/12/petabyte-...
Personally, I wouldn't even consider an Amazon "smart" device until it was at least gen 2. From what I understand, hey made big strides between the first and second gen Kindle Fire tablets.

That being said, currently there's no real differentiator for this phone. Maybe they'll eventually do unlimited bandwidth deals for Prime video / music content? (or do they already have that?)
> Without further details, I can't say whether your assessment of "dying" is correct or not, but it is true that towns that have mining operations experience explosive growth (and contractions) in housing prices.

I honestly don't know. I was with a couple of locals and remember seeing the advertisement and remarking at how expensive the housing was. This was 7+ years ago but I remember they said something about it being a dead mining town turned into a prospector town. Folks looking to hit it big finding an unknown vein somewhere.

I've worked with more Aussies and we've had lots of discussions about the particularly weird housing market there, with of course lots of segues into the weird Bay Area housing market by way of comparison.
Amazon probably thought they could repeat their success with the Kindle (which itself seems quite limited to me).
The "nothing to hide" argument is fundamentally wrong just like how shedding other rights because you don't personally need them is wrong.

>I don't need a fair trial: I'm not a criminal!

>I don't need free speech: I'm not a radical!

>I don't need a free press: there's no corruption!

Just like what Orwell discussed in 1984, words such as "liberty" and "freedom" are only propagandaspeak used to rally the population behind a vague sense of patriotism. The actual concepts behind these phrases have been systematically eliminated.
However, the device described in the article doesn't destroy equipment (at least its highly unlikely a suitcase size one would generate the field voltage necessary) where as an EPCFG very likely would.

There's no reason these couldn't be left like a suitcase bomb and take out an entire blocks electronics. These could easily be walked into a companies headquarters and take out all the electronics in the entire company.
Former naval architect here, used to work in the office that designed this thing (but it was before my time). They haven't entirely dismissed the tumblehome hull. For example, the LCS 2 has a hull that resembles a tumblehome (though it's not as drastic as the DDG-1000). Aside from the financial and mission capability issues, the novel design presented more problems than it solved... Which contributed to the cost overruns.

Edit: With regards to whether the ship has been tested... Prior to the first one being completed, the most they could do is model testing.
Backbone is not an MVC framework, and it's important to know that. It's one of its greatest strengths as a client-side JavaScript tool. A well structured Backbone app can stand the test of time, and I can't say that for some other options.

Meteor shows promise, but I have to agree that without a mature UI toolkit, you just end up with the same junk we've had for years (not speaking to other components of Meteor).

For what it's worth, have another look at promises. They're not the same as "callback hell" and can be a really elegant way to compose and deal with async. It's actually really nice, when the tool is called for.

Agree with you that Meteor's built-in reactivity is really nice!
Similar to how violence is acceptable in defense of self and others, I think the same holds for lying or withholding information. If telling the truth risks inviting harm, it's right to lie. Since societies judge some lifestyles harshly, being less open than Dyer is perfectly ethical.

I agree that Dyer is fortunate to be able to take such an extreme position, but I do think society would be better off if we moved toward his ideal, rather than away from it.
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Would you end 2 lives if it saved millions in the future? Someone concerned with direct empathy wouldn't. Someone concerned with the human condition might.

Anyway, I'm not saying that it was right, because that holds the assumption that he 100% would be helping people. What if you're wrong? What if there's a better way? 2 lives gone and nothing to show for it. In reality, it's pretty likely that he just went a bit fucking crazy. The point is that the creation of Silk Road was likely with the goal of changing the world for the better, and I can absolutely see that happening.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check that book out.

Once, in thread similar to this one, I saw another recommendation for The Light of Other Days (http://smile.amazon.com/Light-Other-Days-Arthur-Clarke-ebook.... It explores a world where everyone can see and hear everyone else at any (past and present) time. While I did not always find the plot compelling, I still enjoyed reading it because it explores some cool ideas.
I don't think that's quite right.

First of all, a spatial dimension is a degree of freedom per particle (two if you count velocity).

Second of all, physics equations often represent many constraints. For example, `p2 = p1 + v t` is actually three constraints. Each particle has these sorts of constraints, so all of them cut down the degrees of freedom in the system.

So it's not 4-1=3. In Newtonian mechanics it's 1 (time) + 3n (positions of particles) + 3n (velocities of particles) - 3n (velocities determined by forces) - 3n (positions determined by velocities) = 1+3n+3n-3n-3n = 1. Which makes sense, because otherwise you wouldn't get one solution per time step.
Some of it is amusing, when considered in modern terms -- for instance, the discussion of writing in higher-level languages presenting a fifty-fold advantage in productivity over writing in assembly.

But the bit that I found the most prescient was the following:

Assuming the availability of practical micro-wave communication systems, it is conceivable that one or several computers, much larger than anything presently contemplated, could service a multitude of users. They would no longer rent a computer as such; instead they would rent input-output equipment, although as far as the operation will be concerned they would not be able to tell the difference.

In this fragment, Bemer was almost certainly referring to something like MULTICS, in which the model was that there would be one mainframe per city, and that computing time would be billed like electricity, water, gas, or any other utility.

But, I can't help but to think of a Chromebook when I read this. A Chromebook communicates wirelessly (even the lowest of the bands that it might speak on, 700MHz, is still well and truly considered microwave), and although it is technically a computer of its own, it serves more than anything else as an input-output node for rental time on Google's services or AWS.

Indeed, everything old is new again -- but hearing it from this article put it in a different light for me.
> But when doing software development, you end up with multiple projects using multiple versions of the same dependency.

That's what I wish the language designers had avoided. It would be convenient for users if there were never any reasons to want anything but the most recent version.

I know Perl and similar languages tend to value rapid development over complete reliability, but I'd prefer not to think about version numbers or worry about updates that break things. Maybe if the package management systems had been designed with less rope, users would more rarely get hung.
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Hmm, I'm not so certain. My alma mater (Princeton) probably has similar scholarship structures to Harvard, and there, need based aid gets given out to every student who needs it, regardless of race. (iirc there is now a system where families making less than $180,000/yr only pay 10% of their household income for tuition)

But you might be right that there may be additional scholarships that students can apply for (I remember a few friends writing letters to their scholarships annually to update them on what they've been up to as part of the scholarship deal, provided by bodies separate from the school itself -- presumably set up by alums with a set of stipulations as to who can qualify), may perhaps these may be skewed one way or another along various dimensions.
I was sexually abused as a child. My healing process has been a long, strange journey. HN is not the right place to get into an in-depth discussion of my experiences. Suffice it to say that I have done a great deal of reading and thinking about sexual ethics and I have come to believe that there is a really huge difference between looking ethical and behaving in an ethical fashion. In fact, most "moral" people seem to be mostly concerned with social approval and doing things other people will agree is right. Actually ethical people seem to often be (or appear to be) amoral: They have standards they live by and public opinion be damned.

That last stance gets harder if everything is in view. The first one easier. It isn't an outcome I long for.
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The people who declare "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" never grew up in a parochial village that persecuted anything that was different. I was interested in books, SciFi, computers, electronics.

Because I did not subscribe to the populist viewpoint of all that mattered was sports, sports, and more sports, getting blackout drunk on Friday and Saturday night, fishing and torturing small furry animals "just for fun" I suffered more than my fair share of persecution, beatings (lots and lots of beatings) and ostracism.

The idiots that declare "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" are privileged minority, usually white, male and middle class.
Sure you do, you just call them dynasties.

edit - There is loads of European aristocracy in power in the US.

"The frequency with which royal blood has found its way into the White House is much higher than the share of the American population with links to British or European monarchs, which is estimated at less than 5 percent. In short, American Presidents have been at least six times more likely to have royal blood than the people who elected them."

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/05/us/bush-they-say-is-indeed...
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The "o" in "police" is long, you need a short one. The English pronunciation is what you would transliterate as "poulis" (can't write IPA on the phone, but it's a short o followed by a oo sound). In Greek, the o is as in "hot" in duration, but not in sound (not close to the "a' sound).

There's only one way to say it in Greek (the one I posted above), I suspect that the person who instructed you to pronounce it as in "hot" meant the duration. I can't think of an example of an English word with a pure "o" sound at the moment, I'm afraid. You're going to have to listen to my pronunciation above to get it right :-P "O" as in "hot" is fine, as long as you don't pronounce it too much on the "a" side.
> Nonetheless, I felt the topic was worth discussing.

Oh, I agree. But its source is troubling -- it's put forth as though it has academic depth and evidence, when in fact, it's just another pop-psychology tract.

For some reason, in modern times things like this, things that can never be more than opinion, are dressed up as though they're backed by science. Among uneducated people this gives them an unearned weight.

It's not as though an idea like this is false or unworthy of discussion. It's that it can never be either established as true, or falsified. This means its discussions tend to be endless and inconclusive.
Every Dark Pattern is the brutal end of blindly following A/B testing.
Couldn't you anonymize personally-identifiable information?
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