skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thought exactly. Alternatively you should demand that your ISP go charge Netflix and reduce your bill accordingly.
Sites like Safari Books Online and Pluralsight have transformed the way I learn new technologies and techniques. That being said, I find myself getting 3x or 4x the value out of Safari Books Online.

Something about those Pluralsight videos makes it harder for me to extract piecemeal knowledge, versus finding the relevant content in a book. Still for $29/month it's an unbelievable value.

My only other issue is I feel their beta site makes it harder to find courses and is a step backward. Hopefully they'll remedy that.
I don't think it is. The subsidiary you are talking about LC Advisers isn't using LC's own capital. It is a vehicle that manages investments from institutional investors.

As LendingClub has grown it has transitioned from a purely P2P model where individuals made the majority of the loans to a whole loan model where banks and other accredited institutional investors make up the majority of the loaned capital. They still have the original platform but their growth isn't coming from Joe off the street it's coming from big banks etc... who see this as a cheaper way to do underwriting.
How about the service asking for a real identity but allowing validated users to post personal questions under psuedonames?

In terms of niches, the 2X chromosomes niche is much bigger than the programmer niche, but stack overflow is still successful.
It was pretty obvious in 2003 that PCS was too focused on the US market, and ignoring "niche" GSM touch-screen smartphones at their peril.

In 2003 PCS China developed a Linux-powered touch-screen phone that ran Java (J2ME) apps, the A760. A clear predecessor to Android.

It never launched outside of Asia because it wasn't developed in the USA, and wasn't the razr.
Because both photons in the pair must be correlated. From the article:

"The remaining photon from the second path is also reunited with itself from the first path and directed towards a camera, where it is used to build the image, despite having never interacted with the object."

So, they need both the particles together. It doesn't work if one is near Alpha Centauri and cannot be combined with the one on Earth. I'm a complete layman, but this is my understanding of it.

Apparently, the breakthrough here is being able to use different wavelength and intensity of light to interact with an object than that desired for imaging. No information is actually transferred through entanglement.
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Comcast is already getting paid twice!

Number of payments by itself is hardly meaningful... Have you never received a parcel with insufficient postage, and been asked to pay the remainder (else it be returned to sender)?

How evil of the postal service, demanding to be paid twice (nevermind that they weren't paid in full the first time)!
This is essentially the "Computer Science vs. Programming" debate, although Uni gives some programming experience and Pluralsight gives some computer science. Yevgeniy Brikman maintains a great blog and wrote about this[1].

[1] http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2014/05/dont-learn-to-code-lear...
Unis lack professors with the practical knowledge of Pluralsight instructors and they are centered on areas like math and algorithms, that are fun, but not of much use for somebody building an enterprise CRUD site or mobile app. Knowing your IDE, the best way to accomplish a task in a given framework, how to work around limitations of tools and protocols IMHO is something unis don't teach much, while very important for the average Joe developer.
Correction: if you only let white people on a web site, then the members on that site will discuss anything they want to discuss (which certainly includes many many more topics aside from white supremacy), but the discussion will take place from the perspective of white culture and white values. There will be a greater chance of deeming other cultures irrelevant to the discussion or (most commonly) simply forgetting that these other cultures don't exist.

With that in mind, you have a logical hole in your statement "If you only let women on a website, it is going to be about womens issues, etc". Women.com will be about women's issues because it is currently being marketed to the general public as a place for women to discuss women's issues. It will not be about women's issues solely because women are allowed on the site. Women who aren't interested in what other women think about women's issues won't find this site very interesting. In general, women will discuss what they want to, where they want.
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Banks and institutional investors make up the majority of the money being loaned out. If you look at the S1 filing you will see that something like 80% of the money being loaned out isn't coming for individuals. It's coming from banks and institutions.

http://www.lendacademy.com/forum/index.php?topic=2612.msg225...
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1% of income not 1% of spending. Also I spend considerably less than $5/day at Starbucks, way less.
This is part of why people are so peeved about this whole situation, most companies who try to double-dip like this get called out on it but for some reason when an ISP does it it's in some kind of grey area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_DragonBall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_ColdFire ;)

It has no memory protection though
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I'm in a football(soccer) country and I play every Saturday, we do it just for fun but we always have trouble finding other players (teammates or adversaries), for which I see a great potential for your app. For those who want to play at a upper level they just gather a team and join a league, they would only use your app the first time while they are gathering a team, or when replacing a member. Most amateurs play seven-a-side football (futsal-like rules) or indoor soccer(a.k.a. arena-soccer, showbol , five-a-side soccer).
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I don't think that can really scale. How could you verify whether I am male or female without a reasonable amount of scrutiny, and then you are trusting them to keep your ID safe. In terms of the niche, that is my exact point. Maybe you are right, however I think the point of the niche is a small interconnected network of people who share one or a few traits deeply. SO is a bunch of people who are excited by one discipline and share knowledge surrounding it. Basically, being a woman probably has some idealogical overlap broadly, but it is a huge population to lump together. There will be conservatives, liberals, muslims, jews, christians, atheists, lawyers, people who have children, people who hate children, feminists, equalizes, stay-at-home moms, etc. The point is, people can connect on a lot of these levels but the narrower the focus the more tight the bond, IMO.
You're starting off by trying to prove a negative. (You're trying to prove that by using this product something wont happen).

Proving a negative is in many cases a fool's errand. In your particular case you're using a logical fallacy called "argumentum ad ignorantiam" (Asserting that something is true simply because it has not yet been proven false).

Anyone with a math background, a technical background, a law background, or or a formal-logic background will automatically feel uncomfortable with the kind of claims you're making. Though they may not be able to articulate why they don't trust you, I'd wager that's the underlying cause.

To gain trust, you'd need to restructure your offering, brand, and marketing efforts in a logically valid and sound way. Think about what you can prove logically; don't overstep or use hyperbole, and err on the side of conservative claims. Then people might warm up.
They also let the carriers customize the UI and control how subscribers could access advanced services and software (games). Remember BREW?
I've been reading this site for years. A great resource for OpenBSD users.
What if you don't try to solve that but a different problem first? Make the app good enough for existing private teams to be usable!

E.g. we play weekly, organize the event through Facebook for years but still a pain sometimes. Somebody don't RSVP but still show up, so we are odd. Also Facebook events don't make it possible to limit the number of guests.
If you make it really easy to use and useful enough such a level that existing private groups will use it (and they stick because it makes their life easier), new people will come.
It's naturally confusing, because a 4th spatial dimension isn't something we naturally experience.
We can't really say what it represents because it's not real... it's not a model of reality.

We see in 2 dimensions and we infer the third from various cues. (The quote that we are "dimly aware of a fourth", which you may have heard, refers to time and is a different issue than a fourth spatial dimension.)

We have three dimensions, all orthogonal to each other. We can translate, rotate, and project things in between them.

So all we can do is apply those same principles and see what comes out - we shouldn't expect it to match anything recognizeable though.
> 1. From a user's perspective it doesn't matter if it's "constraints" or "poor design".

Of course it does. If it's poor design, one just don't use the language at all. If it's constraints, any language that solves the same kinds of problems will be just as bad, and - life just sucks - one must stop complaining.
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> However, it's not clear they are arguing for the same kind of "simplicity" than Jonathan Edwards.

Jonathan Edwards: "Complexity is cumulative cognitive load. We should measure complexity as the cumulative effort to learn and use a technology."

BOOM: "One simple lesson of our experience is that modern hardware enables real systems to be implemented in very high-level languages. We should use that luxury to implement systems in a manner that is simpler to design, debug, secure and extend — especially for tricky and mission-critical software like distributed services."

> The BOOM group seem to be using a Prolog variant

They are using a variant of datalog, which is dramatically simpler than prolog (no unification, no data-structures, no semantic-breaking cut etc). In our (admittedly limited) user experiments we have found that their data-centric approach is easier to teach non-programmers since it lends itself to direct manipulation, live execution and computer-assisted debugging (eg we can cheaply record the exact cause of every change to runtime state and make it queryable in the same language). We (Light Table) are working on a similar datalog variant with a front-end that is about as complicated as excel.

> So the trade-off between complexity and simplicity isn't so easy to define.

I agree that there is a often a trade-off between simple and easy but I don't think that our current tools are anywhere near optimial in that sense. For the case of distributed programming the BOOM tools are both simpler and easier in that they allow you to focus on specifying high-level behaviour and not worry about most of the details that normally make up the bulk of programmers mental load.
I submitted this because I thought it was both informationally very useful, while also having notable design.
Hi, glad you like it :)

We are looking into open sourcing this, it is built on a really cool messaging feature in NXT that has recently received it's own standardized encryption at the protocol level, which makes things a lot easier; https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/commits/all

We actually don't do currency creation; we just give you 50 NXT (testnet NXT for the beta) and then you send those with their attached message which is encrypted. If you want more messages you just need more NXT which we allow the easy purchase of via BTC or at some point soon fiat.

We don't collect any user data; all the data is in the NXT blockchain, this is a secure web-layer to interact with that blockchain for it's encrypted messaging functionality. Coin validation is its own large problem regardless of the web-layer that entered the message.

Yes, NXT messages do not expire at the moment, though this feature is being considered; this is indeed a problem with blockchain based messaging that is difficult to solve well at the protocol level. Once you start making certain transaction types expire then where does that slippery slope stop?

This product has now been rolled into http://www.secureae.com/'s https://trade.secureae.com/ messaging feature to securely message any Smart Contract owners account directly using NXT's new standardized message encryption. More secure messaging is great but Smart Contracts are clearly the future!!!

If you'd like to know more about how to apply the NXT messaging feature feel free to reach out to us: info [at] secureae [dot] com
On the other hand, if your entire business idea revolves around pumping several orders of magnitude more data than anyone else normally does, is it still reasonable to assume others will foot the bill building the infrastructure?

If someone told you in 2001 that they would start a service based on delivering millions of full HD video streams concurrently over the internet, would you be able to take them seriously?
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No, it will update automatically within a couple of days.
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>You're missing the point that you are also paying the principal.

Just so everyone is on the same page. The original 30 year, $500k loan that Domenic_S is proposing, at 4.5% interest has a monthly payment of $2533.43. After 360 of those payments (30 years * 12 months per year), all the principal and interest will have been paid off.

360 * $2533.43 = $912034

$912034 / $500000 = 1.82
Hmmm that's interesting. Almost any study I've seen implies that the most efficient way of learning is see-do. I think what makes Pluralsight and similar training videos work for me is having multiple big monitors (3x 27'') with the training video, IDE and browser easily visible at any time.
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Eh? As I read it it means you can "probe" the film with higher/different energy particles than you probe the sample...
nvd3.js is awesome. However It always crashes for very large dataset. I had to reduce my dataset size for nvd3.js to not crash, however programs like MATLAB has no problem visualising really large dataset where you can zoom to individual data point.
Its in my TODO list to make nvd3.js handle large data set so that it can compete with MATLAB/Python.
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I would recommend checking out Kadira for optimizing your app. It's pretty amazing the kind of information you get out of it, and Kadira Academy teaches you a lot about Meteor's internals.

Also, if your app is now "suddenly slow", I'm guessing it's been around for a while. If you don't have the proper indexes on MongoDB it's going to get slower as it loads up with more data. I've experienced this first-hand, migrating a Rails app from Postgres to Meteor/MongoDB. We have millions of records, and one missed or incorrect index can slow the whole app down, sometimes unbearably.
More on this: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/The_value_of_promises_and_estoppel_...
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underinformed/underrepresented/broke = dumb/minority/poor

There is literally no difference. Your concentration on this is just a way for you to tuck your tail between your legs without running. You're wrong, so you concentrate on what you think is "controversial" and pick out semantics so you don't have to confront your own ignorance.
I didn't know that Netflix is now also paying AT&T, Verizon, and TWCable too!
I hear you on that. I guess Pluralsight is like a "course on demand" and requires an hour or more of sit-down time, whereas Safari is really "ad hoc learning".
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Note my comment elsewhere in this thread about switching from DC to C3 + Crossfilter.

Since we wanted the set of charts to be driven by dynamic data, we were looking at either implementing functions to take a configuration object and translate that into a series of DC API calls, or switching to a charting library that already took configuration objects and hooking the charts together with Crossfilter ourselves.

The latter approach won out, largely because the C3 default look and feel was closer to what we wanted as well, compared to the DC defaults.
What does "getting paid twice" mean? When they built the Silver Line in Northern VA, Fairfax County created a special tax district for the commercial properties benefited by the new line. So they get "paid twice": once through fares of people who use the train, and again from the businesses that people travel to using the train. What's wrong with this arrangement?
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> On the other hand, if your entire business idea revolves around pumping several orders of magnitude more data than anyone else normally does, is it still reasonable to assume others will foot the bill building the infrastructure?

Except Netflix is not pumping data anywhere. This data has already been paid for and is being requested by Comcast's network. They also are not asking anyone to "foot the bill" - they've offered to pay for it entirely.
This article assumes readers will have the background to understand all the jibberish it presents. Meanwhile, it does't paint anything close to a clear picture on the inside scoop of "How Netflix cam to pay Comcast for Internet traffic". That makes the article damn near worthless IMO
A record of functions permits polymorphism in behavior, but I'm not clear on how it can provide polymorphism in state or structure.

I'm certainly no expert in pure FP so there may be something I'm missing, but if the operations have to produce a change in the state of an entity, each one of the functions would have to both receive and return a state, right? Or you use a record of closures, each which returns a new record of closures?

It seems to me that in both cases you're discarding a lot of the benefits of Haskell's type system.
Most of the complexity in these GUI toolkits is unrelated to accessibility or other "essential but non-obvious" features, so I don't think this is a good point.
You seem to be implying that people who have comcast are either not paying their bill or not paying enough.

That seems to be more of a comcast issue.
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What if I was giving the product away for free? Would the reaction would have been different?
For comparison: I put $1000 into Prosper around 2007 as an experiment. My average annual return is 4.19% (just logged in for the first time in... forever).

However, the return has been rising. Through 2008 my annualized return was negative (-4%) and has since been closer to 8%, with double the returns coming from lower credit scores.
How many Verizon customers would I, as an ATT customer, have to call/text on a regular basis before you would find it reasonable for Verizon to start charging me?

Also, what was feasible in 2001 is a really poor indicator of what's a reasonable business model today.
I remember when the iPhone 1 was introduced there were comments here that it will inevitably kill Nokia. At the time I was wondering what those guys are smoking :)
At the moment it seems to be invite only and asks for a twitter account, so that probably puts up enough of a barrier to casual trolls, others can be weeded out. Also I believe sites like facebook will sometimes ask for ID validation so that might not be a total showstopper.

In reality most sites that are ostensibly for "everyone" like reddit or tumblr end up being dominated by certain demographics and thus start to repel others. If they are smart they will make sure the demographic of women that they most appeal to are those with high disposable incomes or influence who are of the most value to advertisers.
Clearly this is not a contract and wouldn't expect to be enforced as one.

That's not clear at all; according to a court of the Third Circuit, a promise not to sue is the same as a license: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2013/01/3rd-circuit-covenant-not...
How's this different from the current iOS capability to remote-wipe your phone via iCloud?
The government has the keys.
You can examine the source of Tarsnap, though, unlike Dropbox or Spideroak.
> EDIT: Ah, the draft mentions the supercookie attack

I didn't actually know that. Nice to see they thought of it while designing, but besides the attack scenarios I don't see anything to do about it, for users nor websites...
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i) is it legal to exclude people based on gender?

ii) depressing that a women-only social network is needed. We've had online communities for over forty years so it's kind of disturbing that they all suck so much.

iii) trolls are trolls and it's not just men making threats of sexual violence. Women do it too. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25886026 (the tweets were so extreme that the BBC has to filter them, so it's hard to get the tone of the tweets.). Still, this should stop "boobs or gtfo".
The key quote from the OP is "Complexity is cumulative cognitive load".

From the point of view of an end-user, using Outlook is vastly simpler than learning to program in order to cobble together their own solution out of command-line tools with harsh learning curves. Even for a professional programmer the tradeoff is pretty clear.

People only have so much cognitive capacity and so much time to live. Every hour spent messing with configuration or customising behaviour has to be weighed against the lifetime gain of that improvement (let alone the lifetime cost of maintaining the custom solution as the environment changes).

That's not to say that I don't want software to be configurable and composable, just that the cost of doing so with our current tools is too high for most users.
So the original guide seems not to have been updated since 2009 [1], and even then only in minor ways. Are these criticisms still valid of C++, even without the C++11 standard? Clearly the language issues won't have gotten any better (without C++11), but many of the arguments in the FQA seem to call into question the correctness of the compiler or the quality of the compiler's optimizations (see e.g. [2] and [3]). Is this still valid for modern compilers (GCC 4.8, Clang 3.4, etc.)?

[1]: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/changelog.html

[2]: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ctors.html#fqa-10.9

[3]: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/templates.html#fqa-35.10
What if instead of one service like Netflix, we had a hundred little ones that served the same total number of customers?

The problem isn't Netflix. The problem is that a ton of customers are paying Comcast for 250 GB per month at 50 Mbps, which their infrastructure is incapable of actually providing.

Comcast should absolutely foot the bill. They are the ones unable to fulfill their end of the contract.
That's true, but the hope is these media outlets have the ability/integrity to be critical of their sponsors when it is time to report the news.