skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point, which I think is a fundamentally flawed and even dangerous view of speech rights, is not actually relevant to the philosophy you don't understand but claim is insane.

The speech CU engaged in implicates practical problems violent video games do not. The question has never been one of worth. If it were, I'd have a long list of people I'd like locked up, starting with all politicians and lawyers.
I've used rails_admin extensively in my last two jobs, but haven't used any of the other comparable admin frameworks.

If what you want in some basic inspection of all objects with very little work, rails_admin is great. It pretty much does that, the end.

Adding a little bit of role-based access levels via CanCan is also super-simple with rails_admin. Paper trail works great for a simple audit log. Customization to the level of "using friendlier names for some attributes, organizing your data logically, and showing cleaned up pretty values" is pretty painless as well.

Where rails_admin gets a bit annoying in my mind is when you want to start adding custom actions (LOTS of cruft and boilerplate and magic for relatively simple results), or if you want to break out of the CRUD for models viewpoint at all. We're trying to use it to offer some non-technical people things like access into user history, and you end up fighting against the fundamental assumptions of the framework a lot.

(That sounds critical. I think that overall, rails_admin is great at doing what it does. We're trying to push way past the bounds of what it does, and we're running into some troubles there, but that's to be expected).

The major failing of rails_admin that I've noticed when you aren't talking about DEEP customization is that it does not handle 1:many or many:many relationships well when the number of associated documents is large. Like, we may have a model that has 500 or 5,000 child documents, and there's no easy way to paginate the list of child documents. Also, if you have a polymorphic relationship, your list of candidate child documents is just a simple HTML select, which is obviously unwieldy when the candidate list has thousands of entries.
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Gives $31M to UMD CS.  What Do You Think?
Nice to see programming tools listed here. In 2011, investors couldn't've cared less. That description could almost have been written for CircleCI: "delivering software continuously" and "better software, faster".

That said, I had more success building what wasn't in the RFC (dev tools in 2011), than what was (journalism stuff in 2010).
I don't think it's that simple for a myriad reasons:

First, a lot of vitamins are poorly understood in terms of practical effect. We know that a vitamin C deficiency leads to scurvy and that a vitamin D deficiency leads to rickets, etc., but beyond some of the most basic and conclusive cases, it's unlikely you'll be prescribed vitamins and minerals for most trips to the doctor via bloodwork, discussion and other analysis.

Second, you'll still want/need pharmaceutical grade vitamins, minerals and supplements. Fish oil has some fairly reliable benefits, but quality can vary immensely.

But in many cases, you'll have to do the research, ask the doctor and get their opinion rather than waiting for them to suggest something.
You could use a rails engine to share the same models between two rails applications. Depending on the size of the project though, you may find that the economy of sharing models is a false one - applications of sufficient size may benefit from having separate models for user and admin interactions (see also: Domain Driven Design).
Mostly they are trying to build a business without taking any of the responsibilities.
Napkin design for a p2p ridesharing network: Create a cryptocurrency. Send a message with a bid for a ride to a new address that you control with the start and end point locations with how much you want to pay. Insert it in the blockchain. Driver sees bid in block chain and answers with a similar self message and arrives. When the driver arrives, transfer half to him and the other half when you get out.
This is politically-correct/Marxist protelariat/bourgeoisie nonsense. The human race is composed of individuals, not "classes" at war with one another.
"Let me just say one more thing: Facebook has 7,000 workers. Microsoft just laid off 18,000. Why doesn’t Mr. Zuckerberg call his friend Mr. (Bill) Gates and say: Look, I have to hire a few hundred people; do you have any résumés you can send over here?" Sessions said. "Maybe I will not have to take somebody from a foreign country for a job an unemployed U.S. citizen might take."

Rhetoric, gotta love it!

Bunch of the people who were laid off are immigrants.
this is straight up bonkers, js encrypted... i've seen it before but not this easy
and how about privacy, sc* that right
site doesn't work on my browser- this is 2014.
It's easy! Stop using ruby, switch to something good. Problem solved.
Good point! I'm now calling it "a stream of the latest Hyperlapse videos" instead.
I see only some sphere with a spot. What is going on there?
> flat-rate fee per-person for transport

That was not the case. I remember paying a different amount than the person I was sitting next to, because we were travelling different distances.
this seems decent, I'll give it a try when I need a private convo
I believe the article you're referring to is: http://lesswrong.com/lw/vp/worse_than_random/

Choice quote:
> As a general principle, on any problem for which you know that a particular unrandomized algorithm is unusually stupid - so that a randomized algorithm seems wiser - you should be able to use the same knowledge to produce a superior derandomized algorithm.

An interesting counterexample to this, an example which to me illustrates a very powerful aspect of randomness, is the monte-carlo revolution in computer Go (AI for the ancient Asian board game). For years, computer progress stagnated, as the techniques were mostly focused on encoding human knowledge into code. While most of this human knowledge is generally correct, it introduces significant bias in the way positions are evaluated. The way these rules-of-thumb interact is very hard to predict, and tree search algorithms are quite good at finding positions that are incorrectly evaluated. Because of this, the worst-case behavior of an evaluation function is much more important than it's best-case or average behavior.

Computers started making lots of progress when a new technique was used: rather than try to evaluate positions by a large set of heuristics, they were evaluated by playing random games. Go positions are quite hard to evaluate from simple rules of thumb, and this random game approach gives a much more balanced, long-term view of positions. And most importantly, there is much less bias.

Obviously, an entirely random game, with a uniform distribution over possible moves, is easy to improve upon. But computer go programmers noticed an interesting phenomenon: while certain types of knowledge incorporated into the random move distribution (to make it "more intelligent", as judged by a human) were helpful, others were not (even after taking into account the computational cost of adding the knowledge), and it wasn't always clear why. The same observation about heuristic evaluation noted above applied: having a balanced distribution of move choices, with a reasonable probabilistic lower bound of effectiveness, is more important than making an intelligent choice that is usually correct, but has unpredictable, extreme worst-case performance.

So we see that randomness does have an important property: it avoids the downside of "knowledge" that generally seems correct but can go horribly wrong in unexpected ways.

I don't know of a good writeup of this phenomenon. My understanding of it is mostly assembled from following informal discussions on the computer-go mailing list for several years. In a quick search through my gmail archives I can't find much on the subject, but here's an interesting post about related topics in the computer chess world (that incidentally doesn't talk about randomness, but illustrates well the benefits of avoiding bias): http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=thre...
Hmm, the site has had a few new sign-ups in the last couple of minutes so I don't know what the issue is. Try registering with a new username and after clicking sign-up, wait a few seconds and click on the logo at the top of the page. That should do the trick.
A tangent, but I thought I remembered The Colbert Report staff developing something like this in-house. After a bit of searching, it turns out that staff members had actually developed and spun-off a segment writing and producing tool [1].

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-17/stephen-colb...
Hmm, thought for sure I'd searched your exactly quote, but I apologize that I missed it.

It seems the author of the article in question replied to my comment as well, and it's worth noting because his intent is (more or less) what I got out of reading the post [1]. I don't find it misleading. I think your point of contention may therefore be with the interchange between application and process as synonyms throughout the post. By implication, I took it to mean application in the context of a single cohesive unit (maybe not just simply a process, though it can be) that is run via a supervisor or alone.

(That said, using LXC directly is something of an exercise in frustration as the CLI tools are a bit... kludgy--Docker is far more polished.)

> You can put sshd in your docker container, you can run init scripts.

I seem to recall that running sshd from a Docker instance isn't exactly the intended use case of Docker [2] and is generally frowned upon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8310276

[2] http://jpetazzo.github.io/2014/06/23/docker-ssh-considered-e...
Create Some Cool Text Effects Using CSS
Works well on Ubuntu 12.04 with Chrome (core i7, 8 Gb).
It's bizarre that it's legal to fly a drone/quadcopter as a hobby, but not if you charge for the services. If there were laws about flying above a certain height or over people in well populated areas, that would make more sense than just banning commercial use.

There are going to be a lot of drone-based businesses soon. I got a DJI Phantom 2 last month and have been amazed at the quality of footage that it can capture with a GoPro. The learning curve is much easier than hand-held stabilizers I've used, like the Glidecam.
Hallucinogen in ‘magic mushrooms’ might have helped smokers quit
highly opinionated thoughts based off success with building rapid mvp's, they are my conventions i was just making it public
Totally agree. My 2 additional cents.

Most reasonably skilled programmers can read code. They choose not to. Cultural problem not technical one.

I've been in the industry a long time and the best codebases I've seen had a handful of things in common:

* They were written by highly competent programmers who all had an interest in doing a good job.
* The code was neat, well-document, and sensibly structured based on agreed upon standards.
* The programmers writing them weren't forced to inject changes faster than they could compensate for them.

That's it. Most of the disasters in industry are the result of extrinsic demands. People not caring or people. People documenting nothing. People under extreme deadline pressure hammering in something that then has massive, long-term design ripple effects on the rest of the codebase. Do this several dozen times and you're almost certain to produce a disaster and some point.

Therefore, most software problems have to do with people in over their heads or making changes haphazardly to meet deadlines. These cultural issues seem largely to stem from people thinking that writing software is a deterministic process - it isn't, and has more in common with chaotic systems than linear deterministic systems. Hell, I've written virtually the exact same piece of software twice at one company and each time produced both identical bugs and completely new bugs.

We would probably benefit more from understanding what software actually is and educating people about that than attempt to technologize away our problematic understanding of technology.</screed>
Exactly. This was a protest over a very specific issue, and Uber ended up listening.

The article surprisingly doesn't really spin this into generalized pontificating and really talks about this specific grievance at length. HN commenters however are responding as if this was a general piece on Uber's failings as a whole... Strange.
I have not read the circle-square theorem, but surely you are leaving something out. With a large n, many points will fall inside the circle, and four times that quantity can not logically get closer and closer to 3.14
Just got to transcend your humanity lol. If your 51% robot would the law still apply?http://geekologie.com/2014/09/how-hitchhiking-robot-survived...
In fairness, much of Nabokov's work was originally in English, like Conrad. But to your list, I would add Kundera, Kafka, Mann, Garcia Marquez, Murakami, Chekhov, ... to name just a few authors one easily finds in American bookstores, and who are often read by American students.
Moral of story: Make some billions and say any shit you want, newspaper will create articles of whatever you say and people will think you are some kind of a genius

Modern society is a funny thing
> But then they readily admit that they are meeting their "production quotas". So what's the problem?

The reason we still work in offices is for the psychological effect it has on managers. Managers mostly measure themselves not through objective criteria like whether deadlines are met but through subjective criteria, like how many people they control and how much of their lives they control. The more people 'under' them, the longer hours they are worked, the 'better' the manager feels themselves to be. Whether this results in increased productivity or not is not something that concerns them much. I mean, we have mountains of evidence that has been stacking up for DECADES showing that open floor plan offices reduce productivity, that shorter work weeks increase productivity, that telework increases productivity, but none of these things are adopted. Because they would hurt the feelings of the managers.

In private businesses, I expect this will bankrupt most companies in the coming decades. They will be outcompeted by freelancers coordinating online who don't have to pay for the insanely expensive things like an office building (which creates no value, it only wastes it). There are instances of telework done in a screwed up way, of course, like the situation with Yahoo where they flat out did not track even whether employees were meeting deadlines (the only thing which needs to be tracked). But the raw visceral fear that managers experience when they consider the idea that someone might be meeting their deadlines but actually working less than 40 hours? That keeps them up at night. The realization that they can't walk around the cube farm and pretend with some busywork to be contributing and that this might unmask their lack of value to the company? That scares them too. And they get to indulge their personal whims.... until competitors exploit that indulgence in comfort at the sacrifice of efficiency...
Got it now, thanks! I'll play around with it in a while but it looks great! :)
This is pretty cool!

A small feature request: I uploaded data with a combination of continuous features and discrete features (which happened to be coded as numbers—2 or 1—with negative numbers used to indicate various cases was missing). I'm pretty sure the model interpreted the discrete features as continuous. I think it'd be good to add a detector for numerical fields that take on a small number of values, and convert those to binary features.

Likewise, non-linear models. I know my data has a lot of internal structure and so a tree, neural network, etc. would capture a lot more of the variance.
Nixon imposed price controls on oil in Aug 1971, which enabled the oil embargo, gas crises, etc. This all stopped when Reagan, as his first Executive Order, repealed the price controls. We haven't had a gas crisis since.

See "Capitalism" by George Reisman pg. 189
Even if there were five cute disclaimers, suggesting that command would still be irresponsible. The problem is that it hurts the people who are the least knowledgeable. Anyone with a modicum of experience downloads the script first, finds out it's 475 lines, and then chooses a different method that is at least tracked by git.

At least get rid of the wholly-unnecessary sudo. At that point, it would at least be comparable to tar xvzf rust.tgz && ./rustc (still less auditable though).
As an EECS student at UC Berkeley, whose intro CS class is in the same situation, I think it's mostly the latter. There are certainly more people seeking careers as devs nowadays, but that's nothing compared to all of the bio, math, physics, and psychology major friends I have taking CS classes. They want to see what it's all about.
Is this your opinion or are you referencing a copy of the contract? It sounds like the former.
This is a very fun game so far. Are there other hacking games people would recommend? The more educational the better.
New source says Apple originally planned sapphire-screened iPhone 6
I have read this in several independent books about nutrition: there's a strong correlation between vitamin intake and health, but it disappears if you do a random trial.

Moral of the story: be the kind of person who takes vitamins, and then don't worry about actually taking them.
You've described free market and private property. While they typically are bundled with capitalism, they're separate concepts.
Surprisingly, Firefox performs better than Chrome for me.

i7, 20GB RAM, Quadro K2000M, Fedora 19, latest stable of both Firefox and Chrome.
Senior (semi-retired) Judge Bryson was taking district level cases by designation in East Texas ... because that's where abusive patent cases get filed. Bryson doesn't have as much impact as a full time CAFC judge, and can't vote in essential en banc cases.

And two of the CAFC cases were rump panels with Taranto and Hughes. Rader's retirement left the panels short.

But I hope it's a trend!
Request: Please don't come and ruin it for the rest of us, like this irresponsible american drone operator potentially did (thankfully there have been no repercussions yet as the authorities haven't seen it).

See the first few seconds of this video: http://vimeo.com/99295619

Flying anywhere near aerodromes is illegal just about everywhere.
uplink is fun, and considered a classic of the genre.

In terms of education, the real thing is more interesting - check out places like hackthissite.org or smashthestack.org for some real life (ish) hacking in a contained environment. Hold your breath though as the smell of teen angst may overpower you on some of these sites.
The card logs at the University of Michigan helped catch a thief stealing from a snack kiosk I work at.

http://www.annarbor.com/news/u-m-graduate-student-whose-plan...

It's kind of a weird story. A chemistry PhD student repeatedly climbing over walls to steal candy bars...
1. Should have built developer tools such as compilers, SDKs of some sort, analyzers ..etc.
2. Should have demonstrated experience helping developers - stackoverflow, github, quora
3. Should have a product sensibility and empathy for fellow developers
4. Should be able to quickly suggest improvements to commonly used compilers / languages / analysis tools
5. Should be passionate about making life better for developers in general
Agreed to mailing list... but "oh well" is what I say to that. If it's easy to implement then great, but there is a cost to him for even 1 of your customers.

I would focus on the businesses that can pay $20/month (even for 1 month) to test something to see if it's for them than worry about someone who may need it in 4-6 months down the road, if there product doesn't go under before they "roll out major client work".

I am not trying to sound harsh but my guess is his money and time is better spent acquiring users who can pay $20 from the start. It's just basic marketing: How much would this cost to acquire a customer from. If he pays the girl $30 an hour to call delinquent accounts and she can call 10 an hour then that's a cost of $3 per delinquent customer of yours that it costs him and you are asking for a free tier that is incredibly low of ONLY 10 customers which actually = $30 of free value he is giving away. My guess is a Google Adwords campaign could get him paying users for less than that easily.

It's just not worth it to go after customers like you... yet..is my guess and I have been in his shoes... the people wanting free shit scream the loudest but bring in the least value.
Many companies fail long before they even manage to create a product, never mind figure out how to produce it, distribute it, etc. There's a long list of reasons why, not many have to do with competition.
There are two types of inventions: obvious and non-obvious ones.

Even if we didn't have Ethernet and OOP, we would end up with some kind of networking protocol and some kind of programming abstraction, as somebody would have come up with it.

Which is very different from discovery of, let's say, penicillin.
That is a marvelous, and entirely reasonable, view. It is not shared by any significant number of persons in management positions anywhere. Most salaried jobs today are sort of fraudulently salaried (although to the best of my knowledge this practice actually IS legal somehow). If you work fewer than 40 hours a week, you get paid less. But you're still salaried. That way they don't have to pay you overtime. I believe they get around it by saying that you receive a salary to provide 40 hours of support per week to project X, and that way if you work less, they can cut your pay.

Really this should be remedied, and tracking time worked for salaries employees should simply be illegal.
Walmart and Best Buy Opt Out of Apple Pay – Required Point-of-Sale Upgrades
It's 4*the proportion of points that fall in the circle.
Even if the technology becomes publicly usable (stretching it), there are bigger obstacles - government regulation and fear mongering - that make me think it will not happen in this timeframe.
1) Hasn't been my experience, and when it does break a) I can get it replaced in hours not days, and b) I still have my card as a backup

2) that's not allowed by your existing cardholder agreements anyway, but if you need to do so, just give your friend your actual card

3) Demonstrably false - my CC has been replaced by my bank multiple times due to large data breaches, but my iPhone has never been stolen

4) you don't - you use Find My iPhone to disable it and your original card still works because your phone has been using tokens and one-time crypto for transactions.
Here's a relevant visualization that tries to determine how the evidence stacks up. I can't speak to their evaluation of the studies, but it's an interesting addition to the dialog:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...
No thank you.

Truly outstanding suite of tools for integrating Consul with Docker.
> Nixon imposed price controls on oil in Aug 1971, which enabled the oil embargo

The Arab Oil embargo wasn't "enabled" by US price controls, it was enabled by the fact that the Arabs states involved supplied a substantial fraction of the world's oil supply.

And, while it was certainly a response to action by the US government, it wasn't to US oil price controls, it was to US support for Israel.

> This all stopped when Reagan, as his first Executive Order, repealed the price controls.

No, its stopped because by the time Reagan became President, Arab state priorities had shifted (with many favoring increased deliveries for domestic economic reasons), overall production distribution had shifted greatly increasing the share of non-OPEC production, and US consumption had dropped, which led Jimmy Carter to issue an executive order ending price controls (which Reagan accelerated.)