skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well said.

I would like to add a note, though, that "do your homework and then come back" can also be deployed dishonestly.

Something I called out a bit back (which was graciously received by the perpetrator - I don't think it was actually intentional in that instance) amounted to "If you haven't found the thing that proves I'm right, you haven't done enough homework". Which is an approach that can be rhetorically effective when people don't notice what you're doing, but seems somewhat poisonous to the goals of truth seeking, of educating ourselves, and of getting along.

I don't know the best way to distinguish these - most examples don't reduce so clearly and I agree there are plenty of cases where someone just needs to go read something.
https://www.meteor.com/install

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

This despicable habit rears its ugly head again.
Op here. This seems to be real, but this still could be a scam. Anyone want to call the law firm linked to, to inquiry if it is real?
off topic a bit, but why do the CDN urls 301 redirect?
Best article I have seen on how to improve science. The author describes a whole spectrum of possible improvements - not just one, such as more replication, and not just the problems, such as misaligned incentives. Gives some hope - but as author admits progress will be difficult. Lots a good references too - although often behind paywalls.
It is not a PaaS, it is a framework that goes a bit further than previous frameworks. Angular and ember really just work for front-end code.

Meteor spans both the front-end and back-end to offer a seamless API experience when building your application.
The ability to use/see the api in action in the page (like maybe a click here button to see it work), so you can do things like see the network traffic so you can see what works without having to worry about things like CORS or whatnot. (my .02)

Also a way to use the api without needing to expose keys, I primarily try to consume API's using angularJS which is client side only, so giving out my key can be a problematic experience.

Thus most of my apps I write are for myself, and not others, since this is very rarely considered.
I hope I'm never in so desperate need for a loan that I have to sign up for LinkedIn.
Such a let down. I was hoping they would do something I could use.

There are surprisingly few, if any at all sites/apps fulfilling my very modest basic criteria.

-weight log

-calorie log

-gym and cardio progress log and plan

-not using Liberian units of measurements.

GDoc spreadsheet still seems like the best option.

--

Don't they do any market research at all at Google? No one interested in tracking anything will find this useful. Even the people only using a pedometers won't use it. This is a horrible interface getting that one number tracked that they are interested in.

Now I'm upset. So much money to spend and one lackluster product after another.
I have no idea how they arrive at that number. I think I read somewhere that its a hypothetical rate, assuming someone worked a given number of hours.

Or else the "Data Driven" company doesn't know what the difference between Median and Maximum are?

On another note, I've met quite a few UberX drivers who have financed their cars. That level of fixed costs make someone significantly less able to absorb any price cuts.

Finally, what is the really Price Elasticity of Demand here? Even when the fares are at surge levels of 2x, how does often does that deter people? Sure, if its 8 blocks, I might walk it, but at a certain threshold (which I assume is the best revenue anyway) the only other alternative is some other mode of service with an almost equally high cost. My guess is that their claim that lower fares = greater ridership has a much lower coefficient than they let on.
Lowe’s Introduces Robotic Shopping Assistants at Hardware Store in California
But neither network effects nor technology will change overall number of people who need rides (demand) and the fact that driving cars is unskilled labor.

If Uber pays more, taxi drivers will make rational decisions and become Uber drivers. Or Lyft drivers. Or whatever other competitor.

If Uber has nicer cars or more efficient service, taxi services will adapt or go out of business. The drivers will go elsewhere, not change industries.

And so on.
And there is absolutely no meaningful way to hold them accountable.
Whenever they send it is when the emails go out. The exact time varies.
Ask HN: Will face shooting app be rejected?
I want to make an app that uses the camera to detect and face and let's you shoot at it. The app will have cartoon violence and is meant to be humorous. Do you think the violent part will get the app rejected?
I say PostgreSQL. Not only can it do everything MongoDB can do (and faster* too), it's time-tested technology.

* http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2014/09/24/postgres-outperform...
Looks great but the site doesn't feel very snappy.
If you are interesteed, there are people using CocoonJS and/or Cordova to package up Phaser games as native apps. It was a bit complicated last time I checked. There is a ton of info on http://www.html5gamedevs.com/forum/14-phaser/
I didn't say they "hunted them down," I said they were happy to kill them.

And increase of reproductive success of a very similar population puts all kinds of evolutionary pressure on the less-advantaged population, as they compete for the same things. But more to the point, regardless of the exact words that your parent poster used, they clearly did not mean a very narrow definition of evolutionary pressure.
very intresting article! A great solution to promoting awareness and understanding for a brand. Works at all levels from small local businesses to large multinationals.

Sometimes it's hard to see, as a smaller business, what the best company would be to partner with so why not gather 2 or more trusted advisors from outside your business area together and brainstorm possible options.
On Jonas Salk's 100th birthday, a celebration of his polio vaccine
There's a lot to like about Meteor. Just compare setting up some kind of "dream team" of JavaScript: Rendr + React + Grunt + JSX = OMG WHERE DID MY FRIDAY NIGHT GO.

Meter out of the box "just works," but it only works with Mongo for now, and it only works if you are all-in with the platform — on both the client and the server side. Those are two pretty big bets to make.

I would say Meteor is ideal for learning, except that it's important to learn what the request-response lifecycle is all about, and I think it can be detrimental when a "magical" framework does so much for you.

And one thing I just can't get over -- page loads in Meteor.com feel super fast. Until you realize it actually downloaded the contents (not the unseen images, of course) of the entire website! DPP is doing some interesting things, but some of Meteor is some nice magic tricks that we've seen before. 600kb+ of JS on page load is certainly an interesting concept.

Huge amount of work by a talented team. A super nice community. As for the framework itself, give it some time, let it grow, but most importantly, understand objectively its strengths and risks. It has both!
Sure, it's limited to those browsers that support the Web Audio API. The point of this project is to show off what the emerging API is capable of, and to keep the overhead low. Adding those kinds of dependencies would defeat that purpose.
There's a spectrum. On the one hand, you have the notion that tech companies actually have a competitive advantage in attacking health related issues from a data driven (or robotics?) perspective. On the other hand, you have hubris. I think it remains to be seen where on this spectrum SV falls, but I'd say right about here:

Competitive Advantage |----------------------x---------| Hubris
This is great! Opens up great possibilities for...well, a lot of things. Thanks for doing this!
Scientists Can Detect Disease by Dripping Urine Down a Tiny Tube
I think you're on the right track, but "dicks" might be a little vague. Presumably some sort of delusion that they are special for possessing something so rare. As if they've accomplished something.
How We Got Users to Give Feedback via Email
I agree that the parent reads like it condones too much bad behavior. At the same time, I think "people can tell the difference between those who are speaking at a level that is too difficult for them to understand, and people who are actually condescending" is not as true as we might hope.
That gives a good civilized image of the city.
They are just frustrated that the only way to make functional programming useful is mixing it with some good old OOP and imperative stuff - the recent rise of Scala and C# are a proof.
I thought this was an interesting post. We do something similar at my startup. We send out a welcome email the next day and include a super quick personal thank you video from the founders/team. The video is easy to do and most people like it
Right, it's a geometrical problem... my suggestion is a bit of a tangent.
Why Programmers work at night? Cost of caffeine?
>but ignore results

That is certainly an interesting proposal. How do you intend to assess competence in generating novel ideas (i.e. not testing for knowledge of existing work) if you ignore the candidate's track record?
Wow, I can't believe he said that.
There's that, but I also think some users are still a little spooked about the whole NSA scare, and are hesitant to give up trust to a company that could be forcefully controlled by the NSA or secret court rulings.

It's not Google's fault, but more the U.S. Government for being incapable to reign in control of certain organizations.

Personally I don't care - from a data perspective I'm know I'm not a special snowflake, but for others I can understand their stress.
HTML5 is a living standard, no? There isn't going to be an "HTML6".
>But neither network effects nor technology will change overall number of people who need rides (demand) and the fact that driving cars is unskilled labor.

This may be unrelated but I don't see how technology changes doesn't increase demand. If Uber is convenient/cheap enough that people forgo car ownership and decide to use Uber, doesn't that increase demand. Even if, in the long term, car ownership was cheaper, surely there are people who would rather spend $6 today than sign a loan for $6000.
Congratulations to everyone on the Meteor team on 1.0! I feel this is just the beginning of many great things to come!
OS X Yosemite Design Fail – Eye Candy vs. Usability
Deis has been doing this successfully for a while now. Their work is all open source. Here's what the units look like to bootstrap all of their components: https://github.com/deis/deis/tree/master/deisctl/units

More info on the components: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/understanding_deis/architectur...

The Kubernetes project has also documented a getting started guide for CoreOS: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/maste...
And the other thing people contemplate: They think denying the flow of time is denying time asymmetry of the world. Of course events in the world follow a directional sequence. Drop an egg on the floor and it breaks. You don’t see eggs assembling themselves. Buildings fall down after earthquakes; they don’t rise up from heaps of rubble.

"Events occurring in sequence" is the same thing as "the flow of time", in my understanding at least. What else does "the flow of time" refer to? I fear there's a subtle point being made that I don't quite grasp.
I doubt a company would jeopardize their reputation by doing that, and even if they did, the Affordable Care Act would prevent insurance companies from discriminating against you on your medical history or genetics.
Ludicrous Speed: Designing for Performance on the JVM [video]
I believe the role of government is to ensure people's "minimal expectations" are met, and beyond that people can do whatever they want.

Conversely I believe that government should have no role other than acting as (as Bastiat put it) "the collective extension to our individual right to self defense". Let the government enforce property rights, provide rule of law and (maybe) enforce contracts. The world doesn't owe you an education, Internet access, a job, or anything else, and invoking use of force to try to ensure those outcomes is wrong IMO.
A part of me is imagining a dystopian Doctorow saying: "...a computer is something my mother puts my life into".

Another part of me is saying: "Shut up and tell me if I have cancer".
Typically people get mild auditory hallucinations after they've been awake for 30 hours or so. Sounds like what you might have been experiencing.
The Anatomy of an AngelList Syndicate Deal
I think it's(health) is a major concern of the Founders as well. You get the money. You get the right girl--sometimes.(A lot of these guys still rely on Hookers--paid in one way or another. You start to eat better--sometimes. You start to
think about what you can't buy; the inevitability if death is the last line of code!
"But I will fix that too?" My own concern for my cancer
risk is two fold--I worry I drank too much in my younger
days, and I didn't spend enough time outside in the sun?
Anyway, I wish Google well. If anyone from Google reads this, I'm tired of using Duckduckgo. I would go back to you
guys--if you didn't track my every movement.
I just installed this. I had been logging steps on my Android watch for the past few months, replacing my old Fitbit. I've been looking forward to Google Fit for a while so I can more easily examine all that step data and visualize it.

However, as soon as I got it installed, all my previous months' data was simply gone. Not imported into Google Fit, but just gone.

Fitbit wasn't perfect, but it was better than this.
As a t-mobile customer who has exceeded 50GB a month for nearly a year now via tethering on the unlimited plan, I disagree.
But clearly there are ways things can be said that lend themselves more to one interpretation or another. We need to own whatever role we have in the problem and work to fix it on the end we control, balanced against whatever other legitimate problems or constraints we're working with.

"Successful communication" is a constraint that probably should trump "phrasing to protect people's feelings" when the two conflict. "Social signalling games" probably should not. Differentiating the two is deliberately made difficult, but we don't get out of that by ignoring it.
They are run by rich people who want to extend their own lifespans by pushing forward the top tier of what is possible in healthcare.
My Job Is to Learn How to Code
Quora: “Do Programmers drink coffee everyday?”
Nice article! Very informative regarding marketing fundamentals.
Whereas our HR department prefers that you warn the individual first, before you approach HR for a reprimand.
This is the right answer. It's a huge market with massive regulatory and compliance barriers to entry.

It's probably ripe for disruption from a larger company that can foot the fixed costs to enter it.
> But neither network effects nor technology will change overall number of people who need rides

It did with me (granted, N=1). I reduced my own driving to zero and replaced it mostly with Uber. That isn't just a shift in my quantity of rides demanded, it's a shift in my demand curve.

> driving cars is unskilled labor

I would not have given up driving if the alternative were yellow cabs. New York taxi drivers are not knowledgeable about routes. Further, it is not uncommon for a trip to end with a debate over whether the credit card reader works. I will pay extra for even a minimally professional Uber driver over an unprofessional yellow taxi.

The correlation between driver skill and rider experience is one of the problems Uber is running into when it considers scaling. That limitation is one that would be mitigated by driverless cars.

> The drivers will go elsewhere, not find other jobs

Network effects limit the viability of alternatives: there will be less demand on those platforms. As mentioned above, I do not believe most yellow taxi drivers would do well as Uber drivers–the supply is not fungible.
AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted MySQL: Backup and Restore
Do drivers collect the additional income during surge pricing or does the delta simply line uber's pockets? It seems like you could game the system by simply only driving during surge pricing.
Every neighborhood store I shop in knows who I am, and that's fine. Ditto every single online store. The problem with publishers knowing who I am is only problematic if they are also selling me out to advertisers. The easy fix for this is for them not to take advertising. Places like Consumer Reports and Cooks Illustrated do just fine that way.
i guess it's finally time to upgrade that .vimrc to include syntax highlighting for the new tags... canvas, video, audio, nav, section, etc..
From the Go language spec[1]:

> Unlike regular variable declarations, a short variable declaration may redeclare variables provided they were originally declared earlier in the same block with the same type, and at least one of the non-blank variables is new. As a consequence, redeclaration can only appear in a multi-variable short declaration. Redeclaration does not introduce a new variable; it just assigns a new value to the original.

So if this is something you're not used to,it might be a good idea to avoid multi-variable short declarations in critical code. (Declare with `var` beforehand.)

Also, for more credibility in writing, call it Go, not golang. #golang is just a hashtag (and domain name).

[1]: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Short_variable_declarations
Is there any particular reason? Requiring support for older or legacy browsers?

I just recently wrapped up a project utilizing customized Twitter Bootstrap / CSS3 / HTML5 and I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth everything went between IE/Chrome/Safari/FF. This is the first time, in a long time, that everything just "worked."
I haven't found a Meteor site that does yet, I would love to see an example of one where I don't have to sit at a loading wheel. Anyone?
Ebola Outbreak API
Video doesn't kill the flash star.
You've named three unbelievably wealthy people who you believe are motivated to Do Good. Which is Iron Man? Which is Batman? And more terrifyingly, which is Ozymandius?
Ad-free Outlook.com
Okay, I'll bite: who is "We"?
Out of curiosity, where does your script get data (prices and whatever else)?
Well if we've reached, "nuh-uh, you're the real fundamentalist" with a side order of personification of abstracts, then I think we're unlikely to make any more progress. Have fun.
Synopsis: The plant is endangered, but we like it that way, since we control the IP.
It's not comprehensive.

What about people who do things which require real athleticism or strength?
haha, in which case the article title could've been "P=NP!"
And yet, I have high hopes in science. It is not the most efficient system, but it is the only system that is consistently working well to advance our knowledge.

We definitely have a lot of room to improve though.
FindTheBest Wins Again: Patent Troll Hit with Double Fee Award
Sergey Brin makes the list but not Bill Gates?
Application Foundations for the Open Web Platform
No doubt they have their skeletons in a closet, somewhere. The biggest paragon of morality is bound to have hurt someone, at some point. The obverse is certainly true of the greatest villains, too.

After a while, you learn to let go of details, step back, and consider the big picture. How will this person go down in history? That's what really matters. So far I'm getting very good vibes from these guys, overall.
Yeah, one of the common critique is that "Meteor" does too much and doesn't integrate well with other stuff.

For me it's a main advantage, I don't need to use "other" stuff to get the final effect.

I wrote few projects and it's the best framework if you start from scratch. Though it's hard to swell if you need to add it later to some existing project.
Bram Cohen has been working on some p2p video client for years and I don't think he's ever even released an alpha. Given that (i) typical residential broadband speeds have increased dramatically over the last few years and (ii) bittorrent or some form of it has become the accepted means for cheap live video streaming by clients the world over (qvod, pps, popcorntime, etc etc), I don't see what issues he might be facing.
May the odds be ever in your favor...or whatever that quote is. Good luck!
Hello,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm more keen to open source, because like you, I love the open source ideology.

Point '4' was all I needed to read actually. I'm not worried about point '5' I don't believe my idea is that good on one hand and I'm not afraid of the competition :-)

Thanks again!
> Every car is marked with a number you can see.

Not in my city. And many Uber cars display no logo at all.

> Yes, English is not my native language. You caught me. This invalidates all my arguments, of course. You won, take a cookie.

It is regrettably also how loons write. When combined with their typical arguments, it is going to get you written off as a loon. One way to fix this is to stand behind your words and just say something about yourself in your profile.
A 100kg bench is not extreme strength, sorry. It's "I'm average and I've been at this for 6-12 months" strength.
Is my iOS game landing page any good?
I should get back into doing GPG key signings. I really hope that, sometime soonish, someone does a decent browser email crypto thing. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to add to the amount of encrypted traffic on the internet.
These Cities Expose Exactly What Gentrification Is Doing to America
I'm sorry, I used to be a die-hard Linux desperado way back in the day, I must have some sort of mental block against Bill Gates.

Yes, I feel inclined more and more to add him, too, to the list. I hated his business tactics in the past, but his persona after retirement is nothing short of awesome.
Optimizing Breadth-First Search for Social Networks
Classic 90's – The Kids Guide to the Internet
>If you dropped a rock and it didn't fall, you could infer that probably either you are outside an appreciable gravitational field or there's some force counteracting the gravitational field you're in.

Perhaps my example was not appropriate, because I described something that could happen (which is what might allow us to have a useful thought experiment). I couldn't think of anything to match the irrelevance or off-basedness of the radiation-stopping question.

>You could have done more to educate, you chose to abuse

"Abuse" is quite hyperbolic in this situation. And you're right, I could have done more to educate, but I also don't have infinite time to give helpful and constructive corrections to every stupid comment on the internet. Sometimes you just make it clear that the comment is stupid, so no one else accidentally takes it as reasonable, and leave.
> Snowden had forgotten to attach his key, which meant I could not encrypt my response.... His oversight was of no security consequence—it didn’t compromise his identity in any way...

Uh, didn't it compromise security by making it possible for someone else to MITM the rest of the emails Snowden received? They see the public key request before he does, send out their key instead, suppress his real response from being sent to them, decrypt mails to him and re-encrypt with his real key so he doesn't notice. AFAICT it indeed didn't compromise his identity, but the privacy and authenticity of the rest of the conversation.

Granted, like a lot of MITM scenarios, using crypto at all drastically raises the bar from permitting passive eavesdropping, to requiring a lot of access and agility to eavesdrop. At least, this is my personal, semi-informed conclusion lately -- I don't know what the experts say.
Meteor doesn't require tight coupling between data access and presentation layers. Personally I use meteor with react.
China's air pollution is causing at least 1 MILLION premature deaths a Year