skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Porsche also required the VW Rule to be repealed, irregardless of the financial collapse that would have been a sticking point and could have dragged on indefinitely or not happened at all. Porsche would have the 75% it wanted but they couldn't have taken a full acquisition, and Piëch could play the game from that position.
A lot of things "slow down evolution". Glasses and contact lenses, or not throwing babies with birth defects from the nearest cliff. So that in itself hardly constitutes an argument against anything, slowing down evolution is perfectly fine.

It's not like fast or slow or no evolution make any difference when it comes to the heat death of the universe. Evolution does make "progress", but not really towards anything in particular; it isn't going anywhere. The universe, for all we know anyway, is a tightly sealed container we will not get out of and die in no matter what we evolve into -- so we might as well spend the time intellectually honest and compassionate.

> Now, status doesn't necessarily need to be related to wealth, however for the past centuries, that was a reliable indicator.

On what planet? Make a list of the greatest minds of the last 100 years, and find out how much they cared about, or even despised, wealth. I know it's subjective to a degree what constitutes a "great mind" - but that still beats the circular logic of defining success as material wealth, and then saying material wealth is a good indicator for success.
I think this is an important point that a lot of people miss. An entity having too much power is a concern separate from what you think they'll do with that power: there are always situations where your current understanding of their "morality" will no longer be valid (i.e. coercion by gov'ts as with the NSA, change in leadership as in your example).

People seem to have an intuitive sense of this but don't have the brains to comprehend it so they land up on "Google has the potential to be evil so therefore they're evil now".
It seems only just 5 days ago that Amazon was an unstoppable juggernaut taking over the world!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8481011
I think this is tricky because Google's business model is targeted ads - and they clearly do analyse personal data - they're clear leaders in AI and Ml.. Some of it is legitimately useful, Google now and Inbox for instance, their Gmail spam detection etc. But they clearly do use that data to target adverts better than anyone else, and there's a crossover in things like Now where some of that stuff is actually adverts.

Anyway, point is they do make money off targeted adverts. That's not a bad thing, they're not actually selling your data. Indeed that data is what makes them successful, they are motivated to invest an awful lot in keeping it secure and private in the sense nobody else can have it, only they can use it to target ads. In that sense I trust Google with my data but I know they are using it. Obvious caveat being NSA etc.

But then there's companies that focus less on targeted ads, like Apple. They can market on things staying on the device and never reaching their servers. Things like Apple Pay and Health, like you mentioned, I believe in both cases they claim not to have access. For Google there could be real value in combining that data with other stuff they know and offering unparalleled insights, and using their increased knowledge to better target ads. That seems to be the typical Google approach - and there are clear advantages and disadvantages to both - and again I consider that data to be safe even if Google has it.. With the obvious caveat.

With the NSA etc, Apple's way seems to be safer (with the obvious caveats of being opaque and closed software) or could be marketed that way. They have a lot of money to throw around and could potentially force Google's hand with the right marketing. But I think Google would struggle in that world to provide the services or use the business model they do now.
Nice project. Are the source available ? It would be nice to use but I'd rather host/use it locally.

Besides I don't know which font (Symbola?) you use in the .pdf but it appears ugly (part of the 'o' is missing and it is overall not too easy to read) on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.10.
My take on it has always been, for money not to be a big factor in life, you need a certain amount of money. Otherwise you're constantly counting it, tracking prices, looking for income, etc.

To be able to make enough money to not have to be thinking about it all the time, but to forego the opportunity on idealistic grounds seems to be a painful shot at my foot; I will have made myself constantly worry about money out of my disdain for it.
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I am constantly amazed on how well IKEA stays out of the spotlight as a corporate entity. We complain about Apple and Google, while IKEA is playing at least in the same league.
How to Tell If You’re Burning Money Too Fast
The comments on that article in MIT Technology Review seem to be a golden example of the problem with Wikipedia. A bunch of people with axes to grind saying "the problem with Wikipedia is that I didn't prevail in this or that dispute, and my brilliance isn't recognized there."

There just aren't incentives to contribute to Wikipedia aside from ego; its too hard to do it out of a sense of communitarian sharing. And its that same ego that makes the bureaucracy so awful.
Point taken. It was foolish of me to assume that HN users support the author's biases.

Still, I do not necessarily agree that China deserves much blame here. We should not expect any more from China than what we expect of other countries. That national export restrictions are motivated by selfishness and are harmful to the world economy is not in dispute. The point is that they are not the only country playing that game. On the world stage, everyone cashes in their unfair advantages, only paying attention to the WTO when it is profitable. Why should China abstain from manipulating supply to their benefit when other nations would not return that courtesy? If other world powers want China to play nice with exports, they will have to pay for it.
You still have to know enough to discern what phrase seems to be correct in order to know that's the phrase you want.
They should also have mechanisms in place to stop events like these from happening:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/09/06/wikistorming-colleges...
Hi. You are right, Spain is not the most agile place to set up a company. We keep hoping that the government will take a genuine look at all the bureaucratic barriers and tear them down. But we're not holding our breath. Taiga is a US Limited Liability Company (which took 20 min and $300 to set up).

In today's world location matters less and less. I wrote this article explaining what we are doing and why: https://medium.com/@taigaio/how-to-launch-an-american-startu...
In my experience, this is doable as long as you stick to these rules:

1. Leave one rep in the tank for every set you do. 5 reps means 5 picture-perfect repetitions. As soon as form starts to break down, you are doing it wrong.

2. Start light.

3. Eat like a horse. At least 10% above you maintenance levels in training days.

4. Deload every 4 weeks.

Note that I am 40+ years old. I have been squatting twice per week more than 3 years now.
When was the last time anyone outside of the hard core techs referred to Android as Linux?

The name has been pushed towards distributions and products a long time ago.
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The great coach Mark Rippetoe is the to go source for strength training [1]

[1] http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/about
Beats me. I've filed issues with both Firefox[1] and Gnome[2].

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065236

2. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736669
Stephen Hawking Joins Facebook, Likes 'The Theory of Everything'
Figures from a production deployment
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Bit.ly banned on Google
Can it really be called a "computer error" for a non-deterministic program?

It beat Garry Kasparov in multiple matches, it's probably better than most chess programs at the time.
Chrome banned bit.ly
If that blog was a wiki, we could correct the typos.
We do something similar on BitMEX with SockJS. As long as you're not using AWS's ELB, load-balancing websockets is as easy as anything else. We use HAProxy to proxy the websocket connections as TCP, and round-robin the connections. If a server drops out, the websocket connection is disconnected and a reconnection occurs to an available server.
A very peculiar orbit but OK. So my next candidate is the Startdust mission. That went into a solar orbit and released a capsule to return samples to Earth on a fly by in 2006 before being sent to visit a comet in 2011. That capsule is quoted to have been the fastest reentry for a man made object at 12.9 km/s, which is faster than Earth escape velocity at sea level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_%28spacecraft%29#Launc...
Adobe emerges as marketing cloud leader, beating out Salesforce
I think he means that if you're using a browser that doesn't support WebSockets, then SockJS's HTTP-based fallbacks will require sticky routing. If the browser does support WebSockets, then this is not a concern.
Misleading title, they corrected the article (it's 1900MB/s, not 19000) but neglected to change the title. Surprisingly bad reporting.

This is fast and definitely an improvement over the state of the art - at least for consumer products - but these speeds were attainable years ago if you had the $. [1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4879/ocz-zdrive-r4-cm88-16tb-p...
It should be easy for him to move around the EU to places like Germany or the Netherlands. We have plenty of opportunities here for senior developers.
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It's possible but what I meant (and failed to make clear) is that we can't actually avoid using cookies and scale up, since websockets connections aren't widely allowed on devices, calling for SockJS use and therefore, cookies adoption.
>they've hired bunch of MBAs but they're not able to hire product-driven entrepreneurs or give them space to shine.

Possibly related to why they acquihire so much?
Here's a great comic comparing Orwell's and Huxley's ideas.

http://imgur.com/3lnAy1l
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The research being done in Karlstad analyzing Tor, which is mentioned in the article is very interesting. I recommend looking at the Spoiled Onions project:

http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/

They identify several exit nodes that perform injection attacks etc. Monitoring Tor exit nodes for malicious behaviuour seems to be needed.
Lincoln may also have grown the beard to disguise the fact he was losing weight -- which had started several months before the beard appeared and continued throughout his Presidency. (Sorry, I'm not going to call it whiskers.) Recall that thinness was not favorably viewed in 1800s America.

Lincoln's weight loss is explained by the genetic cancer syndrome MEN2B (multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B) for which there is a great deal of evidence.

http://www.physical-lincoln.com/cancer.html
Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe
> As for the Fire Phone and it's product discovery functionality, I get Bezos' vision (I think ...) which would be a world with only one retailer.

One retailer, one IT supplier. All staffed by minimum-wage, high churn drones. Not sure who will be buying the product.
Except when you leave your home country.
The appealing parts of Meteor is a built in security against common web insecurities.

The unappealing part of Meteor is having to learn Mongo. Ok, this part is just me being too comfortable with SQL relational table databases, and being too lazy to take the time to learn the alternatives.
It's a great idea to be able to run rubocop as a service. For projects which aim to enforce a specific styleguide though, https://houndci.com/ seems to be more appropriate.
What if I just wanted to use Meteor for the same reason as what I currently use something like Firebase for? I'd like to combine this tool with React/Flux for the single purpose of server-side database functionality... not the entire kitchen sink. The closest thing I've found to showing how this could be done is Pete Hunt's react-meteor-preso project: https://github.com/petehunt/react-meteor-preso. This doesn't include Flex functionality, but it looks like a good start. It'd be awesome to have some more examples of this.
I wondered the same. Searching for OpenType and Stylistic Alternates I found the OpenType playground [1][2]. (I had to manually add a CSS @font-face rule to use a OpenType font.)

[1] http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/feature-samples/opentype-fea...
[2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/font-control-for-designers...
I'm genuinely curious about this, and I don't know anyone who works at Amazon, but if they really do have such a bad work environment and low tenure then how are they managing to consistently produce such good products (I'm thinking primarily of AWS here)?
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This "production ready" "specially for beginners" marketing about Meteor really needs to stop. They completely changed the API from under my feet, that is NOT production ready (nor for beginners, I would argue).

Stay away from Meteor until they hit 1.0, unless you're ready for pain.
Mark Suster wrote a pretty good post on the subject of founder liquidity that Fred Wilson then linked to;

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/09/02/should-founder...

Maybe the one you had in mind.
The site ahead contains malware
version 1.0 is just around the corner though (there is an RC)
Ethercalc
some of the earlier comments have already touched on the good points of the book. its a collection of essays and talks each on different topics. i liked it because Munger gives usable tools and sensible approaches to both aspects of life - personal and professional.

overall, Munger seems like a wise man who has lived a long fruitful life well beyond the vagaries of chance, so worth listening to.
> So if you've been lucky enough to have someone believe in you without caring about your missing degree, and you do that for enough years, you should be just fine.

I'd say luck comes into play in any job. You could have an ivy league background. Now someone thinks you're overqualified for the position, and picks the cheaper candidate.

In my case, it was part luck and part a numbers game. I was 17, and applied at ~30 companies for their IT roles. Why not? It was cheap for me (print resume, mail, follow up over phone) both in resources and time. I took pics with of my racks of older cheap PCs in my parent's basement doing distributed.net's RC5 challenge, all networked and cable tied, proxy configs, etc. It wasn't a hard sell to a decision maker.
One commenter on the Wired article already said what I was going to write here, so I'll just quote this:

"The biggest problem is that everyone INCLUDING this article intentionally ignore one aspect and will not speak it.

The hoverboard will only work on it's Copper plate surface or the Aluminum surface. It will not work on your driveway, on a sidewalk, etc.. you need a thickly skinned surface of copper or aluminum for it to work at all. So unless you have several thousand dollars worth of 1/4" thick copper or aluminum sheeting around, this "hoverboard" will not work.

It's NOT a real hoverboard. It's a maglev board that will only work on a very specific surface that happens to be made of some of the most expensive metals around. Copper and Aluminum right now has a very high cost."

(Timothy Gray)
Family life will slow those plans down considerably
I didn't mean to say it was the sole reason; just the reason relevant to my post. There certainly are other reasons and they are larger problems than the editor.

However, Wikipedia feels that the editor is a big enough problem that they have spent a lot of time and money on their Visual Editor. That time and money could have been better spent.
Link? I can probably help :)
Inbox looks to be going the other direction, though. For example, they are now making it harder for you to delete e-mails. All are archived by default. Why do you think that is? Because they want to mine them for as long a possible. Unfortunately, for Americans, it also means that after 180 days the US government can get access to them without a warrant (according to the outdated ECPA).
I use something identical to this: https://stackedit.io/
Yovo photo-messaging app promises privacy through optical trick
There is something wrong with all the o letters in the pdf that I downloaded.
I wouldn't bank on it, though. It seems possible for a rogue screen-shooter to simply capture a few frames with alternating fence positions and recombine these to obtain a completely unobscured image.
Ebola and big data
Wow, it looks like you can chat with your Gmail contacts from outlook. This looks quite promising.
why some people like to be anonymous in social networks?
"Users apparently dislike this workflow so much that they don’t bother contributing at all: significantly less people are editing Wikipedia than did a few years ago."

Oh, the arbitrary causation!
Hello! OP here. I'm totally ignorant of Parsoid but I respectfully suggest that bidirectional lossless conversion is not possible in general.

First, it relies on the function Wikitext->HTML being injective. But isn't it trivial to create two different Wikitexts that compile to the same HTML? Whitespace is just the start of this story.

Second, apparently the template language is Turing-complete. Let's say I write a prime sieve in order to generate a page that lists the first 100 prime numbers. What would it then mean to edit "31" to change it to "30"?

(With apologies for not yet having read the things you kindly linked to.)
Again, taking this from a previous conversation on this topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7904443 - it seems CapnProto and Flatbuffers are much faster in C++, Go and Rust... the benchmarks may be very different in Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.

It would be really interesting (and possibly more relevant for HN) to have benchmarks based on one dynamic language - say Python.

Oh and @kentonv - I'm not a native American English speaker (rest of the world really). I really, really have trouble pronouncing Capn'Proto. Even more difficult to pronounce it in a meeting and have people recall/Google it.
Butterick’s Practical Typography might be a good starting point http://practicaltypography.com/opentype-features.html
The most unappealing part about any framework that claims to get you 90% there is that the 10% left is always loads of painful bullshit trying to wedge what you need into a, usually overly opinionated, overly rigid "the framework way" pattern.

Don't get me wrong, these things are fantastic for MVP/prototyping but nothing that claims to be one size fits all comes without hidden debt.
I have got a Surface Pro 3 and I am likely to purchase few more over next year or so for family members. Very likely I will never purchase an iPad.

The amazing part about SP3 is that you connect it to a large monitor it works just like a normal computer without breaking a sweat.

Large companies like MS need to be super innovative to remain competitive in the absence of government protectionism. I am happy to see that Microsoft is back into the game well. I wish them success with the Lumia phones as well.
The most difficult part in your setup is to make untraceable the VPN you run after going through Tor.
The problem is: if you believe this VPN is safe / untraceable enough, why do you even use Tor in the first place ?

The problem is that you, at some point, pay the VPN, and that is very likely to be linked to your real identity somehow.
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What if this wifi connection fails? We're talking about safety equipment here, not gadgets. This is why you wire in your smoke alarms. The AC circuit can take most of the load and test the battery. Ours chirp when the battery is under a certain voltage and the rest of the time they have redundant power.

An infinitely better plan than relying on a wifi connection and an app.

And what happens after it dies (up to 5 years)? We throw away the entire thing?
You and I know that it was just barely feasible, and if only MW had started with a parser rather than a series of regular expressions, we'd have had a visual editor in 2005 ...
> the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where there is substantial evidence that it has caused more deaths than it has prevented,

This claim establishes you either as having horribly terrible reading comprehension, being a liar, or being a lunatic. The idea that the FDA has _cost more lives than it saves_ is so laughably insane that I don't even know where to begin. I guess the easiest place to start is the fact that your "sources" say nothing of the sort: the closest they come to you claim is the the a _specific_ amendment that the FDA made 50 years ago "may have cost more lives than it saved". To somehow conclude that applies to the FDA at large seems impossible for anyone with a reading comprehension level higher than the second grade.
Great paper from where Google took the idea for Pagerank
This is great. I'll try and get these features implemented.
I used that too, however the delay between writing something and seeing the preview render really bugged me.
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I'm using wkhtmltopdf to convert the html to a pdf in the backend. I'll have to look into this. Thanks.
How would they get people to pay for support if the errors were explained in a clear language?
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Ditto for Hoefler's explanation of Stylistic Sets, using Whitney as an example:

http://www.typography.com/fonts/whitney/features/whitney-sty...

As an aside I agree with the article, esp. the need for "a type interface that is consistent throughout [Adobe's] apps".
Yes. If it's just a front end wrapper over SimplyHired APIs, it could list jobs from every location.
Damn, I tried your case and didn't work. I'll have to do some investigating.
It's nothing new for FB. Their main difference from Google was from the start: "we don't have to use algorithms to analyze the users, they fill in our database entrie themselves."
Let me be clear: unless you use end-to-end encryption (e.g.
TLS) the exit node owns you. Injection, modification, even good ole fashion spoofing, all become trivial.

I really need to start a blog on this stuff. There are so many misunderstandings around Tor and "stupid Tor tricks" like this to show off.
Making it took much less time than it takes to smoke most things. The turkey took about 12 hours, but it was the best turkey I've ever had!
The white on red is actually painful.
I prefer my 7 Minute Workout Bash-Script: https://github.com/vlaube-de/7min-workout
So it is much more a problem of AI getting into the wrong hands than AI itself. Which raises the prospect that it may get used prematurely and with weaknesses. This reduces very much the self perfection scenario completely without human intervention.
In turn, the human/AI evil scenario warrants a look at the history of "empire builders". ... long story .... But I do believe that history is not Musk's forte.

And btw, what about crowd sourcing and scaling? Just bog standard human collaboration. I would not underestimate this (history again). These things can be just as powerful as AI.
Google Chrome blocks bit.ly as malware
http://imgur.com/wHu3C0s

The site ahead contains malware

Attackers currently on bit.ly might attempt to install dangerous programmes on your computer that steal or delete your information (for example, photos, passwords, messages and credit cards).