skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two problems here: approach and motivation. Most of the schools, as you correctly notice, are places where undersocialized youngsters are warehoused so that they don't get in trouble and don't cause trouble themselves. For the worst of them, they are just a temporary place to store them until they are grown up enough to put them in prison. OTOH, on the student level many of them lack any motivation to learn, and create an atmosphere in the class which is not conductive to learning. But schools can be different - I've witnessed it myself, within the same school even, where one teacher can take you in a year to knowledge which will still serve you decades after, and another may tread water for years and produce a negative outcome.

For example, I had very good teachers in math and physics (and I am still benefitting from their work) and spectacularly bad teachers in English (not my native language) - which I remedied by outside study both in the family and commercially and consistently was way ahead of school requirement, the school was pretty much useless for me, and in literature, which had profound negative effect on my appreciation of literature that took me quite some time to overcome.

I don't know if there is an approach that allows to solve it in a systemic way. I think if somebody invents it, he or she would be a benefactor of humanity on the level of Fleming, Pasteur and Borlaug.
Start-up founder hacks Jason Calacanis' voicemail to get attention for his pitch
Where Da Vinci succeeds is where Gibson fails, I think. Da Vinci is so fantastical that you can accept it for the stylized ideas they are. Gibson, on the other hand, is close enough to reality that it seems off. I mean, there's fax machines in his world. It's not like Da Vinci where mechanical flying machines are so far off from reality that you can suspend disbelief, it's more like Verne where it's close enough to reality to make it feel silly now. After all, there are still submarines, just not like Verne's. Just like there's an Internet, but not Gibson's Internet.
Somehow reading the founder's perspective, makes this look worse for me. There is a threshold after which "hacking" stops being cute. Do you really want to start your relationship with a lie?
Quoting from that link

> This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get.

What matters isn't what it was meant as. What matters is that in doing this you showed your poor judgement.
Apparently he later changed the last line from "This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get" to "LEGAL DISCLOSURE: I have neither attempted to read or plan to read any voicemails," in the version of the cache I have, which is a telling edit.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20...
Since there wasn't yet a Wikipedia page, I've started one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover_%28software%29
I think in terms of IT ( development including) they have always circled the drain. But other departments which are the majority of the companies function keep it afloat.
Yev from Backblaze here -> If a disk goes bad we put the pod in a read-only mode, which limits the stress on the pod, and allows restores to continue. We then swap the drive, usually fairly quickly, but because we designed the system around failure, it's usually not critical, though we keep an eye on each one.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/Top1311-2.jpg

http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/Pkl0702.jpg

http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/Pkr0702.jpg

Does that work for you?
Sleep! Mindfulness-based meditation is easy to learn and even if you have trouble focusing at first, it's still helpful for getting in touch with your stress/anxiety level (so it doesn't creep up on you over months and years next time). Finally I'm sort of an introvert but I've learned being social is so important to my happiness and sanity. Anyway, good luck!
If only users actually changed their buying behavior on the basis of security or privacy. Until that happens "users don't care about security or privacy" will continue to be the default since economically speaking it is absolutely true.

What users care about as revealed by buying behavior is: user experience, user experience, user experience, user experience, cost, user experience, and user experience.
Thanks for the advice. I think not pissing people off is a great point. I sometimes get mad and thanks for reminding me of that.
Totally agree. I think the key will be to find right values I can provide in a limited timeframe to target customers before getting down the path of completing version1.
Always a great idea to document your crimes on a website. This guy is an idiot.
I'm more interested in why the default behavior of internet users is so often to blame the victim.

Does it shift the danger of the world squarely onto those who couldn't ever possibly be you, as your internal narrative has you as perfectly informed at all times?

I'm a security-conscious engineer that's been using Apple hardware and software for two decades. Today, my computer took a bunch of private text and uploaded it without my knowledge or consent, completely contrary to my expectations.

Does it threaten your worldview to consider that perhaps I didn't do anything wrong?

(To answer your question directly: I would be annoyed but it wouldn't be the end of the world; I'd simply restore those files from backup as I knew where they were being autosaved previously. That's an entirely different ballgame than silently uploading them.)
Yev from Backblaze here -> Glad we could win you over :)
The logic is that they have already lost the knowledgeable, price sensitive customers. Raising the rates would allow them to extract more value from the rest, e.g. old people.
Planjure: A* and Dijkstra's in Om
Yev from Backblaze here -> We are about to have one on order...maybe a whole cabinet full ;-)
So, the actual argument I made was that just because more people were likely to die from drink driving (probability-wise), it didn't mean flying the RC wasn't shockingly irresponsible.

Note that I didn't agree with the claim that this specific flight was irresponsible, just that the fact that more people might die from drink driving is basically irrelevant.

So no, the burden of proof is not on me.
Greasy and oily foods definitely seem to make acid reflux worse for me.
Andrew Auernheimer ("weev") was sentenced to 3 and half years in jail for something that was (IMO) far more innocuous than this. Terrible move here.

Not only against the law, but this "hack" involves a highly likely creep factor for the person on the other end of it, not quite as creepy as walking into your house to find someone harmlessly hanging out in your living room, but in the same general ballpark.

To top it all off, it isn't even a technically difficult feat.
It's interesting that this got posted so soon after the Plover stenographic keyboard. I watched the YouTube presentation for it and one of the audience members was asking about the potential for applying that keyboard functionality to his iPhone, to which Mirabai Knight's response was maybe if Google Glass takes off, and that there would be potential to type on your legs or something. I would have liked to see what this guy thought about Osamu Hirai's (Perky author) iKKGon keyboard for iPhone:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/iKKGon-iPhone-en.htm

I'm not understanding exactly how this works, but it seems like he's limiting the number of letters to the minimum required to get an auto-completed word.

Also interesting note, the Plover/stenographic keyboard article title states 240 wpm, and if you look at the 5 strokes/second link here there is a claim of 300 wpm. However, I'm sure it's difficult to compare wpm in Japanese versus English.
For the same reason that it's still controversial that chimps go to war even with not threatened. Some scientists see findings like this as an affront to their closely-held beliefs about humans and human nature.

And since these beliefs often have political implications, human tribalism takes over. What begins as a benign debate over, e.g. the validity of research methods, often devolves into controversy that's actually a proxy war for some tangentially related idea.
Just click on the lighter color. Fast
The whole appeal of the cyberpunk genre is that weird mix of archaic and modern. Steam, computers, POTS (and faxes) as well as space residences, AI and human-AI relationships all in one mash up. That's what defines the genre!
Apologies. That struck a nerve.
Have Jedis created a new 'religion'?
warning: sample in polish (as the host dn)
Thanks very much! Plover also has its own Wiki: http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Main_Page
Not strange at all. Raspberry Pi is vastly more popular than any other competitor, perhaps even all competitors combined. It doesn't really matter that it's slower or that it uses an old instruction set.
Here's my thoughts on unicode:

Options:

1) Use UTF-32 everywhere. When space is an issue, just compress it - especially on disk. If you need random access to a string, use a seekable compression algorithm on it on-the-fly. Alternatively, use a compression algorithm with checkpoints and maintain a sorted list of where checkpoints start and how far along in the associated decompressed text you are. (Effectively rolling your own.) Note that this method doesn't work well with writes.

2) Use an interesting variant of a rope. Use a rope, but a) keep track of "logical characters" instead of code points - what unicode calls graphimes, IIRC, and b) have each node have an encoding - and restrict that all characters within a specific node have the same width. This allows for pretty much everything being sublinear. If you allow a bit in a node for "special" nodes (i.e. reversed, lazy-loaded, slice of another node, that sort of thing), reversing, among other things, is actually truly O(1). Bunches of optimizations here - you want to fall back to a "node" that's a flat array for small strings, you want to potentially use overlong encodings internally where appropriate (i.e. if you have 1 1-byte character in a bunch of 2-byte characters, that sort of thing), you want to have some encodings that aren't fixed-width (for things like reading a bunch of bytes from a file), you want to have an encoding that's "unknown" / binary data.

Thoughts:

1) Why on earth does any higher-level language still use byte or codepoint counts for length? And why don't lower-level languages at least have a way to count / index by graphimes?

2) I do not like UTF-8 / 16. It's effectively bad huffman encoding. It's an attempt to save space, but it doesn't even do that well. About the only advantage of UTF-8 is that ASCII maps to it reasonably well. And it has a bunch of disadvantages, chief among them being that if you write a single miltibyte character, you potentially have to rewrite the entire string.
You are probably correct about political correctness, but it's not that easy.

As a start: There is proper definition of intelligence. A friend of mine currently is evaluating current standard tests for emotional intelligence as part of a midsize project (I think several Ph.D.s and various bachelor/master thesises) and from what he tells the state for the art is more guesswork then science.
>Scripting AoEII maps with a decent scripting language has long been a dream of mine

Isn't the current AI scripting done in Lisp?
He ruthlessly destroyed his competition using unfair/shady/sometimes illegal business practices are we're all worse off as a result.

He's also from the very beginning been strongly opposed to free software.
What's the correct terminology? What do you think the major tradeoff in this cheap (?) engine is?
This is a very vague question with lots of facts not useful for a Bay Area person for giving you some inputs.

1.SF Bay Area is a very spread area. Just a quick Google will give a fair idea. (For example from San Pablo to San Jose span around 50 miles).

2. It will depend on where you will work. I believe initially you will prefer to a location close to your work place. If you have driven before in US and are willing to buy a car to make a long commute then it is possible to stay at a distant place with cheap rent from your work. But prepare to spend at least 1 hour each way on the road.
Else you are going stay near a BART(Bay Area Rapid Transit) or Bus route.

3. In every part of Bay area there are some bad pockets/neighborhoods and good areas. You have to spend a bit more if you want to stay in a decent neighborhood. There is a good reason why those areas are pricey. But if you spend enough time looking around you may be able to find some good place at a reasonable price near to your work.

4. Before renting any place go to to Yelp, or apartment reviews sites and read other people's feedback. It is not always reliable. But if you are seeing an apartment or housing having several negative reviews in a row then you know there is something wrong with the place.

Hope this helps.
In their 2.0 blog post, they said they had a guy spending 1 day a week replacing approximately 10 drives. I would imagine that consists of identifying the drives and pods, issuing software commands to power them down, physically replacing the drive(s), then re-assembling and powering the unit back up and then bringing the storage software back online and issuing a rebuild command.

They only had 9,000 drives back then.
I once spoofed an email from the president of a security company to their HR guy to give me a job.

They must have known immediately but played along. That was fun, though no harm came of it.
But you seem to be defining the genre by its failures (for lack of a better term). I agree that Snow Crash seems ridiculous now, though I would argue that's less about the tech and more about the weird action/tech combo he tries to pull off (think Daemon). Is it possible for there to be cyberpunk that doesn't seem dated? I doubt a lot of people would now argue that Jane Austen seems dated.
What part doesn't scale? The only thing I can think of that might be a problem is the boundary layer thickness through the intake/diffuser.
Are organizations that are caught emailing PHI in the clear not punished for this? Or are the damages insufficient to change the behavior?
So it does what alcohol has been used to accomplish for centuries, except maybe there's a trade-off in certain side effects?
20% per transaction is just too much.
"Job search".

You don't even have to lie if you don't want to. Every time I've gone looking for a job without a direct contact I could tap, it took several months. Looking for a job is a long slow process that takes maybe a couple of hours a day, even if you really work at it. It takes much less if you don't particularly push. It can be pretty much a vacation if you want it to be one.
except for letting loose the tiger in the first place.
Wow, that was a pretty stupid thing to do. Why do people think that this is ok? Also, of all people to do it to, Jason is probably one of the easiest to get through to if you have something legitimate to say to him. Just go to one of the myriad events he throws and you're bound to get a glimpse. This is just childish.
First, start working the hours that they actually pay you for.

Take a personal day.

Understand that you have a business relationship with your employer. Mentally, you have to be ready to tell your employer that "I'm sorry, but I'm really not in a position to subsidize your business any further."

If you haven't already, contact the colleagues that left and connect with them (add them to linked-in, etc). Ask them if you can use them as a reference, see if they have any job leads. Get the contacts of the people you still work with - before they leave.

Do not waste energy trying to fix the company you work for. You just can't. Yes it sucks but that is reality.
I'm not scoffing, its a cost. The only reason to do a backblaze is to save on cash.

they are using really wide raid6 stripes, with horrific rebuild times. no hot swap ability.

put in anotherway: with 100 pods, you're going to be loosing 10 drives a week (on average, sometimes more) it takes 48 hours to rebuild an array (although I heard it was upwards of 72 hours, without load.)

so every week, you have to powerdown upto 10% of your storage to make sure you don't loose future data. or you can wait till you've exhausted all your hot spares, but then you're in the poo if you loose a disk on power recycle.(yes raid 6 allows two disk failures, but whats to say you wont loose two disks, as I said they are using large stripes (24?) so there is a high chance of a raid rebuild failing)

hotswap is awesome. running low on hot spares? sure replace online, walk away happy.

to make a backblaze work you need to keep more data in tier 1 storage, which means higher cost. (even if you use a software layer over the top to do FEC you still need at least 1/3rd more disks. )

Then there is the woeful performance.

if you want JBOD, with large scalability, just look at GPFS. The new declustered raid is awesome, plus you get a single namespace over zetabytes of storage, with HSM so you can spin out cold blocks to slower cheaper storage (or tape)

It blows everything else out of the water, ceph, gluster lustre, GFS2 & hadoop. Fast, scalable, cross platform and real POSIX, so a real filesystem which you can backup easily.
This is where they are flying:

http://mvc-apollo68.nl/
https://goo.gl/maps/hYYQg

That's somewhat uninhabited for The Netherlands.
This. No matter how much written material you give this guy, he's not going to read more than 5 pages. So get some Balsamiq mockups, then walk through them on video.
Here is my experience with Dvorak and AZERTY (the French variant of QWERTY). I learnt AZERTY as a kid, then learnt a French dvorak layout, and then learnt the US dvorak layout, which I now use.

I have totally forgotten the French dvorak, but not AZERTY, because I feel I haven't learned those in the same fashion. AZERTY I learnt by hunt-and-peck (I was around 50-60 WPM when I switched), the dvorak variants as touch-typing (as the key labels don't match what's written on the keyboard, so you have to do it this way). So my feeling is that if you used to hunt and peck with QWERTY, dvorak will not overwrite this; otherwise, there's a risk.

This is also what I think is the main benefit of learning an alternate keyboard layout: force you to touch-type properly. Some people manage to move on to proper touch-type on a keyboard layout they learnt by hunt-and-peck, but others don't, and the level of comfort achieved by not looking at the keyboard at all is really, really worth it. Glancing alternatively at the keyboard and screen is stressful and causes typos.

By contrast, if you can already touch-type proficiently in QWERTY (but really touch-type), then I think the benefits of learning an alternate keyboard layout are less clear. My impression is that it saves you maybe some muscle strain because your hands move a lot less, but I'm not sure of how beneficial that is.
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I'm sure you steno folk with your impressive WPMs must be pretty good wiki editors :)
Hmmm, your answer was still helpful. Please don't get me wrong.

I guess I'm just used to functional style where data === code to a great degree.

I'll take another look at Haskell when I finish my current (yuck) Java based project :-)
I was thinking about air force blowing up lightly armored rocket artillery. Also drones make natural target for automatic radar or lidar aimed weapons. I suspect there will be a race to make drones nearly invisible to that form of targeting in a few years as armies around the world equip them.
Leads the conversation to many taboo topics around intelligence, e.g. racial differences.
It's something that kind of looks like lisp, but the only thing it has in common is the parentheses. You basically set condition→action rules, one level deep, with a limited amount of global-only "variables" (goals). I think the amount of conditions and actions per "rule" is limited, too.
Handles it like a champ IMHO.
Yes, I am aware that that is how they chose to implement it.

It was not necessary to do it that way and the exact same user experience could be achieved without the data leaving the room. Continuity only needs to work within bluetooth (and therefore wifi) range.

If Continuity didn't require bluetooth (e.g. for picking up a document on your mac that was started on your phone left in the car in the parking garage) then this design decision could be defended, at least a little bit - but it doesn't work that way.
While the misnomer is cringeworthy, I also find it disappointing that you didn't extrapolate that he was wondering if parts of the engine ablate quickly. While the sample size is too small to be conclusive, it suggests that you are prioritizing zinging him over having a discussion.

Could weight be saved in a jet engine by making parts of it ablative? I should think this would play havoc with clearances, so it would only be applicable to parts where the exact dimensions aren't too critical, which I suspect would preclude everything near the compressor and turbine.

Also, ablative heat shielding wouldn't apply to anything not exposed to high heat, so this would only apply to the combustion chamber and everything downstream of that.

EDIT: This makes me curious about the pressures in jet engines. They range from ~pi for early WWII engines (Junkers Jumo 004) to almost 40:1 for modern ones! According to pv=nrt, modern jet engine compressors can get pretty hot, apparently. (Disclaimer, I am not an engineer!)
That has nothing to do with C. You would need to do the same thing in any language on any platform.
won't affect the performance for checking emails or messages. for task such as browsing and streaming over mobile, v7 is much more optimized.
Sam Altman responding.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/526448975797186560
Single metadata node still? Seems like a good way to manage a large amount of data, and then lose it all.
Also, here's a transcript of the PyCon video for people who don't have time to watch it: http://openstenoproject.org/transcripts/pycon-2013-video-tra...
That's true, but the point is that this correlation could be pure coincidence, or at least not causative. (If it actually occurs to start with - it would be interesting to create a poll and verify whether most reputed programmers are indeed more musical than general population.)

Many programmers have stereotypical geek interests like RPG, Star Wars etc. but it doesn't mean that these contribute to their programming skills in any way. Being socially awkward doesn't make you Sheldon Cooper :)
I like the guy, but he doesn't understand the definition of luck.
> we're all worse off as a result

Who is we? Who are you speaking for? Are you speaking for me? Are you speaking for millions of people his foundation and charity work touched?

Step out of your little bubble and leave your childish comments there.
Support (try calling google) and analysis (how to implement, how it could fit within their existing processes/systems). Your commitment (much like the pig regarding breakfast, you're committed to this). Speed/flexibility (how quick can a bug be fixed, how quick have new features been rolled out). Fit/complexity (less bells and whistles means less ways to go wrong, aka one thing really well). And I'm sure there's more... but I'm out of coffee :)

Developer's often see price as a big factor when it's not. Will the solution work and will I get promoted/fired for picking a solution are often far higher on the list than price.
This fact — that your phone is silently syncing third-party email account inbox metadata (sender address lists) to a major US cloud provider — is being downvoted.

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