skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not an exhaustive analysis. I recommend to look at risk vs reward.

The risk of getting caught is essentially zero: just use Tor and VPN
via an 'unfriendly' third country to send fake threats to yourself, or
get a friend to do that for you. Clearly the police is not going to
investigate, because all these cyberthreats are obviously not
serious. The upside on the other hand ... Sarkeesian made how much
last time by playing the damsel-in-distress? Wasn't it over $100k?
That's quite an incentive. And then there is the political effect: the
mainstream media, for various reasons, will
automatically sides with the damsels.

I spent quite a lot of time in activists' milieu and I smell attack
techniques in a Leninian mould, see e.g. Alinsky's "Rules for
Radicals".
It's this sorta wording that has watered down the word "racist" and "islamophobic".

This is from a Kurd/Iranian with a muslim background living in Sweden.

This thinking is also conventionally and conveniently used by white relativist liberals living in predominately white neighbourhoods.

Not saying you are. It's just it's what I've experienced.
Thanks you for the thorough response. Really valuable and thanks for backing us. I would love to stay in contact and talk more in detail about the suction cup, software etc. Please feel free to send me an email: hi@senic.com and we can take it from there.
Like me! Except for the brilliant part.
People can't trust that the site is actually serving the right JS crypto implementation. It can be broken at any time, which would allow the site to intercept communications.

It needs client-side code to do it correctly, for example, something like the e2e Chrome extension.
Love the idea! I'm always looking to see if any gesture recognition controls will take off for computers, this seems like a very good one as it doesn't involve raising your hands to any excessive degree. There have been gesture devices in the past, but they all seem to want you to raise your arms and wave them about in large-ish motions. Good to see a device that I can still rest my elbows on the desk and just wave at! I can see this becoming like a 2nd mouse to the left of my keyboard, a power device for certain apps.

I will just add one slight tip if I may. The first two sentences of this page don't really explain what the product is:

"We (YC S13) just launched our product “Flow” on Indiegogo. It’s a programmable and intuitive wireless controller that that gives you high precision and speed."

I was left wondering what it was a controller of? An RC plane? A games console? Industrial machinery? Just add "controller for your computer" and it'll read a lot better. It's not helped by the fact that the gif below only shows a hand waving over a circular thing with no visible feedback from a computer screen ;)
Nothing about this seems plausible to me. I do research on LED technologies though I can't speak about this specifically because they don't seem to have released any technical details whatsoever, but that's part of what makes me so skeptical. The panels they present are so bright, so uniform (both in colour and intensity), so thin and flexible–and they claim they'll be able to mass produce them too? Whatever they've got, I'd be very surprised if they manage to scale it, let alone for it to be "in the wild around the middle of 2015". I'd be very happy to be proven wrong of course!

I think in cases like this photoshop mockups (assuming that's what they are) can do more harm than good for setting expectations that might not be realistic.
I'm sure they do – what we're trying to do is have a more holistic approach by looking at all apps!
I think there is a problem with the way Google's algorithm scraps not-so-popular webpage to display the text for these kind of semantic questions. Usually the results are okay when it scraps text from Wikipedia,ESPN etc. But sometimes it just gives bizarre answers from untrusted sources.
And there's an awful lot of truths here. That's why I'm here.
Nop :)
It's a great example of the GIGO principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
>The crux of my argument is relying on methodologies to write good software or to guide a design is pointless.

I already got that. It's already in the title of your post. You're just restating the title again.

But in the body of the text, you gave your reasoning and arguments attempting to explain why it was pointless. I'm pointing out that your reasoning (e.g. "different definitions") does not support your title. You need to construct a better set of arguments to convince people of your thesis.
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Remember, though, that the AT&T group Vladimir came from, and that informed his work, was much in the mold of linking theory and practice. Where "practice" (at that time) was working on the handwritten digit problem -- the now-cliche NIST dataset.
"None of Idaho’s most-searched dishes are built around its most famous crop, the potato. We choose to assume that Idahoans know their potato preparation techniques and don’t need online refreshers."

Damn right we do. :-)
I don't think that we're really capable of judging the stability of someone's existence based on their creative output and a biographical sketch written by an apparently sympathetic blogger.

That goes for assumptions that intervention by people with a much better understanding of a person's current situation can't improve it as much as the assumption that they could or should.
That we can certainly add very quickly – thx for the great suggestion.
Done. Thank you for your feedback!
What's your category exactly? Happy to look into it for you.
You're sure you'd spend your last days being completely unlike you? Then maybe you aren't living that honest a life.
> Facts remain facts even if we don't like them.

It depends not only on your definition of "facts", but on the interpretation of the same, and how that affects policy and decision making. For instance, these too are all "facts".

"Poor people have lower IQ's than rich people"

"Americans have lower IQ's than the Japanese, Italians, Mongolians, British, Austrians and many many others"

"More men have high IQ's than women" (more men in the top 10%)

"More men have low IQ's than women" (more men in the bottom 10%)

"As pirates decrease, global warming increases"

The real point, and something that Paul completely missed in his essay, is that we now analyse these things with a greater degree of historically-informed sophistication. Your statement could just as well read "On average, when given a written test invented by white men over 100 years ago, a sample group consisting of historically enslaved, disenfranchised and under-educated people of African heritage in the United States performed less well than a sample of their European-descended counterparts". Indeed, I'm sure that's true. The leap though to racism, which is making blanket assumptions about people based on skin colour, is completely fallacious.
I really want more things like this to exist, but I can't say exactly why or what I would use them for.

I hope this thing will succeed, but I can't imagine what the exact market is or whether its big enough to sustain this project.
Ah, the naïveté of youth.

Here's the thing about methodologies: anyone can use them. Any methodology that is popular enough for you to have heard about it was developed by one or more smart people and solved some real problem. Between now and then though, countless cargo-culters have jumped on the bandwagon and misapplied the methodology to the wrong problem in innumerable ways. Maybe they implemented it wrong, maybe they didn't have applicable problems, maybe they are as dumb as a box of rocks but have carved out a comfortable niche in a fat corporation somewhere. The point is, a methodology is meaningless out of context.

Hell, all ideas are meaningless out of context. In every day human life we tend to share a lot of context with those around us, in terms of software development—ie. the stuff of pure thought where the only limit is logic itself—we share considerably less so. When you're writing a web app you are living in a wholly different world from someone writing a Mars lander ROM, yet we call both of those things "software engineering". If you want to have good ideas and be competent you have to apply whatever ideas to the context you are in. Being smart is not about having the best ideas, but about evaluating how ideas apply to and interact with systems. The hardest thing about entrepreneurship isn't figuring out how to write software to do X, it's how to choose X such that a cascading chain of seemingly random events translate into market traction.

The horrifying thing about software development is the limited intelligence of the human brain to begin with. From a certain perspective we are hopelessly stupid and incapable of truly elegant software design, but on the other hand we are the only entities we know of with the capacity to write software at all! All this is to say you need to embrace ignorance and subjectivity, and simply pledge yourself to continual improvement. You do this not by latching onto ideas and filing them into good or bad buckets, but rather by processing a lot of them, applying them in practice, and seeing how those with more experience than you do the same.

If your curiosity outweighs your frustration over a period of decades, eventually I guarantee you will be at least a competent software developer, and maybe by then ageism in a tech will be something the kids laugh at like televisions with twisty knobs.
i've thought about that for myself with some neighbors but I feel my schedule would be too hectic to be a consistant driver or passenger. Having a network available would offer me the flexibility every morning to drive or ride with zero commitment.

This may work out for others though.
Nice example of a bug caused by weak isolation. FWIW, Postgres has an interesting implementation of "serializable" which takes far fewer locks than MySQL, so may give you better performance while retaining the same isolation level.
Happy people are wrong to think they're good at empathising with others
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there would be forces acting on the cage (while field inside would be pretty undisturbed). Thus the cage would probably be stopped by the field too.
Fascinating piece of tech if they actually manage to deliver on it. It'd be amazing if there was some more information on it though, the only stuff I can find is them explaining that it's LEDs mixed with ink between two conductive layers and an additional protective layer. Then a lot of fancy mockups that don't tell me anything about the tech they're selling.

Even if this vastly underdelivers, it might do away with the inverters needed for el-wire/panels which would be neat.
Works anywhere there are a lot of people on similar route, not necessarily commute.

Drop someone off at airport, pick someone up who's going near your house or anywhere along your route.

Same for big game, weekend rush to the beach communities, other events.

It's a good natural counterbalance for 'surge pricing', since whenever there is big demand there are probably people on overlapping routes.
Formally speaking, both Descent and Minecraft (inspirations for each respective intro) are based on cubes, but I don't think there are many more similarities. In any case, thanks for that blast from the past!
As for the North Dakota entry, I have no clue and have never heard of "Cookie Salad" until this article. This sounds like something you tell the new folks about after you warn them about wild jackalopes.
That's disingenuous though; the vast majority of people who want to spout "On average, blacks have lower IQs than whites" are not doing it for genuine reasons. They want to feel superior or they want to hand-wave away inequality.

Blacks on average have lower IQs because they are on average poorer, have less access to education, etc. If you test 5 yr old children and control for income, parental involvement, etc then there are no differences. So the more nuanced detailed version of that statement is that the intellectual potential of blacks (on average, in the USA) is not developed as highly as it could be, due to socioeconomic factors that are very complex, but so far as we can tell are not due to any underlying differences in potential.

Your method of making the same statement is most often used as an explanation; the equivalent of "that's how we've always done it". Mine is a more full and correct revelation that it is economic and social factors wasting the potential of bright young black kids and is something that can be and should be corrected.

It's called context kids, and no amount of complaining or smug sperglording can paper over the actual underlying motivation, despite any technical correctness. It's like complaining that black people can say the "N" word or pointing out the 1 out of 10,000 times that some black people were racist toward a white guy. I can only say "no shit sherlock". The vast, vast, vast majority of the time, if things are unequal, it is white men who benefit.
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I'm a Windows user, and even I'm not able to use Neovim yet, I'll try to contribute. If you are an experienced developer or inexperienced but wanting to learn, visit the GitHub repo and check out the readme, contribute guide, and finally the Wiki to learn more.
Interesting idea. Constructive criticism from my end as a potential user: I always try to get a sense of what is "included" in the app when I download, but after searching through your site for a few minutes, and visiting your page on the app store. I'm still not sure, and I didn't bother to download to check it out. More pictures would be the first step and more explanations of your features

What do you mean by "check-in"? My locations? Me checking in to the app to see how im doing?
When I "connect" with friends and family, what does that entail? Showing my mood for the day, seeing there? Just knowing they to are using?...

Just me!
Interesting idea. Constructive criticism from my end as a potential user: I always try to get a sense of what is "included" in the app when I download, but after searching through your site for a few minutes, and visiting your page on the app store. I'm still not sure, and I didn't bother to download to check it out. More pictures would be the first step and more explanations of your features
What do you mean by "check-in"? My locations? Me checking in to the app to see how im doing? When I "connect" with friends and family, what does that entail? Showing my mood for the day, seeing there? Just knowing they to are using?...
Just me!
Really loving these ipython visualisation articles!

There was one about detecting bubbles in liquid for the purposes of reducing spilling that was very interesting

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/soft-matter/trackpy-examp...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the enormous effort that you and your colleagues have dedicated to improve the quality of the language ecosystem and to create an open and friendly community.

Your work is showing the results and its really inspiring.
Horrible headline.

Based on the contents of the article, the problem is not with open source, it's that Mozilla doesn't have a team of reviewers waiting around to "bless" add-ons like Google Chrome does.
you haven't seen PSAs urging the public to look out for and report unattended packages and suspicious behaviour?
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Answer below on what is does. We address some specific demographics so it's not necessarily something useful for you if you're not in mobile dev/product/marketing.

"Are you running a bunch of Android and iOS devices, installing apps, subscribing to push notifications in them and then gathering data that way?"

That's the basic idea except that we use virtual machines mostly, combined with some hardware components.
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As a tall person, I actually rather quite like it!

I think that life is more enjoyable when you adhere to some simulacrum of Postel's Law:

TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

That is, when I am conservative in how I interact with others, and assume others are trying to be the same with me, it is rare to experience any sort of personal friction with them.

I guess this also relates to my belief that I am primarily responsible for if I am happy or not.
Looks to be fixed for me.
It means that he needs help, even if he doesn't need offers of help, even if he doesn't need more help.
Light comes off of it. So it moves, flows and such like the water but it also has to render the lighting effects relative to all that. I could be wrong though, I know the water is difficult to render as well.
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I totally agree.

But here's the thing: if you want a secure platform usable by the majority of people, the best choice (by a lot) is ios, followed by osx. The app store is certainly imperfect, but hopefully that will get tightened up over the next couple years.

Relatives who've been hacked ask for how not to get hacked, and my best answer is the above: use ios, particularly for banking. For a laptop, use osx and buy programs either from well known brands (adobe, microsoft) or buy app-store apps.
As per another post above:

> It doesn't support CMOV, MMX, SSE, AVX, and all other ISA extensions the popped up after the original Pentium.

I'm not saying it's not useful, it's just not quite as useful as having 60 cores that can just run MMX/SSE/AVX.
This is reminiscent of Dan Savage's campaign against Rick Santorum, the outspoken anti-homosexual US politican. (completely NSFW: google 'santorum')
You can always work from home if it is your fancy.

It sucks if your employer owns whatever you do offsite, though. Specially if they do not pay overtime.

You see... do not attribute to sloth that which can be explained by envy.
Thanks for this interesting input. I don't have much experience with classifiers, nor if they work well in JavaScript. I already implemented FAST and BRIEF in another project, but this solution was neither scale, nor rotation invariant. ORB seems to be a better fit for that. How would you implement your idea in JS?
That's a commercial rider on your personal policy?
He has a YouTube channel where he has some "5 Minute" code walkthroughs where he analyzes randomly selected code and its context, and tries to explain it. The few that I've watched had a fair amount of rambling, and since it's random, it's obviously not a structured overview... but still interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q
The parent may be (I have no idea...) referencing a line from the (hilarious) "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" [1].

The entry for 1987 is:

"""

1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.

"""

[1] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
Agreed that it's not a perfect solution (you still have to trust that I'm not brazenly serving up backdoored crypto), but it's a lot better than nothing.

(And practically speaking, before building Cyph, Josh and I pretty much avoided having to use encryption except in cases where there was no alternative.)

But I definitely agree that we'll have to come up with a clever solution to this problem. Off the top of my head (haven't thought this through — could be totally stupid), we may be able to do something clever with html5 appcache and notifying users when the hash of the code changes (and giving them the option to stay on their known good version).

Of course, once we have our native app out this issue will be trivial to avoid for people who really need to.

Edit: To clarify, I should correct you on that we are definitely performing the end-to-end encryption from the client — anything else would kinda defeat the purpose of Cyph...
That's my only point: that there's correlation between his condition, and his rants, therefore we don't say, "That guy?? He 'espouses racist ideology'!!* Screw 'im!"

* (actual comment in this thread)
This looks cool really cool! I like the site, however it can be hard to read the text with the flashy background. Perhaps have the flashy background scroll up with the first "panel"?

On the crypto side of things, are there any plans to create native clients? While I don't doubt that you guys are trustworthy, it would be nice if I didn't have to trust that the javascript I was being served didn't change between visits.

All in all it looks good, albeit with some trust issues...
Still a better love story than Urbit.
Swing by the south Pentagon parking lot around 5PM and you'll see people lined up on the sidewalk looking for rides, and cars lined up looking for riders so they can take the HOV lanes on 395. You may not have been in the right place at the right time to see it, but it's extremely common in the right places.
> It'd be amazing if there was some more information on it though

I suspect that there is little information on it, either because they are not entirely solid on the information themsilves, or that they do not want to risk letting others make similar products before they have a chance to hit market, or some combination of the two.

I hope it is the latter, as that would mean it is a lot more likely this will ever come to market.
I simply pointed out that the person who uploaded to virustotal certainly didn't realize it also had Belgacom domain name, username, and a list of all the processes running on the machine.

> Yes, just like FBI assassinating Kennedy because Oh snap cuba!

I have no doubt where this came from, despite not having Gen. Keith Alexander's email in the logs.
I agree. Although I believe it might have many uses in other areas, in Photoshop I am fastest with one hand on drawing tablet and other on keyboard. Having 3 modifier + all one key shortcuts/tools under my fingers is the fastest way. Specially in digital painting I might sample color, change size, paint, pan, erase, sample, reverse color, zoom; new layer all within 10-20 seconds. (alt; alt-right click pen; b; left click on pen; e; alt; x; alt+left click pen; ctrl+shift+n)

brush size? even faster than flow is alt+pen right click and hover pen on tablet.

Edit:
I would thin it would be really neat music controller. I could see use in there(specially in party's)
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> Monday night the American Left looted and burned in Ferguson, Missouri. Tuesday morning the same American Media that stoked that violence is now licking wounds received with the revelation that the American criminal justice system runs on facts and science, and not Don Lemon's feelings.

...Yeah, looks pretty much like garbage to me.
There are, but I contend that most of what is being hyped makes no sense. What are the applications that can truly benefit from this model according to you?
Except a team of Googlers doesn't "bless" add-ons. They may have some automated scripts, but it is pretty easy to add code to your add-on that does things that your add-on was not advertised to do (malicious or not).
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