skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I don't care if the product is web embeds or some other kind of tech. It seems to be good to make good-looking presentations and bad at making bullet-points and tables
I've been sharing Seth's Godin "Really Bad Powerpoint" http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf for nearly a decade now (it's been around since 2001, but I was a consultant back then. Tables and bullet points put food on my table) and I'm still hoping someone will help the rest of the world understand. Google Slides didn't achieve that (quite the opposite actually if you've ever seen some Slides presentations)
Prezi is definitely progress, but most people just import powerpoint presentations so it doesn't really work.

Conclusion: I won't judge Bunkr on features or tech, but on what presentations it actually yields.

(full disclosure: I don't know anyone in the Bunkr team personally, but I'm part of the same accelerator as them)
Sounds like you might be their Xerox.
You can check for a missing submodule (folder) in your setup script and print helpful advice, but you can't do the same for the large repo: the damage is already done by the time you get to print instructions. In this case things are even easier: the submodule is just a backup for the thing that bundler will do anyways when running "bundle install".
XMPP is great for what it was designed for. It doesn't work well with mobile, high packet loss & high latency connections. XMPP is talkative and bandwidth intensive - bad for limited data/battery applications. It also wasn't designed for today's 1 person multiple devices reality. Most XMPP servers let you log in multiple times but messages don't sync between clients and sometimes get delivered to the client the user isnt currently in front of.

Also, sending files over XMPP has pretty much always sucked - there are a bunch of incompatible ways to do it and it's always been hit and miss depending on which client your chat partner was using, network topography, etc.

More from the project: https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-why-did-you-go-for-a-cus...
Well one of them will have 100% of the content and the other one 0%...
> Congress can expand or limit this authority at will

Congress can do so only by passing new laws, which mean with the consent of the President or over the President's veto.

> As a Republican, it seems to me the FCC has taken a balanced approach to regulation in this case, so I don't see much negative feedback by Congress.

The Republicans in Congress (and the Republican minority on the FCC, as well) have been fairly consistently opposed to any FCC regulation in the direction of net neutrality, including the previous and much weaker actions the FCC has taken in the past, and have, in fact, already initiated efforts to head this off based on the discussions which indicated that the FCC was considering something in this direction and explicitly deny the FCC authority to make rules regarding net neutrality.

So, assuming the FCC actually passes Wheeler's proposal, I expect substantial pushback in Congress. I don't think opponents of neutrality have the votes to pass a law on the matter over the President's veto, though.
To be honest, I don't care :)

And copying our work was good enough to get them into YC so guess mission accomplished. Hopefully YC doesn't condone this type of behavior.

When the CEO and 11 other employees sign up for someone else's service to copy it, it seems originality might be in short supply.
In a very "Back to the Future meets Cyberpunk" fashion.
Thanks for mis-quoting me.

This is the actual quote:

> genetically gifted individuals having children together ... which is already happening and has been happening for eons ... I mean, that's what evolution is.

That is exactly what evolution is. The fit only mate with other fit individuals, accelerating the spread of traits which make them fit.

With regard to my other statement:

> The smart get smarter, the fast get faster, the strong get stronger, and the inferior disappear from the gene pool.

The burden is on you to prove that intelligence, speed, and strength aren't being heavily selected upon in the human population. I made it as an off-hand comment, but I think it's pretty spot on regardless.
Why would the delivery guy be illegal? Would humans have to be banned for drones to get used?
Yes, and those people in the USA that believe we should do the same are called net neutrality supporters.
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It's perfectly reasonable to assume that the healthy living things that drive up T result in a longer lifespan, but I also don't see any conflict in thinking that it would make you live even longer still if not for that higher T.
> Full Retard, also known as Nigga, You Just Went Full Reatrd, is a catchphrase associated to Kirk Lazarus, a character from the 2008 film Tropic Thunder portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. The expression is normally used as a reply to ilogical or stupid posts, in similar fashion to other phrases like Facepalm or What is this I don’t even

Get the stick out of your ass.
Oregon State University offers a post-bacc program specifically for people who already have bachelor's.
That doesn't make up for their empty retail stores though, unless those stores really are local warehouses/depots in the scheme of their online operations -- is that their model ? Former retails promoted to faux retail/consumer warehouses ? Does having that high profile physical presence drive their online retail, so the costs are worth it ?
We open sourced this a couple months ago. It is similar in nature to Prometheus (So I thought I would post this now) but using OpenTSDB as the primary backend. It also support sGraphite and Logstash as backends. It is largely focused on alerting and includes the ability to test alerts against history.

It is also cross platform - runs on Windows and Linux. Optionally you can use our monitoring agent scollector with it that monitors Windows and Linux as well as common applications that run on them.
Yeah can't wait to be walking around the city with drones flying around delivering pizza and Family Guy box-sets

This future seems positively utopian
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This argument doesn't make any sense. The court ruling that overturned the old rules specifically did so because ISPs were not classified as a common carrier and they deemed net neutrality rules can only be applied to a common carrier.
That's the one case I can't imagine working any time soon - drones in the cities. To-door delivery is a fine dream when you live in a suburb and have your own garden, but in a city? What they're going to do with that pizza? Throw it through the window (if they even knew the right one)? Land on a roof and risk someone else snatching the cargo?

Not saying it's impossible, but I see tons of additional concerns, both practical and related to safety.
Does this mean that (e.g.) specific cities can petition ISPs to block (e.g.) Uber in their area because it's not "lawful?"
One word: cost.
This paper demonstrates that deep neural networks have surprising blind spots when inputs are only slightly perturbed in a certain manner.

I wonder if these algorithmically determined adversarial examples can be fed back into the network in the training set with correct tagging to make the network more robust with regard to blind spots?
I wonder about that too. In my mind at least, there is a distinction between requiring neutral treatment of traffic routing through a network and requiring an operator to let a competitor hook up their equipment in your facilities and sell a competitive service using infrastructure you laid.

The latter IMO is a lot less fair, even though my personal experience is that I had more choices for service when it was done w/ DSL.
Best part of that; they arrested him while his encrypted computer was on, with him sitting there logged in as DPR. Why do computer criminals not have a big red button to smash that self destructs their computer; or at the very least shuts it off instantaneously?
A different kind of fragmentation from the current "use stricter+types";?

Assuming type annotations:

use-directive: Works only in supported browsers. Causes syntax errors in unsupported browsers/clients. Requires fallbacks to prevent those from loading it, and to serve non-type-annotated version.

custom mime type: Works only in supported browsers. Causes no issues in unsupported browsers/clients. Requires fallbacks to serve non-type-annotated version. Compatible with past, current and future web standards.

I must be missing something because I can't see how a use-directive for a non-backwards compatible syntax is any improvement over a custom mime type.

Do you have any ideas?

EDIT: Clarification: plenty "alternative scripts" already follow the <script type=...> route. Typescript, coffeescript, &c. They have plugins which scan your page for those tags and automatically compile & eval them. This is not a new idea.
How big is Alibaba inside China? Just like Amazon in the USA, the go-to place for people to buy stuff online? Disclaimer: I live in Brazil, and I use Alibaba only to buy inexpensive stuff, so that's the picture I have of the company.
LTE seems to work well enough with less bandwidth (~60MHz). However I'm not sure what kind of range you can get with 3.5ghz. Surely at least a few city blocks?
Some of this is very good, and it's a good beginner's introduction, but there is significant misunderstanding about the applications of FRP and the actor model in the area of complex event processing. These are fertile areas of CS research (to which I made some small contribution in the CS department at Yale), not just "loosely coupled ideas" or industry buzzwords. They have real academic meaning, even if the terminology is sometimes co-opted to make unrelated software sound cutting edge.
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If your goal is to see a smaller government then it isn't unreasonable to not want the government to be more effective - in the shorter term that means a more bloated government, but in the medium and long term you get what you want. If you allow the government to become a bit more effective then it may stay around for quite some time, destroying resources (or whatever ill you currently think it does).

Think of it as the difference between scrapping a legacy system and patching it up so that it can run a bit longer. If you can't get the budget to rebuild it from the ground up, you might be better of letting it lumber on until you can.
The difference is in who is requiring this. The site operator/company (such as blog,newspaper,social network) or the central govt. It makes a big difference.
PG IS A BUTT. lying cheats all of them.
In some areas, that might be the case. But then there is routing, provisioning equipment, people to handle customer support, modems themselves, etc.

Not to mention all the old wiring in everyone's house, especially in the city.

Oh and if for some reason you actually do decide to invest in infrastructure, you get to fight local, city, county, AND state government for permits, taxes, etc.

Sometimes government good, sometimes government bad. Haha.
Lost about 12lb.

Also made a decision on what to build for a new SaaS project.
Quads are an MVP in this sense-- I imagine commercial fleets of any type will be primarily 8 or 16 rotor machines.

With just 4 rotors you are pretty much toast if any single component fails, with a well built and properly programmed 16 rotor craft you could theoretically stay up, or at least do a somewhat controlled landing on just 4, assuming opposing pairs.
Just started doing some advertising work for a new client that's in the tech space. 2 weeks in, and we're already beating their campaign goals by 25%+ Feels really good when we find a client we click with and we're able to iterate quickly and get their marketing firing on all gears sooner rather than later.
> When those two individuals have children their genes are fused together by random chance. Do you really think gene technology won't get better than random chance?

Yes. Because what really matters is the restriction of the pool from which those random genes are chosen through mate choice. The overwhelming majority of the time you're randomly choosing between identical genes.

When you start playing with genetic engineering, the whole world is your oyster and your choices are liable to be far worse than random chance among a carefully curated pool. I think genetic engineering will be fantastic for curing specific ailments, but will be a total flop when it comes to creating super humans. Natural selection will always do it better.
Are there any opensource tools that do the same thing( like reek for ruby) ?

I would like to use something like this at work but we don't host code on github.
According to this study referenced by Wikipedia [1] ("Why Men Die Younger: Causes of Mortality Differences by Sex" [2]):

>In her extensive review of the existing literature, Kalben concluded that the fact that women live longer than men was observed at least as far back as 1750 and that, with relatively equal treatment, today males in all parts of the world experience greater mortality than females.

A counterpoint to the point made on higher war related male mortality in the past is that mortality rates for females in child-bearing age groups have traditionally been higher than men of the same age, although this is no longer the case. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Gender_differen...

[2] https://www.soa.org/news-and-publications/publications/other...
Just realized the problem, I had been launching Iceweasel from Openbox instead of the CLI.

Somehow obmenu is launching an older version of Iceweasel (version 13) and I never noticed till now :-/

If I launch "iceweasel" from a terminal I get version 31.

Oops!
I once saw an excellent take on it by a mathematician who was explaining the odds, but finished by saying he bought a ticket weekly.

You can't spend the time dreaming you'll win it, if you don't buy a ticket.

I still don't buy it, but I've stopped being so judgemental on people who buy them.
> I'm curious, how much effect do lobbyists have on the FCC, since they aren't exactly elected officials?

The members of the FCC are all political appointees of elected officials, and, like most regulators, two of their primary future employment prospects after their term ends are (1) further political appointments, and (2) employment, often as lobbyists, in the industry regulated by the regulatory body they currently serve on.

So, while they may not be amenable directly to the same kind of campaign-support influence that elected officials are, there are good reason to think that lobbyists can influence them in ways beyond the persuasiveness of their substantive policy arguments.
That's ok at launch (to cover up how awful web apps paint). But what then? Change forms or screens and it fails again. Or hit a button - no visual indication you hit it; app hangs; screen updates in spurts.

Not all web apps, but certainly a large fraction.
I think we mostly agree because we agree that listeners will almost always understand the sentence as intended and we agree that there's a sense in which the sentence is unsound.

Maybe an analogy is sentences like "going to the store later, want to come?" (although the particular problem is slightly different). One interpretation is that English is becoming a pro-drop language in some contexts, but even many speakers who utter that sentence would agree that it's slightly syntactically unsound for omitting the pronouns (even though it didn't tend to harm understanding). (I'm not positive that this case is analogous to the dangling modifier case.)
The devil in the details is whether or not this will be proactive. E.g. what happens if Comcast decides to block a service claiming that it is unlawful? Does said service need to wind its way through the courts to gain access to Comcast customers? Or does Comcast need to wait until the service is deemed unlawful by the courts before actually blocking?
Donald Duck also did this once.
Apparently I'm in the minority here, but I have some concerns.

1) The problem this fixes is largely non-existent today. The threat of fast and slow-lanes is one I've yet to experience.

2) Opening the door for more internet regulation seems risky. At first, things may go swimmingly, but I suspect regulatory capture will creep up on this industry, just as it has so many others. You may trust Obama and the current FCC head, but if and when the next Nixon comes to power, will you be as comfortable with his appointee?

3) The language "lawful content and services" seems like the kind of opening that could be the death of services like Bit Torrent or Tor.

4) Holding up the old telephonic lines as having been improved by regulation seems specious. In fact, the telephone system has been frozen in amber for decades. Perhaps overregulation is part of the reason we get our high-speed internet via the much less regulated cable lines and not phone lines.
Nice! Now we just need to be able to deploy lunch with `git push table`
Not a problem - Boas has the answers for every 2nd question - for tutorials, we would be asked to do the ones without answers.

Maybe DennisP's idea could do the same thing - only post answers to the odd-numbered questions. Of course, DennisP's scheme would only work for books that actually have decent end-of-section questions, unless people made up extra questions as well ...
Gifasent, gif-based app release
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I already admitted it was beyond my ability...
>Ulbricht’s computer may have been infiltrated—perhaps via the BitTorrent client that was downloading the previous day’s Colbert Report when he was arrested.

Is he saying that he was downloading torrent files to the same computer that he was using to run SR? This guy had enough money to use a seedbox, even if he wasn't running the SR why wouldn't he use one? But specially, if he were running the SR, why would he start opening ports like crazy?

Are there any evidence showing that Ulbricht was careful and paranoid about his online activity. Because it is also possible that he thought that he was invincible and started disregarding basic things like those.
Source that Canada has mandatory line-sharing for cable (not just DSL)?
It's unsafe to torrent on a IP that can be connected to you. Nothing has changed. Carry on.
Michael Ruhlman's _Ratio_ espouses a similar philosophy: that recipes can be looked at as patterns which you can build on.

It's a great idea, especially because it encourages experimentation.
... or else just use chef ...
This architecture seems great for analytics apps, but when expanded beyond that (e.g., Pete Hunt's Full Stack Flux talk) I never see explanations of basic patterns like validation. Where does validation happen and how are errors sent back to users?

For instance:

AddToCart(prod=1, quantity=1) -> Transactionally check that there is still inventory, return error if there isn't, add to stream if there is.
Most Wired readers, certainly. Most Wired readers are also smart enough to stay out of the maelstrom of politically-charged vitriol such comments sections become.

Like you said, Rule #1. I suppose the Wired readers savvy enough to have an interesting voice on this issue are also smart enough to not voice it there.
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Flying from known point A to known Landing Zone B via Multi-Rotor is actually a relatively routine task given current tech as you can buy a 3DR Iris for ~$750 and it will (relatively) reliably do just that. However add in unknown landing zone conditions and things get tricky.
Well, those who have done some iOS or Android development know that any good app requires extensive hacking. Unfortunately this doesn't work in a cross-platform manner. For the simplest applications having a cross-platform framework is fine but if you really want to make an immersive app for iOS or Android you need to go native. Now this is not to say that some applications will work perfectly fine under this framework.
bigger. plus it does way more than just online retail: http://qz.com/206283/all-the-western-companies-youd-have-to-...
Interesting/Bizzare.

It's not far fetched to make parallels from this that if the 'privatized' major corporations aren't above squashing competitors through unfair trade practices and lobbying for biased regulations in the telecom industries....then they would do it in other industries.

And this kills the market.
Will this ban blocking of tethering?
I think there is a large strain of the population who thinks, "If Obama is behind it, it must be part of a Muslim Socialist plot." They listen to radio and TV that feeds this narrow worldview.

For context, I'm neither for nor against Obama - I just think people who take a position of "It's an idea from the other political party so I don't like it" cause more harm than good. (See belief in vaccination, evolution, and global warming as other examples)
As US custom (e.g. the Federalist Papers) and jurisprudence has anonymity so strongly established, it's hard for me to see such a thing here without a simultaneous hot civil war. It would tread on a very important part of our Constitutionally enshrined core political free speech.
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And for that after dinner trick 'git pull tablecloth'.
Cities have plenty of safe places to fly (over streets for instance; or over roofs) but the final contact issue is real. How about: don't come down until signaled by a smartphone, then home in on the gps location.
A tool for organizing and tracking startup growth strategies?
Is there a tool for tracking the growth progress of your startup? Specifically I'm looking for something that lets you set goals for yourself, like a certain amount of users and revenue per month, conversion goals etc, and a platform for organizing and creating a system for marketing and growth efforts to reach those goals.

It would be really cool to see an application that lets you create campaigns like content marketing, PR, social media, and other marketing efforts, set goals for them, track your progress, and create an organized marketing and growth system for your startup.

I envision an application where you can set a goal for yourself, say 1,000 users or $10,000 MRR, and then use the tool to create a marketing strategy using different techniques like content marketing and social media. The tool would help users create a timeline and daily checklist of tasks, as well as track the progress of your goals and the effectiveness of each strategy on reaching those goals.

Does anything like this currently exist?
I couldn't imagine if Romney was in office right now...
Good luck with learning Ruby On Rails. I'm actually following the same path. Here are some of my "achivements" for Jan 2015:

* With my spanish knowledge I started to give some courses to help people "hablar español". Funny experience.

* I finally decided of which language I'll learn in 2015: Chinese. I though Japanese I'll be cool as well, but I heard Chinese seems easier for beginners... huehue

* I'm actually keeping learning Ruby On Rails with a really intense learning flow. Which helps me acquire some sort of "coding discipline".

* No more cigarettes. Really proud, really.

PS: If you found some grammar errors, I should apologize. Unfortunately, my native language isn't english.
Dammit, I hear about that book just about every week. I think I might finally cave and read it.
Why is that too bad? Do you think that the rules would stand of that caveat weren't present? Do you think that ISP's should not have the ability to block illegal traffic? What happens when they receive a court order to do so, yet doing so would violate FCC regulations? Don't be naive; that exception must be there, and out changes nothing in regards to the current situation.
> The internet wouldn’t have emerged as it did, for instance, if the FCC hadn’t mandated open access for network equipment in the late 1960s. Before then, AT&T prohibited anyone from attaching non-AT&T equipment to the network. The modems that enabled the internet were usable only because the FCC required the network to be open.

DAMN right.