skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually can't tell if you're joking or not, because, well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
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This may sound somewhat intolerant, but I knew I would not be able to withstand reading an article that starts with a quote of Zizek. He is IMO a very prolific source of BS, and this I say as someone who has a decent amount of respect for the works of Marx. Actually from personal experience, I am very inclined to think that the author fits the stereotype of a hipster, as do some of my friends, for whom I've endured the pain of learning about Lacan. Hipsters fit a very broad classification, but they do seem to have a common sense of discomfort at the thought of being imitated by the wrong crowd.
Object.freeze(Object.prototype) VS reality
I've seen more junior developers fall prey to this because they were not comfortable writing the functionality. A good engineer balances the two needs and gets it done right. Sometimes that involves contributing to the third party libraries themselves.
I've never seen it happen, either, which is why I tend to jump ship every 12-24 months.

I really don't understand why companies are so nonchalant about employee retention.
He was an early entrant into the tech world, having been a software reseller and integrator, selling custom systems and maintaining them himself.

Then he joined Broadcast.com, a sort of mini-Netflix-but-audio for broadcasting sporting events, which sold to Y! for $5 billion or so dollars.

He then co-founded AXS TV, which was the first HD satellite network.

He may be wrong on this issue. He may be right. But to pretend he isn't tech-savvy is to either ignore his history or to set the bar to an absurdly elitist standard. At the least, he's likely more tech savvy than your elected representatives, and possibly moreso than Tom Wheeler.

Whether this is germane to the discussion is another matter.
So... it sounds like we need to do the exact same thing again.

But you're advocating the opposite. Why?
Do you or I really care abouts boasts from the marketdroids? Cut The Rope doth not a great browser make!

You and I know the truth. There are seminal, world-beating versions of software that Microsoft has released in the past.

And then, after dominance is attained, they touch up the pig's hair and makeup a bit in the subsequent releases. IE7-11 has been hair and makeup and some botox.

I don't know how Microsoft works internally, I only know history. And, reading their statements, Spartan might be a world-beater at least in quality, features, or developer interest. When Microsoft feels threatened, that's when the sparks fly.

I do not EVER underestimate Microsoft. How quickly did they turn that billion dollar Mojang acquisition around, 2 days?
I wonder how this will affect T-mobile's offering with free music streaming services
Dot-com era, more like dot-bong era!
Broadly speaking we've slowly gotten closer to the monopoly status again which is why we are seeing this now.

http://eon3emfblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ATT-Reborn...
Zelda built – and programmed – inside Minecraft
Against the concept of any government whose policies ostensibly reflect the preferences of the population and whose authority is ostensibly consented to by the population, which I believe includes most modern Western nation states.

According to mainstream Western theory (as I understand it), even aspects of policy which are not directly democratic or even routinely voted on by elected representative, like the Constitution, are justified as having legitimate authority because they are consented to by the governed.

In other words, even those "additional regulations" you mention, which I assume include things like basic human rights which are supposedly not subject to reversal by normal voting, are included in my broad usage of the phrase "democratic government."
The King of California (the fact you can believe in something and not let obstacles get in the way.)

Indie Game: The Movie

The Revenge Of The Electric Car

just to name a few...
Could you clear up some notation for me?

What does P(D) mean?

I read that is, the probability of Data being true.

edit: to clear up my meaning.

I mean, it makes sense to me to ask "What is the probability of getting this data, given that the null hypothesis is true"

and "what is the probability of the null hypothesis being true, given this data"

but I don't know how "this data" evaluates on its own. I can't picture that

does it mean, how authoritative is the data? Maybe that's it.

edit: OK never mind I kinda worked it out on my own.
Is this a formal way of saying "curve fitting" a model for a given training set?
>it surprises me that it is popular on a forum relating to startups and technology

The culture they discuss in the article is highly applicable to the home of the modern startup though - San Francisco.
I suggest if showing something off, don't force user registration to be able to see what it is. It's shallow, but I don't want to spend time to register and possibly be subscribed to emails to see what it is.
Actually, the Carterfone decision (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_...) allowed attachment of lawful devices to the AT&T network.
> Sure, we get it, the visual signifiers of the exotic have changed over the last 10 years.

Yep, and are still changing and always will. Has the author even kept up? I mean, Red Stripe? Get lost, it's craft IPA or nothing!
I'd love to hear about the bugs that you encountered. Did you file any github issues for them?
Anecdotally, I've found that most performance hick-ups don't come from computation blocking the ui, but from rendering one part of the ui blocking every other part from rendering.

The solution to that being parallel or async paint/layout, which is something I never hear mentioned (probably because it's a really hard problem).
To be fully honest, that is usually how I solve problems anyway :)

I start with the problem, whatever it maybe, then I 'solve' it by whatever means necessary. This lets me iterate very very quickly over various solutions if needed without much concern about pretty code, even if it is a simple api call, parse json, display something in the view. When I have that working, I refactor, sometimes I rewrite, I make the UI nice, I write tests, etc.

In an interview, I believe you either want to see if the person can code/create and algorithm or you want to see his thought process on solving problems. If the latter, you don't need a whiteboard and a conversation with someone will work as well. If the first, I would do as I mentioned in the previous post. The O(n!) question for me wouldn't be important. I would probably reply "Yes, I know, let me just finish this part"... "Back to the O(n!), you are right/wrong, but seems to work this way, what we can do is change that for loop into a something/something reducing it to O(2n). And rewrite that part of the code.

When I was interviewing people, after a quick phone screening, we would ask someone to come over, we had a quick chat with them (30 minutes maximum) and then had 2 quick exercises for them to do. 1) given a simple piece of code (200 lines or so) we would ask them to refactor it, based on some parameters like future extensibility, not being linked to some implementation, etc. Second one was a written spec, with 3-4 unit test written that would verify the spec, and we would ask for them to write the implementations (max. time 3h, good candidates finished it in 30-45minutes, bad ones couldn't finish it in time). With those two questions we were quite easily 'judge' the competence of the candidate. The ones that did very good would go home with job offers (or would have one when they got home), bad ones were rejected, and intermediate ones, depending on team feedback would be invited back to discuss the code so we could make up our minds.

ps: I actually wrote the exercises and everyone already at the company did them as well and passed.
Suppose my ISP has oversold their bandwidth (which they all, of necessity, do). I'm trying to watch Amazon. My neighbor is trying to watch Netflix. My ISP doesn't have the bandwidth to give us both a good video experience, and so has to choose which of us will get inferior service.

Let's say I only watch video occasionally. My neighbor watches all the time. I consume maybe 5 GB a month. He consumes 1000 GB.

Me and my neighbor have the same tier of service, and are paying the ISP exactly the same amount.

You really don't have a problem if Netflix were allowed to pay my ISP to make sure that my neighbor's video watching gets priority, so he gets a great video performance, and mine sucks?
Here's the breakdown of new accounts I noticed:

4 for NN (not necessarily for the FCC action)
1 against
1 unknown
1 ambiguous

Unless you have a different definition of new account, it is not even close to 'all but universally'.

Edit: I'm still not seeing how your edit applies. There was only one new person I saw that would even come close to 'parroting discredited anti-neutrality talking points'.
Question: suppose a group of knowledgeable engineers and technicians in a city decided that they were going to run their geography's network infrastructure without the supervision of Comcast shareholders. They decide to stage a nonviolent sit-in overnight in Comcast offices to take over the extant and state-guaranteed monopoly of the network infrastructure in that area, and another group delivers food to them until Comcast gives up its claims.

Does Comcast calmly decide to talk to them about them nonviolently, or does it call in mass State violence to get back control?

You assume a separation between property rights and State power that doesn't exist. They're two sides of the same coin. Capital and property rights don't exist in opposition to the State, but in a mutually-dependent complex of institutions and learned practices.

That doesn't mean you have to throw out one or the other, or both. But it's fair for people to try to change the norms that govern relations between them in a way that generates the social outcomes they prefer.
I think they mostly mean the overhead of (de)serialization from/into JSON. It's also hard to pass binary data that way.
If you don't implement the same spec, bump the version. This is not a complicated idea.

Instead of -webkit-mask-image and -moz-mask-image, have -beta-mask-image and -gamma-mask-image. When IE comes along and wants to play with WebKit's implementation, they implement -beta-mask-image and all the sites that use it get IE support for free.
Given that "reverse-engineering" DNA is trivial compared to "reverse-engineering" small molecules or reverse-engineering software, do you have an opinion on what constitutes non-"open source" DNA?
I'm no expert in this, but aren't terrestrial wireless setups (microwave relays, etc) out of reach financially for the average family?
How do they know they've done themselves a disservice, though?

And I disagree with your assertion that signing on the dotted line instantly makes everything fair. For one, employers have far more data on what they're paying for the position already than any candidate. If both sides don't have the same information, it is not possible for any agreement to be fair.
I can relate to this. I researched a bunch of Ruby gems for "feature flags" a while back and didn't find any that worked for our needs, so I wrote the code myself, and it was super easy. On the other hand I'll choose Devise over DIY authentication every time. . . . :-)
At Crate.IO, we've been playing around with deploying our clusters using Machine & Swarm, so this is pretty good use case: https://crate.io/blog/deploying-crate-with-docker-machine-sw...
Watches are things you use in brief bursts. They are no less valuable for that. Like fire extinguishers, the value lies in being available and responsive whenever. I don't rate my bottle opener by how much time I spend using it. Just the opposite in fact.
DQL and Doctrine are absolutely horrific. Not to mention extremely slow both in development time and especially in execution. I will bet money you will regret using them soon enough. I already am. In the apps I'm working on, the time spent in Doctrine is > 20x the time spent actually making the queries.

EDIT: I inherited this system. I'd never use an ORM by choice.
British "middle" class and american "middle class" are really distinct concepts.

I wonder how many people commenting on this thread are confusing / conflating them?
Indeed, converting Flash ads into HTML means they can be far more subtly integrated into the page in a way that makes them much harder to separate out and block. With Flash, there was just one thing to block and most of the ads would be gone.

I have a feeling that the trend towards client-side rendering and single-page apps is partly driven by this too; when the JS for displaying ads is part of the JS for the app's core functionality, it gets more difficult to distinguish and remove.
Depends on whether they have personality disorders.
There are many OSM routers. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing#Developers
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said who?

also SV start-up ecosystem is full of snobbery, just slightly different context/values
Some well structured projects actually do allow you to use only part of the library - in JS-land you can:

require('library/just/this.js');

Of course, it takes effort to make that work, but I'd still try to do it, because if something is confusing me about almost any library then the answer is a quick Google search away. If I wrote it myself I'm stuck.
>i'll make that a lot more visible. //

Appears below the fold in what looks like 9pt* for me; I take it the visibility hasn't been improved yet.

* checked, it's 10px vs 18px attribution line.
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I remember renting my phone from AT&T. Premium colors and touchtone were extra. They would periodically ring your line to measure the voltage drop to detect unauthorized phones.
I don't think it's shallow to not want to give my e-mail address out as a favor to someone I do not know.

I would love to see something like this in the HN guidelines (not that anybody reads those, but...)
They also use different JavaScript engines and that can bite you hard.
This is basically just Pulp's "Common People" in article form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
c'est terrible. Mais, je ne producer un anglais web site du journaling pas. If I ever do the converse, I promise I'll make sure my French copy is comprehensible.
Investing at betaworks
Something everyone is forgetting is the FCC regulation of radio. It was a little like Net-neutrality today. Radio stations needed to be regulated because they could crank up the wattage and overpower smaller radio stations. It needed to be regulated and the intent was to just focus on the infrastructure, not the content.

What happened? Speech deemed immoral is banned from the radio waves and content is clearly being regulated. I fear the same thing will eventually start happening with the Internet, which I personally do not want.
"long distance" charges continued for a long time after the split up. I'm not convinced that the splitup was a causal factor at all with regards to those going away.

(As a reference, my most recent landline also had long distance charges just a couple of years ago. Getting unlimited was cost prohibitive relative to the benefit.)
One of the researchers involved in the original experiment: "The machine was never successfully used by the wild crows. They were always too afraid to get near it and when the mechanics were on, forget it, they wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. Our wild crows never dealt with it and the box itself certainly never, ever saw our captive zoo crows (as implied in later articles). We ended up parting ways with the TED speaker because we felt that he was jumping the gun on the results, and the multiple media articles with false claims really put us off."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1wac0p/howdy_unidan_he...
React JavaScript Tutorial and Guide to the Gotchas
There are plenty of non-ORM database layer solutions for composing SQL queries.
Ubuntu MATE 15.04 is now an official member of the Ubuntu family
Off-Topic: Can you expand on why you feel data caps are "draconian"?
As the post says, this isn't a vulnerability in Keybase; it's a vulnerability in anyone who assumes that people use the same username on different sites.
Citation? I was unaware that the little IEnumerable functions did fusion. If you mean an IQueryable execution, like LINQ-To-SQL, then sure.
Noteshare.io is a platform for creating and distributing online notebooks: lecture notes, homework problem sets, machine shop manuals, collections of poetry and art. You name it. Supports mathematical notation (via LaTeX) and easy-to-enter chemical formulas and reactions. Powered by asciidoctor. Currently in beta test. Join with access code C7092.
> I'm sure the gap between storage and the main system pipeline (CPU-GPU-RAM-etc) will only shrink as time moves forward. However as an interim solution things that acted like hard drives were convenient.

We move ever closer to "Computronium".
Agreed. There's a great documentary on this called "Long Distance Warrior". It's about the MCI court case against Ma Bell/ATT.

Was on PBS a while back, but think it's uploaded as a private Youtube video somewhere.
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And so what if the car next to you on the highway has a transmitter that interferes with your radio tuned to the classical station by blasting dubstep.

Well, I'm already driving out of the state tomorrow, now I know what I'll be doing with my unlicensed FM transmitter.
Scout’s DIY Home Alarm Gets So, So Much Smarter with an IFTTT Channel
""I'm not sure it is, and I'd argue the situation is unclear."

I wouldn't.
What you've quoted is Larry Rosen's view. Larry is a wonderful guy, but his views are pretty far outside the norm for open source lawyers.

To start "If software is licensed under the BSD without forming a contract between licensor and licensee, the extent of any patent grant is at best ambiguous."

This is now settled since he wrote this.
It is in fact a contract, that, if breached, leaves the licensor without a copyright license (causing both infringement of copyright and breach of contract).

So you don't have to worry about this.

The latter is a real issue, but one that most explicit grants don't solve either.

In particular, apache/et al have explicit grants do not cover modifications by others that suddenly encompass patents.

So you aren't any better off there either :)
Absolutely correct. We should be trusting neither.
I find the opposite to be true. I have to learn a whole bunch of new methods and concepts to use an ORM like Doctrine 2 and even a whole new query language for when the basics fail which is most of the time. I can't imagine a way to make development slower than adding an ORM.
"Active government involvement" isn't what we're talking about here, though; merely a rule that broadband infrastructure has to be freely sublet to resellers, producing interesting things like this[1].

Title II doesn't force the government to care about what's going through the pipes; nor did the UK's broadband law. That was entirely a separate bout of moralizing, that was no easier or more difficult to enact or enforce given the broadband law.

[1] https://www.icuk.net/broadband-reseller/broadband.asp
Perhaps we need a fast copy mechanism for js to make message passing a more attractive option? Or make interpreter recognize such cases and do it under the hood/natively. Keeping my fingers crossed for a more functional approach.
NREL Refines Method to Convert Lignin to Nylon Precursor
I suspect that Comcast would call the police. But imagine a similar situation happens in a hypothetical society with no state police, or better yet, in some area where there are no state police available in a reasonable time frame (plenty such areas exist, even in the USA). Don't you suppose that Comcast might have private security guards?
perfect.this is very helpful.thank you
terra linda. again i got very lucky
I'm not exactly sure about this, and in no way does it detract from your point, but would Uber count as a first mover?
Hilarious. I think it's good for an economy to offer jobs, even ones you find demeaning. People are free to not take those jobs. If enough people don't take that job, then they'll have to either offer more money for the job, or they'll have to find a new way to do the job. I believe in markets. I believe in minimum wages as well, but those are not mutually exclusive concepts.

You dismiss this entire line of reasoning as "willful ignorance," rather than ACTUALLY RESPONDING TO IT AND TELLING ME WHY YOU DISAGREE.

Sorry, but that's just arrogant and rude.

I had a completely different problem with kefka, which was that they said "Great idea." As though this concept of turkification were something new. It's not something new. Therefore, objecting to THIS idea on the basis of it "being a new idea" is a bad argument. If you want to reject the entire category of turk jobs, that's ANOTHER DISCUSSION.

See? Two different arguments.

So don't conflate them, okay?
A small tangent, but Michael Pollan's "Cooked" makes a reasonable counter-argument.

By delegating everything that we're not "most valuable" at to others, we potentially end up becoming impotent and un-informed, unable to make intelligent decisions outside our area of expertise. Thus we lose our ability to be good citizens.

He specifically makes the point in the context of cooking, something he argues is so fundamental to our survival that it is a skill all humans should have at least some basic ability to do.

Just a thought. :-)

Edit: you can read some of his argument starting on page 20 of the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Cooked-Natural-Transformation-Michael-...

And reviewed here - http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/04/24/michael-pollan-cooke...
Yes, we should kill the USDA safety measures, as well as the USDA itself.

These rules should be issued at the state level, where we the people can keep a closer eye on it, rather than the federal government.

By the way, how do you like that the USDA is arming itself? Do you thing it's a good thing? Did you even know about this?

http://www.naturalnews.com/045141_USDA_submachine_guns_param...
I'm in the camp that the astroturf is running high right now; but moreover, the claim that "we haven't seen it!!" is also, I think, meaningless and irrelevant.

I keep thinking about that Richelieu quote, "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

My suspicion is, the people clamoring about not seeing the regulations, given a chance to see them, would still find something to object to, because, like a lot of other people here suspect, the point isn't a rational objection, the point is to collect a paycheck by faking widespread grassroots outrage.
and people hate on bitcoin becuase of its irreversible nature, at least in bitcoin it is by design.
Curious how this compares to Capn'Proto? Speed differences? Any functionality that's in one that's not in the other?
If it sticks its a good thing. My optimism is tempered the nonsensical court decisions of recent times.
Android Wear: Data Exchange and Sync (part 5)
There are two problems, and the FCC has solved one of them perfectly.

Problem 1: ISPs trying to charge to (de)prioritize packets.

Problem 2: The two biggest ISPs suck, and should be broken up, and/or it should be mandated that competition is much easier.

Would you be happy if they solved problem 2 without solving problem 1?

Leave problem 2 for another day, and celebrate that problem 1 has been dealt with.
It could have been an accidental outcome the first time. But when the crow then picks up the disc and flies back up to the peak, fails to get any distance on an area with no snow, flies over to a snowy section, and sleds again...