skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire industry is intentionally trying to distract her from the story, to get her to click on something that she didn't intend to, and to install trackers and malware on her computer.

People aren't delivering her the news primarily out of concern that she know or passion that she understand why they believe what they believe; it's for the income that results from convincing her to click on particular things.
I agree, and also enjoyed this page, http://invisible-island.net/personal/not-anonymous.html
> We just took the wraps off 21

Yet when going to that website it has literally no description of itself and demands your email address.

I can see this going two ways:

1. He's honest and 21 is just another way of harvesting email addresses.

2. He's dishonest and hasn't taken the wraps off anything.
It's called Google Ventures, I think. https://www.gv.com
What is the hardware of your servers and how many queries are you performing per second? How is the performance and latency?
This is worrisome especially considering the fact the private information at stake is that of minors.

I personally believe schools are too quick to jump on the "new tech" bandwagon without actually evaluating whether their new shiny apps are actually more effective in teaching than the traditional methods. It's like the CSMP madness x 10. You have schools promoting "one laptop per child" when numerous studies have some that laptops in the classroom decrease material retention. A lot of these additions are just so the schools can look better on paper.

I remember when my high school installed smartboards under some upgrade-tech initiative. Very few teachers actually need the extra capabilities that smartboards had. It was all so they could impress parents with their "state of the art" classrooms.
[Malcom McLean's] net worth in 1955 was $25 million -- the equivalent
of $180 million in 2004 dollars. Asked later whether he had considered
ways to shelter some of his wealth from the risks of entering the
maritime business, his answer was an unequivocal "No." McLean explained:
"You've got to be totally committed."

( The Box, http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691136408/ )
The Colossus telescope is also a nice proposal that fits in the $1bn pricetag, if its proponents are to be believed:

http://the-colossus.com/technology.html

Basically, a 74m telescope made of independent 8m mirrors, with a very narrow field of view (a few arcseconds), dedicated to extrasolar planets and other small FoV astronomical science.
"Okay. I don't really expect any different in this field, but just noting that."

What's being implied here? that because the OP is not omnipotent that there is gender conspiracy?

Broadly making assumptions about everyone within a particular field is as bad if not worse than someone using an incorrect pronoun.

Just as an aside; everyone has to deal with imbeciles in this field whether it be the pointy haired boss or just gross incompetence, it's not gender specific.
Somewhat related is the recent controversy about whether or not to publish a paper that shows how easy it is to produce a variant of avian H5N1 influenza that can spread between mammals:

http://www.nature.com/news/mutant-flu-paper-published-1.1055...
I'm still kind of confused on this. In all the examples of energy expenditure, we assume that the energy comes from ethanol in the first place. The plants aren't magically creating more carbon, so if you grow the same amount as you burn, that carbon should be absorbed back.

That leaves deforestation for planting, which is a problem since human energy use isn't the only source of CO2. But if deforestation is avoided (this is where GMO crops would come in, grow more fuel in a given amount of space) or we implement other methods of CO2 sequestration (impractical now, but perhaps not in the future) we could still minimize that risk.
What a really passive aggressive way of doing what I don't know exactly. What is your point in calling the OP out like this instead of in private, Asshole?
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It looks like they're using nicescroll[1] for "custom scrollbars". Not sure why they felt the need to re-implement scrolling on a mostly text website, but there it is.

1: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/
Corrected; thanks! Note that GitHub hosts this project for any further issues or corrections:

https://github.com/andrewgaul/object-store-comparison
> sizable portion of the populace looking at the changing political climate of the country and extrapolating their self defense rights meeting the y-axis at some point in their lifetime

What's your definition of sizable?
Note that he/she doesn't say which Creative Commons license. It could be a non-commercial license.

Besides, I don't see any attributions to the artists for these images (which is required for all the various Creative Commons licenses).

I highly doubt this theme is legitimate. OP, be wary of using this theme.
("it's just an 80 dollar adapter from the apple store" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhjDX-DUew )
Makes sense. OpenSSL needs time to develop fixes.
Chrome tabs crash once more than a GB or two have been allocated:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22264966/chrome-memory-li...
Firstly I think humans work on much shorter timescales such that even the imminent collapse of a startup is mid-range planning. But what makes your boss happy today is a much more important concern in your decision making.

And secondly I think I get to see much worse startups and enterprises than Mr Blank.

Most of my day today was re-writing some project mgmt automation to save me from nagging. It's similar code I have written in small startups and large organisations - everyone seems to think project mgmt is a Good Thing despite all evidence. Everyone will, if asked, say I should have spent the time today on those important innovations. But they all want their bug trackers filled out correctly each morning, but analyse the projects every few weeks or months.

The feedback loop needs a tight time cycle for it to have a good effect on human beings.

Even in startups, the time horizon for death of company has been months away. I rarely have come across projects in large or small companies that have a deadline more than a year out and usually six months. Most startups can plan on a runway that long.

I think it is something else, a dedication to engineering quality perhaps, to open and transparent discussion, but somehow innovation happens in both startups and large companies. It's just in large companies it's harder to find amount at all the rest.

All of which suggests one other consideration - the people lamenting the golden age of startups are suffering from a survivorship bias - the startup that grew was successful (else they could not pay Steve blank) but that means it was unusual. It is possible that most startups are also lacking in innovation, it's just the people who can lament this to Mr Blank do not see those startups in action and so think the incidence of innovative culture is more prevalent globally than it really is.

Edit: tidy up a bit
What are other companies currently working on the same technology that appear to be more viable?
I can envision multitudes of scenarios where the free proliferation of source software to "anybody" with an Internet connection can be far more deadly.
I'm kind of surprised that `enumerate` isn't defined in any standard libraries (as far as I know) since I need it pretty often.

After a while spent programming in Haskell you would probably develop your own mini-library of functions that make your life easier. Another one I often find useful is

(.:) :: (c -> d) -> (a -> b -> c) -> a -> b -> d
(.:) f g = \x y -> f (g x y)

which e.g. allows you to define the absolute distance function

dist :: (Num a) => a -> a -> a
dist = abs .: (-)

A fun challenge is figuring out why the definition of (.:) is equivalent to

(.:) = fmap . fmap

!
Please reconsider describing your newsletter as "high value", which is corporate jargon and doesn't seem suited to your audience. Instead explain what someone signing up will get from it.
If they're waiting until the summer to publish the preliminary results, this means they probably found some exploitable bugs.

This is an exciting development.
nope - expect to spend most of your earnings for the priveledge ;-)
The javascript-run inertial scrolling is too distracting from the article for me to be able to read it.

Looks like it's nicescroll[0], a jquery plugin (!!!).

If you had a browser extension that allowed you to execute js on each page you visited, the plugin can be turned off if you define `$.niceScroll = true`.

Maybe I should write that one day.

[0] https://github.com/inuyaksa/jquery.nicescroll
Welcome to the Bay Area. Move to Oakland near a BART station or Alameda if you have a car and want to save money - it's a quick drive to West Oakland BART or the ferry terminal.

In SF I like the Inner or Outer Richmond since it's a quick express bus ride downtown via the 1 on California St and there are good restaurants around. I still occasionally see 2BRs with parking in Outer Richmond for $3400 on Craigslist which is a good deal in this market for SF. I also think Brisbane, CA is underrated depending on your commute and goals. There is a Caltrain stop pretty near. Email me if you have any questions about the area or whatever and I'll buy you a coffee when you get out here.

I can say that if you move here with your skill set you will very probably never want for work and can quickly earn more in a few years or sooner.
Microsoft researchers say newest deep learning system beats humans&Google
Yes, 3 times a day. Eat about 6 times a day.
Stove top 50%
Oven & Microwave 10%
Uncooked food 40%

Eggs mostly :), eating for gains!
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As a person who agrees -- maybe you could write a port/adapter for django-nonrel to Rethink?

Also, why not start a new greenfield project to test out Rethink? a something something realtime something geospacial something app should be a fantastic way to kick the tires, since that's one of the things that Rethink does really well out of the box (as of 1.15) compared to other databases (relational or not)
Eh, you're right, that came off as far too aggressive—I didn't really mean it to be. Of course the OP isn't going to be omnipotent, but then why default to male? I know English doesn't have singular gender-neutral pronouns, but I think "they" is acceptable now.

And no, obviously I'm not saying people in the field of CS are all misogynist bigots. I'm just saying it's really, really male-dominated, so defaulting to "he" doesn't really cause problems. I'm not trying to attack anyone (and I agree it came off that way, I'm sorry), I just get frustrated when it's a perpetual thing I run into, y'know? Eventually I can get a little terse.
I have not previously encountered these providers; could you submit a pull request here:

https://github.com/andrewgaul/object-store-comparison
> You're going to spend all that work using "the author"
> everywhere and still manage to get my gender wrong
> ("his")?

Where would you have had the commenter go to establish your gender? You haven't attached your name to the article, but even if you had, it's a name that in many countries is male anyway. Would you have rather the commenter have said 'their'?
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The leaders of large corporations are able to spread out failure, so no one can ever accuse them of it.

For small enough startups, leader failure is visible, so a culture of "no failure" is not possible and failure is viewed as a learning experience.

When the leaders surround themselves with enough yes men and start to believe they are infallible and if there were only enough people to catch all of the pearls of wisdom falling from their mouths everything would be perfect, the "failure is not an option" culture takes hold.

Happens to good leaders and will happen to me if I'm in the position were everyone is telling me I'm right all of the time.
It's just like being in the top rung of kernel developers. You're either world class or the heuristic for selecting top-rung kernel devs broke down, in which case you don't have what it takes and deserve to have Linus yell at you and block your patches from acceptance into mainline.
Nice chromebook.
Seems that Readability/Pocket/Instapaper go a long way toward that goal. Safari has a reader view too.

So perhaps it’s simply a browser or setting to always use the Reader view.

And, fwiw, Medium is doing essentially this. Perhaps ads, which hurt usability in obvious and non-obvious ways, are enough of a detriment that they will trend down. Or, perhaps web ads will be more like TV commercials, where nobody mistakes them for the main content.
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Yeah, doc review attorneys, who hardly make $30 per hr in Manhattan, but are subcontracted to a big law firm, which charges its client $350 per hour. Now clients have realized it, and started to offshore doc review work.

Look at this old web site: www.shitlawjobs.com
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I cook between 3-5 days a week. Mostly the stove, but I do love my crock pot and microwave.
That's really remarkable.

ed: I admit this isn't the most, like, informative comment, but I don't see why it was downvoted.
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I think it's something that's worth pointing out occasionally. Male programmers tend to assume that all other programmers are male. Even if they don't actually think that, it slips out in their language (as in this case).

In this case the error is a little perplexing since the OP's name is "Lexi" which is almost never used as a male name!
You know, if you have a problem with someone and want to say something,fine, but don't be a coward and hide behind a throwaway account. Apparently you only speak your mind when you're sure that everyone around will agree with you, which is pathetic.
Ugh. I guess that's technically true, but it doesn't prevent me from feeling heeby-jeebies.

What's to stop a malicious MITM (using an iframe, say) from fucking with Stripe's javascript during runtime if you're not using HTTPS yourself?

EDIT: turns out that Stripe themselves recommend SSL[1] for the same reasons we both guessed:

Do I need to use SSL/TLS on my payment pages?

Yes, for a couple of reasons:

* It's more secure. In particular, it significantly reduces your risk of being exposed to a man-in-the-middle attack.
* Users correctly feel more comfortable sharing their payment information on pages visibly served over SSL. Your conversion rate is likely to be higher if your pages are served over SSL/TLS, too.

1 https://stripe.com/help/ssl
I've found it far cheaper to go with a rider on top of my renter's insurance than with a device-specific policy (and with better service, since they just deferred to the Apple Store re: repairs, vs making me send it to them like back when I had a computer-specific policy in 2007ish).

I've got my DSLR and my MBP covered for $60/year—I got it mainly for the camera, in case I dropped it in a lake or something, but it was cheap to throw the laptop on it too and then that saved my ass when I spilled water in it.
If your first focus is on the usage of "his" in the response then maybe the next language you should consider studying is English.

For starters you might want to read up on gender neutral pronouns. He/She or his/hers can be used in a gender neutral manner, however traditionally the masculine form is used in English when gender neutral is intended.
The murder rates in the other countries are mostly drug related gang on gang violence. I've spent the past four years in Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile (was in Startup Chile)) and found Chile to be the sketchiest of places for lesser crimes against tourists like non-violent theft, or assault.

I lived in an apartment with three others, and we were all robbed during the 8 months in Santiago, violently in some cases, and non-violently in other cases. I knew lots of others who were also robbed.

The rest of my years in other Latin American countires, including hitchhiking from Chile back up to Guatemala after Startup Chile was completely safe and uneventful.
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Why use more than you need - even if it's free. And besides, even if the energy is cheap or even free, it still takes resources to capture, store, transport, and use energy. So: consume less.
My Chromebook Pixel is hands down the best screen I've seen on a computer, and my work laptop is a Retina MacBook Pro. My only complaint is that it's really sensitive to temporary burn-in; then again, so is every other retina laptop I've seen.
Not necessarily. A poorly maintained, older building may have worse heat insulation or vapour barriers, or problems with mold, or simply less efficient fixtures than modern buildings. Energy and healthcare bills can be substantial, and are borne by the tenants, not the landlords.

What you're really describing is a lower standard of living, not merely a lower cost of living.
The first gen Air was probably the most unusable machine Apple has created since the NeXT acquisition. It also didn't sell well, so it hardly 'created a market'. Only when second gen came out, with much better harddisk, more ports and better chipset, they really took off. The first gen was a good investment into the future by Apple, a testbed to try out new manufacturing technologies and probing the market. I suspect this Macbook could turn out the same, even though it's probably much more usable than the first Air.
OT: I really hate group blogs (more than one author) with byline at the bottom after the content.

The subject of the first sentence in the post is "I". I've no idea who this "I" is unless scrolling to the bottom.

Please place the byline below the title.
I'm not questioning your anecdata, but (to offer some of my own) I have never experienced this and none of the people I work with or socialise with have ever brought it up. I only hear people on the internet talking about it as if it's true of the service as a whole. It definitely isn't.
It's too bad the tower isn't open to the public. I bet the views from the top are incredible. (As evidenced: http://kiehart.tumblr.com/post/74847934277/up-above-it-all-s...)
This has the benefit of also being able to develop some traction with your team before you make huge changes. Even if from day one you have a very clear (and right) idea of what needs to be fixed, it might take much longer to have the trust of your team so that your plan is executed well.
Yeah, I'm just happy people are learning about this awesome thing named after him, however spelled.
A friend of mine has just bought an early 2013 retina MBP with 256G SSD, etc. for that price, through classifieds.
Everything should be S-expressions, not just HTML.
Again the facts simply don't agree with you. Companies have been moving away from SQL databases in droves compared to the 1990s. And why wouldn't they ? Vendors like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM etc have been screwing them over for ages.
Low cost data lakes are the new norm.

Of course I am talking about middle to enterprise companies. I am sure for individuals a typical LAMP setup is still going to be fine. But then again many of those are running their apps in the cloud and hence want a database that is resilient in the face of node outages. MySQL and PostgreSQL are both a PITA to get this right compared to almost every NoSQL database.
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> The idea that the USA will descend to a level where the populous need to take to the street with weapons is largely fantasy

History disagrees. There hasn't been a single government in the history of mankind that has not degenerated to the point where it must be removed. And no, the US government will not be the first. Even if it's a 1000 years from now, it's worthwhile to preserve the right for future generations.
> except maybe pre-med types

As pre-med isn't an undergrad degree in the states, we'd probably find pre-meds with engineering undergrad degrees outscore other majors on the MCAT. The engineering grad is also a bonus for admission (given way too many chem/biology applicants). Not that this happens very often, however.
I agree. Decisions like this move technology forward (for the good or bad)
This is an unusually bad place for this particular category of argument, too.

HN is inundated with people living in CA, NY, the UK - All places where the right to own and bear firearms is non-existent or substantially impeded.
No, he's referring to the fact that some researchers have questioned the mainstream adoption of the amyloid/tau hypotheses -- that the plaques and/or tangles are the cause of the dementia.

It's mainstream, but it is not proven, and there have been some studies that cast at least a little doubt on them.

So the OP isn't using an off-the-wall phrasing, it is very much a question of whether the plaques and tangles are the cause or the effect of some yet-to-be-established mechanism.

There is no better phrasing.

This makes it clear that the mechanism is still a matter of hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry_of_Alzheimer%27s_d...

Anyway, the apparent success of the ultrasound does indeed seem to be evidence that the plaque/tangle hypotheses are correct in assuming these things to be causal and not merely correlated symptoms.
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I'm feeling the same way as Betty.
Earlier today, I died a little when I discovered that they no longer sell the Thinkpad t430u. Wonderful machine.
How do you feel about The Economist's publication style?
`new.target` ;-).

/be
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Thanks. What's Coinlab? The website is down.
Your alternative is mass-transit. If your work is in reasonable proximity to BART, Caltrain, or a Ferry, then check out where that mass transit leads to and see if you can afford to live there near a station and if you can stand the commute. For BART, Albany, North Berkeley, Rockridge, and El Cerrito are pretty nice places to live. For Ferries, check out Alameda.

Pick your job based on whether the work will be interesting. Perks are just monetary compensation where you get no say in how it is spent. Consider what it would cost to match the perks in terms of out-of-pocket spending, and whether or not you would actually spend the money if it was coming from your pocket.

When evaluating non-SF offers, do consider the value of a short commute, a traffic-free commute, and proximity (or lack thereof) to things you like to do.
Update for the interested: you can, indeed, opt out of the fingerprinting.

Are all guests required to use Ticket Tag?

If you don't want to use Ticket Tag, you can simply carry and show a photo ID that matches the name identified with your ticket.

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/faq/my-disney-experience/p...
So, after extracting a large percentage of your liquidity, a CEO should be able to extract talent, intelligence and valuable information as well. Then they shouldn't have to worry about being productive with all those resources because it might make him nervous :(
Hopefully this translates to fixing OpenSSL before disclosing the bug(s)
I believe he was also the creator of Darkcoin.

This was in the news a few months ago, but I guess the hype around 3D printing in gone, because I don't really hear about it too much.
> Property rights are pesky though.

Let developers buy them out. Or theoretically, they could just eminent-domain a bunch of houses.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
Well that's a nice surprise.