skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry you had a bad experience with the developer.

However, there is no such thing as the "Meteor marketing team". Meteor doesn't employ any marketing people (yet). Anyone talking enthusiastically about Meteor is just genuinely excited about it.

I'm curious to hear specific examples of esoteric concepts that you had a tough time with. In my experience, Meteor is the opposite of esoteric and actually very easy to work with, even as application complexity increases. If you can outline your issues, maybe we can try to address them. Thanks!
The harm for the owner in leaving the lot vacant for a decade is opportunity cost. If he is in a valuable spot, it would be advantageous to sell and just do something else with the money.

Imagine high land taxes in the middle of the desert. Is it an incentive to build? Quite the contrary.
Defending Darwin
As Taleb points out himself it is in fact possible for the Wilson paper to be wrong even if the math is correct. This is exactly what this: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour... paper demonstrates to be the case.

Quote:

"The misleading conclusions all resulted not from incorrect math but from overgeneralizing from narrow assumptions or parameter values. For example, all of their models implicitly assumed high relatedness, but modifying the model to allow lower relatedness shows that relatedness is essential and causal in the evolution of eusociality. Their modeling strategy, properly applied, actually confirms major insights of inclusive fitness studies of kin selection."
Indeed. Not to be too snarky, but if fish oil increases your longevity it may also increase your risk for cancer, simply because you'll live long enough to get one.
OMG... that's so funny! Good people at Praetorian, you must keep that there if only for the giggles.
> They grew a bit more organically than this, however, so the structural result is very noticably different.

Perhaps this is similar to the often stated reason for 'failed' democracies: they need to grow rather than be forced upon a population?
The Economist’s digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertising
Over AGE 50; you think you have it tough?
1.) The system is bolixed aka broken as a matching system.
Even the romance matching sites seem to do better.

2.) Solve the problem. Start a startup. Non-profit independent matching. One key problem is I have an Excellent
resume BUT ONLY ONE VERSION and like the attractive feamale
....

3.) here is the analogy. It is ONLY an analogy.
very attractive female attracts TOO MUCH ATTENTION for the
WRONG KIND OF PURSUIT vs. super programmer Female attracts
too LITTLE attention for the RIGHT KIND OF PURSUIT.

4.) Simple proof. IT RECRUITER is looking for six years
experience in new language - yet the language was invented
four years ago.

5.) Simple proof. economics. THIS ANALOGY is from book
Flash Boys on HFTN - Wall Street High Frequency Trading
Networks. IT COSTS NOTHING for the machine algorithms
run from RUSSIA, oops... or other areas to insert 'offers'
to test the market. THE cost, which the industry,
government, stakeholders, agents, FILL IN THE BLANK
is BORN BY YOU on the bottom.
In the stock market, it is the long term small investor,
supposedly the backbone of the USA economy.

10.) In network engineering terms, ANALOGY this is called
legalized DOS Denial of Service. Think of it as
posting your name and FREE BICYCLE - just don't want it
on CRAIGSLIST. You must call within one week for the
sweepstakes for I AM NOW A MILLIONAIRE.
Highly effective Denial of Service email bomb that
takes out your mailbox.

12.) It is now time for the IT recruiters to talk and
say HABITS of APPLICANTS that cause severe misery.
This will allow the cycle of misery to continue to flow
in the infinite loop
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I retract my passive-aggressive link!
Desalination is incredibly expensive. At this point, they aren't completely out of water, as the crisis continues desalination will become more viable (expensive or not, people need water to survive).
The vast majority of medical researchers don't have a deep understanding of statistics. The ones that do understand statistics comply with the "universal expectations" of their editors and reviewers.
It's technically possible, but not at the right prices. California has been supplying water to agriculture at below market prices.
Welp, I guess we're going to have to pack up the modern world and go home then. Because many of the major advances in science thus far have been widely rejected by credentialed people at first only to eventually be proven correct.

First Semmelweis, then Pasteur:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Conflict_with_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

Copernicus and Galileo vs a lot of other people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Controversy_ove...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

Einstein and relativity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_rela...

I could do this for days if you'd like. Credentials are worth something of course, but credentials don't have metaphysical powers that prevent a person from being wrong once they have their credentials.

EDIT:

That's not to say I necessarily believe that these folks are correct and Dawkins is wrong. Just that the credentials don't mean as much as people think they should. It's not like getting a PhD prevents you from ever having a bias ever again. It'd be great if it was true, but it's not.
"used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
The paper itself is pretty readable and interesting even for a layperson.
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There are already buildings built over railways (as well as many railways tunnelled under things). But they're much safer (hardly any accidents, trained people who know evacuation routes etc) and the noise and smell isn't as bad as it would be for a road.

The examples I think I've seen are hard to verify on Google Maps, it's a brown-grey mush, and in any case they're all odd buildings rather than a 'tunnel' created out of buildings.
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someone has to protect our poor farmers, everyone loves farmers.
We need to do a few things. I agree on shutting down the NIMBYs. It's zero-sum activity that hurts young families and contributes to the generational screw-over that Generation X and Millennials have experienced.

We also need to block nonresident foreigners from buying real estate here. They can stay in hotels. Until housing is cheaper than 0.35% of the median annual income per SF (at that level, you can afford 1200-1500 SF on a median income) it is a crime to let these nonresident foreigners (often laundering dirty money) buy properties that will go uninhabited for 11 months each year.

Finally, there's a capital allocation problem. Look at Silicon Valley itself. It takes in passive capital from all over the country-- teachers' pension funds from Ohio, firefighter AD&D funds from Georgia-- and distributes the job-creation in a tiny geographic area: Silicon Valley. Jobs disappear in Ohio and Georgia, while NorCal booms. Now, the passive capitalists would be fine with this if that were a working investment strategy. It's not, though: VCs have been losing money for more than a decade. The concentration of funds into the Bay Area (which makes that area unaffordable, because housing creation is always slower than job creation) has more to do with feudalism than any sound investment policy.
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People have had water for a fairly low price that nobody really cares about it. Now they have to care, but it's not the end of the world (yet). Solar/wave powered desalinization will look a lot more interesting when they hit bottom. Unfortunately nobody will move before it reaaaaally hurts them.
I've been hearing this on the news for at least a year now, and they're just now imposing restrictions?
I-290 in Chicago runs through the Old Chicago Main Post Office: http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/wls/images/cms/124812_128...
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A proper KDF is more important if you are trying to break a specific user's password. It will simply take too long to try any reasonable number of attempts. However, in the event that you have a large database leak individual salts become just as important. When looking thousands of users, unsalted hashes allow attackers to start with the most common passwords used and compare them to the entire leaked database in one try.
Why not supplement with hemp seed?
I am the author of pgcli. (https://github.com/amjith/pgcli/)

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What's odd is that Manhattan's population density has on a long timescale been declining rather than growing, despite quite a bit of construction. In the 1900 census the population was 1.85 million (density ~80,000/sq mi), and it reached its peak of 2.33 million (~100,000/sq mi) in the 1910 census. Since then it's on the way down, with some bumps here and there: 1.96 million (~85,000/sq mi) in 1950, and all the way down to 1.54 million (~70,000/sq mi) by the 2000 census, having lost a full 1/3 of its population since 1910. The 2013 census estimate does put it at least on a growth trajectory again, to 1.63 million, but it'll be a while before it climbs up past 2 million again at that rate.

The main reasons, as far as I can gather, seem to be: 1) lower-class residential towers are being replaced by higher-end residential towers with larger units and fewer people per sq ft; 2) even given the same units, people are living fewer to a unit (fewer children, fewer multigeneration households); and 3) commercial real estate is crowding out residential real estate.
It's something that someday will come with clang modules support: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html#includes-as-imports

With proper caching it could make local build systems obsolete for many purposes. Maybe it would be easier then to delegate module building in style similar to distcc, but less fragile.
Ruby gems are a good example, especially gems that provide hooks into an API.

Even if you're just adding another parameter to an existing endpoint (which is largely a copy/paste exercise), it's a great way to learn the structure of a gem, learn your way around API documentation, and check out others' best practices and unit tests. I contributed to the official Instagram gem during my first few weeks of learning Ruby.

https://github.com/Instagram/instagram-ruby-gem

Prereqs: Ruby, API basics
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Not a stupid question at all. It's kind of like the question why did we have to program computers in Assembler (which was great fun, BTW) and not in high level languages. It wasn't feasible. Assembly coding did continue for quite some time in the interest of performance but once the proverbial turn is taken, there is no looking back. That's where networking is now.
What we still call (rigid) "protocols" should and indeed can become freestanding application code
See my paper "Tearing Down the Protocol Wall" at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yitzhakbg#background-publication...
I don't wish to be confrontational, but in my view, taking other people's property without their voluntary consent is wrong.

As I understand the last paragraph of your comment, you wish to see the owner of the vacant lot forced into a situation where he had to act in some way other than how he currently chooses to act.

In other words, you want to substitute your judgment for his, when it comes to the use of his property.

Again, I don't mean to be confrontational, but this is how I see the situation.

How do you see it?
As a Canadian, I hope you don't let him stay. Another great entrepreneur moving over because of visa trouble is a clear win for us.
That title can just as easily mean that Costa Rica's electricity is 100% renewable as it could mean that all of Costa Rica's energy is 100% renewable electricity. Given two equally correct meanings, choose the one that actually makes any sense in context.
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Why desalination isn't the answer... http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/why-isnt-desalination-th...
Because the real problem is inland, so as well as desalinating the water (which is somewhat easier said than done, though I agree in principle), it would have to be pumped inland and mostly uphill for millions of miles.Our state water infrastructure is ancient, we just last year secured passage of a $9m bond to overhaul it, despite the vociferous objections of the farm lobby.
All that does is prevent Google from slurping OSM into Google Maps and not giving anything back. I don't see how it prevents it from being "usable and useful". If anything, it makes it more useful because if everyone contributes to OSM, it means we're not constantly reduplicating effort.
Here's an article that goes into the complications and controversies of desalination in California. http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-large...
a mere 1 req/s from 100 hosts

I specifically set a request number that would be below most thresholds.

That said, a one-time request from 100 hosts would still use 100 CPU-seconds of work. Other than preemptively blocking hosts (such as all of AWS), there is no way that a "per-ip attempt throttle" is going to catch a single request from 100 different hosts.

If you had a server with maxed out with 8 intel E7-8870V2 CPUs (15 cores @ 8 CPUs = 120, $32k server cost just in CPUs), and set for a work factor that gave a normal "1 second" work factor, then someone just DOS'd you for most of a second. On a more reasonable 8 core server, that DOS would last 12.5 seconds (actual CPU time, not including the fact that they are stacked on top of each other). And on a dual core system that's almost 2 minutes.

If there was any other part of a website that could be DOS'd for so long with so few requests, then most people would also suggest the application had "far more gaping holes in it." Moxie's point above is that the advice presented is to just put bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2 in place, and no advice is given at all on how to deal with these issues that come up, or even that they exist at all, and thus systems end up being misconfigured or work factors relaxed to a point where only a false sense of security is gained.
That would be Warp[0], which adds ACID transactions across multiple keys.

[0] http://hyperdex.org/solutions/
These plants seem to be self-sustaining (they even create extra energy) and can provide potable water from the oceans:

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/03/15/first-kind-wave-energy-f...
His intention to acquire another H1-B is emphasized. What percentage of H1-B holders are founders who have directly created jobs held by Americans, like PJ has? If PJ were here under a different visa program more precisely tailored to his situation, what sort of hero would the PACs put forward for adulation instead of PJ?
I was literally going to post the exact same article. Up until I read this a few days ago, I would have jumped into a debate with "desalination! just do it!" -- turns out it's much more complicated than that.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Streaming-Twitch-on-your-Gop...
Why isn't california using the same technology people use for almost every other scarce resource? Markets. If you raise the price of water, people will start using less. I suspect there are some political reasons why this is not happening.
Picking Python over Ruby for a workflow mapping application?
I want to build in a shortest time possible, a robust prototype of a new kind of work management web application. My invention aims to humanize nonsensical data driven getting-things-done processes like Email, Task Management, Work Management, Projects, Processes, and the like. My invention deals with organizational maps and non-hierarchical networks.

I have not coded for many years (like over 15 years) and happy to consider myself ignorant and a willing learner. I a Bachelors in CS and Math, and was a novice hacker of C++ and C# when I did code.

Personality: played with Mechano and Lego when I was young. I love writing poetry and creating art. I like German cars over Japanese cars.

Important ideas for my software:
-Incremental computing
-Stream processing
-Functional Reactive Programming
-Dataflow Programming
-Real Time Updates on viewscreen without hitting refresh

I do not need huge data analysis (for now) but lots of just in time coordination updates to multiple parties.

I am considering Ruby/Rails and Python/Django and leaning towards Python. I will code for the first year and hopefully at that time hire chief tech to take over and focus on other things which are my strength. Why don't I hire a programmer from the get go? I just don't want to be handicapped at this time in materializing my idea.

How should I think about this problem?

Thank you for your voices!
Eye-witness testimony is mostly bunk and is often not trusted in court. It's been shown over and over that eye-witnesses can be manipulated (even without their knowledge) and are not reliable.

No, you can't trust your own perceptions. You can only really trust that you are having a perception at this moment in time.
I was actually wondering about CO2 sequestration per flooded unit of surface of forest...
The farmers are getting no "Federal" water. I don't know what exactly this means -- presumably the state too supplies water to it's farmers via various water-works projects (your 2nd link indicates that farmers relying on state supplied water will get 20% of their usual quota this year) and farmer's also possibly have other sources of water like wells, bore-wells, etc.
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Always wanted this. Wanted to build myself but never happened. Good job!
Mozilla.org is always looking for web developers to contribute and beginners are always welcome. This wiki page gives an overview of how to get started and a list of "good first bugs."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webdev/GetInvolved/mozilla.org
No. Passively listening only requires dumping whatever flies over the interface of some router. Done! Very hard to detect. You can also just scan for keywords and only start dumping traffic when triggered.
With SSL, you cannot retroactively decide that you'd want to dump traffic. You have to MITM from the beginning.

That's point 1.

Point 2: Detection.

Actively MITM-ing an SSL connection requires you to (if the CA Chain-O'-Trust works as supposed) give away the fact that you own a (valuable!) compromised CA authoritative cert. You would want to use such a cert for a targeted attack, not waste it on blanket surveillance and get found out (and called out) within a couple of days.

If you don't own a root cert but rely on vulnerable implementations, or implementations such as this one which do not rely on the CA infra, same story. You do not want to waste that on blanket surveillance and get caught. You'd save it for the /special occasions/.

SSL-MITMing everyone, all the time, as in blanket surveillance, is unfeasable even without CA chains. You'll get called out on it by people that do check cert fingerprints once in a while.

This is a different kind of scalability than the computational order-of-complexity one that you seem to be thinking about.
Yeah, why isn't the price of water being raised?
Like git, Linux, Mercurial, and gcc development, they have a patch-based code review flow, but MQ is not needed to produce the patches that they expect. You can do the same without MQ, and they will never know the difference on their end.

I actually rather like email-based code review. It's really easy to keep editing and rebasing your patch while people comment on it. If Mercurial Evolve picks up, this will be an awesome new way to work, especially if Kallithea or Bitbucket grows the features to support it.

However, current Mozilla development, AIUI, is moving towards ReviewBoard, although I have heard a growing mutinous group in Mozilla who just wants to chuck all homegrown solutions and slap all of their code on github like everyone else.
Apart from seeing IRC still being mentioned quite often here and in other tech-oriented places, and a bunch of nostalgic feelings, this might be the final thing that is going to get me to pick it up again were I left it like 10 years ago: no idea this existed, but seems really valuable. Linux/Windows client recommendations anyone? Servers?
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