skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. You outed me. That's exactly the point I'm making. I'm claiming Adderall has no noticeable effects. I'm also claiming caffeine does help people stay awake and that pot doesn't give people the munchies. While we're at it, morphine doesn't help with pain. I am taking the hard-line position that all well tested drugs have no efficacy.

Seriously, I don't think people doubt mind enhancing drugs exist. We're skeptical of manufacturers and people who believe they've "researched" nootropics because they've read a lot of stuff on the internet written up by marketing guys, PR men, and researchers willing to do shoddy research for money.
It is true that while you have tried repeatedly to imply there is no viable alternative, you have not explicitly ruled out some so-far unmentioned alternative. Nevertheless, you were very explicit when you made this argument against one class of alternatives:

"Sure you could do it that way. But it becomes exponentially more complicated because you need to either stick to one specific implementation of one specific language runtime, or you have to deal with explaining them all. Neither is ideal."

So it is reasonable for me to ask if the example you asked for changes your mind on this issue.
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This is what Facebook is doing, should they fall into the same category?
So to continue my (somewhat strained) example from above... I contact Google and offer to continue using Google Apps, but only if they let me do it for free.

I think in this case they are saying, "if you want to be in Google News, you can be, your choice bro." I just can't see any problem with that.

It's just like robots.txt, except German law made it opt-in instead of opt-out. It was opt-out, the law made it opt-in, so, well, now they gotta opt-in! Google really was a neutral 3rd party to the whole fiasco... in this case.
I don't understand why they pivoted to a Yelp model instead of just trying to grow check-ins and market their data to businesses. For at least the US market I imagine Foursquare is the best dataset out there.
It's only been ~3 weeks or so since I started to accept subscribers, so it is still too early to really say, but there are a few. My plan is it build it up over the next few years.
Hi, co-founder of OAuth.io here. We have a full OAuth.io + Stormpath integration already

https://oauth.io/home/user_management

and the set up is quite straightforward if you go in our User management API documentation.

http://docs.oauth.io/#user-management-api

We are built on stripe so we could do something there to fulfill your need.

Thanks for your feedback and hope this helps,
Great idea! That was my first programming environment, in fact. Hooked me good!
I am not a fan of any pre-compiler. But, this looks better.
I don't like "do while loop" though. I am not sure what prevents the author to make it something like:

do while(a):
print('This loop will run at least once')

And how about using ES6 generators for Python's generator?
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The GNU project is still significant, if less so overall, but HURD is the least important element since Linux-libre works fine.
Another great Zuckerburg quote for the internet history books..
Sorry to hear that, but hey! You get to walk out with bruises and patches from the front-line, that's the medal of honor and you get to tell the story....."kids, this earth exhaled us out when we tried building X..." well at least thats what I will tell, I've been in your shoes two or three times.

Also, need help with those things to open source it? like working on it before open sourcing it! I'd be happy to help.

Also, it looks cool, very cool to me.
What really matters is how to divide a problem into separate and loosely connected parts. I have my own home-built version too.
> Android would be "impaired" if it shipped a general-purpose mail client rather than one designed specifically for Gmail?

Android includes (or at least used to include) a generic email app called Email.

> It would be "impaired" if part of the setup process was to select an app store[0], a browser[1], and a maps app[1]?

You can have all of those, and more, with custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod, or even with AOSP alone.
Amateur cheesemaker here - coincidentally the research side of commercial cheesemaking is already doing very similar things because separating milk into its constituent components is more profitable than actually making cheese. I attended a class about a month ago where the message was that in the future we won't make cheese from milk, but rather we'll start with just those caseins that have been extracted and concentrated. The thinking is that even the water in the milk may have other commercial value apart from just the cheesemaking, or at a minimum can be captured and used in lieu of needing an additional water source. Wish they would have gone a little deeper on the science in the article - they mention chymosin for example, but as far as I know the vast majority of chymosin used in commercial cheese production today is already vegan (at least in the US - Europe not necessarily).
Dividing an app into modules/parts as T3 does is great, but I prefer React's ability to compose and simplicity.
Big respect to Siracusa. I have enjoyed the reviews, the level of details and commitment to bring out the best in those articles.
Looks like it's registered users, as of a year ago.[0]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/foursquare-surpasses-45-milli...
So then you would have the same level of trust that the system works to produce repeatable desired results. E.g. With Bitcoin, if you do trust it, you are trusting that the system works to produce repeatable desired results. The fact that it works through (in theory) a resilient distributed consensus algorithm is an implementation detail.

Amazon happens to achieve their consistent experience through top-down hegemony. I believe that in time a distributed software system will provide an even more reliable and consistent experience in many cases.

For example, Amazon's warehouses and level of automation are often regarded as a key competitive advantage. But when you're buying a good or service from a neighbor who lives within a couple square miles, distribution doesn't get much more local (and scalable) than that!

Craiglist pushes the problem under the rug, they wash their hands of it and say "buyer beware". That was the only possible solution in 1995. 20 years later we are starting to figure out, you can actually do a heck of a lot better, even without a central authority or billions of dollars of infrastructure.

I think that's the hidden message in the nascent "sharing economy". Not only can individuals successfully monetize their assets or go to work for themselves, but once the tech catches up, they can do it directly and in fact way more efficiently than any centralized system could ever dream of.

By the way, I'm not saying there's no place in the world for Amazon. But in particular making connections to qualified service providers are low-hanging fruit for a p2p distributed system, and longer term much, much more.
An elderly relative of mine fell for that. Oddly, it changed my opinion of them - the amount of pride he extracted from it was more than worth the couple of hundred dollars he paid.
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Well, it's not abandoned, just Mozilla isn't really leading the charge now. If more people adopt it, perhaps they could be convinced to fund development once again.
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Completely agree - it's an incredibly easy first step in understanding the abstraction of code -> results.

I've actually had the privilege of walking a recently released inmate with 0 computer skills through the process of writing their first lines of html. The excitement he experienced seeing "hello world" transform just by changing it to "<h1>hello world</h1>" was incredible. I think it boils down to realizing the power of - to put this in the simplest terms possible: "typing some jargon and making things happen."
If you want a more intuitive mechanical system, see the Boeing/somebody 1st stage engine recovery plan that uses a heat shield and parachute to land just the engine, not the whole stage body.

Don't forget the barge is also actively controlled to keep it stable. If you have sufficient control systems, you don't need mechanical aids. Just like humans can walk on two legs every day our whole lives using our brains, so we don't need four for "extra safety".
Yep. I've used it for a few sites because it's simple to implement and saves me the hassle of making my own registration system. Actually, I've used it for every site I've made requiring login, except for one which sadly couldn't use it (targeting the Nintendo 3DS web browser, which is legacy WebKit).
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I agree they are vastly more dangerous because they are illegal. But you know, alcohol is legal, and people still binge drink, fall in ditches, have random unprotected sex, get pancreatitis etc... and it isn't even addictive. I'm just trying to say that even if heroin were legal, it would still be unacceptably dangerous, because at the end of the day it's a highly addictive general anaesthetic. Even with 'vastly less' problems, which is your conjecture, there are still significant problems. Anyway, we both clearly think that harm minimisation is a good policy.

Yes, that's right, if someone is in pain, the respiratory depression is less. This is evident to anyone that prescribes opioids regularly or looks after people with chronic and acute pain (as I do). It is also evident that the ever escalating doses and withdrawal symptoms demonstrated by recreational users of heroin for example, are not manifested in people with pain. So that's why I use the word 'fundamental difference', because the coupling between dosage, physiological response and behavior is completely different.

Lots of people don't enjoy taking opioids, they get nausea, nightmares, constipation etc, or it just doesn't work for their pain. I know this because that is what is reported in controlled trials, and because people complain to me about these side effects all the time.

Reference:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8867254

More general overview:
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/6/747.full

(Glad you are truly interested, but in the time it took to write your sarcastic comment, you could have just googled it, and we'd both be better off right now.)
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Amazingly detailed and interesting reviews. Its a miracle that he pulled it off for 15 years with a full-time job and family. Truly amazing.
This guy just burned .25BTC in lava inside Bitcoin Minecraft server
Your comment made me curious and I checked his comment history. There is no spam there, just normal activity.
I'm not familiar with AWS, but wouldn't a Cavium based card make this a lot easier for Netflix?
Is it acceptable to be terse and direct with your disapproval when contacted in this way? I feel like unless they're told how unwelcome this sales strategy is, nothing will change.
Children already think animal slaughter is horrific. Then they get greedy about meat.
Is it only me that seems to not care whatsoever about tiling window managers? I've tried them on Linux, for a good solid two months, still don't understand the fascination.

On OS X, I just use Expose or Cmd-Tab and Cmd-` shortcuts. I used to use Slate, but then ultimately gave that up as well. Maybe I use a retina screen at 1920x1200 so I can have a lot of screen real estate, but I haven't found the need to have a tiling wm at work either.
well that's the claim made by the comment i was originally responding to.
It might just be that the car traffic signals are patterned to last that long, so the pedestrian crossing signals are the same length to match. But that would depend on the crosswalk.
Nice. I short-circuited the school ethernet network, shutdown the access to internet school-wide forcing all office staff to work on paper for two days. Suspended 2 days.
In places where they don't have water purification plants. Also in places that are becoming uninhabitable to humans. Think expanding deserts and such.
Some vegans are anti-GMO, like some Ohioans are. But "Vegan" has no relation to "GMO"
I think "slate" is a bit more powerful than spectacleapp. However, the experience is far away from something like Xmonad and i3wm on Linux.

https://github.com/jigish/slate
It's not necessarily the case that cost-lowering innovations will drive demand for labor down, even without increases in capacity. Usability innovations are often of this variety.

If I can hire two people who work half as fast but at 1/4 the price each because they require no special skills, I can profitably produce the same goods with half the input costs and a net doubling of the employment I create.

Such innovations certainly exist, and there are even some reasons to expect they'll be more common in the future: an uneven distribution of income means more places to find cheaper labor.
That's not always been the case. Google News used to copy the entire article content.
Fingerprinting the entire Netflix library - especially if you limit yourself to popular shows - probably isn't that hard. I concur with not really understanding the point, though.

One possibly relevant factor is that shared encryption keys make it harder to authenticate the data: you can't rely on an HMAC, and RSA verifying every frame would be too slow. You can still do it efficiently with a hash tree, but I bet Netflix currently isn't, and TLS allows browsers to enforce verification on behalf of the user. Without verification, you could potentially exploit the browser with malformed audio or video data, or freak the user out by injecting some other video...
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I think this is a very positive development. In the end, Internet.org and Airtel Zero are not very different in their scant regard for net neutrality.

It's also indicative of just how huge the public debate has become. Indian companies (and the media) have had to very publicly retract on their earlier stand on the issue.
Nice to see you in person commenting on this!

To help you understand the background. I have built a web service that I want to sell.

Unfortunately I'm now faced with writing a whole bunch of code that is not my core business. I can do it and have done it before many times but it's really just a time consuming barrier to getting my product to market.

I really need a "business in a box" and I really don't want to write code. Here's the requirements:

--> Website

users need to be able to come to a gorgeous looking site (or at least clean and professional anyway) - must work well on mobile. The website is a very substantial part of the requirements. It should look like my website and not show any signs that it is actually constructed using something else. No "powered by Shopify" or anything on it.

--> Authentication

users to be able to sign in and create an account using whatever the common signin services are (i.e. oauth)

--> Authorization and user management

the back end must save the user data into a database and should handle all the crap involved with sending out confirmations, password resets etc.
the back end must provide me with an API.
the back end must provide me tools for backing up my user and account data cause I don't trust that they won't go out of business one day
the back end company must exude the sense that it's my customer base, not theirs. if I get the sense that I don't trust them then I'm outa there.

--> Commerce

the website must allow me to set up a very simple schedule of service levels and present it in that well known pricing table format that almost all websites seem to use

--> Payments

MUST allow me to do subscription payments through Stripe - nothing else will do here

--> integrated

all the above must be nicely integrated.

--> API

stripe have shown everyone how to do API's well. Must be incredibly thoroughly documented with lots of practical examples and wide language support. Python 3 please as well, not just Python 2.

--> Setup and configuration

hard to see why it should take me more than half an hour in an admin interface to set up all the above.

Seems to me that various companies are "best in class" for each of the above areas, but nowhere is it all integrated into the smooth end to end complete experience that I want. That leaves me needing to write code and damn I really don't want to - it's completely pointless to be writing all this stuff yet again.
First world problems eh!
I imagine a side-channel attack could reveal some of this information. Fingerprint bandwidth usage over time. Movies consume less bandwidth when scenes move slowly and HTTPS doesn't do a good job of hiding this information.
I used to know some people in Yahoo's LA office, and they described it as an intensely dysfunctional environment where it's almost impossible to get things done -- roughly the same thing I heard about Zynga, but not as bad as Myspace (before it imploded).

Most of the time that kind of complaint is the dog blaming the student for leaving the homework in the kitchen, but I heard these stories from some of the most talented engineers I know.
I don't really understand how the example could be considered to have a "cleaner, more readable syntax" than the equivalent CoffeeScript. It's perhaps fair to say that it presents a syntax that is more familiar to Python developers.

`self` is also a poor choice of name for a reference to "the object itself": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/self
Two things to consider before pulling the yet-another-js-framework card:

1. Do you have hundreds of developers working on a big application? If not this is not for you. Move on.

2. Have you seen what it does? Is it a whole new paradigm of MV*? Do you really have to rewrite your angular/ember/react application? From the docs and code you could clearly see it is not heavy weight at all. It is simply a framework that helps you organize your code into modules especially when disparate teams are working on a single app.

This is a framework that has been tested in productions and found useful at Box for over a 1.5 years. Don't be too quick to dismiss things. I think there is a place for frameworks like this for complex web applications.
For readability, sure, I agree CoffeeScript and Python aren't too far off. However, I'd much, much rather have Python scoping than JavaScript scoping.
This is really awesome, good work on this.
If they don't like your opinion they push it down. If you post to help explain what you mean they call it spamming. I feel empathy toward those who act like this. I really do.
Try a duckduckgo search for [monopoly] and [antitrust] to learn more.
Let's say you were trying to rationalize why a company's "extreme growth hacking coupled with a psychological approach to user acquisition" was actually good for the world. It's usually not that hard if you want it. Company X provides something that is (arguably) important (to someone), and the marketing means help it reach people.

So I tried to put on this hat for a minute, but I cannot for the life of me even intentionally come up with a justification for BuzzFeed.

Even if you believe whole-heartedly in general that the end (company getting its service out there) justifies the means (marketing, manipulation)... with BuzzFeed the end and the means are exactly the same thing.

It's got all of the societal value of the Jerry Springer show: It's garbage for the sake of providing space to sell garbage.
It is unlikely that you'll make hundreds of dollars an hour.

It is also likely that you'll spend most of your time trying to find new clients.

The book "You Can Negotiate Anything" would be helpful. You also need to learn some basics of contract law. While you may need a lawyer at times, sometimes it is better to know when to just walk away from a bad contract, or negotiate a small change so that a contract you shouldn't sign becomes a good one.

Where people want a consultant, is when they can't find the staff they need in-house. For me that has commonly been to provide Mac ports to companies that otherwise publish Windows software. What could you offer, that your potential clients don't already have?
Not the same. Physical models don't really live in the same space as mathematical conjectures. They are expected to be approximations, valid within some domain. Newtonian physics is still 'correct', in that is a valid approximation, because that's all a model ever is (except for the imagined 'theory of everything').
Are there not enough people interested in this type of thing today in India to try to start an EFF equivalent?
What is the source of that Constine/Zuckerberg exchange?
I pray that their API stays as developer-friendly as it is now. Google's Places API ToS makes it practically unusable and I can't think of any other obvious alternatives.
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Does it? But then who polices it?

Id be curious to know of an instance where apple abuses their power and denied a competitor the ability to sign a binary.

Personally I'd much rather have someone like apple be able to have some kind of audit where by malicious extensions can be revoked. There might be some super clever way that you could do this with the block chain or the like, but ultimately I don't know how this doesn't come down to a person somewhere deciding.
No, this was the most important MacOS news ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
Thanks for the offer. I... probably will want some help. But I want to build the product the way I want it first.

Once I finish making the product look and function exactly the way I want it, I don't think I'll care at that point whatever people want to do to it. But until then, I think I want to restrict people from straying away from my vision of the product.

Also, now that I'm not working on this startup anymore, I'm just kind of creating whatever I want without any regard for what people may think of the product or use it for.

For example, there's really no direction any more. I'm just freestyling. And that means I don't want it to be just another publishing platform when I'm done with it.

P.S. There was a spike in traffic over the past few days because I've been posting the link in different places. If the application didn't work for you, please try again, it will work now, I've upgraded the server to handle the load.
That hario grinder is a piece of shit. Takes me at least 7 minutes to hand grind nonstop a Chemex (yielding 2.5 cups)/
Random Google email saying they're to charge me for using their free service now
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Perhaps it doesn't in the antitrust case, but in the context of a response to a comment with false statements implying the opposite, it does.
Do you need a minimum karma level for that? I don't ever have any down arrows and have always wondered. I'm near 500 karma so kinda surprised. Probably in some faq that I'm too lazy to lookup
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Poor people in India have cheap smartphones but they dont have PCs so optical media, thumb drives are useless to them.
Not an admin, so I can't speak to what they have available. But as a hacker...

Since the usernames are not queryable via an integer (e.g. user?id=1235654321) it's not exactly the most trivial of things. You'd have to go through an endless amount of posts, get every possible username from the comments, go through all stories submitted, grab their usernames, and then loop through the HN API and grab karma info.
twm = unixporn

:^)
>> Maybe crowding into a CS computer lab dungeon full of sweaty, stinky twenty-something men was unappealing?

>> why females get filtered out of tech before finishing college?

This is the reason. Some jobs need sweating. No way around it. Most women want the pay and benefits without the sweat.