skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AOL might be the ultimate company that missed the boat. They practically owned the internet in America in the 90s and just let the whole thing get away. They had pole position to be Google+Facebook at once.
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Funny thing is Gladwell admits he doesn't think coherency or consistency matter, he just wants to sell books:

"As I’ve written more books I’ve realised there are certain things that writers and critics prize, and readers don’t. So we’re obsessed with things like coherence, consistency, neatness of argument. Readers are indifferent to those things." - Malcolm Gladwell

Edit: I stand by my interpretation. Gladwell's books aren't useful sources of knowledge, but they ARE a commercial gem. He takes a clear intuitive idea, and wraps enough text around it to fill a book. So high-concept that anyone can discuss his books at a cocktail party, even if they havent read it. Maximum virality. It does sell a lot of books.
No, but that would be the way to do it, for sure. There's a link to "edit" my submission, but the form it takes me to only allows updating the title. It displays the URL as ordinary text, rather than a text input.
> Christianity is a bad religion.

Yes, it is.

But I don't think it actually calls for killing people practising other religions. (In the new testament, that is) Does it?
Even UberX rates in NYC are ridiculous:

Philadelphia: $1.25 base fare 0.18 / min + $1.25 / mile
Chicago: $1.70 0.20 / min + $0.90 / mile

NYC: $3.00 0.40 / min + $2.15 / mile

https://www.uber.com/cities/philadelphia
https://www.uber.com/cities/chicago
https://www.uber.com/cities/new-york
I have a friend who wanted a new BMW at a given price. He faxed his offer to every dealership in the state. He didn't hear back from most, he got a counter offer from a few and one in El Paso, TX accepted his deal.

And then there was the dealership in Houston (his town) that took the time to write "HA HA HA!!" and fax his offer back.

Despite the distance he drove to El Paso.
This is off on a tangent, but...

I just took a look at a demo video on your site - I'm just guessing based on appearances, but are you using CKEditor for your base editor, and then popping up a new window using the lite plugin to show tracked changes?

If so, we're using the same toolkit... but if not, I'd love to know if you found a better track changes project via open source, or if you rolled your own. The lite plugin works OK, but not well enough for some of our more legal-focused clientele, so I'm scoping out other options.
There's no such thing as meaningful action without feedback. We could not conceive selfless actions without the attached feelings like blind people do not conceive color. Without the feedback, we would lack the right tools to discern worth doing from worthless. Fortunately, the common good is often perceived as worth doing, because the brain tricks us: behind a selfish action often lies a selfless outcome.
ASA1 == American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system "Healthy person", e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASA_physical_status_classifica...

With an increasingly graying population in the US, rdudekul's hopes ... well, I suppose if you can decrease e.g. the ASA 1 need for anesthesiologists while they're still on tap if things go south, it'll overall help. But it's probably not going to get big, and will create triage like situations where people will needlessly die when there's no anesthesiologist to spare.
Yea, I don't really get why it bothers people so much that selflessness has evolutionary origins, which in my mind is completely distinct from the (empirically false) claim that there is absolutely no selflessness in the world.

I mean, from a naturalistic viewpoint the options are pretty much "selflessness has a mechanistic explanation" or "selflessness is a random accident of history". I don't see how the latter would make things better. And if you don't like the dichotomy, your real problem is with naturalism not selfishness.
this is old news, it's from May 3.
Lua is a great language with an excellent implementation in LuaJIT. I love it!

Also, I think you'd be surprised at the contributors that come out of the woodwork when you start up a good project, regardless of the language.
You can very easily save a couple thousand dollars in negotiation. I understand the TVM, and I see the value in two ways:

1. I can sit around a dealer for a couple hours and save a couple thousand bucks: that's $500-$1k/hr. Pretty good (e.g., worth my time).

2. I get to practice my negotiation skills. This has gotten fun. And while I will likely never be in the position of negotiating for large amounts (e.g., sale of a business), in that instance a 10% delta could equate to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I bought a pre-owned car a couple months ago from a high-end, reputable dealer. They pulled the "that guy over there is interested in the same car" trick. I was tempted to go over an introduce myself (should have). Instead I told them the color wasn't my first choice and they should sell to the other guy. I was told the manager came over to "say goodbye" (no he wasn't), so I stood up and put on my coat. We reached a deal. My wife was freaking out. It was fun.
Sneaky! But, no, the server double checks that the content you're sending hashes to the correct thing.[0]

[0] https://github.com/losvedir/ephemeral2/blob/master/web/chann...
Asking the wrong person for that one - I just use Vim ;-)

I do use a few of the Go scripts (https://github.com/robmccoll/dotfiles). There are some really nice ones (continuous build, syntax checking, continuous testing, etc), but most of what I work on has longer build times due to linking in a good bit of C.
I think it goes without saying that no system is 100% safe. ;)
I suppose a cynic would claim that even though the giver is aware of the unhappiness it causes them, material loss, status in the eyes of others etc, the gain is made from "doing the right thing".

A real cynic would say that fighting in WWII was for the glory of dying an heroic death. Posthumous acknowledgement of heroism and honor. But I happen to think many of those who fought in that particular war knew their fate and truly were selfless.
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Which is funny since that's more or less how I've always heard, as a person outside of law enforcement, a warrant works. It provides permission to search for, often specific, evidence to seize.
What about something like LegalZoom?
Anonymous accused of running a botnet using thousands of hacked home routers
No need to be dismissive. The getting started guide linked to makes no mention of scikit - so yes, I don't even know what I don't know. scikit is not a prerequisite for machine learning, it's simply one way to approach it.
Interesting. When I visited China last year, Samsung was the brand of phone I saw most often (which was apparently true given the data in this article). Yet when your competitors offer phones nearly as reliable and feature-full at half the price, it's no surprise there's a shift happening. Though the increase in Apple suggests that this is not only a concern of price (the price of high-end Samsung phones were comparable to the price of iPhones).

Maybe it's a matter of Samsung products being somewhere in the middle. Apple's phones feel like they have better construction, and a greater level of prestige associated with them. Xiaomi's phones, again, have a solid construction and decent features (in some instances, more features) at a vastly lower price point than Samsung's phones. Maybe Samsung's phones right now don't satisfy the wants of either camp, and are hurting now as a result?

Edit: Not to mention Apple finally competing on phone size.
How about time travellers from the Imperium Romanum?
That's what happens when you google a spelling and lazily copy and paste. :)
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I don't see this. I think application developers are largely still running out of source control, whether that be in VirtualBox or Fusion or whatever... and Docker files are possibly replacing package build steps.

Maybe it's the case though.

I still think most of the press that Vagrant gets is really "yay, cheap virtualization" attributed to Virtual Box, rather than the workflow - but maybe some people's development environments really are that hard to set up. I like VMware Fusion a bit more.

Still, when a dev env is hard to setup, I like to see automation to do this that doesn't presume I'm running it in a virtualized container. So this could be the same script that a Docker file calls to deploy in production -- whether that's bash, some config tool, etc -- but at least then you are not assuming someone chooses to adopt Vagrant, or is running virtualized, in all cases.

My point in not adopting Vagrant is decidedly minor - I like VMWare Fusion, and I didn't really want to pay for the Vagrant plugin, because my developer machines don't need to be purged that often, and developer-env setup is pretty much running a script, and often the application just runs out of source control. So there's not a lot of dev-env machine rebuild churn.
here's the armchair analysis:

AOL was valued at 160+b at it's peak. and it was making lots of money as a "media" company to the point they thought the right thing was to buy Warner.

then they lost the captivity of their dial up clients, and their media business vanished overnight.

Verizon realized they own the pipes and they want aol know how on how to capitalize it to profit from media while it has the audience captivated.

people are finally realizing that having control over the pipes give you control over the content. AOL realized that too late. expect Verizon to fight very hard on net neutrality to be able to monetize their hard earned eye balls. and welcome a new era of mobile bloatware and deals like you already see in south america, where you can get a 100mb data plan only, but traffic to face book and whatsup is free.
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The thing about the central limit theorem is that violating it's assumptions doesn't really make it no longer apply. There's simply a few pathological cases where it totally breaks down, which violate that assumption and are very hard to state otherwise.

But taking 2 variables that correlate 80% or 20% or even more will not change the outcome. It's just very near the edge that it totally breaks down, or if the number of variables that correlate is really too high, or if they're really chaotic variables, or ...

So one the one hand you're right. But it's not a point that a statistician would make, only a logicist or a rather pedantic mathematician. In the graphs, even if things correlate it will "look okay". Therefore the statement that intelligence is normally distributed along a bell curve is technically correct, but good look finding a large piece of data that doesn't look like a bell curve.
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As a counterpoint, "The Government" isn't some monolithic enterprise. It's made up of thousands of people working for the interests of themselves and millions of others.

Since it would be naive to suggest that there aren't those in public office or employed by the government who engage in morally dubious behavior, wouldn't it make sense to want more sane, rational, and "benevolent" people working there as well to balance it out?

The idea that nobody should work for the feds or the state because others in power engage in bad behavior would imply that we should just give up and leave it to the "bad guys".

I think that human nature means there will always be either evil or ineffectual individuals in positions of power but this just means the rest of us owe it to ourselves and the rest of our countrymen to push for better options...to stack the deck back in our favor as it were.
Their reputation is good because they spam the internet as part of their marketing ploy. They've got very real, and very serious touchscreen issues that basically every phone will suffer from at some point.

And they either don't know how to fix it, or know how to fix it and aren't willing to spend the money to do so. Do a google search of "oneplus touchscreen issue" and let the light of reality shine on your head.
Damn you, author. This is cool and now I am loath to close the page.
TIL; thanks :)
Exactly. I was having this conversation with fellow employees. He brought up that they have a 1.5 - 2 year plan to phase out his entire department and moving everything overseas. I was just shocked that he was literally watching time tick by until his job was over. He was been with the company for 8 years.
I asked why he stayed and it came down to security. He has kids and needs the insurance.
Hmm, I was a little disappointed with the list for a few reasons

- Mostly just stuff that you learn along the way if you remotely like coding and go to an engineering school

- Doesn't talk about what to NOT spend/waste too much time on in favour of the listed things

- Doesn't list getting familiar with any version control systems. Obtuse as they may be, it's a must-learn skill for a software developer before being able to contribute to production code.
After buying each of my Samsung phones from Verizon, I spent about an hour researching which apps I could safely remove. I wanted to buy a Google phone, but I was told that there were problems using unlocked phones on Verizon. Is this true?
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there are many excellent points made on this question but the standout one explaining the problem is
>>When you're in a situation where mistakes can cost you millions, hiring an attorney for tailored advice is cheap insurance.

when you hire a corporate law firm you're paying for their liability insurance. Only products and services that can remove the fear if something goes wrong (i.e insurance) or what is the outcome does not stand up in law will really disrupt things. For the latter the government needs to be involved and this proposal in the UK will really shake things up for access to justice, costs etc if it goes ahead
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/feb/16/online-court-prop...
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Cool concept, but man the background image of it driving that 3 wheeler on a rainy road covered in wet leaves looks like it'd be a scary experience.
The CC3XXX "SmartConfig" was complete garbage the last time I was evaluating it on a CC3200. It didn't work on 802.11n networks, only b/g. And that was when it worked. I got it only once trying on both an iPhone and Nexus 5, I would hate to have to answer any customers' support questions about using something so flaky.

The audio thing does require an app though to do provisioning, which I suppose isn't a problem for the kinds of people ordering this thing.

My preferred provisioning method is to let the little Dash-like device broadcast some setup or config access point. You connect to it, get an HTML UI to input target AP credentials into, and submit the form. It works from just about any device.
They owned a closed "Walled Garden" version of the internet. Once the open internet took off, AOL was doomed.
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At first, I read the deadline as $4,48, mistaking the B for an 8. That I didn't got think twice to interpret this way reveals how far down AOL went, at least in my opinion of it.
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I'm sure he meant speakers of Latin-derived languages. I see native French speakers make this mistake often in English.
I second the recommendation of Udacity's Software Testing course and Software Debugging course. Software Testing is taught by the author of csmith, and Software Debugging is taught by the author of delta.

I feel that most CS curriculums could be improved by teaching more of testing and debugging. Do you know why it is not done?
This used to be done by metapackages (a .deb containing no files but having dependencies on everything in...GNOME, for instance). Why this new thing?
A static type checker could be of some help in both of those cases, if you use it well.
It would be cool if you could drag and expand the log window. Can you patch the content?
At least some of the german car makers have been able to keep the cake and eat it. It seems to be that the cheaper entry level models which many are not offering haven't destroyed the brand. Maybe the secret has been to make those cheap models distinct enough from the more expensive ones.
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I've had an issue where messages will appear out of order, or the end user won't get it at the time, but then it will just randomly pop into the conversation like 20 minutes later
Socket-Layer Security encrypts web traffic between a client and an existing web server. It's actually no longer used anymore, but the same abbreviation is frequently misused to refer to its successor protocol, Transport Layer Security.

Secure SHell is a protocol for logging into a remote server, and doing whatever you want on it. The server needs to run a daemon to support this, but once it does, you can do whatever your login user is able to do on that server, not just the actions supported by a web server.

Also, google/wikipedia/stackoverflow miss you dearly.
> Without analysing the firmware you wouldn't be able to confirm for sure what it's doing.

It's on your own network, so it's trivial to know when it's communicating and with whom. In principle, it could periodically wake and poll a C&C server to see whether it should start streaming audio or not.
Then why not have the warrant ready to go when he crossed the border? If the suspect was already under investigation and there was suspicion there would be evidence on the laptop, then it would seem a warrant would be easy to obtain. Then this would be a non-issue.
There are large advantages to shelling out though.

1. Not reinventing the wheel

2. Implicit use of multiple cores

Things could be improved I agree.

For example posix_spawn() could be efficiently implemented on glibc to avoid kernel overhead for fork()+exec() from large processes. Then language runtimes could use that
to implement their "shell out" routines.

Also pipefail doesn't cater for SIGPIPE as detailed at http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/sigpipe_handling.html
which can be awkward.
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He says readers are indifferent to those things, not that he doesn't value them. So you could draw that conclusion, but he doesn't state that explicitly.
I'm usually optimistic, but I have zero hope when it comes to the government self-policing their own surveillance programs. I think the government will interpret this ruling to a very strict practical application, and it will take separate challenges to similar programs in court to stop them.

And that's just for the programs we know about...
I wonder why Go is not in the list of recommended languages
if low wage, and probably lower skilled workers can take your job, you probably suck

The alternative hypothesis is that you are overqualified. You may not have been overqualified when you took the position but now you are. De-skilling is a very real phenomenon in the workplace.

The xenophobic uncle has seen more than you and may well be the wiser man. Sometimes the country on the other side of the border is the enemy.
Sorry, but why do you believe WhatsApp is overvalued? They have an incredible mindshare, it is the only app (besides Facebook), that I see moms and grandmas using on a daily basis.

Heck, my mom talk to me mostly through it. She evens send me emoticons, pictures and voice notes!
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I don't know, how many people "disappeared" in the night. I don't think, that it where that many, but please correct me, when you have exact numbers. I know that many went to prison, but I just don't think, that to many "people just disappeared" -- the DDR was a bad state, but I just don't think that it was as bad, how some south american dictatorships where (where at times hundreds dissipated and where buried in mass graves).

I wrote that it was a joke, because what they used where paper folders of information, typed with typewriters. So they may have stored some GB of data about the people -- the NSA and other agencies store how much data? Petabytes? Or some magnitudes higher?

So the number of people spying may be less (and the methods still better -- remember: there are already cases, where ordinary people become victim of snatch squads in the US, because of some misunderstood Google searches), but the shear magnitude of data is much higher.
This makes perfect sense based on how tDCS is hypothesized to work.

tDCS is believed to enhance learning by providing more force behind the encoding of memories: it's like pressing harder when writing with a pencil, making it harder to erase. Normally it takes many iterations of practice to encode a complex skill properly, but with more electricity behind the "write" operation it takes fewer iterations.

However, with perceptual reasoning, encoding memories quickly would be counterproductive, because it would cause your first ideas to be firmly encoded, leading you to consider fewer ideas. This would prevent the broader considerations necessary in problem-solving.

I'm not a neuroscientist, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. I've just read a lot about tDCS, and have no formal training.
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Don't all dynamic pages only exist if someone is looking at it?

I think a better title would be "This page only exists AS LONG AS someone is looking at it"

Either way, cool demo!
Maybe the side-channel connections could be built on WebRTC, which includes STUN facilities for making the connection.
Tell me then why Go is being used to drive so many big projects? Docker just raised another $95m for fucks sake. Why should I listen to you? What are your qualifications? Sell me on your position.
Which part of it do you think doesn't scale?
And if you're willing to do that on every upgrade of the compiler or anything that may affect the compiler's exact execution path.
So that raises a different question -- namely, why the US government would employ top-secret intelligence to squeeze the EU into giving money to a private corporation.
The cost comes from adding another company to the process - the module maker.

But sure, at this stage it might not be worth it , maybe later.
This sounds just like an article I read a few days ago:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/04/29/beware-the-too-comp...
Author here.

True, and a very clear way of putting it. Interestingly, since Erlang is so well-suited for distributed computing, and Phoenix (the web framework I'm using) has been built to take advantage of that, it wouldn't be too hard to let someone else spin up this same service and take part in distributing the content.

Off the top of my head, the only thing that wouldn't work is the "Currently Viewing" counter, which relies on this all running on a single heroku dyno. Otherwise, the socket messages are routed over a distributed PubSub layer, which should be pretty easy to tap into.
Open source has to be more than Linux
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It's nice to see a curriculum that hand picks courses from a few different MOOCs and other relevant resources - that has definitely been a weak point of MOOCs as most of them don't have enough depth/breadth on their own for you to learn all of these things.

I also think this is a great point:

"Work on project outside of the classroom.
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In case you're curious, you're getting downvoted because you told the emperor that he isn't wearing any clothes.
Maybe a lack of resources out there or Google thinks if you learn a more generic language you will mold easier