skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They rushed several products to market, got tons of market share because they were setting performance records, and then they got basically all of the backlash when the bugs in the controllers and firmware started causing lots of drive failures. They also got in a bit of trouble once or twice for swapping out components with cheaper stuff that didn't perform as well. On the other hand, they were doing a great job of pushing the price/performance frontier so all the more reliable and more expensive drives that eventually made it to market still had to at least match OCZ's performance. That led to the very surprising situation where Intel basically withdrew from the consumer SSD market for a few years because they couldn't keep pace without sacrificing their QA standards.
It's open source with a very liberal license. If someone is too difficult to work with, the rest will just fork and move on with life. Do you think the fact that people stick around, and have a respectful discussions means that the guys are not too hard to work with, and the values they provide outweigh the challenges of working with them?
I'd expected it to be trivial to hunt down some animated gifs, but to no avail.

Here's a movie derived from an actual event that will give you a feel for things: http://www.atlas.ch/multimedia/proton-event.html

CMS, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poNftWVbwmM
> Morality is extensively covered in game theory and is all about getting the best possible outcome for every member of the group

You can derive some rules similar to those that some moral systems hold as first principals through game theory starting with simpler first principals, like some particular operationalization of utilitarianism, but that doesn't make morality logical, it makes it possible to use logic to derive a more complex moral framework from a small set of moral axioms. (And it may provide a tool for simplifying some pre-existing moral systems, to the extent that they have a large number of moral axioms but those can be derived from a smaller set of axioms through logic.)
Relevant, steal customers using HTML: https://github.com/bramgg/pouch

/plug
How does that work? You have two fairly mature code-bases, is one just being dumped (i.e. lodash)?
>edit: downvotes for suggesting that maybe the NSA shouldn't be compared to the party that gassed 6 million people solely for their ethnicity? Grow up, HN.

I really liked your comment, but I downvoted you, let me explain why. I did so because your first sentience is likely to derail the conversation rather than further it. Yes, the phase Banality of Evil comes from a book on the Holocaust, but CPLX was using it in a more general sense. You seem to agree with this usage when you say:

>If there's really a banality of evil, I'd say that's just a subset of the banality of all bureaucracies.

This is what I understand the banality of evil to mean.
Every Snowden document is authentically what someone in a large and complex organization said. That someone may or may not have had accurate information.

If you've ever talked to 2 co-workers who have a different understanding of a particular decision, then you know the phenomena.

That said, it would be perfectly plausible that spy agencies could have maintained a policy of, "We will passively collect and analyze all transmissions, including our own citizens" along with one of, "We will actively infect devices, but make an attempt not to be attacking our own citizens in the process."

So it is possible that both documents were completely correct.
Most of the demos that we publish at RethinkDB use Socket.io or some other similar WebSocket abstraction layer, catering to cases where the user wants to fully host the entire application from end to end.

But scaling a Socket.io application is not trivial, there are users who want a hosted solution for realtime streams so that they don't have to worry about their application falling over if they get too many simultaneous connections.

Granted, the case in the blog post is perhaps a bit contrived. But consider, for example, a scenario where you take a single page web application, deploy it to a CDN, and have all the realtime traffic that it accommodates routed through PubNub's infrastructure. You could make it so that no traffic is hitting your own servers, and you are just broadcasting updates into the PubNub stream from your RethinkDB-based backend. That would be pretty trivial to scale.

And in terms of the speed at which the messages are routed, for the purposes of a liveblog or something of that nature, pushing everything through PubNub isn't noticeably slower than using Socket.io.

Of course, nobody's saying that you should always use PubNub. As I said, we often use Socket.io ourselves. But I do think there is legitimate value in presenting it as an available option.
> Morality is not logical, so my saying "no logical reasoning" does not preclude a moral reasoning.

Moral reasoning is logical reasoning when the base set of axioms are moral axioms. So, "no logical reasoning" implies "no moral reasoning".
I skimmed through the paper. All of the lines are 1:1 copies, it does not generate its own 'unique' lines. Instead you provide it a keyword (in this case love) and it will find phrases with the word 'love' (in the database of lyrics) in it that rhyme with the previous line.
I think everyone agrees gauging support is valuable. The issue is that the mechanism should be an up/down voting feature like HN has, not a post in a thread meant for conversations.
It's actually awful. Often times everyone pretty much agrees a change is needed. It needs a bit of work which needs to be discussed.

The +1s are so irritating because you have to read through a huge conversation and you also keep getting email notifications because you want to keep in touch with a thread. It actually makes it harder to do what the github topic is about with the +1s.
this happens because the brake level when you click the brake button is smaller than the brake level needed to not collide with the car in front of it.
I'm sorry that's misleading. Germany has one vote on the ECB, the same number as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta and every other country.

Greece was perfectly happy to get cheap money. Instead of investing it in education, improved prductivity, Greece has been wasting it on an oversized army, extremely early retirement with cushy pensions for government employees, pointless olympic games, hagiographic articles in the NY Times and so on.
It is the context for which the term was invented by Hannah Arendt.
Wow, this is amazing! Thank you for doing this! I honestly believe this is could be the most impactful innovation to come to the email space in years.

InboxSDK was obviously a ton of work. What is your business model for it?
Only a couple minutes in, already in to it. Thanks for sharing.
Popcorntime for Live TV has arrived
Upvoted. I appreciate the feedback. That makes more sense.

NYC doesn't seem like the first place that comes to mind to avoid "that 1/20" that think they are "better/smarter", however you're right than you can learn mobile development from any location with a couple friends and a wireless connection.
Yeah, it'd be nice to see one that's actually based on fact instead of mythology.
You can step through the FSM on Debuggex by using the sliders :)
If you are interested in this kind of hacks you can't miss Add-In-Express [1] and my company's Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, and Outlook Express APIs that created SDKs around closed source products for more than 10 years.

[1] https://www.add-in-express.com/
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Creator of gmail.js here. Can confirm
Heres a breakdown of the differences between the two : http://benmccormick.org/2014/11/12/underscore-vs-lodash/

A few months old but should still be reasonably accurate
For the avoidance of doubt I'm not suggesting web surfers actually have or should have any legally valid right to browse a particular piece of content.

But if you asked me to choose between a 'right' to access a website the owner had intended to make available to me or a 'right' to reach the owner's administrative contact, I think I'd consider the former more important. Then again, I'm not a lawyer, a phisher or a spammer, so ICANN's policy change isn't really meant for me.
“The Machines Are Taking Over”
Not common. Sounds like the interviewer lacks basic human courtesy.
It's cute that let's do merge and keep underscore because lodash is just cute.
Strong words, but also an accurate, if wry, characterization of the official stance of the New Republic[1][2][3]: scientists are awful, and "we" humanists can't go around letting them own the public debate just because they make predictions while "we" ask what silly old things like predictions mean about the nature of the soul anyway.

Which is unfortunate, since naturalistic philosophy can be quite good[4].

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114172/leon-wieseltier-sc...

[2] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114548/leon-wieseltier-re...

[3] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112481/darwinist-mob-goes...

[4] http://edge.org/conversation/dennett-on-wieseltier-v-pinker-...
The Greek can do anything they want. They merely need to find someone who borrows them the money.
(1) In what sense is loosing billions to Greece benefiting Germany?

(2) Greece can change its exchange rate. Just declare bankruptcy and leave the Euro.
Yeah, another mis-step by mom. Sorry for munging the facts. I respect your work. You two are doing cool stuff.

So are the 41 net hackers, but not so relevant to my point. :-)
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>I'm not sure what is more insulting: the assumption that any female speaker is automatically available or interested in dating, or that the women wouldn't see right through him.

First:

Without a wedding ring on your finger or knowledge of you dating - it is assumed you are single. This is a society norm because without asking - and it's considered rude to be direct and ask - there is no way to know. Please take note that this works both ways and is not gender discriminatory.

Second:

People are not mind readers. Without trying or asking or bringing the topic up how in the world do you expect them to know you aren't interested in dating? That's simply absurd. Also note that once again, this is not gender discriminatory.

Third:

They didn't 'see right through him'. They happened upon the discovery by chance.

>Unsure what to do, she asked a few other female attendees for advice. What a surprise to discover that the same guy had also contacted them and was playing the same game.

If she had not asked the other attendees for advice - none of them would have known the guy had contacted all of them. That isn't "seeing right through him". I shouldn't have to point out this contradiction. Whatever helps your narrative I guess?

ps. In certain social circles, certain locations, and certain cultures - it can be considered rude to directly ask for a date. Asking indirectly is considered more polite because it makes it easier for the other person to decline without feeling like an ass for saying "No". It relieves them of a certain amount of pressure.
Google is not a person. Google is a transhuman organization with over 60,000 individual consciousnesses taking part in it. Google can do more than one thing at a time (if their management infrastructure doesn't require a single person to approve every action).
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I got really excited about this until I saw it only runs on something called "Windows".
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I interned at the FBI and made photocopies of a list of seized domains.
Apparently it's possible to work around a lot of this as shown in here https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2184 although that excludes meaningful contributions from non-contributors.
Did you mean to address your comment to the original comment instead of mine? It was the grandparent comment who used the phrase "bullying" to imply immorality. My comment only claims that even if you assume morality in international lending, the particular phrase is not apt.
Local H has always been a duo and so Scott Lucas has had some really cool setups in the past. At one point, he had replaced the two strings on his guitar with two strings of a bass and then ran different sets of pickups to different amps so that he could effectively play both traditional bass style parts and guitar parts at the same time.

Heres a video of him demoing his older setup: http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/video-local-hs-scott-...

I saw them a few weeks ago and he no longer uses the same setup, but I've always thought it was inventive.
Due to the excessive amounts of labor in the market especially at the low end there was never a reason employers would need to pay more other then retention for business stability reasons. The minimum wage is just a needed correction for this oversupply of labor otherwise the market would have corrected itself already. Republicans argue for no minimum wage so more low end positions can be created but it is unlikely we have the infrastructure to compete with China or to turn ourselves back into a 3rd world nation.
There are a lot of players who are trying to commercialize facial expression tracking.
Notably, http://affectiva.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbO0Po8Mgis

disclaimer: I work for them.
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"How do you respond to this?"

Enjoy the sense of relief that you won't be working for this guy, and move on.
Perhaps it's simpler to think of the other way - why the speed of sound is in marbles is the same as the speed that a marble would pop out of the tube when another was inserted.

Imagine that instead of pushing a whole marble in you merely wiggled the last one rapidly.
He probably used crappy pickups.
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I've never quite bought into this "predatory lending" idea. There is exactly one way for me to take a loan, and that is to actively sign papers saying, "Yes, give me money under these terms!"

Terms that seem too good to be true, are. Borrowers know this. Nation-state borrowers certainly know this.

So sure, easy money was available. No one forced anyone to take it.

There were political considerations involved, obviously: parties that were willing to mortgage the future of their nation were more likely to get elected than parties that were willing to be fiscally responsible (to the extent that it would be astonishing if there even were parties willing to be fiscally responsible.)

So leaders offered terms, but that meant nothing without borrowers being willing to take them. I don't see how, despite politics, that the lenders bear any blame for that because national governments are presumed to be mature stewards of the state, able to say "No" to enticing but ill-advised offers. To argue otherwise is to suggest that the Greeks et al are simply not ready or able to govern themselves, which I have difficulty accepting.
The principle architect of VMS was David Cutler, purportedly the best engineer at Digital at the time (80s), and best OS designer in the industry.

Digital dropped the ball in the late 80s with regards to management of Cutler and his team, canceling his PRISM project and leaving him and his team disgruntled.

Elsewhere in Seattle, a chap named Bill Gates was flush with billions of cash and knew that the shelf life of DOS was limited; if Microsoft were to succeed, they needed a new, robust, reliable and high-performance OS that they could "bet the company on".

Gates got word that Cutler was disgruntled at Digital, and a mutual party set up a meeting. Cutler was dismissive of Microsoft's technology stack at the time (DOS and some office apps) -- he was a hardcore OS engineer, and DOS was a toy.

Gates persisted, ensuring Cutler that he would have the opportunity to build the next generation of OS from the ground up and essentially unlimited resources at his disposal to do it. Cutler eventually agreed, and the NT kernel project was born.

http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr...

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re...
Minor quibble, but I think the "Key Pair" heading of the Definitions section mixes up i.e. (id est, 'that is') and e.g. (exempli gratia, 'for example').

Digital signatures are one example of things you can do with a key pair, and it is specifically the public key that can't be used to recover the private key.
I'm using https://www.zenhub.io/, it adds a voting mechanism on github.
> I'm poking around, and all of a sudden I touch this huge blue thing and my God, it was like being punched in the chest by Mike Tyson. My whole body flexed stiff, and it must have thrown me five feet. I'd touched a capacitor. I didn't know they held voltage.

Yikes!
Yes please, Jupyter all the REPLs.
A well rounded answer, but I'll pass for now. If Google really believed in your ethos of making the software more valuable via third parties, their platform wouldn't require dom hacks that could break without notice. i.e. they'd open up their own APIs to make building these sorts of apps themselves.

I absolutely commend you for what you are doing, I just wouldn't be willing as a developer to dip my toes in that particular water to spend the time developing something they could rip apart and break.

As a side note, the documentation page is broken on Mac Safari 8 on OSX Javascript error:

TypeError: undefined is not a function (evaluating 'reference.endsWith('()')')
> my network is no where near enough to make a hire recommendation

The obstacle is the way. Start carving out time for strategic networking. Go to meet-ups, conferences, workshops. Make a point to chat with 2-3 people at each event. Suprisingly, these can lead to serendipitous introductions.
You're not wrong, but you seem to be missing a huge part of the picture.

Mounting a big black box sucks, yes, but the tech will mature, miniaturize and become more appealing. Even before then, I think many a CEO would rather put on a black box to have a meeting rather than fly for 16 hours.

It's not all about putting meatspace conventions into virtual spaces. The appeal of the metaverse isn't about having to walk around a digital world to get anything done. It's about being able to connect with people across vast physical spaces with a lot of the same quality of the connection as in-person. And more generally, about providing that quality of experience in a ton of contexts.

When buying something online, I think a lot of people would value being able to look at the product from various angles before buying. I know I've cancelled orders because I wasn't sure how a shoe would look based on the one or two angles a site provided. And yes, obviously, you will probably still buy toilet paper and books on amazon just by scrolling in your browser and clicking. But other purchasing processes will be hugely enhanced by VR.

You could better gauge the fit (and when graphics improve, texture/fabric) of clothing. IKEA can go to the next level and actually project the furniture you want into a 3d mockup of the room you want it to go in. Hell, you could probably fly a special drone around your room and it would create the model for you.

Yes, Second Life wasn't everything people imagined. But it was a crude first stab at the problem. Even Oculus is still relatively crude, but it's very immersive already and I don't see why it won't eventually become very refined and convincing. Look at the 3D rendering we're capable of already in games and movies, throw in some Moore's Law and wait to see what comes out.
Those aren't "unavoidable". They're just non-negotiable for you.

See grecy's comment about want vs. need.
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You should feel good about it because they are able to communicate without reliable electricity or peace.
That's not decentralization; that's just moving the single-point-of-failure.

A better system would be something based on a cryptographic blockchain/ledger, like Namecoin. Thus, no reliance on a central authority to decide which domains are or aren't valid; you instead just look at the ledger (which is maintained decentrally by network participants).
Yeah, I spit my coffee at that line. That's cool for an IoT hub application, but not for a node.
s/klote/clout/
You will probably just see labor intensive operations leave LA or shut down. LA proper is too small of a market to debut robotic replacements for workers.

I'm guessing this will just lead to higher food service costs and the disappearance of lower margin fast food.
I'm getting the funny impression that what distinguishes an algorithm from an AI algorithm isn't about the algorithm, but how people treat the algorithm. It's an AI algorithm if they describe it behaving intelligently i.e. painting numbers on a house, learning english first, being born, being tricked into painting a fence, etc. Otherwise its just an algorithm.
more fun than going to the bookies?
Personally, I'm in favor of a land value tax[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
> Banality of Evil? Come on. Equating SIGINT programs to protect America's interest with the Nazi party is really shrill.

Comparisons based on common themes are not the same as holding that the things being compared are equal. The source material for the quote is a general comment upon evil, drawn from a reflection upon Eichmann. It is not a specific comment upon the Nazis, but that normal people doing things that seem perfectly normal (indeed right) to them can perpetuate terrible crimes. The observation goes something like this:

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and our moral standards of judgement, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied… This new type of criminal… Commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or feel that he is doing wrong" (s.276)

"It was as though in those last minutes [of Eichmann's life] he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil." (s.252)

- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil. Hannah Arendt.
> For example, this would ban Microsoft, as well as arguably the entire U.S. government, from legally requesting certificates.

It would also prohibit many current and former employees of Microsoft and the U.S. government, and domain name registrars (both themselves, and current and former employees) whose participation was necessary to effect such seizures, even though they had no discretion in them, and law firms (both themselves, and current and former employees) involved in seizure, from getting certificates.

I also think the entire idea is unsound; the mere fact that a domain name had some ongoing lawful use shouldn't make seizing it a bad thing; I mean, if the primary use of it was for users exchanging, say, child pornography, but it also had a minor and incidental, but certainly ongoing, use for the same users to exchange perfectly lawful messages, is being involved -- even as a direct and primary actor -- in seizing the domain something which should result in an actor being punished by having a higher cost to participate in the emerging TLS-only internet community the way the Let's Encrypt policy suggests?
Currying is great and all, but that in itself isn't a end all be all feature from which you could say that it is enough to eclipse lodash/underscore.

Is there anything else about it to that makes it really "eclipse" them or is it more like "ramda is also nice, especially because it has Currying"?