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Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

This is a much too deep a question to adequately address in this medium. A better starting question might be:

Do capital markets have a natural or a constructed social utility?

If their social utility is natural, then finding out what benefit they might have to society is a sort of empirical question. But if their utility is a purely political construction, then their perceived benefit can be moulded to fit a desired outcome.

I've discovered this, for anyone else who might need similar help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols

As a former philosophy student, who cared little for mathematics in university, can someone point me in the direction of a resource that would allow me to understand the notation in this article? I understand the problem as described, but unfortunately not the notation.

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I've made contributions to Ember.js, and have written multiple 10k+ LOC apps - starting with 0.9 up to the latest 1.0 (one was recently featured on Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/uniiverse-releases-direct-...). I am acutely aware of the challenges/strategies associated with migrating server side architecture into the browser, leaning down views, and fattening up controllers.

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Thanks! I hadn't heard of this. Playing around with it for a few minutes, and it strikes me as, well, _complicated_. I think that's one of the difficulties in this space - just being able to reduce, reduce, reduce so much data into powerful, impactful decision making.

Fitbit has a reasonably good sleep API - as does Jawbone.

Awesome work.

I have been working on an open source API to accomplish similar things (specifically just re: aggregation of data from disparate sources): https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify

It's Rails + Postgres, and so far aggregates meal, weight, and sleep data from Withings and Fitbit - but I've been focussed on building out a framework to easily aggregate many, many more sources.

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Do you mean the regular meetup.com mailing list for NYC.rb or something else?

Could you expand on why you believe the first real AIs will be suicidal? Is there a particular line of thought that has influenced your reasoning?

Thanks for building that Sam, we use it all the time and it's proven invaluable.

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That's perfectly fine - but quite different from posting a list of recruiters.

I like this alternative to titling.

The original headline is preserved, and clarified by the editorial clarification in square brackets. It would be great for HN to adopt this as a solution to the modified headline problem, with the provisio that editorial comment must only be used for the purposes of clarification.

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I am a human/machine interface designer && developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from the napkin to nginx.

I have considerable experience with Ruby and Javascript, years of experience with Rails, and extensive knowledge of client-side MVC. I've made contributions to Ember.js, and have written multiple 10k+ LOC apps - starting with 0.9 up to the latest 1.0 (one was recently featured on Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/uniiverse-releases-direct-...). I am acutely aware of the challenges/strategies associated with migrating server side architecture into the browser, leaning down views, and fattening up controllers.

I am the author of an open source project called Quantify (https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify) - a Rails API to track "quantified self" data from every manufacturer willing to give it up. My work here was featured on The Verge alongside a similar project by the founder of Foursquare (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4392996/fitness-tracker-dat...)

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But... that's what these guys are building on top of, in which case I'm not sure I understand the sarcasm?

Well, for the unenlightened, which one is that? Firefox? Chrome?

She sounds totally and completely amazing.

  The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is 
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  this?" I say, "Try it." And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as 
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Downvotes exist. You just don't have enough karma to see them.

So it sounds like there's an opportunity for someone here. If you read to the end of the article, you'll note that the actual scam is in spinning up discount code sites.

We need a Rapgenius for online discount codes. Right now, it's full of scummy, crappy sites (just like lyric sites), but could be easily improved with a simple interface, minimal advertising, and collaboratively sourced content.

Whiddershins' comment has nothing to do with political correctness, but rather with actual historical correctness. The comment is polite, sincere, and provides a further source of information for those who seek it.

They are a design agency in Toronto, noted for their work in the startup community.

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I am a human/machine interface designer && developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from the napkin to nginx.

I have considerable experience with Ruby and Javascript, years of experience with Rails, and extensive knowledge of client-side MVC. I've made contributions to Ember.js, and have written multiple 10k+ LOC apps - starting with 0.9 up to the latest 1.0 RC 6.1 (one was recently featured on Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/uniiverse-releases-direct-...). I am acutely aware of the challenges/strategies associated with migrating server side architecture into the browser, leaning down views, and fattening up controllers.

I am the author of an open source project called Quantify (https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify) - a Rails API to track "quantified self" data from every manufacturer willing to give it up. My work here was featured on The Verge alongside a similar project by the founder of Foursquare (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4392996/fitness-tracker-dat...)

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Contact is in my profile.

It's great to see an open sourced Ember.js project on the front page. I've spend most of the last year working with, around, and on top it. But, and this is a but of serious hesitation, why would you use Ember.js for a blog like this?

I'm nearly positive the answer is just "to learn Ember" - in which case, great!

To everyone else: don't start using a JS MVC framework for your real projects without seriously justifying their use in the first place. They should absolutely not be considered part of a default app stack. You will go through so much pain in doing so, and that pain needs to explain itself, in the concrete terms of the project requirements.

Don't worry about it. The commenter here is wrong in assuming that using history to understand our own narrative implies something about the scale or scope of the original, or our own.

Events need not be the same for us to try to use them to understand and vocalize our experiences.

Great writeup! Some days I feel similarly about Ember.

Let's play the guessing game: by "encrypted" they mean MD5'd?

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Please don't be so simple minded. I mean that for your own sake. The English word 'free' has more than one common meaning.

I experienced this as well at http://quantify.io - New Relic reported a 2 hour outage which just ended.

Looks like Active Model Serializers under the hood? Looks good from what I can see.