skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that a non-cloud-reliant device can be sold to me and then abandoned by the company that made it some time in the future -- yet it still remains a usable device. Now whether the OnHub falls into that space or not I can't really say for sure; in this instance I actually doubt it does (my guess is it would remain a useful router even if the cloud-connected features were dropped for some reason).

It's also the frustrating potential that the product will be 98% awesome but with niggling problems that don't seem to get fixed as it's abandoned quickly; ie- my recent Ask HN submission about Android TV.
How about using Algolia like HN?
Sun's forgotten (I believe) Cell codec used the colour cell idea even more directly:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/802-1318-10/ug11cell.htm...

"A cell encoder breaks the video into cells. A cell is 16 pixels, arranged in a 4x4 group (Figure B-1). Cells are encoded into the bytestream in scanline order, from left to right and from top to bottom.

The basic encoding scheme used in both versions of Cell is based on an image coding method called Block Truncation Coding (BTC). The 16 pixels in a cell are represented by a 16-bit mask and two intensities or colors. These values specify which intensity to place at each of the pixel positions. The mask and intensities can be chosen to maintain certain statistics of the cell, or they can be chosen to reduce contouring in a manner similar to ordered dither.

The primary advantage of BTC is that its decoding process is similar to the operation of character fonting in a color framebuffer. The character display process for a framebuffer takes as input a foreground color, a background color, and a mask that specifies whether to use the foreground or background color at each pixel. Because this function is so important to the window system, it is often implemented as a display primitive in graphics accelerators. The Cell compression technique leverages these existing primitives to provide full-motion video decoding without special hardware or modifications to the window system."
We expect our schools to perform as well as European schools. In some places, that actually happens, and we should expect no less. Our police should perform as well, too, especially for what we pay.
Earliest 'modern' hand nearly two million years old
Thinking of the popular players (that I know about):

* Trulia/Zillow

* Redfin

* Padmapper

* 42Floors

And there are some dinosaurs like Reliance and IDC Global.
Yes - and hackers are still stereotyped as wearing hoodies and speaking street. Sort of annoying really, as I know plenty of hackers who never fitted that stereotype and yet could own everything on sight in a few keystrokes.
I found that article really inspiring. And I especially liked the validation of switching from externally driven goals to internally driven goals. Many, many times, when someone has asked me "What do I need to do to get a top job" or "Get into company X" my answer has been a variant of the author's epiphany:

"I stopped working on problems for the sole purpose of notching up a publication. I shifted gears to cybersecurity. I found a project on cancer in the med school. I joined a project in chemical engineering using super-computing to fight global warming."

The truth is that you can't serve two masters of "chasing success" and "solving a problem." Pick hard problems to solve and run them down. That says way more about you than any sort of resume buffing you might do.
It turns out, when you have a whole other human being doing full time unpaid labor that is completely essential to your well being, you can succeed professionally.

I find the other comments full of praise tarnished by their elision of this crucial detail. This is the story of a family, not a man.
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Naturally, the solution is vigilantism.
Proposed data retention laws? They are in fact actual laws, but they just haven't agreed on how much money the telco's and ISP's are going to get for implementing it.
Router enthusiasts are definitely a target audience. Average demographics won't pay $200 for a router.
They have today's companies now. Nebia, wheels cafe, etc.
Not a fair reading:

>At first, she gave up a promising career in start-ups to care full-time for Bertrand

Emphasis added on at first. While jt doesnt sound like she went back to that career, he then goes on to list a lot of achievements that were way beyond simply being a full time mom.
Wish there was audio / text that went along with these slides :(
Dylan changed a lot after the early Newton days. The language changed a lot, but so did the execution environment. That evolution continues today as we're now working on moving to an LLVM-based compiler back-end over at http://opendylan.org/ (or chat with us in #dylan on Freenode).
Yup, integral calculus textbooks have this interesting effect...
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It's possible that Pascal libraries, if they existed, could be combined in a similar fashion. It's possible that Knuth's code was in fact written in that way so that if you really compared apples and apples, the unix solution would be seem like a horrible hack because it had to use two different programming languages.
"Everyone knows what the problem is. It is not that the drugs don't work (well most of them), it is that they only work for a small subset of people."

1. I honestly don't give drug companies that much integrity.

2. Sadly, I feel they systematically lied to the FDA in order to get their product to market? No, I don't think the average pharmaceutical research scientist wanted to poison people, but I have horrid feeling a lot of them went along with the sharade in order to make a living? I picture too many scientists thinking, "Well it doesn't work as we thought, but I'm really not hurting anyone because the Plecebo Effect was huge? So, in order to keep my job, I will not object to these results/statistics?". I have found that when it comes down to a person's livelihood, life--money; people don't raise their hands? They go into this weird, socially acceptable denial?("Hay it's legal!") That's why when even here on HN, I make sure to read the blurry statements.(I'm usually disappointed, but I want to hear the dissenters, and critics.)

3. I'll admit I threw the baby out with the bath water years ago, and I don't have hard evidence (in front of me collated, and ready to provide objective examples) to back up my intuition, and assertions, but I don't think one has to look too far for examples?

4. I grew up not questioning scientific integrity. I thought these institutions/people were the pillars of honesty!; what I have learned in the last decade, specifically about the Pharmacutical Industry, hurt me on so many levels--I literally feel like crying sometimes.

5. My understanding of statistics is fuzzy. To those that need a refresher, I found two books helpful: How to lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff., and The Comic Book Guide to Statistics--don't know the author.
Some trivia: Joshua Davis was part of the Kioken design studio and founder of the Dreamless forum. He gained significant recognition as a generative design artist, creating online artworks such as Praystation & Once Upon A Forest. He is also a really inspiring and heartwarming person, sharing his knowledge in workshops and conference talks worldwide.

The HYPE Framework was initially made in Flash and co-authored with Branden Hall, but is now resurrected on top of Processing with James Cruz.

Here is a 2007 profile on him: https://vimeo.com/5950300

And his more recent online class on generative art: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/Programming-Graphi...
It's fantastic that you've reduced the startup and memory overhead to the point where it's almost negligible. That's quite an achievement!

One thing that was not discussed is the impact hypervisor-based virtualization has on runtime. I've seen plenty of benchmarks where AWS EC2 instances perform much more poorly than a bare-metal machine with a similar processor. Do you have any idea what the overhead might be for clear containers vs standard linux namespace-based containers?
Which Operating System(OS) does it use? Will it be open sourced? Can you use it without a Google Account?
Bush was the worst kind of dumb: foolish, sheltered and led by Cheney.
Not all councils behave like mafia. It just depend witch political party is ruling the city. Actually, some local governments are quite open to backup initiatives coming from the civil society.
You know, governments are there because of an election, so they are not better of worst than the people that voted them.
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"Our product is not available in your country".

How predictable.
Ha. This took me back to being 8 years old again. My mom loved/hated the fact that her kids had graph paper ALL OVER the house because we were building sprites for games on the C64.

Boy, assembly was a bitch at first.
This was my experience as a hobbyist with a business degree who went back to school several years later for CS.

My second semester, we worked in groups of four for an elective Robotics course. Our group was composed of 3 seniors and me. One was super competent, I noobed hard but contributed working code and the other two were very eager to do the write-ups.
It's pretty rare in my day-to-day work to deal with flat, string-delimited text files.

This advice would be more actionable for me if there were more shell tools that operated on data structures (e.g. objects represented as JSON).
Same companies presented Monday as will present Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Search engine for Ashley Madison data posted
That's also a terrible analogy.

And are you saying that I don't respect intellectual property, if I disagree with the previous flawed analogy? Many people who respect intellectual property don't agree with it: just look at the reactions of experts to the various "Piracy is theft" PR campaigns.
But Bentley chose the program. He chose a task that's suited to a few lines of shell and asked Knuth to apply Literate Programming to it. Complaining that the result is overworked seems disingenuous - like asking someone to apply the MVC pattern to fizzbuzz and then asking why they used such a verbose approach to such a simple problem.
Our ancestors (at least going back a few million years or so) could hope to live a dozen or three years and fuck more than once. Octopus has a long way to go to catch up, evolution-wise.
This is the norm. It's not just that you can't have a successful career while taking care of a child with disabilities, you can't be a power couple with two high powered careers and a family without two nannies or massive support from grandparents.

IIRC if you match childless single men and women by educational attainment and job experience the gender pay gap is about 3%. But most women downshift or exit their careers after having children and most men don't. Anyone with a really dedicated support staff or person is at a massive advantage when competing against those without. The only single people with support as dedicated as a competent spouse have butlers. Even corporate executives with personal assistants don't have that kind of always available, for all tasks help, not in the overwhelming majority of cases.
What if you want to use a library?
>Unsurprising really given the way many people act right now in SV.

Except he's in SF.
So then, to extend your original comment... "You also can't run new Windows operating systems on old hardware."

There's going to be some point where old hardware will cease to run the latest OS... wherever the OS makers decide to draw the line, the line WILL exist, so it's not a valid argument for or against, it's just... a fact.
Convox 0.5: Multi-Region VPCs, Process Scaling, and Databases
You have to be careful with what you pull in. But with precompiled headers I'm building a suite of 25 command line apps, all dependent on boost, in 22 seconds on a 2012 MacBook Air. gcc on Windows is similar.

Microsoft doesn't even let you share precompiled headers across projects, but it's still building in under 20 seconds.

There's a LOT of really idiotic C++ build scripts out there. I really don't know what some people are thinking.
> VBA also does SQL operations on Excel tables, but that's, well, worse.

Are you sure about that? Afaik it doesn't but I may be mistaken.
Provably considered harmful
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You're attacking the parts of the analogy that don't apply to the actual cryptography. Best way to see how they get around the issue you're talking about is to watch the video.
> It seems that the main issue here is that with pre-registration, study authors have to pick a single measure of primary benefit at the outset, whereas before, they might have made that choice after getting results back

Right. And then you'd have to use proper statistical reasoning for that state of affairs. Which nobody ever does, cause they're not statisticians and it's complicated and it would reduce the chance of 'statistical significance'.

So they just use a standard calculation of statistical significance -- which is based on the assumption that you have picked a single hypothesis in advance and then done your test. So it's completely invalid to use it how everyone typically does.

Imagine you flip a coin 50 times. Then you see, okay, did I ever get 10 heads in a row? Nope? Okay, how about 5 heads followed by 5 tails? Nope. Okay.... try a couple dozen other things, oh, look, I got exactly 3 tails followed by exactly 3 heads followed by exactly 3 tails again! Let's run my test of statistical significance to see if that was just chance, or is likely significant -- oh hey, it's significant, this is likely a magic coin not random at all!

Nope. If you test everything you can think of, _something_ will come up as 'statistically significant', but it's not really, those tests of statistical significance -- which calculate how likely it is the results you got happened by random chance happenstance vs an actual correlation likely to be repeatable -- are no longer valid if you go hunting for significance like that.
To be fair, he said it was a good indicator of the maturity of the team and how much he was willing to trust the systems. He didn't say it was a good indicator of the reliability of those systems.
Can you describe to me, succinctly, why the fact that this criminal wrote "Fuck off, gook!" on Justin's garage door is worse, or more notable, or otherwise more deserving of our concern than if he had written "Fuck off, faggot!"? (Or, for that matter, "Fuck off, Justin!")
The federation is impressive!
Catalonia -> London -> Tokyo.

Moved to London, met Japanese girlfriend, moved to Japan because we didn't love London that much, married, working for a a startup in Tokyo.

I wouldn't mind to go back sometime to South-West Europe, specially if we have kids.
I mean the retro bars in Chicago ban cells. I am sure the west coast has some too.
This is a great comment, Thomas.

I had an argument with my girlfriend about this. No matter what reasoning I used, no matter what I said, she could not agree that it was wrong that Ashley Madison (A.M.) was hacked.

Her position was that marital infidelity is such a pubishable offense that the participants on A.M. deserve to be publicly outed. In her view, it was not even up for debate. She felt so powerfully about infidelity that she didn't care.

My girlfriend is not a luddite, but she's also not an engineer. She isn't a programmer, doesn't work in tech, and is not particularly invested in ethical conversations about privacy. When I told her that hacking and outing people on a website because they do something you disagree with is playing God, she didn't seem to be phased at all. It was worth it. That this line of thinking could be used for things she did not agree with was not something I could convince her of. She simply values, in a somewhat totalitarian way, the justice inflicted on these people beyond her own right to privacy (or theirs).

My point here is that you can't convince someone this is unethical behavior if they are emotionally invested in it. I think it's disgusting that this is making the rounds on Twitter. But I don't think you could ever convince people they are being hypocritical. They simply enjoy having something to dislike, especially if it fits in their ideological conception of the world.

I think this is a strong parallel to the privacy violations with regards to the NSA. You can't convince people that it's wrong if they have elevated their own ethical crusade beyond their right to something such as privacy.

Sorry to hijack this comment with NSA.
You mean someone like Aphyr, the person he was talking to? :)
"unnecessarily wasteful energy-wise"

This is just for setup right? So the energy cost is insanely trivial, hardly worth mentioning.
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This static linking thing is gonna be the wave of the future!
OT: There is a bug in this blog that when I tried to share it on Facebook, it shows: "<a data-width="300" data-height="200" data-bop-link..."
The PowerPivot engine itself I imagine is in unmanaged code, but the code that just writes datasets and whatnot to the model is (from what I've heard)managed code, and indeed you can decmpile the libraries and see all sorts of things, I've only looked around for about 10 minutes or so. And I had just read on some obscure thread that someone had successfully found the undocumented API call to write to the model, which is what I'm wanting to do - but I don't even know what the product name is that supposedly does this, sorry.
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Super awesome. Well done guys!
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Something like this? https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
This is an example of partnership, division of labour, and increasing returns to expertise. This is a normal upper middle class marriage insofar as one partner has a successful career and the other provides support to that career. There are other ways of doing an upper middle class marriage. The ones that involve two high powered careers necessitate full time support staff, whether paid, two nannies, or extremely supportive family, usually grandparents.

Very few people get to their thirties without realising that a marriage is a partnership and that having a family is a demanding project which requires a lot of work.
In my opinion, Boost should only ever be a dependency for end-user applications, never libraries, unless the library is specifically aimed at Boost users.
> But they apparently can't innovate. Why not? We should look to protect our innovative abilities, more than we protect their products.

What good does our ability to innovate do, if the Chinese are there waiting at the end of the process to scoop up the fruits of those labours and use them free of the investment cost that it took to create them in the first place?
We had the pleasure of spending a week with Josh at his annual workshop in Aspen learning Hype/Processing. It's a lot of fun.
Of course it's going to be a tough sell for some people. We could launch a potato and it'd be a tough sell for some people, let alone launching a WiFi router. :) At the end of the day you either trust the information made available by Google or you don't. If there was less text there, plenty of people would be suspicious that something was being hidden (heck - people are suspicious even with the current amount of text)!

It's okay to decide not to adopt the device in question, and it's fine to weigh how much you trust Google against what benefits you might get from any given device. For the average tech-savvy user, perhaps there's a lower value prop, perhaps there isn't. Some people like having absolute control, other people like someone managing things for them.
There's always chocolatey:

choco install python

https://chocolatey.org/packages/python
L Condoms could be a game changer! Love the time-lapse thing too.
1: please stop linking mental illness to violence. The vast majority of people with a mental illness pose no risk of harm to other people (and are much more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of violence). Your other colleages are just as likely to be the perpetrators of violence. (You're also wrong about spree killers, many of them did not have a diagnosis or symptoms of mental illness.) if we assume that one in one hundred people has a psychotic style illness that means there are about 3 million people in the US with that diagnosis. There are about 16,500 murders in the US each year. So even if every single US murder was carried out by a person with a mental illness (and a different person was responsible for each murder) we see 16,500 mentally ill murderers and 3 million mentally ill non-murderers.

But, if you really think this person poses a risk of harm to the public (or to themselves) you probably want to contact the police. You might want to look up police powers to detain people with mental health problems and use that language when you report. It's probably useful to keep a diary of erratic behaviour. If the employer knows the relevant doctor it's a good idea to let her/him know.

2: when an employee has a disability (and mental illness counts as a disability) the employer should make reasonable adjustments. So, for personal hygiene it is unreasonable for an employee to turn up at work smelling. A reasonable adjustment would be for the employer to have a meeting with the employee, let the employee know their personal hygiene was not appropriate for work; and find a trusted person who would have that conversation in future. Depending where the business is the employee will get different protection if they have declared their illness. (In some places undeclared illness means no protection (but IANAL)). If they have declared it's possibly okay for the employer to have a friendly meeting to ask if there are any reasonable adjustments that need to be made; and to ask if medical treatment is going well.

3: someone should be documenting all the inappropriate behaviour. At some point the employer should have a meeting to discuss this. Make sure good notes are kept during that meeting. (If it's legal where you are take a recording of the meeting).

But really most of this is standard stuff about dealing with under performing employees. Document the poor behaviour; have the conversation; warn; dismiss.
Apologies. I knew it was going to come off snarky, but was in the middle of something then, and didn't have the cycles to fix it.

It was not my intent to imply that you did not respect IP, just that I do, and to me, the theft of an album is on equal moral footing with the theft of a car (though, commensurately less so, given the value). As, to me, they are the same, the analogy worked to me.

I don't know what's terrible about the second analogy, but either way, the guy knowingly used seeds that weren't his, claiming at one point that its planting was a miscommunication, and that it should have been allowed due to lack application of RoundUp at another.

The case was not concerned with any accidental plantings, but focused only on those plants that he intentionally harvested and planted, claiming imaginary "farmer's rights" of ownership of anything that happens to be upon his physical property.

I'll refrain from coming up with another flawed analogy here, but it doesn't seem controversial to me that he lost because he did not present a legally valid defense to the Canadian court system.