skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly, that it's not worth your bosses' time to micromanage you if they are going to extract merely 5 hrs/month worth of labor out of you.

But nothing prevents you from working 50 hrs/week for one decade and then retire early, move to Vietnam, and live from your savings.
When a call center person asks if I've had a particular problem that's causing me to cancel, I say no.

When they suggest that they might be able to help, or in any stall with canceling, I tell them I've changed my mind and now I have a problem with their customer service.
It all depends on the representative you speak with. There have been times where I've had to contact them and have had a pleasant experience, but as I detailed in another reply in this thread, I've also had godawful experiences where I simply couldn't believe the logic the representative was trying to apply to the situation.
I love this idea. I don't need to cancel Comcast yet, but I will definitely use AirPaper when I do.
>>Peterson signed all 177 of the so-called cookie-cutter probable-cause affidavits in bulk, without specifying the evidence against each individual defendant. Peterson, it turns out, is a former state trooper with no legal training.

Hate lawyers and law schools if you want, but they have their time and place. The problem here seams not that officers broke the law, but that they seem not to have any understanding of the law in the first place. Instead of planning and deliberation, they were all showboating against each other. The whole incident reads like a script for Lethal Weapon IV.
But how to avoid coworkers from pulling pranks on you while you sleep?
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normal problem to have, the solution depends on your stack.

vagrant, docker, puppet/chef, packer and aws are what i use to create repeatable environments that don't need much attending to... once you get it set up the first time.
I made a poor choice of words, as realize I could be conveying the the opposite of what I meant. I've re-written the line to better present that my thought that the drive to avoid cultural appropriation can look a lot like cultural segregation.
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This reminds me of Manning's case.

"That Manning was convicted of computer fraud seems to suggest that using wget on a U.S. government computer to download large numbers of files can be considered the digital equivalent of trespassing – even if it's on turf you're otherwise allowed to access."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/...
I understand the sentiment behind wanting to GPL projects and I would myself if it didn't lower even further the already infinitesimal possibility of someone reusing my code.
To the question of whether something is wrong, it being "normal human behavior" is not an argument for or against.

Normal doesn't mean fair or right or harmless or good. That's what the article is about.

So why did he say it?
Comcast customer service does seem to be much better now than it used to be. Possibly they got the hint that they were pissing everybody off enough to get voted into the top of the list for worst companies in the U.S. year after year after year.
Thanks for replying.

I imagine if you and I had a good looooong talk, our positions would not appear so far apart. However, this is not the place for that.

Take care.
This looks really good! We've been looking for something to run ourselves that can replace Google.

However, I found a few flaws after a couple of minutes of testing.

1. Neither search nor autocomplete appears to support filtering by fields other than country? We have an app that needs to filter autocompletions by state. A focus point might be sufficient if the autocompleter aggressively sorts results based on distance, but I have yet to meet one that does this (or allows a tuning of the distance function). A rectangular bounding box filter doesn't cut it. I guess I'll have to check out the code and see if this can be added/improved.

2. The API only returns points, with no boundary information, for street addresses. We have an app that uses geocoding to match street addresses to points. But if your address is a bit imprecise and matches an entire stretch of highway (it happens a lot!), that's obviously not a valid match — something like "Highway 66" is just wrong. Google will wisely return a bounds object that you can compute the area for and determine if it's small enough that it's likely a precise enough location (we use 10m2 as the maximum). Unlike Google, Mapzen doesn't even tell you that your match is a "route" — everything is an individual street address. Not sure how trivial this would be to implement, as boundaries would need support from datasets; OSM has the required data, OpenAddresses might not.

3. Street address matching seems a bit patchy. I tried my Brooklyn street address, and it didn't find it. The building was constructed last year, though, so maybe it's old data. Can someone from Mapzen comment?
Great question! In this case, you should of us as a highly trained personal assistant who is helping you cancel your Comcast. We help manage all the crappy parts of the process behind the scenes, but you're still the person actually doing the cancellation.
I'd be very interested in the bullets recovered from the scene, but it sounds like that's not happening. The whole talk of long guns and a police trap sounds sadly totally expected with American police.
Have they never randomly raised your bill while on autopay, with no notice whatsoever?
A new product you could take a look at is http://www.jut.io.
It's in beta / free for anyone.

It's a streaming analytics development environment, and uses d3 for visualization. It ingests both events and metrics.

It's based on a high-level dataflow processing language that allows you to process your data flexibly (moving window analytics, anomaly detection, general statistical processing). you can build interactive apps & dashboards and control which facets users can manipulate.

aaand here's the disclosure - I work at Jut and run customer success.
Really? You have to wait in a really long line for several hours at a bizarre location.
Its take on probability as a way of modelling our brain is refreshing, for instance, the beginning of chapter 1:

Suppose some dark night a policeman walks down a street, apparently deserted; but suddenly he hears a burglar alarm, looks across the street, and sees a jewelry store with a broken window. Then a gentleman wearing a mask comes crawling out through the broken window, carrying a bag which turns out to be full of expensive jewelry. The policeman doesn't hesitate at all in deciding that this gentleman is dishonest. But by what reasoning process does he arrive at this conclusion? Let us first take a leisurely look at the general nature of such problems.

A moment's thought makes it clear that our policeman's conclusion was not a logical deduction from the evidence; for there may have been a perfectly innocent explanation for everything. It might be, for example, that this gentleman was the owner of the jewelry store and he was coming home from a masquerade party, and didn't have the key with him. But just as he walked by his store a passing truck threw a stone through the window; and he was only protecting his own property. Now while the policeman's reasoning process was not logical deduction, we will grant that it had a certain degree of validity. The evidence did not make the gentleman's dishonesty certain, but it did make it extremely plausible. This is an example of a kind of reasoning in which we haveall become more or less proficient, necessarily, long before studying mathematical theories. We are hardly able to get through one waking hour without facing some situation (e.g. will it rain or won't it?) where we do not have enough information to permit deductive reasoning; but still we must decide immediately what to do.
But there aren't especially patent-savvy judges there when compared to many other districts, like the District of Delaware or the Eastern District of Virginia, both also very experienced as patent-litigating districts of choice.
Just tell them you’ll take Google Fiber at your new place, or some similar service.
It's handy knowing they're fiddling with ROS, and the research papers show use of DNN&RL for robotics via simulated tasks with actions keying off of raw pixel inputs (paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971v1.pdf), and grasp paper shows ambitions on dexterous manipulation. I think valuable to have some idea of the research areas. I'm biased because I wrote the article, though! Aiming to produce a more granular article as soon as I can report it out.
Really? I used to work with a world class guy in Houston. There are a lot of very talented people that work in the oilfield, but they're usually very busy.
Cool idea but I don't think I'd want to send personal information on a website without HTTPS.
You know, we have considered it and we want to eventually. The problem is that hospitals typically want to deal with a company that's both more established than we are. They also typically have a much longer sales cycle.

If you have any specific use cases/contacts, please reach out to us though. We might be able to make something work?
Women fooled everyone pretending to be execs at Ashley Madison’s sister sites
Kuzzle – An open-source back-end as a service (BaaS)
Nobody in their right mind saves with current interest rates and cheap credit combined with consumerism keeps enough people in hock across the income spectrum
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but tableau can easily be the right solution.

So, if you're dealing with large datasets stored in multiple systems (like Excel + MySQL + others) Tableau can be a boon.

The ability to use many different sources of data, create calculated fields that merge/modify other fields, and then operate against them? Quite nice.

I especially am happy with how I can create larger visualizations that work across different disparate datasets from many sources.

However, it does have quite a few issues in terms of UX, usability, etc. but so far I've liked it. Your mileage may vary :)
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I was saddened by the lack of consistency under linux. I hoped that projects like http://docopt.org/ would help reduce work for developpers and users in one go.
Member retention at many companies is often closed before 8am, just call early and then you end up talking to a regular person in billing and they do an immediate cancel.

Alternately just pick a place the company doesn't have service and say you are moving there.
Can you think of examples where the originating culture has EMBRACED extra-cultural participants?

Black people embrace Eminem but not Iggy Azalea.
Black people embrace Teena Marie but not so much Miley Cyrus.

So what's the difference? What's being differentiated?
Maybe a future version of the format would specify useful cut-off points for browsers to make the decision inside the header. Then the browser can decide to download 4K version on wifi and 1K version on 3g.
I had some trouble finding the characters for that, so in case anyone else is curious -

救急不救贫。

My non-expert analysis, emergency is the characters jiu4ji2. The character jiu4 is save, ji2 is urgent, so save+urgent = emergency. The character bu4 is no, negative, not. The next two characters are jiu4 (save, from before) and pin2 (poor). These don't combine as a single word and are read separately.

With all that in mind, I read it as "It's save+urgent, not save poor". Interesting play on words.
Wrong. This is a lazy reverse-racism argument.
Why are little kids in Japan so independent?
No, it’s not only “up to the inner circle”, but if you’re going to seriously run for president, you need to spend years building a credible campaign, and demonstrate (e.g. to qualified campaign staffers, grassroots organizers, donors, key party constituent institutions, the news media, etc.) that you know what you’re doing and have a chance. Most of the above groups are risk averse, so this is a non-trivial project. People who succeed at it spend a large chunk of their career on the process.

The “easy” way to build up the understanding and support to play this game is to get elected to some lower office, and spend years working within the system, raising money, working with other elected officials, getting to know all the key players. That is to say, you have to engage with the process and earn some credibility before the process engages with you. There are other ways to earn that kind of respect/attention as an outsider, but they are equally long-term and difficult. (Alternately, if you are a billionaire like Donald Trump, or have some billionaire buddies, you can run from outside purely on money and media attention, for better or worse. But that’s also not what’s happening here.)

Lessig’s op-ed here comes across sort of like the complaints of an antisocial shut-in who went to a club one time and was upset that nobody would dance with him. “They just dance with those other guys because they don’t want to hear the truth.”
Totally bro
The general story of HP, iPods & her role may be apolitical, but this specific article about it definitely wasn't.

It clearly was written with a political axe to grind.
> WARNING: FLIF is a work in progress. The format is not finalized yet. Any small or large change in the algorithm will most likely mean that FLIF files encoded with an older version will no longer be correctly decoded by a newer version. Keep this in mind.

This seems so... avoidable. Maybe the FLIF format could include a version number declaration?
How do you verify identity, e.g. could an attacker use this to cancel a target's service? When you call customer service, cable companies usually have a few security questions to confirm the customer's identity. A letter usually has a customer signature. How do you close the identity loop with the person keying data into your web form?
You need a certain amount of pixels to represent the 1080p video in one particular frame. When the next frame comes along, your head has moved enough that you'll be seeing a different subset of those total pixels. At sufficient framerates (and motion capture rates), this actually does a pretty good job of approximating the full resolution of the imagery (especially when this is happening 2 or 3 times per source video frame, as the case might be with NTSC/PAL content).
I'm sick of comcast and its hidden fees. Their promotion last for one year and they never inform the customer (conveniently) soon after it expires. The bill keeps piling up and when you call them one day to cancel, they feed you some bs on downgrading to a basic package or even reducing your current internet speed.

I had AT&T U-verses before switching to comcast and AT&T are no saints either.

Is there a company that's honest with its customers?
I doubt human trafficking would be competitive against legal brothels.
There was someone who actually knows what Ireland is?
I had a breeding pair of peregrine falcons living over my porch and there are also many crows that live nearby. One day the falcons had caught and partially eaten a crow who managed to escape the nest and make it to the ground. Every single crow within at least a mile radius (probably close to a hundred) showed up and some of them tried to fight with the falcons. They were loud and quite agitated for a couple of hours. For the rest of the time while the falcons were nesting I stopped feeding the crows peanuts because they steered clear of the area, as soon as the falcons left they showed up again.

Crows are amazing creatures.
And then it's more a matter of degree than black/white.

I dislike the yes/no framing of the question for that reason - it leads to people making slippery slope fallacies left and right, instead of acknowledging that it is possible to be tone deaf without necessarily intending to.
"Thbt" isn't even a word.
Having lived in all 3 countries, I can tell you that Austrians (roughly centred on solar time, and Vienna, 1/4 of the country's population in one city, almost half an hour ahead of solar) are very much early risers compared to Spaniards. (the eastern part of Spain is almost 1 hour behind solar, most of the country even more so) Opening times of shops reflect that; it's not unusual for supermarkets in Spain to open at 9:00, while in Austria 7:30 is probably the most common. The evening meal is generally also consumed much later (clock time) in Spain. The UK is somewhere in between, which again fits with the solar time offset.

Drawing any conclusions beyond that is frought with the peril of confounding factors…
Or punishments for failure
I am glad your experiences did not match mine
Interana (http://www.interana.com) which is a YC S12 company sounds like your best bet.

Whats your scale? how many events per day/month etc?
Regarding the statistics portion of your comment, QlikView has built in functions in the load script for chi squared, t and z tests (including confidence intervals), linear regression, least squares, residuals, r squared, F statistic, etc. It doesn't offer the breadth that you may get from SAS or R (especially with R's CRAN packages), but it should be sufficient for dashboard level reporting.
Because it was already sold to a dubious company with relations to the Ad industry several years ago, and extorted 30 million US$ out of advertisers like Google.
by working in an environment of adults :)
Would putting it on the DNS work as expected? Hypothetical Example: Two websites have google ads WebsiteA and WebsiteB. I want to support websiteA by allowing google ads on there but not on WebsiteB. The only way to allow google ads to WebsiteA would be from the DNS which would also allow google ads to WebsiteB.
OpenSSL wouldn't have accepted a lot of changes. Dropping legacy OS support or not caring about FIPS for examples.
if i understand you correctly - you can - like this:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame()
...loads data...

def modify_column(x):
""" modify x""""
return modified_x

df['column_name'].apply(lambda x: modify_column(x))
I say 5h/month but you can always do a freelance contract full-time for a month and then chill for four months and repeat.

The point stands, if you're an American programmer and think you have to work full-time to literally just survive you're wrong.
This story sounds sad and beautiful, but love lost really is the most worthless, horrible thing in the world. Makes you want to crawl into a hole and die a hundred times.

This is really good writing because it captures the romance without focusing on all the bleak.
> Have the statistics changed since 2010?

Oh yes: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Patent-case...

> Even then the differences in statistics on rulings I believe can be explained by the relative sophistication of the plaintiffs who file there -- mostly patent trolls

Absolutely trolls love it there. No clue what that has to do with your original point, though: the venue is absolutely advantageous to the plaintiffs and the rocket docket is a thing of the past.
I didn't even have to call to cancel my service.

I ran my connection 24/7 for a month, pulled 33TB of data down, they dropped me as a customer. Most pain free process, and a nice fuck you to Comcast as well.
Here's a related tip: you can skip step 1. Just show up at the local office with your equipment. They can take care of everything right there, and the office employee isn't trained to do customer retention so there's no hassle.
I'm confused...

I've signed up for promo plans from Comcast before, and made a note in my calendar it is expiring. Never had a problem with pushing for another promo when it is about to expire. If there is, then I'll reduce my service or switch providers (if I need to), but there is never any surprise that a promo is for a specific duration and when that ends I'll be paying the full price.

What DOES get me is their constant rate hikes outside of promotions, and that is a completely separate issue.
TL;DR - Do pushups on the floor.
I don't understand why your front page is so scrolly (Firefox on OSX) but I'm pretty sure it rendered wrong, I can scroll in the x axis past your nice pile of paper on the head of the page and despite my efforts I can't work out what 'Parkin...' you're making easier to get in SF.
When i log in and view source I get back a little bit of json only

{"_id":"560ee464ba6b14a61c74de66","name":"Untitled","data":null,"ownerId":"560ee461ba6b14a61c74de65","javascript":"","__v":0,"opened":"2015-10-02T20:09:09.119Z","modified":"2015-10-02T20:09:08.569Z","created":"2015-10-02T20:09:08.569Z","externalLibraries":[]}

how are you doing that ?
Why all new tech startups have stupid names
Seems unlikely. From a legal perspective it seems a lot like Yelp.
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Haven't used it myself, but https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking seems to be actively updated.
Like what happened to AdBlockPlus, now being owned by UnitedInternet, the company that invented BinLayer (in-page pop-ups)?
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They are offering free credit monitoring through www.protectmyid.com. I think I signed up with T-Mobile right around the beginning of the timespan of the breach, but I'm hesitant to sign up for yet another service that has all of my information.

Does anyone have any experience with these types of credit monitoring services and perhaps have an opinion to share?
And ZenHub: https://zenhub.io/ :D
The concept here reminds me of GovWorks.com (in the movie Startup.com). Their aim was to fix government red-tape.

This reminds me of that documentary.
Do those letters ever work? They are either hoping you will pay, or willing to kick you out for someone that will, no?
Right, because after making 30 million US$ with their "Acceptable Ads" program, they’re set for life: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-zahltag-30-mio-von-am...
So what is, exactly, the current state of the art in container networking? To the best of my understanding all current solutions (including this one) create one big LAN where all containers can see each other, but I'm certainly no expert.

How would one go about creating a network of containers more in line with traditional physical networks, with virtual switches, routers etc. ?
So, forking is pretty much the only way to do proper code cleanup in a timely fashion, right?

If you don't, people still clamor for legacy support and bug-for-bug compatibility. A fork is the only way of truly signalling "We aren't going to support our old mistakes anymore."

New features don't need forks, but cleaning up raging stupid and cruft does.
Although it'll never happen, I wish the US would adopt siestas.
I heard this at TechCrunch last night.
I enjoyed a monthly electronics kit (amplifier, radio, telgraph, etc) as a teenager.
José Mujica, president of Uruguay, interviewed for the Human film [video]
Your position requires exactly zero definable instances of negative cultural appropriation. Can you really defend that position? Can you defend the Nazi's co-opting the swastika, for instance? Can you explain why cultural appropriation tends to be directed along privilege vectors? Male-female / gay-straight / white-black / rich-poor / etc.

No. Simpler (for you) not to consider these things :)

Cultural interchange is inevitable yes, but is its effect on the human condition negligible? No. So why not talk about it.
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I would be elated if I had a desk that was longer than I am tall.

That would nearly double the size!
For Cyph, I initially looked into Tableau and various analytics platforms like Mixpanel, then ultimately realised that Google Analytics (which we were already using) had an events API that worked fine for our needs.

See: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

And this is what our dashboard looks like: http://i.imgur.com/F8g8Hxq.png

It's fairly basic when it comes to visualisations, but thought I'd throw it out there in case it's helpful.
He's got some interesting views on life in general. I wouldn't read too much into this.

http://www.treefinder.de/downloads.html