skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I held off on buying a machine when I heard MS was doing the Surface. I figured they'd nail the convertible tablet - it's not that hard. When they announced, I thought the specs were terrible, but hey maybe I could live with it. Then it became clear the keyboards were crap, and you couldn't actually use them as laptops, I laughed and got another ThinkPad.

Windows as a touch device has sucked forever. I know this having used convertibles in 2005. It's great when it works, but you better have a keyboard nearby. MS has done effectively nothing to make touch/pen really outstanding on Windows. Apart from their terrible Metro apps approach.

Surface Book looks great from the waist up. If Lenovo made a $500 adapter that let me slap an X201-style bottom on it, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
They had something better in the pipeline too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-IX
Good call. It wasn't European governments, and it wasn't an attempt to punish automakers for malfeasance, though.

The ICCT (an NGO) that appears to be based on Europe, commissioned the West Virginia study to try to figure out how more stringent US Diesel standards were being met, so they could encourage automakers to meet the same standards in Europe.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2015...

"In 2013, his organization [the ICCT] commissioned a study of VW diesels by West Virginia University after questions were raised about European diesel emissions standards and whether European vehicles were emitting too much nitrogen oxides linked to smog. Testers looked at three diesel cars for the U.S. market: a 2012 VW Jetta, a 2013 VW Passat and a BMW X5.
The group expected the cars they tested would perform better than those in Europe, because U.S. regulations are tougher. They were surprised the two Volkswagens had significantly higher-than-expected emissions, while the BMW performed well. They were so certain they had done something wrong that they tested the cars two more times with similar results."
Strange article, starts with a long story about Jim Smith, then has some actual information, then intersperses more bits of information with the opinions of Jim.
Thanks Arnaud!
Policy? Maybe not, but the apparent lack of downvote buttons seem to indicate that the ethos of "discussion over downvotes" is on the mark.
I am discovering the hard way that adwords and seo are slow to convert. And there is so much content on almost every keyword out there and most of that stuff is regurgitated content. But those content have backlinks and so my blog posts never make it to google first page.
Not even having a lot of money. Their service is having a credit score high enough to obtain low-rate mortgages, which they then arbitrage against "market rate rent".

People complain we shouldn't subsidize people buying homes who can't afford them. Then why the f____ are we subsidizing landlords instead?
Jared is one of the best angels I've ever worked with and he's been high value add for Zesty, having invested in us before we even got into YC. Stoked for both YC and Jared!
It's back online. Thank you for sharing.
It's not just a series of quotes (not that it would this would necessarily be objective). He provides clearly heavily biased commentary, starting with the title.
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I've taken to simply running VMware in kiosk mode. Full-screen Linux desktop (cause life without xmonad...), no Windows in sight except via the "boss key" sequence. Then I get the benefits of using Linux, with the battery life, sleep/resume, drivers, etc. of using Windows.

I'd love to not use Windows as a host, but life's too short for dealing with Linux on laptops. Despite how ThinkPads are great for it and stuff "mostly just works".
I think this is part of the problem. The EA189 without AdBlue needed the cheating software. The Passats with AdBlue also had the EA189 and likely could have been tuned to work without the cheating software, but likely have it anyway.

It's a bit of a shame that EA288 cars are stacking up at dealers nationwide and will apparently never be certified for sale (VW said they would not ask for certification), even though they almost certainly don't need the cheat. (Although it's possible that it's still present, which is of course still illegal, need it or not).
Nice! Added to my dotfiles :)
Insurance companies and banks are required to maintain a minimum amount of safe/liquid (read: cash) reserves.

> I would genuinely love to hear a good argument for why keeping any cash assets when one has significant liquid investments,

Can you describe an asset (besides US treasuries) that you can be assured of its value in a volatile market? Even money market funds have broken the buck before (~2008).
You keep talking about something completely different. The question wasn't based on the US standard and it didn't ask about absolute numbers. It asked about the proportion of people living in extreme poverty as defined by the WB, and their answers are completely wrong. And I don't think it's an American thing, ignorance about development issues is pretty widespread. Ask people how much they think the government spends on humanitarian/development aid and they'll say something like 25-30%, when it's about 0.18% of gdp in the US. But again it's not uniquely American. In the Netherlands they say ±6% when it's really about an order of magnitude less (just under 0.7%) for example, most people are unaware it's that low or that it has been lowered in recent years. Better yet though, the study that shows that only 5% of Americans knew the right answer was done in Sweden and Norway, too. While they do a bit better, not by much getting it right about 20% of the time, and wrong 80% of the time. (and as Hans Rosling would say, a monkey doing this test would be about 50% more accurate as an average Norwegian or Swede).

Now it's a fair point, we can argue about the definitions of income all day and change definitions and have different answers that may not be very meaningful, I agree with you there. But just look at one indicator of poverty which has much less ambiguity as a statistic: child mortality under five. Kids who die, there's not a lot of room to juggle with definitions or semantics here. It's caused by societies with deeply entrenched poverty, societies that due to their poverty struggle to provide adequate healthcare, food, clean drinking water, education to parents, safe living environments etc etc. And if we look at child mortality, it more than halved since 1990, despite a much bigger population. It's now around 16 thousand per day, an astonishing number, but think about what it means, it means compared to 1990, about 6 million people (a holocaust-scale parallel is easily made) do not die every single year, year after year, that did die in 1990. That's an insane achievement and it's contrary to our public sentiment that looks at Ebola and ISIS and thinks the world is on fire and on the decline, when it's never been better. There are many more of such statistics we can look at, and they're not all expressed in some definition of poverty that changes to suit our desires. We also measure poverty in things like literacy rates, in things like the proportion of the population that has access to a toilet, or electricity, or a loan. Across the board the improvements are substantial, obviously never good enough and perpetually unable to meet our desire to solve every problem yesterday, but in the context of enormous challenges the progress we're seeing on tons of development indicators is truly inspiring and optimistic.
Not trying to change your mind, and I appreciate the chance for a dialogue... Your perspective seems based on the idea that housing (shelter) is a basic need and should be provided for, and at some fundamental level I'm inclined to agree. (In my mind, it would be pretty basic housing...)

I did want to call attention to your gas prices example... Gas prices are driven down to approximately the cost of getting more oil out of the ground, refining it into gasoline, and transporting it to your local Chevron. These are costs inherent to "making gas" - it's not free. The same goes for housing, so whether you'd have renters pay it or have the government pay it for them, someone's going to have to cut down trees, pour concrete, level land, install plumbing, etc.

This is this "value" of the housing I'm talking about, which is separate from the moral right to shelter that seems to guide your judgement on the issue. Thanks for being willing to engage me in the discussion!
Sentry's sourcemap support is one of my favorite features. After spending years poring over cryptic minified exception messages, I finally set up Sentry for my latest JS frontend. It's glorious to get a nicely formatted traceback containing actual source code lines.
This is a great question and one that probably merits a long-form discussion.

One thing I'm certain of is that aggregation of content directly in a way as to provide the holy grail of streaming everything is simply never going to happen because rightsholders are unwilling to cede control of distribution to a powerful entity like Netflix or iTunes (hence Netflix's pivot to focus on production and exclusives so they can control their own destiny).

But it's also clearly not viable for the majority of rightsholders to do their own distribution, at least not yet. As much as streaming technology is commoditizing and device manufacturers outside of Apple/Android are converging on web-based platforms, it's still a massive effort to build a good UX and make it available everywhere that counts. There is clearly huge opportunity for platform makers like Apple to capture value by enabling distribution like they did with the iTunes Store and App Store. There is also opportunity for new middleman strategies like white-label apps, or transparent aggregation that would be something akin to channels-within-an-app type of setup

At the moment there's so much churn happening and so many different strategies that it's very hard to predict what the landscape will look like in 5-10 years. The only constant is that cable companies are being rapidly disintermediated, because they were overly reliant on their monopoly status, and have no talent in either production or UX design so I don't see much chance for them to survive.

If I had to sum my thoughts up it is that the apps of today are replacing the channels of yesterday. The most successful channels are themselves becoming apps (eg. HBO). In the past channels were distributed either as broadcast or as cable, but there is not such a clear distribution pattern for apps. Already apps are available on numerous devices, all with their own idiosyncrasies, sometimes overlapping with other platforms and sometimes not. Platforms that were relevant just a few years ago (Boxee) are completely gone, and new platforms are launching every day. I agree wholeheartedly with Tim Cook's assertion that the future of TV is apps, but I don't have a clue what the platforms will look like in a few years. MUBI will continue to be one of those apps, mostly independent (although we rely on platforms so there's always a degree of cooperation involved), certainly not integrated exclusively into a larger offering ala Netflix or IPTV.
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I will suggest you are suffering from some kind of prejudice or bias. Doctors prescribe drugs all the time for beneficial purposes. Caffeine, found in chocolate, coffee, and sodas, is also a drug. Mos spices have medicibal uses. Etc.

Many drugs have an impact on your mental state.

I personally suspect that if someone has an addiction they cannot break, there is probably some underlying problem fueling it, possibly a physical health issue. So saying drug use is associated with wreckage and death....cancer leads to drug use and wreckage and death. But sometimes, cancer leads to drug use that averts death, though at a cost.
This makes very little sense. It's essentially a completely arbitrary subset of all Unicode emoticons. And of course it's always been possible to use Emoji in comments, meaning there would now be two ways to say the same thing (one of which is tracked differently by Facebook, presumably).

All they needed to do is create simple short-cut links for auto-submitting one-character Emoji comments, and then say that from now on a comment of "thumbs-up" is a Like. That way, any comment that contains a key Emoji character could be interpreted similarly by Facebook without requiring a button press. And, if they decide to track even more Emoji in the future, they could just do it and they'd already have an archive of comment text to build from instead of having to create a new link again.
Sincere kudos to Leonardo.

I used to hang out with him and some others in #netbsd-it on freenode some years ago (when I was using NetBSD).

He is a very nice guy.
An earlier article said that the two who engineered the cheating were the chief engineer and the guy in charge of engines. So whether they engineered it or not, they (and the CEO who has already been fired) are responsible; that's their job.
Seems like a pretty easy attack, so I expect to see it executed by others for profit.
Thanks for your comment, I've shared it with the team.
> ...a much better option is to load a process from a checkpoint image, e.g. one taken by CRIU or DMTCP.

Almost completely unrelated: Two things that came out of the LKML examination of kdbus during the 4.1 merge request were:

1) kdbus makes assumptions that break CRIU and similar projects

2) The kdbus people didn't seem to care much about this fact

So... the "ultimate" systemd setup may very well preclude the use of process checkpointers to speed up startup. :(
The latter is programming right?
Awesome, thanks for the detailed feedback.

- Great point on permissions. I'm certainly going to do some digging to see how many people get turned away by that level of access. I could definitely understand if people are cautious with that, as you were, because they should be!

- The prevention of commits to master all happens via GitHub's new protected branches feature (they use Git hooks I believe). You're right, preventing force push is part of it, but the other thing it can do is require status checks (PullApprove is just another status check) on all commits to your base branch -- meaning nothing can be directly committed to the base branch, but should instead run through a pull request. Pretty interesting stuff: https://github.com/blog/2051-protected-branches-and-required...

- Thanks for sharing this one, I definitely wouldn't have thought of that without experiencing it myself.

- I'm planning on building some settings towards this. The most basic one giving an option that approval statuses go back to "pending" on new commits. It could possibly get more specific, giving an option to ignore whitespace changes etc...

- Nice idea. I'll throw this in the hopper.

Let me know if you have any other thoughts!
Microsoft to buy Canonical, pass it on!

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/microsoft-recommends-ubuntu-...
Exactly. I never see ads on YouTube when using Firefox, only when using the Android YouTube app.
Try reading the FAQ:

Why don't I see down arrows?

There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments
after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on
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Since your account was created 5 minutes ago, you lack the karma to downvote.
>Those who smoked pot have probably noticed the alternative or alien 'voice' which appears in your head and makes you think and say funny things or think paranoid thoughts.

I have never experienced this. Marijuana can exacerbate existing schizophrenia or expose it. If you hear voices after consuming it, I would talk to a doctor. It can be a quite strong drug, but it does not typically cause clear, audial hallucinations. (I would more describe it as distorting and/or decomposing the audio perception, kind of like the visuals you get from lsd. Pretty, but certainly not meaningful by itself.)

But, I've watched someone go through a psychotic breakdown when smoking weed the first time. They were not aware of their family history of schizophrenia until after that happened and they asked around. Be careful. :)
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Yes, we all have bills that need to be paid. But many people (especially those who aren't making great money) continually and stupidly buy stuff they don't need, not even realizing they can't afford it. You make 35k a year? Then you really shouldn't be buying a brand new iPhone with a large data plan, or a new car with monthly payments that eat away at your already limited income. Or maybe instead of going out for lunch everyday for work, you should pack something. People love to complain about not having money without taking any responsibility for their spending habits.

Also, if you've read more of his stuff you'd know he worked for a decade before he retired, saving up a significant portion of his income by staying frugal. He didn't just magically have two houses to rent out.

I'm not sure where the insane hatred towards renting out a property is coming from. A lot of the time the landlord doesn't actually make much money off of it. Even if the rent covers their mortgage payment (which it often doesn't), if something serious breaks or needs to be repaired, they're on the hook for that and may end up losing money on it that year.
That's what I mean: youtube-dl --extract-audio already downloads the best quality audio, which may be Opus (albeit typically via DASH rather than a full webm file), so you only need a line like the one you pasted if you want to specify a specific format such as m4a.
I don't know, but your previous comment implied that they weren't adjusting for inflation at all.

It's possible that they are failing to adjust for inflation sufficiently, but that claim needs support. How much inflation was there between 1990 and 2015? Why does it differ from their calculation?
However, you cannot fool all the people all the time. At least I find the credibility of money-collecting NGOs and GONGOs so much reduced that I prefer to give my money to ones that speak the truth to me, not just the inner circle.
youtube-dl defaults to "best"; youtube-dl --extract-audio defaults to "bestaudio".
Sure, I agree, as does your parent. For code like that, it should be dynamically linked. The rest though? I'm happy for it to be distributed with the app itself.
Don't erroneously conflate Jordan Hubbard with Apple. I also reject your mischaracterization of desiring launchd being a mark of insanity.
I think the difference is if you like your job or not. If you don't, then you don't like talking about work and you act like it's rude. If work is your passion, then you do like talking about it.
Sure - they had standby power, so they were operating normally. The place I went to didn't.
Australia pulled about 200K guns out of circulation. I live in a small county in a small state and there are likely that many guns just in my county. There are an estimated 300,000,000 guns in the US. And there are already and estimated 200,000 people in NY living in felony violation of the new gun laws against rifle magazines.

Also if you look at the gun murder trend line in Australia it doesn't appear to change after the gun confiscation. Gun murders were on the decline and continued on the same pace.
Currently there's two ways "approval" can be determined.
1) Approval by "any" of the reviewers means it has passed. Ex. The 3 people with write-access get chosen as the reviewers, and if any 1 of those 3 approve it, then it passes.
2) Approval by "all" of the reviewers means it has passed. Ex. Of the 3 people chose as reviewers, all 3 would have to approve the PR for it to pass.

Does that make sense? I think #1 gets at the scenario that you're talking about, but right now it doesn't automatically choose the reviewers based on who has read/write/admin access. You would just choose those people manually when you set up the repo and choose whether the rule is "anyone" can approve it or "everyone" has to approve it.
Here are some guesses.

On (1), the mental model I have is more like an understanding of who the super-intense supporters are. 90% of people might say they support background checks for gun purchases, but it's the 10% who support it who are voting on the basis of that issue, in part due to organizations like the NRA. I think our findings are consistent with that, in the sense that politicians seem to believe they don't need to learn what public opinion is in order to get re-elected; they can focus on other forms of information-gathering.

On (2), I suspect there is something there, but it's hard to make sense of Democrats from that angle, as Democratic primary voters, for example, are more liberal than the average person, yet Democratic politicians don't seem to see their districts as more liberal than they are. My guess is the key group is something more like "the people who choose to write in and go to meetings."
I would add to A2 - Decrease the benefit of being a politician.

So even if the populace is apathetic, at least they can't be taken advantaged of.
Perhaps there is less room at small scales because the whole simulation that is running the show has run out of floating point exponent space and is working off denormals. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number
Downvote buttons become visible when you have sufficient karma to vote something down.
In PowerShell, you can run

Get-AppxPackage *bing* | Remove-AppxPackage

to get rid of those Bing apps.
There is a downvote button after you have gotten some karma.

See: http://i.imgur.com/dqItM9R.png
>Quick job search shows that there are many companies out there that do ML in Scala, e.g. Sharethrough, Teralytics, LeadIQ.

What do you use to do a search that specific?
Downvoting is enabled once you hit 500 karma, a policy presumably meant to ensure that those most likely to contribute to a quality discussion are also the most likely to have good judgement in downvoting less quality discussion.
Generally, no. Each party bears their own legal fees.
Is there much profit to be made? To me the recent "stress tests" look very like disgruntled hodlers messing around for shits and giggles, and demonstrating that it costs only a few thousand dollars in bitcoins to break transaction processing.

(Love the crackier theories that /r/buttcoin are banker shills. If only banks could get hold of a few thousand dollars somewhere ...)
I associate and would use Yay only as an ironic expressions of excitement, as in "Two more weeks of working overtime, yay", but I have only found a discussion in an catholic forum as evidence that some people think the same way.

I don't believe I have ever heard someone use "Yay" in a non ironic fashion, but I'm not from an english speaking country.

So you could easily imagine a situation where posts by popular kids would get likes but posts by outsiders only yays.
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The negative comments are all one guy.
Or better yet, integrated into Raspbian, so that containers would be "apt-get install docker" away.
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Dismayed that middlebrow dismissals like this still reign supreme on HN, this seems like a cheap shot comment. Obviously you can express yourself however you wish on Facebook through comments, pictures, etc; they've actually broadened your options for doing so here.
Is there a decent introduction to scala as a language with real world ML? I've come across various ML primers that go into detail on PCA, Linear regression, etc. But not any that show real world ML usage i.e. if person listen to music of type X they'll also like Y. Face detection, etc.