skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be, the biggest issue I have isn't with the angle of the kickstand (although if you don't sit a manner that allows you to have your thighs perfectly horizontal the SP2's angles are a huge limitations as there isn't an angle in which it won't want to tip over forward or backwards).

My biggest issue with the kickstand and I can't believe I'm using that word is the thigh gap... since there isn't a base and the keyboard isn't stiff enough to provide one the moment you move your your legs a bit either further apart or up / down the kickstand tilts and the surface slides down.

For me using the surface as a laptop pretty much means for me that i have to remain still and close my legs so much that I feel like I'm crushing my private parts, It could be just me but i got quite long legs and and if I keep the Surface closer to me i just can't type on it or see the screen without hunching over or breaking my neck.
The attitude you're bringing to this conversation makes me entirely unwilling to continue. Sorry.
You really should watch this Hans Rosling's TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5xF-UYgdg

It's not misleading. Malnutrition is going down, lack of education is going down, lack of access to healthcare is going down. The more you read the Guardian, the more you have misconceptions about how bad the world is developing.
Google makes money from ads, and now Microsoft is shifting towards that strategy with Win 10 being free etc. Apple on the other hand makes money from hardware, app store, 30% or whatever it is on ebooks and inapp purchases. I'm not really THAT surprised - only so much as I thought Apple would want a slice out of both pies, but it stands to reason that they can bleed much more from Google by blocking ads than they could gain from partnering with (or creating) ad networks.
Good question, I'd have to know more about the specific service. It sounds like it started in Europe, where there wasn't a big enough improvement over what cabs already provided.
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I call it the "NPR" (http://www.npr.org/) style. I can't stand it and it's the primary reason I can't listen to NPR
Rollbar actually wasn't inspired by Sentry -- it was inspired by our founding team's efforts to solve exception tracking internally at Lolapps.

Several of the new features in Sentry (like release management / deploy tracking) actually look a lot like things that have been in Rollbar for a long while, though I expect that is the result of two smart teams attacking the same problem, rather than one inspiring the other.
I mean HN the community rather than HN the website (As in, every time I've seen a meta-discussion about the HN voting system, something along those lines has been mentioned; though I guess that's more "culture" than "policy")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354807
You can click on the tab: GDP per capita. And there you will see that Guangdong is as rich as kazakhstan.
Who said anything about the stock market? Short term CDs usually have a fixed rate, you don't ever sell them at a firesale price.
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Those undertones you hear are only giving you half the story: look at what happens to users. Cocaine was legal and used by the intelligentsia initially. Coca-Cola had cocaine; Sherlock Holmes took it to eliminate boredom. Prohibition in the U.S. was completely a moral-issue law, and was repealed a couple decades later. Cocaine is still illegal 100 years later. Why? Because society discovered that it doesn't turn out so well.

These "high-performers" mentioned by the parent post, do you want to live the lives they did? O. Henry died when he was 47, in part due to liver cirrhosis. [1] F. Scott Fitzgerald died when he was 44, in large part because of his drinking. [2] Frankly "The Great Gatsby" feels kind of dingy and depressing, and I, personally, do not want to have the kind of experiences in my life that would enable me to write such a book. Hemingway had four marriages and ended up committing suicide. [3] All the people I know that have been through a divorce describe it as extremely painful; to do it three times must leave a huge emotional scar. Is that the kind of "happier lives" you want to lead? Is it really high-performing to die at 44? How much greater could they have been if they weren't depressed, addicted, and/or lived twice as long? Have you read about the kind of lives alcoholics and their families have, let alone addicts of heavier drugs? Do you like being out of control (because when you are addicted, the addiction controls you, not the other way around)?

Be wise. Don't believe the lie that you would be free if only those taboos weren't holding you back. What if there is a very good reason those taboos are there?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
> You want to know what it's like to live on a third of the salary you make?

I've lived paying 70-80% of my income to rent. That was unpleasant and not sustainable. My conclusion was this: own a house that you can afford.
Looking at Coinbase and Gemini as a user I would probably prefer Gemini marginally because their bullshit about using HSM. They both seem to be hosted in AWS which from my POV is a major fuckup. Gemini and Coinbase are basically running a CTF where if you can find a hypervisor exploit and get lucky you can drain their hot wallet.
I would love to see something like this in Elixir :)
Its an interesting point - well known high performers in many walks of life are documented drug users. To add to the list above, here are two more that im familiar with:

Stephen King has trouble recalling writing a number of his books during the eighties due to alcohol and cocaine abuse. [1]

Sigmund Freud was a cocaine abuser up until the point he started to become a more noted researcher [2]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1178151/Stephen...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/an-anatomy-of...
Pesky EFTPOS "minimum purchases."
The "individuals" VW is claiming are responsible are 10 managers and 3 top engineers, which include the head of R&D, the head of engine design and the head of Audi.

The definition of "individual" might be different between what VW claims and what you read, though.
It's very sad that I don't know whether you are joking because it's entirely plausible that they both have this in their TOS, and that their TOS is over 70 pages long.
Blue skies, frozen water detected on Pluto
Fremont is not Bothowoodinredmokirkllevue. But it is basically the same as Ballard.
The proof-of-waste system means that, at market equilibrium, the cost of burning electricity to mine one block and get the 25 bitcoin reward should be equal to the cost of buying it on the open market.

Currently this works out as about $7 of electricity per transaction. https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction
The GDP per capita tab is really interesting if you want to estimate the life standard of each province. GDP itself is interesting for the "global power"/influence of each province over another one.
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Cash has great privacy - for some people, this is a non-issue. For me, I actually like the fact that credit cards have a record, at the end of the month I can look at my statement, and see all the places I spent money and how much. I can graph it, etc.

Works at cash only places - this probably varies around the world. In Australia, most places will accept card - the exception being Asian places, cause we're cheap =).

Small merchants are happy to receive it - I suspect this is changing, the fees are next to nothing these days, and by not handling cash, they avoid issues like employee theft, and also people are encouraged to spend more.

You get a discount when buying gas - we don't have this here (Australia)

The aforementioned tipping - likewise, we don't have this here. In general, I prefer to know how much I am spending beforehand, and I dislike the concept of tipping, or people needing to beg for tips.

It works when the power out - err, I suspect if the power is out in say a supermarket or a restaurant, they would have more issues than just the credit card machine not working.

I'm not saying never carry cash - but I like the convenience of card. And let's be honest most people aren't keeping their money stuffed inside their mattress.

Their money is in a bank account - and not in physical notes either, it's a set of electronic digits. So the whole, going to a bank, converting it to cash, giving it to somebody, so that they can then convert it back into electronic digits - seems incredibly archaic and outmoded.
Yep, that's pretty much in agreement with what I said - the technical dance that they go through adds extra protections against one specific type of attack (a legal "hand over data" that doesn't come with a "change your system so you can obtain said data" rider), but it's still worthless in face of other attack vectors.
The middle class in America is still extremely rich by global standards. The reduction of global poverty is exactly this: other nations have come to compete on the world market, and that means that whole industries have moved elsewhere. It doesn't happen without consequences.

The main problem of American middle class, and even more so the problem of American poor, is actually obesity. Think about that.
Uh-oh.
If recent legalization expands, and results in Bill O'Reilly's nightmare nation of "stoned slackers", will America be psychologically prepared to deal with Putin? Or Xi?
We are doomed!
Also, I don't hear any (new) voices when I smoke, but I would agree that psylocybin is very much like communication with an alien "other" consciousness. Or maybe I've just read too much Terrance McKenna.
This is neat! I'm excited to see things about the GitHub code review ecosystem improving. I've long wanted to see "when tests pass and a reviewer :shipit:'s, then go ahead and merge the code" bots.

I wrote a bot of my own, which I have at https://betterdiff.com/ . The idea there is that instead of having humans go through and give cursory reviews, you have a round of automated review by robots (using normal, industry-standard tooling) and it comments on the PR just like a reviewer would. I'd love to hear your thoughts. :)
Some of their suggestions for API uses that are more akin to "cross-posting" of automated data are interesting.

I wonder if they will also expose consumption APIs at some point (maybe even just statistical data and not full text?).
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I now have 8.0 running. Thank you.
Well, not really.

The cars sold in the US have nothing in common with the European models but the name and engine.

The US models have different sizes, different engine selections, are fully assembled in the US, etc.

Some example images:

Interior: http://www.myturbodiesel.com/images/b7/tdi/2012-vw-passat-eu...

Exterior: http://www.myturbodiesel.com/images/b7/tdi/euro-passat-diffe...

Seats: http://www.myturbodiesel.com/images/b7/tdi/interior-differen...

And in this 2011 discussion there are already discussions about how VW is able to handle NOx without AdBlue in the US variation of the car: http://www.myturbodiesel.com/threads/differences-between-201...
I can tell that you're trying to be sarcastic, but I've heard enough good things about Slack that it was hard to catch.

If you're not being sarcastic... well, I think Shank summed it up pretty well.
Oh, I know what literally means, my friend :-)

But your reply literally made my head explode.
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Not everyone lives in the states, if I use a "green only" supplier where I live in the UK I pay 25-30% more and that's without counting the night rate loss.

For me that almost doubles the electrical bill, that's a huge premium I can pay but i rather not spend another 800 GBP on a "green supplier".

Not to mention that it's not like I would get my energy from a renewable source, I get it from the grid, yes the green energy company will get some of that money but It's not that straight forward.

Especially considering that those "green providers" are allowed to buy electricity from other suppliers while technically remaining 100% green, most of them are running at a "power deficit" and cannot cover the energy that they should be putting into the system with their current production.
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>The European model has a more powerful computer

I seem to remember a story on slashdot ~2 years ago(?) about US upgrading supercomputer for their forecast despite it already being 2x more powerful than European one while still being less accurate.
In research, Python is extremely popular since all the number crunching is done with numpy or Theano, which use BLAS and CUDA.
It's not as easy to take out a short position as it sounds.
It's a zero sum game from the point of the consumer, if you "exploit" the current day/night difference and the electric companies start to lose money they'll increase the tariffs to compensate.
Great work, I would suggest decoupling the front-end react components to create a separate widget library.
> The BBC is funded by a government tax on TVs

It's not a tax on TV's. It's a license you pay only if you watch live broadcast television. It is not funded through normal taxation mechanisms such as PAYE, VAT etc. Individuals and organisations decide whether they need to pay the TV License or not depending on whether they need to or not.

The license fee is collected by the BBC via private contractors (the major one being Capita) under the umbrella of the TV Licensing Authority. This money is paid to the UK government which then pays out to the BBC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
If you pick an inflation calculator (for US), you will find that $1.00 of 1990 is actually $1.82 of 2015. So the inflation is less than 90%.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

Of course, if you live in Venezuela, things are different, but World Bank uses US$.

edit: only now noticed that this was mentioned already in an earlier comment by oblio.
So true. Not everyone in the world is a programmer, developer or a "power" user.
Internet consumption and most applications are run within a browser today; so what does the author mean my ecosystem for everyday users? I'm pretty certain that installing a Linux distro would be a non-issue.
Does anyone have a KVM/console server which does WebRTC (or even better, HTML5 of screen elements)?
GPG wasn't chosen because it's not as secure as content trust. Content trust provides all that GPG provides plus:

- Replay attack prevention

- Freshness guarantees (so you can't be given older, vulnerable images)

- Trusted, delegated signing
And 2 of my friends worked for BetterPlace (RIP) and it took years for Nissan to accept the code which had to be rewritten to comply and certified by an external 3rd party.
And that code wasn't even "mission critical" in terms of road safety.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
My mistake thank you!
You also don't see things about feature engineering, how to know what to do next to improve things, etc. ML is an art, and nobody covers this much :(
Assuming you want all configuration in the init script, [0] here's the OpenRC equivalent. The USER/ENV/WKDIR variables are there for legibility.

#!/sbin/runscript

USER="--user nobody --group nobody"
ENV="--env PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin --env NODE_ENV=production"
WKDIR="--chdir /var/www/blah"

description="Blah app"
command="/var/www/blah/bin/www"
start_stop_daemon_args="$USER $ENV $WKDIR"

Assuming you had a "multi-user" runlevel on your system and the service was named "blah", you would do the following to add that service to it:

rc-update add blah multi-user

But, the "default" runlevel is probably the equivalent to systemd's multi-user runlevel. So:

rc-update add blah default

Describe works as expected:

$ /etc/init.d/blah describe
* Blah app

[0] Real init scripts make use of OpenRC's machinery for processing config files in /etc/conf.d
Gravity is the force that acts on large scales because the other forces aren't present. That doesn't make it strong. It's easy to appear strong compared to nothing.
I'd actually suggest interviewing first and getting flown out. I'd suspect you can swing a job within 3 weeks.
Looks decent. Slack integration? Does it intelligently group messages with similar messages together? Is there a sandbox account I can look at without having to sign up and log test events?

Your logging service seems overpriced, by the way. I'd love to have a central, cloud-based log viewer, but our system is producing many, many gigs worth per day. At the moment our expenditures are about $80/mo for a small rsyslog box, but with your system we'd be paying thousands. For that price I can whip up a bunch of Graylog boxes and get approximately what you're offering, at the expense of having to admin ElasticSearch myself, which we're already doing anyway.
From: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-t...

"...The data will be 256-bit encrypted on the host [running the Snowball client?] and stored on the appliance in encrypted form. The appliance can be hosted on a private subnet with limited network access."

So I assume the data is encrypted asymetrically.

"...ship it back to us for ingestion. We’ll decrypt the data [using the private key specified in the job,] and copy it to the S3 bucket(s) that you specified when you made your request[/job]. Then we’ll sanitize the appliance in accordance with NIST Special Publication 800-88 (Guidelines for Media Sanitization)."

That links to http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP...

There are a few different types of sanitisation (clear/purge/destroy), and Amazon doesn't specify which type. I assume they would go with "clear", and maybe in a few select places (I'd hope storage media) "purge".

"Clear" is scary though, as for network devices, it is only "full manufacturer’s reset to reset the router or switch back to its factory default settings", and for HDD's it is "Overwrite media by using organizationally approved and validated overwriting technologies/methods/tools. The Clear procedure should consist of at least one pass of writes with a fixed data value, such as all zeros. Multiple passes or more complex values may optionally be used".

So what vector do you want to protect? Accidental data egress shouldn't happen as the data is encrypted. However there are more interesting vectors, such as getting hold of the public key and injecting your own data into another companies buckets...
Well, it’s just a service of the taxi companies themselves – they decided to offer it to be better than competing taxi companies.

And they never really expanded over Europe and South America.
R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y ... find out what it means to me, take care, TCB ...
... sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me ...
Related, there is this nice tool called Packet Sender, a Mac app.

No raw IP packets, but TCP and UDP.
Our goal is definitely to decouple the frontend from the backend (entirely). We're still a ways out from that, but we've made a lot of progress.
exactly my thoughts. Its one thing to "know" about curse of dimensionality but one doesn't get to knot things unless they are applied to solve problems.
Shorting relies on a fairly complicated and trustworthy financial system. It isn't some easy thing, it's quite a complicated thing to set up to work well enough to serve as a financial product.

This does not actually exist for Bitcoin. Shorting requires trusting an exchange, and statistically trusting a Bitcoin exchange is historically a terrible idea.

So no, you can't just short Bitcoin and expect to make money.
By chance, is your wife blonde? I have found that I get a more negative reaction if I am in the company of a blonde woman.
Heh, yes she is. And I second you on State Troopers, in the Northeastern/Boston Globe profiling study, they broke down statistics by police and they found that the Mass State Troopers were the most fair (tough but fair) when taking into account race/age/gender.
Livejournal's "mood icons" were the first thing I thought of.

(Though the standing joke with LJ was that they could save space by eliminating all the mood icons except for "angsty"...)
Good point regarding the outcome of an attack.

> If Amazon is a bad actor they trivially have access to the HSM because they could just write some software that pretends to be the HSM.

I believe SafeNet HSMs protect against attacks of this nature.
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That has nothing to do with the bitrate -- the fact that you're getting a different unit on your 192 should be in an indication (bits or bits/frame, as opposed to kilobits/second).

CDs store audio as 16 bit samples, with 44100 samples per second. This gives a bitrate of 16 bits * 44100 Hz = 705600 bits/second (705.6 Kbps). This is per channel, so the total bitrate of the format is 1411.2 kbps, as stated (modulo rounding) by the GP.

EDIT: in fact, the article you link specifically says (a couple sections further down) that the bitrate is 1411.2 kbps.
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Much emotion
I was going to make a similar comment, but this boils down to information asymmetry. For how cheap it is to deliver reasonable Internet access to everyone, I put it up there with the same importance as most utilities. If you're building out electricity to a farmer, you can certainly add Internet infrastructure onto that for very little relative cost.

Why should giant corporations buying the farmers products have access to nearly limitless amounts of information, while the farmer is relegated to maybe an industry periodical and the local cafe gossip. That worked before the 1900's, but these days information moves too quickly.

So yes, I think Internet is probably not quite yet essentially a basic need to participate in the economy and society - but it's pretty damn close. And it's only going to continue to get more important as "old world" services are turned off in favor of those on-line. In my lifetime I will see the DMV close it's last in-person renewal desk. And the private world is already there in requiring online-only transactions to do certain forms of business.
Of course; Amazon prefers launching dozens of new products every year to fixing or improving their existing services.
That’s why the CEO originally responsible even resigned before it became public. And why the second CEO resigned: because, despite not believing he himself did it, taking the responsibility for it.
Kudos to Germany.
I'm pretty sure your IT department can still see the packets.
High school internships
Are there internships available for high school students who just want to network and learn?
Fellow transplant here, if anything the US immigration system actively discourages people with options (smart folks who can focus and work hard for 5-7 years) from coming to the US. What brings/keeps them here is the network effect. This is sad, because the immigration system is immune to any feedback because of this fact. Namely their actions don't have any consequences. The system is a parasite, it has so far managed to thrive without killing its host. Either that continues indefinitely, or I really hope another center of knowledge puts pressure or better yet totally kills the US immigration parasite.