skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first glance, this seems like such an extreme opinion that my curiosity is piqued.

What do you want to see with fast decimals, what does that mean to you, in terms of hardware implementations? Do you think financial applications are more important in the hardware and software markets than simulations? ("Simulations", btw, includes all video games.)

I'd like to give your suggestion the benefit of the doubt, that the "only" place floating point is necessary is in simulations and that GPUs could handle all floating point needs, but my gut reaction is that this is wildly out of touch with how often programs use floats. I might be wrong here, that's just my first thought.

IIRC, GPUs across different devices often don't guarantee the level of precision you might need. Not to mention, getting data in and out, and using non built-in math functions, are both a pain.

Depending on what kind of display or device or medium you're using, 2D layouts using floating point routinely. Most mobile devices now come in non 1:1 device pixel ratio. You have to use floating point to get pixel accurate layouts. Almost all vector art (SVG, PDF, etc) and almost all animation (CSS, Movie editing) use floating point heavily.

"Data processing" - I dunno what that means, but a lot of the "data processing" I've done used floats or doubles or higher. Anything with computer vision in it will often use floating point; think about the rise of fingerprint and facial recognition.

A long time ago, desktop CPUs used to come without floating point support, and everyone wanted it and paid for it, so now we have it. Granted that was before GPUs, but I'm curious if Intel would even entertain the idea of a general purpose desktop CPU without floating point support.
> At that point the individual agrees to be bound by the rules of the country where the data is going or no transaction is done

What does this look like? Another section in a EULA? A popup/banner thing like for cookies? An extra tickbox on the registration page?

To me this feels like moving the problem of choosing sensible data protection juristiction onto the customer, rather than making a sensible choice yourself.

Personally I prefer to keep all personal data within the EU and avoid bothering my end users with this stuff, and that rules out any services that aren't available here... reducing choice & competition, which sucks. In that respect I was a fan of the Safe Harbour.
Two things.

1) This kid just got at least one person fired from his job (though he may deserve it).

2) This kid WILL be caught and regret it the rest of his life.
FYI, Metabase is a Thompson Reuters platform. I bet you anything they hold the trademark for the term.

You have a pretty good market opening right now - Crystal Reports just went to a SAP Business Objects-type model. Pentaho doesn't even have a community edition anymore.

It looks like you don't support MDX/snowflake schemas/other OLAP reporting standards, so I'm guessing you're going for the lower end of the market. So two things you should do off the bat - import data from Google Sheets (maybe offer to "unlock" the service for tweets and/or links), and offer an Excel plug-in (free up to X rows).

Also offer to charge if only to allow Bob to go to his manager and say you offer support. In corporate environments, no support is often a no go.
Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the whole "work in our offices or quit" memo sent to virtual employees a while back not paying the dividends she had hoped. Adding insult to injury, perhaps her build-out of a full private nursery in the executive suite staffed with her personal nannies while simultaneously requiring staff to stop working remotely, even part time, had a deleterious impact on morale and work-life balance for those who cannot afford a team of private caretakers for their own families while they commute potentially for several extra hours each day.

Perhaps we are just now starting to see the effects of potential internal management hypocrisy with all these departures, especially the ones that only lasted a brief time.

Of course, this may be speculation on my part, but I can't see how decisions like those would encourage people, especially high performers, to stay long term if this is indicative of Yahoo management philosophy.

Ref:

http://gawker.com/5987043/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-installed-...

http://gawker.com/5986462/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-no-more-wo...
We should not use HTTP for such things. It is against HTTPs intentions. Just use any other protocol.
It's also VERY foolish from a liability standpoint to do this kind of thing, as it gives someone justification to subpoena your personal email.
Really? I find exactly the opposite: the marginal utility of more vertical space (for code, mostly) continues increasing all the way until I have to physically move my neck to see it. I have a 24" monitor next to my main screen oriented vertically for exactly this purpose.
This is an excellent argument for piracy as a learning tool and against the current trend in copyright law (see TPP, etc.). I really see no difference between this and someone pirating content with the intent to learn (like my teenage self). I wish our society did more to encourage the extremely few people who actually want to learn, want to better themselves, and have something to contribute to society instead of criminalizing their activities. It'd be one thing if the government provided alternatives, but at least in the US, you won't even get taught basic math properly in many schools, let alone anything that might actually stimulate minds. Is it any wonder then that the government does so much to protect the "intellectual property" (whatever that means) rights of corporations but does nothing to protect the IP rights to scientific research, including research paid for? Even a simple law, requiring government funded research to be publicly, freely available would go a long way, assuming it actually was freely available, not 'freely available for $50 / paper' or whatever the lawmakers want to redefine 'freely' to mean.
I always thought that exactly this question was part of their demise. Although the word "synergy" is far overused, it's exactly what Yahoo never managed to create. Google brought people searching content together with people offering solutions. Facebook brought people seeking entertainment together with people offering entertainment.

Yahoo had it all - email, answers, news, stocks, search, and they even invented Hadoop back then to sift through all their data. They just never had any larger vision to integrate any of their assets properly to solve a grand problem.

They always just threw ever more noodles to the wall and tried to see which ones would stick.

There's zero coherency in anything they do, for me it's just a diverse bunch of poorly maintained and integrated services that's purely kept together with duct tape, page rank and marketing hacks stacked on top of each other.

It's the kind of slow death when there's just enough recurring revenue left that it's hard to screw things completely up, even with a league of completely dilbertized MBAs in charge battling each other until the last of talented people have left.
Serious question: Can they, though?

I'm not doubting if Yahoo could build (or buy) some cool tech products and put them in front of their large audience. But the real question is whether their audience is the sort who would bite and eagerly adopt new technology.

While I am sure there are exceptions, I think the bulk of people visiting Yahoo and using Yahoo properties are there because they can't or don't want to change things up. I think how many of those hits to yahoo.com come from library computers that are hardwired to visit it as the homepage, from my parents computers, from people who will load the yahoo.com page to type "Gmail" in the search bar "because that's how the Internet works" etc.

The early adopter set that's more consciously in control of their digital destiny and eager to try new things are already giving their eyeballs to Apple, Google, and the swarms of shiny startups orbiting their ecosystems.

I'm not celebrating this fact. I wish there were more tech centers of gravity to choose from, and I am saddened that Yahoo (along with so many others) is unable to break through.
Every time somebody brings this up, I always think about this website: http://contrastrebellion.com/
The CA system is in a bad place, and adding more centralization would actually help. If there are entities that can arbitrarily tell me if a .com certificate is valid, I want there to be as few as possible.
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Hidden amid their news was also this:
https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
Is there a term for this kind of response?

Its kind of obvious that not everyone will use it. However, not offering it when its somewhat trivial to do so seems like a no-brainer.
So I just tried Prompt. I'm a heavy ServerAuditor user; I spend much time away from real computers but have 12 windows in screen perma-open keeping a lot of "context" (coding, IRC, etc) alive for me.

It's better in some minor aspects: it's finally possible to screen -D -rr automatically upon connect; but it has an annoying top bar that can't be hidden; I use large font sizes (I'm often in shaky buses and trains) and it ends up using too much screen space in an iPad mini.

ServerAuditor is also more configurable re: fonts and colors and such, although the default font in Prompt is pretty good.
Rats imprisoned in a cage in a laboratory with no chance of escape prefer to numb them selves with non-stop IV high quality cocaine where possible.

So would I probably.

Rats living freely in their natural habit - probably different story
The math and development behind a geocentric model is fascinating in a kink of fractal way. Everything needs and receives its own adjustment.
It doesn't stop it, but it does raise the bar.

Since these guys knew how verizon works internally I wouldn't be surprised if they could forward his cell # somewhere else. Some 2FA systems require a PIN for auth, but they have his verizon one already, which is probably re-used everywhere.
You're right, I should have clarified that in my comment.

Not even offering it is a serious oversight on AOL's part for exactly this type of scenario- it makes it extremely easy for a motivated person to socially hack someone's email. However even if it is offered it has to be turned on to work, so then we'd be back where we started if it was off by default.
Play Solitaire and stay updated at the same time
>Teen Who Hacked...

>The hacker, who says he’s under 20 years old

20 years old is a teen? What a terrible headline.
It’s+Time+For+You+To+Make+Security+a+Core+Feature+–+Not+a+Tax+|+SaaStr
Very cool. How does this compare to something like Microsoft Power Bi? Will I have any issues running it on Linux (Note, im a fairly non-tech user).

I have some clients that need BI reporting. We've been using Cyfe so far, but it's only good for summaries of data. It's not very good for custom reporting.
> After providing the Verizon employee with a fabricated employee Vcode—a unique code the he says Verizon assigns employees—they got the information they were seeking. This included Brennan’s account number, his four-digit PIN, the backup mobile number on the account, Brennan’s AOL email address and the last four digits on his bank card.

There are obviously a _lot_ of wtf moments reading this article, but this one just strikes me as the most egregious - why in the world would a Verizon employee of any kind be able to obtain this information from anyone other than the account holder? The account number, ok maybe, but absolutely none of those other items should be communicated between employees. Absurd.
> This has been in the works for much longer than that.

I meant (as a user) that Docker Hub was at risk of losing its appeal because probably couldn't rival AWS's registry (pricing, speed, etc). IMO this move gives Docker a breath of fresh air ...

What's gone fast is the trajectory of these guys from launch (they're not even out of beta) to acquisition..

So, congrats to both teams!
To be concise, your qualifications for a university may depend on what journals you publish your articles in, and how "prestigious" they are.
Much is being made of him using AOL for work emails. Seems like a fairly minor issue. The worst part was the spreadsheet with ~20 people's info on it. Otherwise, he forwarded emails to himself that he wanted to permanently have possession of, like his own clearance application and a letter from the Senate on torture. I'm more interested in this letter--sent in 2009. Who knew what and when?

(Edit) the letter -- https://twitter.com/phphax/status/653665742987100163
Yup, TR has a bioinformatics DB they sell which I think is based on metabase.org. We're in a sufficiently different space that we're hoping it's not a conflict.

We don't explicitly support snowflake schemas but folks are definitely using MB with them them. We have a limited set of joins accessible through the query builder and snowflake schemas work really well.
This was posted on the guys twitter page: https://twitter.com/phphax/status/656152792453795840/photo/1
Is the Surface Pro anywhere near the point where the lack of vertical resolution limits productivity?

Myself, I find that 16:9 is preferable only for monitors 32 inches and larger. Below that size I'd like to have more vertical space.
And 18-wheelers are treated differently than a pickup truck.
It was sensitive however. Some contained employee SSNs.
Temporarily and in places without great public transport. Once automated cars become common place, the argument will hold for choosing to manually drive.

That being said, I've seen a lot of people who think it will eventually become illegal to manually drive, at least on crowded public roads within large cities.
Micron seems to be the cheapest in my experience, aside from TLC crap from Samsung.
>How is this acceptable? Shouldn't he be held accountable for this kind of stuff?

You're the new young email admin. You see this in your logs. You tell your boss. Your boss shrugs and says, "He's the director and I don't feel like getting fired."

I don't know why people think government, be it any agency including intelligence, is run any different than any other political or corporate bureaucracy. Humanity has a natural pecking order cooked into it and it reflects in our organizations. One does not just challenge the big dog without consequences. Hell, staff may not be able to even audit him the same way Congress has made itself immune to the NSA wire-tapping programs.
The text you quoted says "under 20 years old".
On the flip side, some games like the Uncharted series (plus Last of Us) managed to squeeze a really impressive amount of performance out of the thing... which i guess lines up with the 'all or nothing' issue.
It says under 20, which is 19 or less.
I think that was the idea behind the Tumblr acquisition.

It's just really, really hard to buy something "hot" without killing it (by external reputation/customer satisfaction or internal employee exodus)

Off the top of my head I can only think of two that worked (Instagram, WhatsApp) and Facebook deserves huge credit for that.

I don't think my own employer (Nokia), even in its heyday, ever successfully acquired and integrated a company.
We run it on linux in production and it's the primary platform we recommend for company wide deployments.

Power BI is pretty awesome, but pretty complicated when we tried it out. With enough attention it can do very cool things. Our primary audience is folks who don't need the level of customization, and have a lot of non-technical coworkers that want to ask their own questions.
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A list of names?

I don't see anything there that wouldn't be publicly available on the internet.
For background about the Grand Mufti:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini

Even though he had been sentenced for 10 years in absentia by the British for causing the 1929 Hebron riots that killed over 70 Jews, he was later appointed The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. According to historian Paul Johnson, this appointment is the cause of the conflict today.
After WW II he was captured by the French in Berlin and both the British and the Serbians wanted to try him for war crimes but the French let him go to appease the Arabs.

While the Palestinians blame the Israelis for their plight and for not having a country, the true cause was the decision of their ancestors and Arab nations to follow his leadership and to attack the new state of Israel while turning down their own state.
vocabularity
Even if they used a real Employee ID, would it be better?

The barrier to entry to become a Verizon employee is lower than the barrier to obtaining this info should be.
Interlibrary loan services are wonderful. They were a lifesaver when I lived in a small town of 40,000 people 400 km away from the nearest "city" (of 120,000 people). But they are not a substitute for being able to browse the stacks; it's like the difference between using a web browser and a command-line anonymous FTP client.
Angry Birds’ Rovio Cuts 213 Jobs
It shouldn't really make any difference. The point is fat is an energy store and your body is pretty good at storing excess calories and then using them again when needed.

Things do get a little more interesting, and the science becomes a little weaker, when you start thinking about nutritional timing in the context of body composition instead of overall weight. For instance, muscle protein synthesis remains pretty constant in someone with protein at most meals. But you are able to "spike" it about once every 3 hours (the mechanism seems to have a threshold around 8g of leucine, after which it can't be spiked again for another 3 hours).

So in theory the optimal way to eat the same number of calories, all else being equal, is evenly divided into a meal every three hours you are awake.

But it's a micro-optimization and doesn't make a huge difference, and again the science isn't super well reproduced there. People certainly succeed at elite levels with many different meal timings.
In an ironic twist, Western Digital discovers that they have agreed to pay $19B binary rather than $19B decimal.
Is it worse than any other free email provider? None of them have two factor login by default and they all have sketchy password reset policies/mechanisms. Brennan is 60 years old. He's probably been using AOL since the 90's. He felt no need for change. A lot of our top leadership are boomers and will have boomer habits.

If you read that article you'll see this is more of a social engineering hack on Verizon than AOL. Verizon gave up all sorts of information about him which made answering AOL's password reset questions easy for them. Its scary how much you can do to a person if you know the last four digits of their credit card.

This is yet another example where things like S/MIME would have helped, but apparently we're all content with completely unencrypted emails. I suspect guys like Brennan prefer email unencrypted anyway, except when things like this happen to him personally.
What Is Privacy and Why Is It Important?
Microsoft is currently in contempt of court because they're refusing to hand over data the US government wants. They're appealing. If Microsoft isn't reliable, then nobody is. And if that's the case, then it's not a problem with Microsoft, it's a problem with everybody, everywhere, that is within the reach of the US government. Which is everyone.
I don't know anything about him, but I would love to hear the story about how bad/hopeless a situation must need to be in order to warrant leaving so soon.
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23andMe's Triumph – And the Long Road Ahead
RTFA.
I agree that AOL and most other services should offer 2fa. However, I disagree with the parent that the situation would not have occurred if AOL did offer 2fa because the subject in question would still be unlikely to use it.
Funnily enough, DNSSEC would help with that, if DANE was more widely supported.
> Pretty much any CS6 application will being the tablet to its knees and nearly burnt my lap.

That's not what I find with my i7 sp3. Instead I find that it struggles to cool itself when the CPU is running at max for a period of time. Worse when I was living in Singapore I would have to have the AC on if I didn't want it to throttle itself as the ambient temp was 30°C.
Which would suggest that on-chip floating point integration is important enough, across a wide range enough range of applications, to justify the expense.
Google and Yahoo Adopt DMARC: Is a Global Anti-Spam System Possible?
I wish I had known about JSConf in Medellin, I totally would have come down from NYC! I spent time in Medellin, Santa Marta, and Cartagena in May and can't wait to get back to Colombia.

If you need any volunteers for the next round of conferences let me know!
In the past I joked that whenever I'm coding something really really fun, I missed a couple of days of HN, as always YMMV
They have separate computers & networks for unclassified vs classified material. You probably couldn't do that on a classified network.
I agree that is what was behind Tumblr. But it's my belief that integration will take time. Yahoo could get ahold of some of the mobile ads, they've been investing heavily in mobile development. Twitter is about to make a big push with Dorsey (he's smart enough to know that's where he competes) and so is Snapchat, which is why I mentioned them.
So is the fact that the movie San Andreas came out before this potentially happens considered Inception?
“People like her should kill themselves”: Discussing sexism in tech
The Fastest and Most Painless Way to Die
What is the fastest and most painless way to die ?
FWIW, Couchbase != CouchDB: http://www.couchbase.com/couchbase-vs-couchdb

+1 For Jepson on Couchbase
Apple were able to pay them more? Mission Motors hadn't made any money? Why do you think they choose to leave?
I am itching for a 4:3 simply because of digitized print media, e.g. books and PDFs and magazines.

You need a 12.2" 16:9 to display a magazine page at the same actual size as a 10" 4:3

3:2 is a compromise play, fitting video pretty well and requiring only a 10.8" screen to match the 10" 4:3 on print media.

That's setting completely aside questions of what aspect is simply most natural for a tablet- how comfortable it is to hold, how well it functions in both landscape and portrait, etc
> How do you suggest that you legalize all drugs and then keep people on those drugs from harming others?

Illegalizing drugs doesn't keep people on those drugs from harming others; in general, government policy can't absolutely prevent any class of unconsented harms, what it can provide accountability and compensatory mechanism and do things to mitigate (or increase!) the quantity of such harms. And I think the evidence is pretty clear that prohibition, as it has been attempted with alcohol and many other drugs, does quite a bit to increase harms inflicted on others related to the use of and market for the prohibited drugs. A better policy is needed, but its not reasonable to expect that that policy will "keep people on those drugs from harming others".
Yeah, that seems to be very foolish.

However, I wonder why the agency simply does not disable forwarding or at least add sure warnings in bright red that doing so violates policy and subject to charges.

Sure, disabling fwd-ing is trivial to defeat but it makes clear fwd-ing is non standard.
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