skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side note: looking at the color choice in figure 3 (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/29/1518393112.full...):

"Census regions are Northeast (blue), Midwest (red), South (black), and West (green)."

I think they were picked manually. On the one hand, I think picking that makes them more memorable, on the other hand, it surprises me that people in the politically hypercorrect USA would pick those colors this way.
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Plex is significantly better than XBMC, it's night and day.
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"The stays usually turn into uncollectible debts for the hospitals." --> "The stays turn into bankruptcy for the patients"

Incidentally the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is unpayable hospital bills. For those outside the US, here is how it works: a simple visit to the doctor for antibiotics (the ER, since that becomes your only option) turns into a $1200 bill.
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Probably Floobits: https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-neovim
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could it patrol the city for crime?
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> Frontend devs frequently make more than backend devs, and have many more job opportunities to choose from.

Out of curiosity, how true is this statement? I hear from my friends that most frontend devs start with higher salary, but have a hard time climbing the corporate ladder, especially if the frontend is not the core competency of the company. I wonder which one is a more accurate depiction of reality.
I think my points are made at a macro level and not at a specific company level. There is no fool-proof proof to any business/economic hypothesis. Oracle, MSFT and SAP aren't the only companies that make up on-prem software. But even with these companies shelf-ware is rampant. It took large internet companies to come up with competitive stacks to break these virtual monopolies. Having said that your point on making a stronger case is well taken. My bigger point is that the the current trend is less of a bubble than the era of on-prem software - this is a macro level observation. There were company level bubbles then and there are now. I am not commenting on specific companies here at least.
Though there are a couple articles on this, Apple's own security whitepaper actually acknowledges the use of Amazon S3 and Azure (page 41 as of 11/2/15):

http://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

Also, if you have a Mac (or I believe the PC iCloud app now supports iCloud Photo Library uploads), you can watch your network traffic, and last time I checked it also was connecting to some Amazon/AWS domains[1].

[1]: Others have also found the same-- http://appinstructor.com/blog/2015/apple-using-amazon-s3-sto...
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I recommend you read "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". The relevant portion of which I'm thinking relates to the historical affinity between disenfranchised blacks and whites in the early 1800's, and how a race-based conflict was stoked by those fearing a coalition of these two groups. There is an interesting historical context for the point you're making.
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> Slack has never been about the underlying tech (which may well be IRC)

Yes, and that's the gripe with Slack - because it should be IRC underneath, but it isn't. Instead of using an open, standard protocol they fragmented the communications space even further.

But yeah, that's how SV rolls these days. Locking people in.
Is this app widely considered safe? It seems to ask for an awful lot of permissions and is definitely communicating with a server while it operates

I'm aware of who Moxie Marlinspike is and have seen the Open Whisper Systems testimonials, I was just surprised with how much it asks for, has anyone dug through the code to get a feel for the risk profile of letting this app into everything on my phone?
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Quantity has a quality all its own, regarding both aspects.
SpaceX has a great revenue stream. Unlike ULA, it has a big commercial business. It also has government contracts that ULA can't win due to pricing. If SpaceX didn't take over any of ULA's business, SpaceX would be fine.
In Europe the Commission (likely also pushed by the Council/Germany/France/Spain/Italy) shamefully decided to raise the NOx limits by 2x until 2019 and 50% until 2021. It's the first time since they launched the emissions "euro" standard that they actually raised the limit.

I guess they saw everyone cheats by at least 2x, as some reports have also said.
Thanks, this is a helpful list of questions. I'll go ahead and ask and see what they say, worst case they won't be able to answer any of them.
just to add spice: there is also the CSS loop (with events like hovering and animations and stuff...) that is interesting to handle
This might be more a customer acquisition strategy rather than trying to run the store profitably. As another comment pointed out, Amazon must have data regarding literary interests of people around every geographic location. This can be put to use here.
Url changed from http://www.iafrikan.com/2015/11/02/did-you-hear-about-how-sc..., which points to this.
On top of that, systemd is LGPL. That may not be a 100% showstopper for inclusion in a BSD-licensed system, but it is fairly close to it, especially for such a core component.
No, but I'd argue it's only slightly above basic tools, and from Mythbusters episodes have seen that it can be HIGHLY effective.
Would that mean the RGB values change in the future?

It would go from 0-F to 0-K wouldn't it?

so... #KKK = white? ;(
People in that situation rarely have assets that can be seized, so a bankruptcy is meaningless.

You also missed that Obamacare really does take care of a large chunk of the problem, as flawed as it is. The paid options with large assistance (Silver plans) are also fairly affordable. I'm not familiar with non-CA options, but can't imagine them to be that much different from CA ones.
No offense, but I think you're missing his bigger point.
This has been a very common 'bait and switch' tactic from Microsoft over the years. In recent years we've watched O365 'benefits' for non-profits / charitable organisations be targeted and reduced several times while competitors offerings have remained the same or increased. I could understand this if quality was improving over time but we haven't found that to be the case either. Microsoft's cloud offerings have been plagued by outages and extended periods of unavailability across the O365, exchange and sharepoint online servers. Last year we measured at O365 availability at an embarrassingly poor 78% while the number of times Microsoft acknowledged problems on their service status page was less than 1/20th of the number of times an outage occurred. What's more - it's not just us, I've heard from many small to medium businesses that experience the same poor performance, it seems for every one person that says 'oh we never have problems...' I find 5 people that are dissatisfied or worse - have already left for an alternative or on-premises product. Related note: It's scary how often we notice problems that occurred internally within Microsoft's hosted environment - just start looking at the full email headers of emails from Microsoft's outlook / O365 domains and you'll notice a disturbingly large number that have spent time bouncing around their internal mail servers due to poorly configured / managed DNS and mail relays.
I guess you haven't looked to carefully into how the EU economies are doing.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913467.
Actually, I think I understand your position lot better now. :-)

> The comparison with theology is weird, considering that theology is based on the premise of revealed knowledge about the world.

Every book on libertarianism I have seen was lot more interested in some sort of ultimate, axiomatic moral truth, rather than empirical evidence that libertarianism works (by whatever criteria) in the real world. Ayn Rand with her fiction is probably the best example, but Rothbard is IIRC not much better. Heaps of theory and little evidence.

> Namely, that being libertarian is somehow contrary to helping others.

I think I finally understand what you're really saying. You basically think that helping others (say, economically) is something that shouldn't be enforced by society. I can see why people (including me) can wrongly interpret that as being against helping itself.

It seems kind of similar to moral view that we have in the West regarding adultery. Most of us find it immoral, but we don't agree it should be punished by law, or that there should be deliberate obstacles put in place in order to prevent it happening (such as separation of men and women). And here too, this can be interpreted by say, religious fundamentalists, that this view supports adultery.

(Originally, I thought you just think that not-helping others shouldn't be punished, but that's a weaker proposition that still doesn't explain why are you against say, taxes.)

I don't think though society can even exist in such framework. I pretty much agree with what wfo wrote you above. Seriously, some empirical evidence for your position would help. It may even be in a form of computer simulation.
I don't think replacing "inferior technology" with inferior technology is a good idea.
Thanks, you're right. I missed that from the announcement - but yes, they just said they can and do check exactly what is uploaded to each account in complete detail. Ouch. I wouldn't touch this for free.
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It's a sad state of affairs made worse by undereducated, lazy people who blame the government and simultaneously elect politicians who promise to solve the problem for them by handing out a gift-wrapped "american dream" that everyone feels they deserve. I see this kind of self-destructive philosophy/behavior every day, and I'm getting tired of it. It's always someone else's fault, yet it seems the "progressives" in our country keep shouting that the solution lies in more government involvement, forgetting that the only way we get decent jobs and favorable social and family conditions is by letting people fulfill their own dreams through hard work and less government intervention. The american dream isn't a gift - it's the idea that through blood, sweat, and tears, we can shape our own lives.

From my perspective, the problem is a manifestation of a shift in popular ideals and a growing sense of entitlement.
Also Potato, which me and a few friends have been developing for our own use for a while. It will be released as open source soon.

I will make a separate post once the source is released, but for now anyone that is interested can take a look at a small demo system I set up here: http://potato.dhsdevelopments.com/

The server is written in Common Lisp, client in Clojurescript. Storage backend uses CouchDB, messaging using RabbitMQ and the search uses Solr. More technical details here: http://blog.potato.network/
Would love to have this running on a multi-touch-capable Ubuntu laptop/tablet device .. but, where are they?
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I think revenue is up right alongside user friendliness.

Exploitative f2p games fall by the wayside and the most successful formula seems to be: (1) make a game that's great even for people who spend nothing, (2) take advantage of network effects to get a large sticky playerbase and (3) profit off a fraction of the players.

Boom Beach is my favorite mobile game by a large margin, I've spent a whopping $5 (on account of relying on the wiki for costs) and there are players in global top 50 who have spent nothing. I feel zero compulsion to spend anything except perhaps to reward the company for hundreds of hours of ad-free gaming.
Thanks, makes sense now, although those subtitles all sound like unaired episodes of Friends (which I'd definitely watch).
This is probably one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read.

Nobody owes you anything, and based on your comment, it's clear you need an attitude adjustment and a new perspective.

You should probably work on yourself before pointing the finger at others when it comes to your problems.
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Good god almighty, I read your post, chuckled slightly having fully understood the DND reference, then I read it again and damn. If there were ever a perfect descriptor for what you just described. Having lived in a city with unending traffic problems among a populace that seems hellbent on voting against it's own desires to fix said problems (Austin Texas), holy cow.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7357708.
What is the benefit of using this when a local, unlimited-use library without latency issues can be used?
True. But that's my personal problem with Slack, and I guess that of many others too - Slack could be just as awesome as it is if it used IRC on the backend. Instead, it just fragments the already shredded realtime communications infrastructure. For me, this smells of a typical SV startup that tries to "disrupt" something by locking people in and then extracting value out of them before eventually getting acquihired and hanging them out to dry. As it is now, the success of Slack and HipChat is a danger to communication on the Internet.
Well, Blizzard was doing its own thing before Activision, and is still doing it now. It's somewhat off on its own thing still in my mind, despite the combined company.
There was only one app showing up in search for the word plex. I'm sure that helped too.
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I strongly feel that your lack of success with the ladies does not come from your lack of melanin, but from your lack of balls.

Also troll. I hope.
The problem is that insiders can actually (and easily, and even subconciously) change that price.

Let's say I believe that the company I work with is horribly mismanaged. I short it. Then, all of a sudden, an announcement comes ("corp X is going to buy our company") that raises the price and makes me lose my pants. I have two choices now:

a) lose my pants, or

b) use the due-diligence period to try to kill the deal from the inside.

Are you willing to hold stock of a company in which (b) is likely to happen? I don't.

Furthermore, even though a 5% discrepancy is already huge, in many cases it is much larger than that: valeant recently dropped 70% in a few weeks, and insiders knew all about the irregularities1; If allowed to short, a new employee, upon discovering those irregularities, has a great incentives to quit, short, and go to the newspaper. While this would deliver justice much more swiftly to the company, it would do so to the benefit of that individual at the expense of everyone else. We disallow vigilante justice in general for good reasons and this is no different.
www.copy.com offers 15GB also. And with referrals you can boost it close to 50GB. Love the app and it's supported very well in my opinion (Win, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone). I really don't have idea why people don't mention Copy when talking about cloud storages.
I’m seeing a lot of web discussions like this:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/771081/30-bit-depth...

Can you find an example of someone talking about using 10 bits/channel color displays on Linux in practice, and having it behave properly? What kind of work are they using it for? (Maybe my google-fu is deficient, but all I can find are people complaining about compatibility problems and Nvidia marketing materials.)
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Same old Microsoft unfortunately. While I understand that some people storing ridiculous amounts of data could be called out under a fair use / reasonable data policy - it seems a very poor excuse to state that as the reason for penalising everyone.
I think this is a simple statement that Microsoft aren't able to economically compete in the consumer cloud storage space. Rather than being honest Microsoft have to spin it. Glad I stayed with Amazon.
When you need that extra push over the cliff...
US is also responsiveness and snappy feeling. None of which slack get right at all. The native app is merely a wrapper around their web-view, yet takes around 15 seconds to load. Then eats > 320 Mb of RAM and continues to eat more (it leaks somewhere).
The web-app itself is far worse wrt speed and resource-usage.

That is unacceptable, especially when you look at the alternatives it replaces: IRC, XMPP/Jabber and whatnot.

I guess it mostly comes down to Slack choosing the "wrong" stack here: Web-technology is, as is shown quite often, simply not ready for such heavy UX/UIs. Sure, it can be done, but when compared to the simplicity and speed of "native" it simply does not cut it. Yet.
Well, yes - better hardware is a better choice. You're in a race with an attacker trying to reverse your password hashes.

You should feel safe in assuming that this algorithm will turn your CPU cycles spent into the highest attacker burden that any algorithm will. In this case, they're saying that they've used the new hardware features efficiently so they're able to increase the cost multiplier even more by doing harder work in the same time.

Just use whatever number will make it complete in a second, it's what you're gonna get.
This will start a deserved exodus to other cloud storage providers.
In regards to space for photos and videos, Google Drive is anyway a better option. In regards to reliable synchronization, Dropbox rules.
At Microsoft 'unlimited cloud storage' really means one terabyte
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> we did an experiment allowing the entire DOM to rerender from a top-level React component when the underlying data model changed.

That's really not how you'd write a large idiomatic React application.

Conceptually, you should be running render() methods on the actual items which have changed, and a very small number of parent components with little-to-no DOM elements. You should also be executing a relatively small number of shouldComponentUpdate() methods which should be extremely fast to execute.

If you are doing that, then where exactly was the performance bottleneck, and how was your alternative approach avoiding it? I mean, sure, if there's simply no possible way for you to figure out what to re-render cheaply, then your app will have poor performance. But that doesn't seem to be true from your other comments.

In fact, it sounds like your second approach might be closer to a normal idiomatic React app than your first implementation. Incidentally, are you using some sort of flux architecture?
They will when Windows 10 becomes a preferred update.

Before that head into Control Panel > Windows Update > Change Settings

Oh, btw: if you have let Automatic Updates run until now it's probably best to do a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 or Windows 8, because they retrofitted almost all of Windows 10 telemetry services in those operating systems in a series of "updates" released around August.

Which gave me enough reasons never to trust any update from Microsoft ever again.
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I was about to purchase the 100GB plan, choosing them over Dropbox. But I don't know anymore. If they are concerned about people abusing unlimited backup, why are they reducing paid tier storage? How does that make sense? Were 100GB users storing 200GB somehow?
"free public health" also means preventative healthcare, not just ER visits.
This is unfortunate. I used O.o to implement type-safe lenses in my TypeScript project (https://github.com/wereHamster/avers). I always cringe when I see Immutable.js `c.setIn(['some','deeply','nested','field'], x)`, so much opportunity for typos, and no support for refactoring.

For a while now I wanted to use proxies, but they are only supported in Firefox, and no timeline when they get to Chrome. I'll have to see what I can use as replacement.
Lol .. that's pretty funny.
Great idea!

I would love if this would be something like a independend, modular micro-services architecture you can easily and selectively deploy within your own network. Docker might be a good way to manage it.
It's possible to notice banding with 8bpc if you look at a color gradient, especially if it wasn't dithered. But if you add proper dithering (over all 3 channels) and you're looking at a natural image (yeah, not a 256-color web-optimized one)... I don't know. Dithering plus higher resolution has pretty much the same effect as a higher bit depth.
I don't know about recent trends, but I've been looking at mortality trends from the 19th century onward, and one point I _did_ key on was that from about 1960-1970 onward, white males and females saw relatively little increase in life expectancy, though black and minority experiences improved. These had lagged whites by 10-15 years, so there was a lot to make up for.

One possibility is that we're seeing a confluence of trends: continued improvements in minority life expectency due to better service and access, but still making up for past deficiencies. While whites are being hit by the leading edge of both decreased access and falling economic opportunity.
Kids need their drugs for NYE/the holidays. I think we'll see this increase up until December, and just like mail we'll see it drop off.
If he's a sysadmin then yes. What he described is setting up communications infrastructure.

Someone set up Slack for the company. The same person could have set up an internal IRC server.
Medicaid provides care for the poor. Thus the myth 'there is no free public healthcare' is false. Although technically, no care is free-- someone pays.
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Oh it is, but they sold half the company for $1.5 billion in 2013. Seems like a steal today, the other big mobile studios must be chomping at the bit seeing King go for $6 billion and knowing they are all that's left.
Isn't "the star wars franchise" a bit like what the Angry Birds franchise will be in 20 years? I.e. a zombie cow, pretty much dead, but still occasionally gives some milk
bait-and-switch
There's a coursera session on digital signal processing going on right now, figured I'd take a crack at it: https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp
That's not what the research shows. Your comment is strongly stigmatising of people in psychiatric distress.