skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is that insane? It's inelegant, but it's not functionally different than having an API and a system for registering API keys.

Because there is such thing as a read-only API. But logging into the banking site as a customer permits the aggregator to take actions as the customer, like wire transfers--which are not reversible, and not typically covered by fraud protection.

Sure, I might trust Mint not to do that, but what if Mint gets hacked? By definition, Mint can access my bank creds in plain text, since it must paste them into my bank's website. That is worse security than even my own bank's website, which undoubtedly stores only the hash of my password.

My bank is not going to indemnify me for fraud caused by Mint's security problems. Bank agreements usually say "don't share your account creds," so if you do, and then lose your money, the bank is not likely to make you whole.
Given that replicability would presumably be about predicting observable statistics, an incorrect calculation wouldn't change it.

I.e., observe a bernoulli trial and see 60 successes in 100 trials. Plan a followup study which will repeat the bernoulli trial 100x - predictions would be on the # of successes in the followup, not some statistical analysis.

The phrase "science advances one funeral at a time" is somewhat orthogonal to this idea - it tends to be about older scientists being unwilling to accept new theories in spite of repeated successes. Such scientists would lose their money if they bet or be ignored if they didn't.
Its even more common among Indians, where people tend to equate good education/university/grades as life long right/entitlement to a good life, even if they are actually bad at work. There is also an immense social pride/pressure associated with foreign visits, citizenship in the US etc- Which causes these kinds of issues.

Also one needs to step out of their fantasy chambers and look at the brutal financial reality of life, which they sooner or later have to face. And work their lives from there. Else soon, the very same intelligent people will complain how a butcher down the street who doesn't know any math beyond basic arithmetic got more richer than a Algorithm expert on TopCoder. And cry that life is 'unfair'.
Maybe try some of cloud-based machine learning offerings like

https://studio.azureml.net/

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

https://cloud.google.com/prediction/docs
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The Navigon GPS app is also offline. It's really a key feature, not only for driving but also for any activity where you're in the woods. It saves me from getting completely lost several times a year.
You're absolutely right, but at the same time, if something WILL work but may not work optimally (or may not be supported for business reasons), I think it's more appropriate to say "hey, this is not recommended and if you do it you're on your own" than "you may not do this, no matter how well you know the risks." Apple chooses the latter path.
Do you support only transitive aggregation operations? If so why not push the entire aggregation to elasticsearch/cadsandra?

How do you plan to scale cpu wise? ES and streaming engines (dont know cassandra) are cpu hogs (compared to map reduce).
I heard at devopsdays Tel Aviv that bigpanda decided to provide different sla to paying and non paying customers to balance the costs.
Most people don't follow stuff like this very closely. Does the average person actually know it's functionally identical? I might not if I hadn't read about it here, at least not right away. If nothing else I would like something just to see what happens.
Time to buy their stock!
Yes, of course.
Chainsaws are an ideal tool for large scale wood carving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJ9t3jIBjA
Please refrain from calling names.

Most recently I have been trying to highlight the fact that the site has been not keeping quality and multiple submissions cause discussions to scatter.

I tried to open a discussion on this topic a while ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225569

The problem of multiple submissions is not difficult to fix. Reposts are ok to re-kindle the discussions however it is a dysfunction when multiple submissions are happening within a span of few minutes.

I do not wish to earn karma by taking credit away from anyone's post and I take keen interests in quality discussions.
Fasttracker was the program that made me understand I have not talent at all to compose music. :)
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Are you suggesting the government should create a new visa category for each possible positions in each possible industry? And how do you suggest they decide of the number of visa to allocate to each category? In what category would you put very specialize positions?
This is awesome. I'm going to incorporate this into http://Artpacks.org soon, if you don't mind!

Now, only if there was a reliable JavaScript RIPScript interpreter. :)
About damn time...I want 4 of them now!
Is there still any reasonable way to upgrade from XP? I intended to upgrade to Windows 8 a few years ago on an ancient machine, only to find that Microsoft had eliminated the upgrade, and now you seem to need to buy a new copy of Windows for an old computer AND reinstall everything.
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This adds support for navigation, which I believe has never been possible before.

That said, the ability to download maps for offline viewing was supported years ago, then removed, then added back (hidden in a hard-to-find corner of the app).
Who would you trust with that kind of information though? I don't even trust the people I'm sending it to, much less the middleman.
So you are using SMR drives. Wow, good luck with that. All the flash front-end caching in the world won't improve the miserable performance of those drives. I guess that's the only way to justify moving out of AWS?

I'd really like to see some usage stats on your SMR clusters because so far the universal verdict is that they're terrible for anything other than WORM.
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> Automation is the removal of human judgement. It requires simplification of the rules and processes.

My impression, is that government projects often go like this: 1) We want to digitize and make some process X more efficient, 2) Oh, now that we're automating we can avoid "errors" by removing case-by-case handling (X is of course now set up for individual evaluation by a professional bureaucrat). The result is that not only do you get feature/scope creep (handle all the things for all the cases, or declare failure), if you succeed, the system ends up being much worse (it now follows outdated written documentation to the letter, doesn't allow for any leeway).

The obvious way around this, is make a system that automates the easy 80% of the cases. Allow the system to give good information to, the now much fewer, bureaucrats, and allow them to handle the 20% on a case-by-case basis.

After a year, evaluate, and reduce the 20% to another 80/20.

Give up the idea that you should automate policy. It's completely insane, even if it might look good on paper.

It's like with accounting systems: you should always have a way for a clerk to enter in and account for unforeseen things in a way that a) accommodates the system ("-500 towels missing/destroyed") along with a comment-field to elaborate, and to facilitate revision ("Bus crashed through the window, gave away 500 towels for use as bandages").
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The obvious target would be fruit-bearing apple branches grafted to those noxious Bradford pears. But I wonder if there's any good fruit or nut candidates for grafting to all those zelkova trees.
The city of Dresden rebuilt a destroyed cathedral from the ruins. I believe that they used as much original material as possible. The entire city is amazing, but checkout the Frauenkirche

http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/prj/kub/std/en3982506.htm

http://www.frauenkirche-dresden.de/en/building/reconstructio...
Aside from addressing potential collisions, what other use cases does this strategy have?
This one is cool too: http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/jetman-airbus-a380/#R7nf8vKsQ...
> Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and feel bad about.

It used to be for me, too. Now I'm much more loose about marking something as read without reading it.
I don't really see you making any arguments here.

* Her letter tries to influence the students she had authority over as her position as associate master. It was implicitly co-signed by her husband, the master. The letter was only sent to those students.

* Most of the rest of the letter has a different questioning rhetoric tone, of course no one can make you see that if you don't want to.

* The article shows she had an agenda and wasn't just reacting to the letter. It bring into question whether she is appropriate for the roll as associate masters since she apparently thought promoting her own agenda was more important than good relations to the students.
> Alas, Backblaze stock isn't yet available for sale ;-)

YET...or is it? /runs over to SecondMarket.
Of course it is. It's actually a lot easier, as there are no envelopes and just one sample per instrument. Firehawk/TDA wrote this excellent player a while back: http://mod.haxor.fi/Purple_Motion/2nd_pm.s3m
Wait a minute. From ITS data? From Bank of America's data? I think they mean from the customer's data. Data that the customer specifically authorized these services to access.
The first requirement is the one that kills SyncThing for me and why Syncany is more appealing.

To sum up my reasons very quickly:

- I want to store my data offsite, where it isn't vulnerable to breakins, fire, water damage etc.

- I have no offsite storage I can trust completely.

- Syncthing only supports storing plaintext on disk.

Therefore I can't use syncthing to securely and remotely store data.

This is where Syncany wins. You don't have to trust the storage endpoint.

Also, Syncthing requires having a CPU attached to your remote storage, meaning your remote options are limited to a VPS or dedicated server. This is significantly more expensive than buying block storage from Google or Amazon.

If Syncthing ever resolves https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109 I'll be open to using it, until then it's out.
Tried downloading LA -- "Area too large, zoom in"

You can download the whole USA map with the "HERE" app...
Because people wanted to watch the little confetti splash, or observe the UI break when clicking the heart too fast. :)
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This is what nathan from support told me when i contacted them:

"As part of our backup process, Backblaze will run a checksum against each file before uploading it. This requires the entire bzfileids.dat file to be loaded into RAM. After a long time, or if you have an extraordinarily large number of files, the bzfileids.dat file can grow large causing the Backblaze directory to appear bloated, and use more RAM (potentially slowing down your system). In your case your bzfileids are extremely large, likely because you have a lot of files and an older backup."

here's my backblaze folder: http://imgur.com/ohqUERr (i have my temporary data drive set to a secondary drive)
given block level dedupe, Microsoft might have 6 copies of your data, but that block is shared between 50 users in each region. Adding a 51st person calling on that block costs nothing.
Because in early stage startups, you accept to forgo a market rate salary for equity that still has low value. You do that because you expect, or you bet on the equity value to go up. Risk, reward, it's simple.

A bidding system for H1Bs would in effect prevent earls stage companies to apply for visas. Many actuall do apply for their own founders. A large proportion of startups have foreign founders, and these people need a visa.
I doubt it. I think the upgrade path is supposed to be XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 10.
This is the Quanta version, which is a bit better from a build standpoint: http://www.qct.io/Product/Storage/Storage-Server/4U/New-Quan...
Haha, sure, let me push some fixes to the github repo.

RIP script, OMG. I remember that. With HTML canvas, shouldn't be too hard, though it would be weirdly high-resolution.
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I don't think there's any 85 year old Cobol though. Most of the S&P 500 is less than 50. It's entirely conceivable the companies that embrace new technologies starting today will, within 50 years, extinguish or acquire most of the of the companies using technologies from 1995.
After spending some time in Turkey, I'm fascinated by this problem as well. I've not seen anything though.

My thought is scan all of the rubble and have the computer attempt a best fit.
"ANSI" hardly counts as a default. (ANSI is MS's incorrect term to mean the system's encoding, which can be any of a number of different character sets.)
This...is not a very good article. What's the thesis? Steve Jobs was not a showman, but a frugal leader, but actually it was the team that he hired early on back in the old days, which by the way, it was much easier to build a company back then, except starting a company, which is easier today, which brings us all back to the point that Steve Jobs knew he had a meticulous operating machine.

...?
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A great collection of sales emails. I'm guessing most people here will find the "Pitch Press" section useful.
Not all certs, though, right? I believe extended validation certs require more documentation than just domain control.
Cobol was the modern day Cobol in 1995, and that was just 20 years ago. 85 years is a long time.
My impression, although I don't live there, is that San Francisco has a fair number of homeless people. Surely they might be recruited to pick and dispose of ripe fruit before it becomes a hazard? In those locales that require refundable container deposits for the purchase of beverages, the homeless contribute a great deal to the fact that such refuse is absent from most streets. A piece of ripe fruit is surely worth more than 5¢.
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I have seen the performance of teams turned around by experienced managers. The key seems to be making it clear what you expect and why - checking if they understand what that is - and reinforcing it.

Another route can be just setting a great example and they will be inspired to follow you.

There is probably research out there about turnaround skills for a team.

There's no harm in trying as long as you just don't be a jerk to them. They probably have not been trained or shown what high performance looks like.

Best of luck!
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Composability, optimization, type checking per DSL, and type-checking globally in host language can combine to offer real power to someone wanting productivity and robustness in combination. Not enough work in this area considering potential benefits.
> Their primary income was what they took, not taxes from lands they ruled.

> The Rhine river hills are covered with the castles of robber barons who took protection money from ships.

How exactly does this differ from "taxing"?
> I will grant you that most of the diploma mill MBA programs are worthless. But the MBA's going to work in F500 companies aren't just idiots.

Are you saying that there are some great MBA programs, that will produce an MBA that adds value without other experience, or are you saying that the MBAs going to work in F500 companies have experience beyond an MBA diploma?

If it's the latter, isn't that pretty much what parent claimed? If it's the former, is that because those MBA programs are cross-disciplinary with real project work loads?
Just remember to calculate the cost per kWh of electricity you extract from your battery.

This comes down to roughly:

$/kWh = $cost of installation / (kWh capacity * cycles lifetime * efficiency)

So if the Powerwall costs $5000 for a 7kWh capacity with a lifetime of about 3600 charge cycles at 80% efficiency, you're looking at $0.25/kWh. If the difference between lowest and highest prices is lower than that, you're better off not buying the Powerwall in the first place.

Once the difference between minimum and maximum price per kWh of electricity from the grid exceeds the $/kWh of the battery, you have an economic incentive to install the battery.

As the price of batteries comes down, companies will invest in battery peaking plants to take advantage of pricing on the energy market. Those bulk battery installations will limit the spread of wholesale time-of-day pricing such that it will never be economically sensible for home users to install batteries as a cost saving device based on retail time-of-day pricing. Domestic units will necessarily cost more per storage/output capacity than commercial units.

For the meantime, installing batteries for your home will only be useful for people who have problems with reliable access to electricity (e.g.: you have frequent brown-outs).

There are advances on the horizon thanks to new battery assembly technology, and Tesla Energy's "Gigafactory" bringing economies of scale and integration into battery manufacturing, with an aim of reducing battery manufacturing costs around 30% for the former and 20% for the latter. There are also some theoretical (and in some cases lab proven) technologies to extend Lithium battery lifetimes to "forever". These all alter the numbers in the equation above: a moderate decrease in $/kWh output will make batteries quite attractive for many grid-connected homes.

So "watch this space," I guess.
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You identified some problems, now start implementing solutions. Turning a bad team into a good one sounds like a great way to improve your leadership.
>But not all races are in charge in America, so it hardly matters.

Bollocks: it is of pivotal importance. There is always going to be some group with more power than the others, regardless of whether the difference is based on race, class, handedness, or simply having more power than other groups.

Blaming one race for problems implies that, if another race was in power, there wouldn't be problems. Which is A) racist and B) exactly the kind of thinking that keeps getting us into this situation, over and over, as some of us struggle towards a more enlightened and egalitarian future, rather than engaging in group shaming and futile identity politics.

Until we can start accepting that in-group bias is simply an extension of out-group prejudice, and that no group of people is immune to it, we are just going to keep bickering and fighting and struggling to dominate each other.
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Those pixels are always drawn anyway. And a phone's biggest battery killer is the screen which... is on if you're looking at it. So, either your biggest power draw is already on, or there's no reason for you to put any pixels on screen.
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Then again, lacking multi-user support is a pretty huge turnoff for a lot of hobby projects as well.
> Charging for something monthly and then one month decide you want to do other things, is not a dick move.

It most certainly is a dick move if you know you have customers who depend on the service. To avoid being a dick, provide your users more notice.

> If you pay me to clean your apartment for two months but the third month I decide to do something else instead, do I have to keep cleaning your apartment?

Of course you don't, but to avoid being a dick, provide adequate notice, with adequete being enough time to find a replacement. If I had a party on the 2nd day of month 3 with an expectation you'd be cleaning the apartment on day 1 only to be told on the 1st that you wouldn't be doing it, that would be a dick move.

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Essentially it comes down to providing enough notice to find a replacement. The time needed to do that obviously depends on the service, but I can think of many cases where a months notice is less than acceptable.
This is definitely one of those things which sounds like it should be so simple until you actually try to do it, and then run into the hundreds of corner cases which break only in production during your 3am batch downloads.

In theory, it should be "easy" to scale since each account is fully discrete. More accounts, add a few more "workers" to pull jobs off the queue and everything is happy. Even on the front-end each company is hitting their own private data set, their own indices, etc. So unless you are discovering individual data sets / companies that themselves have a couple orders of magnitude more events than you are prepared to process... Even still, the total number of discrete metrics, and the cardinality of the metrics doesn't change all that much just because event counts themselves (total billings) increase.

So I can definitely see from both perspectives here... why is something like this so hard to scale up? Best answer is because the real world presents challenges well beyond the theoretical complexity of the problem at hand.
The upvote buttons on HN add the item to save lists (available in your own profile). There is apparently some demand for separating it out as you say.
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I don't see what that has to do with the Halloween email. Were the swastikas part of costumes?
Off topic, but in the book Snow Crash, weren't the Japanese doing this with prestigious colleges and the like? Moving them brick by brick to Japan? Or was that a completely different book?
They were testing as far back as June, but probably even earlier: http://mashable.com/2015/06/17/twitter-favorite-hearts-stars...
Truly inspiring... (ok I'm being sarcastic)
Similar to: http://bioischanged.com/privacy but for Facebook :)

Slightly tangential, but what's to stop me flipping one bit in a JPEG and uploading it again. JPEGs are renowned for being fault tolerant to even the most aggressive mangling of the file structure, as long as the header is intact it will preserve some integrity
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The ol' Google workaround (click the link):
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Get the contact details for a good attorney should shit hit the fan, but IMHO I would stay out of it until you're formally accused of something. Divorces seem to bring out the crazy in some people. It could very well just blow over.
The category I'm talking about has tables as objects, and chained foreign key traversals as morphims.

In SQL, this category is freely generated ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_category ) from a quiver ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiver_%28mathematics%29 ) whose nodes and edges are SQL tables and foreign keys, respectively.

In my proposal ( https://gist.github.com/eduardoleon/1e8ad9174ec5ae0386dd ), the category is still freely generated, but from something that has more structure than a quiver - some nodes may be designated as coproducts or products of other nodes.

In either case, the category can't possibly have all coproducts and products, and that's okay with me - a database can only have finitely many tables, after all. My beef with SQL is that it doesn't allow this category to have any coproducts and products at all.
> In an ideal world a government regulator would step in and ensure data access and privacy.

No, in an ideal world there would be much more competition between banks, forcing them to offer better services in order to keep their customers.
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up to an order of magnitude more

5x the density

so half an order of magnitude, which is much more believable?