skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the book and think there's a subversive thread in it that your comments allude to. If you accept the story as an underdog success tale you might be frustrated. If on the other hand you read it as a cautionary tale about what happens when all you have is buzz and marketing runs your company, I think you might enjoy it more.

The book purports to tell the story of how the Sega Genesis came out of nowhere to win massive market share in the gaming industry, but as you said the actual story consists of a long string of marketing junkets related anecdotally by the marketers in attendance.

Discussion of software engineering and hardware design is scant. Meanwhile there's an entire chapter dedicated to play-by-play of a weekend retreat Sega hosted for video game distributors.

There's a few takeaways from this:

1. Distribution (marketing, sales, partnerships) is sometimes the whole story.

The Genesis story basically boiled down to "they made a fun game with a cute mascot and then hired the right ad agency to flog it nationwide at massive cost". As "makers" hanging out on HN that's an offensive reading of history but the author talked to the principals and that's the story they told.

2. If all you have is distribution, any gains you find will be unsustainable.

I found the last chapters of the book a downer. The Sega America folks were tasked with marketing a confusing lineup of products, couldn't get consumers excited about them, so they all jumped ship one by one. At the end of the day they were just a bunch of marketers and that could only take them so far.

While the book's decision to tell the story of the Genesis through its marketing seems to belittle the work of the actual product people back in Japan, it's gentle telling of Sega America's collapse post-Genesis shows the limitations of a marketing-only approach.

3. While the book appears to lionize the "underdog" Sega America team, in the end it's the Nintendo folks who come across most impressively. The chapters where the authors cuts back to what Nintendo was up to at the time show a company with actual substance, identity, and a point of view. While the "heroes" of the book run around from marketing strategy to marketing strategy, the "villains" quietly and confidently go about the business of making great products, manipulating distribution in a heavy handed yet open way, and marketing their products in simple, relatable marketing.

In the end, though the book appears to promote a "marketing is all that matters" approach to business it really argues that lasting success come from companies that are product driven.
Ha! I didn't realize that one was the same company either! From now on, I guess I'll switch to assuming that anything with the same name is actually the same company, no matter how seemingly unrelated.

Good story, thanks for sharing.
This is an interesting approach but it seems to be less effective than existing patch based texture synthesis approaches like http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/perception//projects/graphcutte... and not obviously better than even simpler pixel based approaches. Using deep CNNs here doesn't appear to be improving results over existing techniques.

I point this out because existing texture synthesis methods work surprisingly well already and to anyone not familiar with them it may appear that the results achieved here would be very difficult to produce when there are already quite effective techniques in existence.
It would also be helpful if they'd read the article.
If libsass is the benchmark, I can state wholeheartedly that it is not fast enough (to not do incremental compiles).
While they reduced it, they obviously didn't stop all violence in the streets, far from it. Heck, even in daylight, mid-street, there's plenty of violence!
Read the article again.

> Nevertheless, because both eDellRoot and DSDTestProvider are installed in the Windows root store for certificate authorities together with their private keys, they can be used by attackers to generate rogue certificates for any website that would be accepted on the affected Dell systems.

It's not the certificate that's the problem. It's the installation of the private keys along with the certificate.
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Some really good threads on fermented foods have come up recently (1,2,3). In relation to these healthy, cost-effective protein sources, this legume, soy, afaict, needs fermentation before ingestion (0). See # What Soy Products are Good For You?

0: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/1...
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699993
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603067
3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10524582
QNX was open source for a while, what is surprising is that there doesnt appear to be an easily searcable version of the code available on google.
no but seriously those pics are manic
To appropriately market such PCs, you have to expose the ad-infested fraud that the standard BestBuy or Staples laptops are, and that is an uncomfortable position to be in for Microsoft. So no wonder Signature PCs didn't take off. It's kind of like advertising "Signature Boats", "Signature" because they have zero holes in them.
Yes, but they're in the minority.
This looks like a great resource! I have been using complex2real[1] for years, but this looks like another great link. Thanks.

[1] http://complextoreal.com/tutorials/#.VlXqyMr88xU
DSP is the reason I could transition from electrical engineering to machine learning - it's funny how fundamentals pay off.
How EMV Impacts Card Not Present Fraud for Subscription-Based Businesses
BPD is very different to DID. They don't share any similar symptoms. Your suggestibility suggestion doesn't match any of the people I know with the diagnosis (and I know many people with the diagnosis). I guess it's possible, but not if you tie it to BPD.

Some nice descriptions of BPD are in "Meeting the Challenge, Making a Difference": http://www.emergenceplus.org.uk/news-from-emergence/507-meet...

I agree that DID is either unlikely or fantastically rare.
Browsing facebook has risks of its own; it's a prime target for inter-kid hacking.
"[intent-land are] the ones that are becoming the most harmful"

Why do you think so? Or in other words, in what cases does the intent of a person make any action more harmful?
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Well, they certainly contain content that is part of the foundation of DSP.
Zenefits Is an HR “Rocket Ship” – But Some Customers Get Left Behind
Exports are ~15% of the US's GDP. The impact of currency valuation is far from minimal.
A part of me wants to go "Un-freaking-believable!"

The other part is like, "You really did not see this coming?"

The worst part is that this was probably done for ridiculous reasons. If they had put the certificate on their systems to allow the NSA to spy on their customers (just as hypothetical example), planting such a certificate would probably be a reasonable approach. But in the case of Lenovo and Superfish, this was done to show f___ing advertisements to users, and I am certain in Dell's case their reason is not much better. And for that, they put their customers security at risk. For freaking advertisements and (Dell's claim, I think) making life slightly easier for their support staff.

Seriously, what were these guy thinking?
I am using Charles proxy to debug requests but it's nowhere nearby Chrome DevTools. Really neat.

Any plans to support SSL?
One nice thing about the re-rise of mainstream embedded systems is that they're a great way to introduce low-level programming.

(I call it "re-rise" because small boards were all over the place when I was in school 25-30 yr ago.)
Lending to high risk clients, on its own, is not predatory lending. If I'm willing to accept the risk, I could loan $5k to someone with a poor credit history and frequent unemployment at a low interest rate. I have to be somewhat altruistic to do this, and most banks and lenders aren't. I have to be willing to write it off. It sounded like this was the market they wanted to be in. Poor people needing money, instead of getting payday loans or high-interest CC debt, could get low interest loans from this credit union. It's the opposite of predatory.

I'm not sure it's viable or sustainable, but it is a noble goal, at least.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620229.
Simple's support is bar none IMHO but I'm right there with you, the API was a BIG reason to why I signed up.
Israel trains French trauma experts to cope with terror
Weird table's data in SQL server
Once upon a time I spent a couple of hours looking at the Dell update utility and found that it pretty much allowed remote code execution to any web page your browser visits[1][2]. The quality of their code, the clear lack of anyone with any security knowledge looking at it and the 'fix' they deployed[3] made me never ever trust Dell again.

Seriously, their entire security relied on 'if url.endswith('dell.com')', plus a bunch of home grown 'encryption' that was utterly ridiculous. I'm sure if anyone spent a good hour or so looking at some of the oodles of software they pre-install on laptops you can dig up some other juicy exploits.

1. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... (sites down at the moment :/)

2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/08/dell_update_security...

3. They literally just updated their home grown encryption/authentication code and made it clear that they didn't understand the issue at all.
did they ever announced on the big league? I never saw them even on yahoo. only cheaper venues.
Stereolabs Shows Its Jetson TX1-Powered Drones Cranking Out 3D Maps in Real Time
Don Norman has written a lot about how important aesthetics are.

Like you, I used to think function was all that mattered. When I was buying something, I loved finding spec sheets to pore over. Now, I trust my feelings much more than any spec sheet and in general I'm happier with the things I choose. Attractive things work better.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626192.
i think so. at least a BSD flavour...
It's also a lie. Try engaging the "I'm only intolerant of intolerance" crowd on, say, climate change, abortion, or the death penalty. It takes tortuous logical contortions to frame any of these issues in terms of "intolerance," and yet you'll likely be met with vitriol nonetheless.
Good luck pressurizing the cabin module without making it excessively heavy. The flat bottom is going to be tough and the sharp corners where the flat bottom meets the sides are going to be really tough.

It would be a lot easier to do a "tube in a tube" concept using a swing up nose like what is already available on the 747 (could be available for the A380).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cargolux_B747-400F.jpg
Then use cameras and video screens to simulate windows.

References:

* Boeing 747 "Large Cargo Freighter" aka Dreamlifter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter / http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/howard_mason3/747_lcf/

* Airbus Beluga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga
Am I reading it correctly that they also included the private keys? Why are the private keys for the cert installed with the cert? That doesn't make any sense.

Is this just incompetence, or is there some other reason that I'm failing to understand?
I dismiss immersive shared viewing experiences from couch distance (also known as "lean-back" viewing). You can have "lean-forward" experiences on the TV, but they need to be continuously interactive like a video game. But at couch distance, you have to pick whether an experience is "lean-back" or "lean-forward": consumers dislike switching back and forth frequently.

And whether or not I think consumer VR will succeed depends on the definition of success. Do I think it will be a multi-billion dollar market? Absolutely. Do I think it will remain a niche within the larger video gaming / media market? Absolutely. I do not think consumer VR will ever be the norm, but I think that there will also be some compelling VR experiences that will draw a significant number of people into them.

Augmented reality has far more promise as a consumer technology that's more than a fad. VR is pretty much only useful for media consumption; when you're immersed in a virtual world you're not immersed in the normal world, so its use will be reserved for those times you can ignore what's happening around you. Augmented reality is a multi-purpose tool: it's a general purpose display that enriches the world around you, and can thus be used to enrich every day experiences. But the display technology for augmented reality is a lot trickier.
We know that trying to teach children to read using this method is pretty terrible.
In practice, people, even scientists, treat smaller p-values as better "evidence". That's not what p-vals mean, and even if it were, there are biases in p-vals that make them problematic as the number of data points increase.

Bayesian stats aren't related to training and test sets, like in machine learning; scientific experiments rarely partition data like that. A Bayesian analysis answers the question, "Given the evidence I just collected, how should I adjust my estimate of how likely something is?" But Bayesian analyses have issues too: the biggest is not knowing what your initial, "prior" probability should be. (After all, that's usually what you're trying to find out!) With something simple like a coin flip, you have a strong prior assumption of 50% probability of heads.

And neither Bayesian nor frequentist methods address effect size. If you collect enough data, you can detect extremely small (real) effect sizes that pass statistical tests, but are still meaningless outside the context of publishing a paper. Rather than analysis type, we should incorporate more discussion of effect size, especially as the number of data points increase.
doesn't look remotely reasonable. granted I am no aircraft designer but air frame integrity, aerodynamics, and extra weight to facilitate the detachable parts, all look to doom it.

Look to improving movement of planes at airports, unobtrusive but thorough scanning of flyers and crews; both ground and airborne, and more automation. (didn't they have a cool concept in the Running Man?
Would you say the customer experience was that much better before the regulations in 2008? Cause that hasn't been my experience personally.
The Day I Became a Millionaire (DHH)
I think that's more an indicator that Microsoft stores don't account for a significant portion of sales.
I get the feeling that the point of this work was more about expanding our understanding of CNNs than about solving the problem of texture synthesis.

Interesting references nonetheless.
That's a relief. They are finally taking the issue seriously then.

There are also indications that they are going to lower the display path latency, which also stands several times higher than what is in iDevices. It just takes some time to get a certain class of software architects to realize that buffering a frame several times each step might not be the smartest way after all.
>I also resent your use of 'rape' in that context.

I can't wait till the PC fad blows over.
> a p-value is the probability of getting your experimental results given that your hypothesis is wrong.

That's a common misconception. Actually it's the probability of getting your experimental results given that your null hypothesis is right.
> Would you be willing to donate (not pay) for news?

Yes, but I believe people like myself are an outlier. I gave a substantial sum (<$1000) to Muckrock for their private prison investigation when it looked like their crowdfunding campaign might not fully fund.

People will want to contribute to causes they're passionate about. Can you find enough people who are passionate about independent, unbiased journalism?
If your build environment is that difficult to setup and undocumented, that's a big problem, whether or not you are remote or an on-site developer.
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That's why I said modern polymaths.

Most people always think of the usual guys when talking about polymaths, and it seems like modern ones are never mentioned.
Truth is just a sufficiently correct predictive model
Brilliant! Now third-party vendors can provide support by sending people to dell.com.shadysite.com! /s
> Alumni should take it into account before writing any more checks.

This is the key takeaway for anyone interested in getting this nonsense to stop.
Mine is remarkably similar, though less general: "if p=.05, then running a bogus experiment 20 times ensures you'll publish."

Suddenly, the abysmal state of nutritional epidemiology makes sense. How many labs do you suspect are running "red meat = death" studies?
Ah, ok, thanks. I'll have a look later from a computer that has a working flash install, this one does not...
Google cache version since the Buck blog can't stand up to HN traffic:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Dropbox API v2 Tutorial: Benefits of version 2 and how to integrate it (Android)
A Thanksgiving dplyr Rubik's cube puzzle for you
Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
If the sequence is rare enough then we do, in practice, conclude that the coin is unfair. If you can't make that conclusion then science doesn't work; no observations will convince you.
Both things are true. Finance is heavily regulated by at least a dozen agencies, but the coverage of those agencies has gaps, and significant overlaps where it's not clear who is supposed to be holding the ball.

To name two examples from the financial meltdown:

- Lending practices at banks are regulated by the Federal Reserve. Lending practices by mortgage brokers financed by i-banks and hedge funds were essentially unregulated. Those are where a lot of the bad loans and securities started.

- Derivatives are normally regulated by the CFTC, but credit default swaps were specifically exempted from that regulation in 2000, on the assumption that other federal regulators would cover the downstream risks under their purview (they did not).
455 exabytes per gram data storage or When can i get for my MBP?
Sadly true. On the one hand, the scientists ignored the multiple comparisons problem, and should have applied something like the Bonferroni or False Discovery Rate corrections. OTOH, they got publications and publicity for ignoring it.
Good on Cox for going to bat for its users.
If CO2 levels are rising overall, and you claim volcanic eruptions utterly dwarf man made emissions, then years with volcanic eruptions should show an increase in atmospheric CO2 outside of the trend, and years without them should be flatter.

This is not shown in any of data.

But now you claim plants and algae are consuming all the volcanic CO2. So where is the overall increase coming from then? And I'd they are doing this, why, in non-eruption years, does CO2 not fall greatly due to all this biomass?
I don't think college students being involved in radical politics and protests against their school is a new trend.
Until your main laptop is unavailable for some reason, so you borrow the kids one to do that urgent bank transfer or buy something online. Hopefully at that point you'll notice the amount of adware and crapware hogging the laptop and compromising it's performance that the kids have just got used to, and realise something is wrong before handing over your bank details to the Russian mob.
Glad to hear racial profiling is not a thing.
Thanks for sharing this!

With the mantl project https://github.com/CiscoCloud/microservices-infrastructure we feed mesos task information into consul.

We've looked a lot a load balancing and feel that rewriting haproxy files dynamically can lead to brittle behavior.

Our current setup is we use traefik https://github.com/emilevauge/traefik to proxy marathon tasks.

Haproxy 1.6 includes some dynamic dns lookups http://blog.haproxy.com/2015/10/14/whats-new-in-haproxy-1-6/
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This seems like one optimal protein source, since we could also squeeze out its oil and use it for diesel fuel. Then, Spirulina, can act as another protein source which can also provide bio-available essential fatty acids.
If the law says A | B, and someone is convicted of A & B, is it not plainly obvious that the jury would have convicted of A | B as well, since it is a strictly "weaker" predicate?
This App Makes Scheduling Shifts Better for Wage Workers
I read the article and it's almost completely orthogonal to the questions asked by 'graffitici. There's nothing suggesting that they didn't read the article, so now I assert that you have three things to explain - where they're wrong, what's the right answer to their question and why on Earth did you think they didn't read the article?
Re-live your memories with VR
“All of us were completely convinced it had a negative answer, so none of us was actually trying to prove it”

The problem was preconceived bias, not ability to prove.
P-values are only hard to explain when you try to explain in English. Stick to the math, where it's just P(X >= x | Ho) and once you understand the math it's immediately clear in a way an English sentence (or paragraph trying to equate to the math without math) isn't. My go-to presentation on this is: http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~cfrangak/cominte/goodmanvalues...
Startup Zenefits Under Scrutiny for Flouting Insurance Laws
I'm reminded of a joke about how Haskell empowers you to apply the infinite power of abstract mathematics using the intuitive simplicity of abstract mathematics.

I think the resistance you're encountering stems from the fact that you're appealing to formality rather than intuition.
I wouldn't consider this a prank, but instead a whimsy. It's a prank only if he intentionally broke convention from using the first two letters with the sole purpose of fucking with everyone.
What major advantage exactly does being tax-exempt offer a Credit Union? A bank pays taxes on profits, sure, but a credit union doesn't have profits, so they still wouldn't pay much income tax (no income to tax) even if they weren't tax exempt! They may have to pay more property tax (not sure if they are exempt from that or not) or other taxes, but surely a well ran credit union would not have a significant tax burden if it were not tax exempt. (Paper work might be an issue... but banks and credit unions alike have to do plenty of that anyway!)
I have found the team to be obstinately stubborn about changing minds
We edited the title so it wouldn't imply that the solution itself was news.
If the article is correct then this is a major mistake on dell's part.
Siri’s Flaw: Apple Personal Assistant Leaks Personal Data
Trivializing sexual assault is extremely poor form.
The world of music shows that inexperienced audiences will flock to loud novelty over quiet depth and substance every time.

The decline and death of classical music illustrates as much. The barrier to entry for the subtle works of the old masters is too high in the face of easily accessible garbage.

Or look to fine art, where people are more aware of Jeff Koons' balloon animals than they are Bouguereau's The First Mourning or the sculpture of Daumier.
> Take your pick of most legumes. They're cheaper, have more than enough protein as well as other nutrients, are more environmentally sustainable and don't require killing sentient creatures...

Most legumes have a pretty high carb-to-protein ratio, and are also incomplete proteins. (Also, there's probably no reasonable definition of sentience that includes all animals and excludes all plants.)
Mentioning Tsu is just a waste of space. It is a pyramid scheme, scammy, and there are reports of people not receiving payments. Let's not pretend it was EVER a legit social media site. FB was right to block them. I agree with the vast majority of this post but mentioning Tsu was just stupid.
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