skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it matured into something better.

So getting rid of people for not having the same political and social opinions as you is now "better"?
You seem to also be shilling a lot of Mozilla products, are you perhaps also a Mozilla employee?
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This seems like something Donald Knuth would own.
Mist may be able to "catch" the visible particles and go to some length to then putting it into groundwater, but all of the dangerous stuff is in the small particulates that will remain in the air.

Out of sight, out of mind seems to the aim of this.
AI software projects need people who are good at builds and version control and releases and other things that you might not learn to do at a professional level in CS graduate There is a huge amount of chopping wood and carrying water to do.

It is already getting less important to know the algorithms than it used to be because everybody and his brother has been working on algorithms for the last few years and now you find them automated, overseen by an "expert systems" in products like this:

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/

I may be biased, but I also think some of the "old AI" ideas are coming back, and it is very clear that logic programming and rules engines can be improved upon greatly.

For instance you look at Drools and think it might be pretty cool but then you write some code and fight with a compiler that can't give sensible error messages and then...

Something can be done about it
Actually it will, you are wrong.

Regulating something so that you may as well make it illegal isn't really the same as decriminalizing the activity. Countries with reasonable prostitution laws are tremendously safer for those turning tricks.
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Little Bobby Tables isn't getting anything for Christmas this year.

Or everything, I guess it depends on how the implementation handles failure conditions.
Absolutely, and don't forget tidyr! Its hard to overstate Mr Wickham's contribution to making R a very handy and useful tool. I am sure that a lot of folks would have tried R and then moved on to something else were it not for the "Hadley-verse".
I am big on cross-training to avoid the bus factor! But everyone gets paranoid, the problem is it needs to be ingrained in the culture to thats "what you do" and not have it just pop up all of a sudden, thats what gives people trepidation.
Why do you say creativity is subjective? If that is the case, anything could be creative - even working on a production line in a factory.
I'd bet that the Facebook database (et al) would have a better dataset that the Santa one, and without a doubt it's creepy.
> Did you realize negative numbers were only accepted in the late 1700s?

I did not know that! This makes total sense. I'd like to know more about that. When you think about it, only whole positive numbers make sense from a quantitative perspective. One thing, two things, three things, and so on. What's half-a-thing? Right? a half-a-thing is still just one thing, if you know what I mean. And how can no thing (nothing) be a number? And how can negative numbers be "numbers". It has always struck me that imaginary numbers are really badly named. Zero and the negative numbers are just as 'imaginary', equally unintuitive from a certain perspective.

I applaud what you're doing. I think there is a metric-tonne of dogma and bad naming schemes in the standard maths curriculum. Remember in software engineering they say that naming things is one of the hardest parts of the task? I think the same applies to maths, perhaps more so.
planted at a different time, maybe by a different attacker.

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/679028059907887104
How big are your commits that you can't remember what all is in them? I always do a final diff to make sure that everything is production quality (no forgotten TODOs, etc), so I've just looked at everything I'm committing.
It's not hypocritical if you believe the other is not made up.

Much as I'm not a believer in a higher power, I really dislike these kinds of easy swipes at something that others (including people very dear to me) consider the foundation of their entire lives. It feels cheap and condescending.
No I do not work for Mozilla -- based on my limited understand, his arguments are either not relevant any more unfairly biased.
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Maybe you're just lucky :))

https://github.com/tkrotoff/osteo15.com/issues/16
Santa is a falsification of the real thing.

With Santa, there's no room for grace. You're either naughty or nice, and then you are rewarded accordingly.

The Christian story, as told in the Bible, is quite different. First of all, you're not working for presents, you're working for God Himself. Secondly, we're all naughty: there is no way to be nice apart from Christ. And finally, you are not supposed to simply "believe" God exists; your faith is inseparable from your works. And by working faithfully you are rewarded immediately as well as eternally... "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Just what middle-America needs, notification that the russkies are coming for their baby pictures.
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This is a demonstration of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5tenq55VPA
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Even small particles will be reduced by misting/spraying water.

I have worked in industrial settings and water is surprisingly effective in reducing airborne particulates.
You can. There are however a couple of things that make it hard:

1. The Android kernel is essentially a fork of the Linux kernel with a bunch of non-upstream features and non-upstreamable crapware drivers written by the phone/tablet vendors. By and large mainstream Linux distros are only happy to ship upstream kernels. This means you'd need to run a hybrid distro userspace + Android kernel, which sucks because of missing kernel features, lack of integration with distro packaging, and lack of security updates for the kernel (unless you apply them by hand each time yourself).

2. Mainstream Linux desktops suck without a mouse and don't have any multitouch features -- despite groups like GNOME fetishizing iOS, they haven't "got" what makes it good nor provided a competent replacement. Also the form-factor of a phone or tablet is quite different from a laptop or desktop and so requires somewhat special GUI software - single app at a time, on screen keyboard, larger text, page-sized forms without decorations and so on.

Anyway, you can look at Ubuntu Phone as a good place to start.
I was looking into the Jarvis legs (similar price point, $490 that has programmable heights) and using a cheap Ikea top. Don't know about sturdiness...but the reviews look good.

http://www.ergodepot.com/Jarvis_Frame_p/jrv-fr.htm
But Y might be over Tor, or might not keep logs. There's no mechanism I can see for getting past wiped logs after the fact. If everything is done in RAM, and the machine is rebooted every few days, there's pretty much nothing you could do afterwards.

If all you need is a finite number of leads, then trivially the number of humans/bitcoin users is finite. I don't think that makes a difference.
They're barely comparable. If at all. The F9 isn't at orbital velocity (although, much faster and on an orbital trajectory that has to be cancelled out). Sure. But the F9 was actually taking a payload to orbit. The Blue Origin never will, it's just a mega rich tourist toy.
I'll do that, thanks
No, Santa Claus' database really was compromised.
http://domainnamesales.com/ is one of the best resources online and is what many professional domainers use.
By knowing what people want.
Maybe clearbit? Which you can opt out of here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim

I did this a few weeks ago and magic signup does not work for my email address.
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The title is somewhat misleading because only 48/250 had actual pricing pages, the others had what really amounts to "contact us" pages for their sales teams. Fortunately it's still an informative read, and even 48 pages are enough for meaningful discussion of pricing pages. The original post has additional infographics at the end of the article (a helpful way to reason about ideas contained within after going through it all in text): https://www.process.st/2015/12/saas-pricing-pages/

As a consumer I often feel like contact-style "pricing" pages are a way of trapping customers into a hard-sell. Granted some pricing structures are complicated out of necessity, especially those where usage plays a significant role in the cost to the provider (substantial bandwidth transfer, hardware/setup, human resources). More often than not I immediately abandon any such service if contacting for pricing is the only option. It was surprising to see 80%+ (202/250) of companies didn't list their pricing because my personal real-world experience feels like the inverse.

The article discusses the reasons for the contact-only approach, which boil down to preventing biases for enterprise customers. While that's understandable in some situations, not all SaaS is intended to target enterprise customers. It goes on to consider pros/cons of the multifaceted concept that is tiered pricing. If read this much of my comment but not the article, go read it now!

(A couple typos for the author: "boost revenue"→"boosts revenue", "Abscense"→"Absence")
Q: What does it mean if a type system is fully dependent from values up?
Seems to be getting indexed at least.
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Organist here, the best I have is a dresser with stop handles as the drawer pulls.

This is awesome.
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What you describe is easy to bruteforce using oclhashcat. Use scrypt or bcrypt or pbkdf2, in that order of preference.
I bought the book a while back, and I still struggled with it. I have very low math skills. My pre algebra teacher was a joke, and everything building on that flew right over my head. I basically talked my counselor into letting me graduate even though I didn't pass basic math graduation requirements in college. So I'm a pretty clean slate, and this was quite difficult for me. I'm a pretty good developer, but telling the computer to do math for you based on looking up what it needs to do is much different from understanding the concepts myself which has been a real difficult thing for me. Kahn academy is the worst, like bringing back old terrible memories of repeating hellish math problems that I don't really get, but still want to move on out of boredom. Such it is.
Freezing? It's been 65 degrees in Fort Meade this month!

....Or so i've been told.
Their secret sauce is a third party API.
They want to add hooks for it, noting Opera already has a sidebar API.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Future

I've seen similar sentiments echoed by Mozilla devs in a reddit AMA a few weeks ago.
It's more likely to be the NSA nowadays.

It would be good if these notifications said where the attacks appeared to originate.
No, but they will certainly be in the BDSM-VI.
I've not yet tried kwm so I am not really a good person to ask. In reading about kwm it seems to compare well to Amethyst in terms of features and use case goals. I've used Amethyst through several releases and seen a lot of improvement. If I had to make a real opinion all I could say is that Amethyst appears to be more mature (my assumption is that Amethyst has been around longer). I do like that the author reacts positively to feature requests and maintains a transparent development path: https://trello.com/b/cCg3xhlb/amethyst.

All of this said kwm looks promising and I think it is awesome more people are using tiling wm's.
> So how did the bug get into the typewriters?

It's explained in the article:

<quote>

Planting the bug

The bugs were probably planted inside the IBM Selectric typewriters when the machines were in transit (perhaps in Poland or Moscow itself) awaiting customs inspection prior to their delivery to the US embassy in Moscow.

</quote>
naive: showing a lack of judgement. Exactly what I wanted to say.
Only activate one of them at a time and hope that the others don't expire...
as you seem to have some inside information can you share some details about the database schema:
is naughty field not null or nullable?
what about indexing a table on a boolean column?
I was thinking the same thing... Is the cannon supposed to somehow disperse the sulfur oxides? Or is that not how it works?
I'm as critical of my government as any, but please show some sources for a claim as ludicrous as this. The CBP does not go around mutilating corpses of those that they disagree with.
Much of the coal smog comes from individuals burning coal in small fires to heat their residences.
This is cool. What was your motivation for building it?
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I've had many issues with NetworkManager, Avahi and Pulseaudio. I already decided to avoid them a long time ago. My distribution of choice, after using Slackware for several years, has always been Debian. There have been moments I tried to switch to FreeBSD and Gentoo. Since Debian decided to use Systemd I started to use Gentoo again, with the hardened profile, and avoid most of the software I do not agree with. I even created Ebuild packages for the latest MATE desktop and removed all dependencies to anything that has anything to do with GNOME 3 except GTK 3, which is optional as GTK 2 can be used as well.

Somewhere along the line a kind of "takeover" happened. I am not going to say that the people doing this are "evil" or something as they at least contributed something that can be used for free. Difficult to argue with that. But I cannot stop myself having the feeling that there is some hidden agenda of interests behind it as well. For me this "takeover" looks similar to what happened to W3C where certain people (companies?) started to ignore them and created HTML5 instead. I really like the well-formness of XHTML where XML itself is very strict and has many built-in features which are still missing inside what replaced them in popularity, like JSON. The people of W3C knew what they were doing and strived for every change to be stable and future proof which can be a slow process. Too slow for some people it seems.

Of course I tried to use Systemd and was really happy with it till the moment it started crashing and taking some clusters down with it. I migrated 2 servers to the new Debian and everything went well. Even the LXC containers started just fine until I started to upgrade the containers to the new Debian as well. At that time I did not even know the author of Systemd was the same as the one that started Pulseaudio, but somehow these issues gave me the same feeling of uncertainty that reminded me of it.

For the servers I am now using Gentoo (as almost every other distro already switched to systemd) in combination with OpenRC without any issues. Compilation of source packages happens on a separate server where I can test them before deploying the binary packages I just build to the test and production servers.
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> I said the good programmers would eventually be pushed out by webdevs who were not as good, and here Mozilla is making the Rust language, which is merely a crutch for people not good enough to use C++.

And C++ is just a crutch for people not good enough to use assembly.
It's Clearbit - and btw way more data than this is available on you based on an email address. Scary in a lot of ways for sure.
start with customer development, interview a whole bunch of potential customers. Then try to distill the data down into some generalization. If you can identify a pattern, your idea may work
That's true currently of any HTTP-level logs
I suppose it's a good thing nothing came up when I entered my email?

I would be turned off from a website or service that prepopulated a lot of my information without my consent.
It would have been funny if you had used C, but you didn't so now it just sounds weird. I suggest you edit it very quickly so you don't embarrass yourself.
I always wondered why the C# team chose to compile directly into assemblies. One main (accidental?) advantage of Java's way is that each .java file is compiled into its own .class file, which takes mere milliseconds.

The C# compiler is fast, but not millisecond-fast. You can code Java as if it's interpreted code but with better editor support and great error messages. Change the code, run the test or the program, bam, immediate feedback. With C# it's always been change the code, wait a little, ok well just a little longer, yay feedback. Those 5 seconds there really make a difference.

I assume there's a performance (or VM simplicity?) reason behind preferring assemblies - after all, you can statically link method calls without needing the JIT to do it for you. But it really hurts developer productivity. I wish they had done both - .class files in debug mode and entire optimized assemblies in release mode. Or something like that.
Nice try, but everyone knows that Santa keeps his database in 6NF.
Any idea how this feature will work with base box's images that are regularly updated? I've been using ubuntu/trusty64 and it seems to get an update at least once a week.
I would love to hear your thoughts about something I'm working on. Care to shoot me an email? jkun2@uic.edu
> Just 4% of companies offer pricing on a sliding scale

Interesting. As a consumer I would like a slider, but as a company one wants to upsale the user a higher priced plan. Recently, I saw several new SaaS companies that have a slider.
I'd prefer to see adware cease being an acceptable model, period. It does seem strange to see MS addressing this now, considering how long adware has been preloaded by OEMs. And I'm not sure how useful this is if it's just for browsers, having memories of the 'reminders' to update and buy the preinstalled antiviruses that couldn't be easily removed.
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An in-depth analysis into the market split for Apache's Solr & Elasticsearch that Steve Nellis from The Information published this morning. Interesting read breaking down the two major players in enterprise search, and both are OSS and have different licenses.

"There’s a shift happening in the software that big companies use to search their internal data. Solr, a decade-old nonprofit-backed technology that’s most popular, is being overtaken by Elasticsearch, free software backed by a for-profit firm selling paid add-ons."

What are your thoughts on the rise in popularity with ES over Solr? Is the ES way of charging for add-ons the future of OSS?

Disclaimer: Site is a paid subscription news publication, but the article can be unlocked using my share link.
My point is that bottled water prices vary enormously, because it's pretty much a pure convenience and branding product. Looking at the average is meaningless, and comparing it with oil is silly. Look at the price of the underlying commodity (water) and see what that costs.
Will PHP last another 20 years?
I wonder if a new way to do signups would be just an emailto: link that you click and send. From there it automatically logs you in and sends you a password.
As a parent I too have experienced the frustration with English.

I want to teach my daughter some foundational principles from which to build a predictive model, but with English the insanity seems to begin immediately.

Some letters have multiple sounds, like C and G.
Some sounds have multiple representations, like DG/J and KS/X.
Some letters don't have their sound in their name, like W and Y.
Reading phonetically is a technique that only works until it doesn't; silent characters, partially anglicized loan words, etc.

So while I'm trying to teach all this, I'm also doing my own discovery of what a qwerty-cubed language I'm dealing with. I never realized how broken the written language is until I tried to show it to someone.
- Thunderbird: Dropped.

- FirefoxOS : Dropped.

- Servo: How many years do they need to build a new browser with the experience they already have?

- Rust: I don't expect the world to rush to this language.

- Finally, Mozilla is just Firefox now and they are aimed to privacy at all cost, that will cut their sources of revenues, of course.
Hey nick! Thanks for kind words, it's really touching to know when things are clicking. I'd love to see how things go with people that aren't math experts. My philosophy is I found one math up the mountain, it worked for me, but there's other ways too. It's awesome when people take the diagrams/analogies and adapt them for their own style. I saw your other comment too, will reply up there.
This is a dumb default for Windows users that use Hyper-V (like I do). You can't run Hyper-V and Virtualbox at the same time.
The article really should mention http://www.gridcoin.us/
A Crypto currency awarded for actual BOINC work units.

I was a big fan of Folding@home back in the day, but now that I have the wonderful responsibility of the electricity bill, I've stopped all work. I wonder if Gridcoin could become a suitable offset for those bills in the future?
They all make sense if only because you can get note things done.....

If we could only read all we used to read when we used public transport. .....
> Kind peoples said 'ooh look! so bright! so more advanced than Jonny or Bea!' I said that I didn't think that she is going to be any better at walking than Jonny and Bea ultimately.

Now you reminded me how I hated when parents used me for such dick waving contests.

My typical reaction was to stop whatever I was being praised for and quickly do something to piss off both them and whomever happened to be the target of their bragging.

If you are a parent - just don't do that.
If a miner gets hacked, then their blocks will go to the attacker, or they won't be mining. Blocks will be mined more slowly and transactions may take longer for the same number of confirmations until the miner comes back. If a bank gets hacked, people steal money enormous amounts of money by directly changing their ledgers. I don't see this as some sort of a loss for cryptocurrencies.

I'm not sure what you mean by turnover although you might want to learn more about bitcoin before you rail so hard against it.
Yeah, no. I hope this gets posted again when it has an app bundle.
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I think a better question is "How do you make something people will use?" People want a lot of things that they won't necessarily use. Look at all the apps on your phone that at some point you "wanted," but now are never used.
Lasers which are strong enough can permanently damage cameras. There are a few videos of this phenomenon on YouTube.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T0j5azGVmw

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzyKLoEDb64
So in a lot (most by area?) of Canada, people have been up to their arses in snow for a month, when they insist winter starts? Hilarious :)
You may want to have a look at the 2015 projects from Andrew Ng's course at Stanford for some trends in machine learning too http://cs229.stanford.edu/projects2015.html