skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it really amusing that you noted "then credit default swaps were stopped in their tracks before they destroyed the economy" as one of the critical junctures in the US economy. It was, and most people dont realize that. CDS allowed large parts of the CDOs to become AAA and enabled all manners of craziness in 2002-2007.

Sadly, it often gets blamed on Clinton/Gore given the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 signed weeks before their term ended. The reality was all about how it was implemented/regulated/enforced, which was all during Bush's term. You note correctly, things would have been very different under Gore. For one thing, courageous individuals like Brooksley Born would have been allowed into the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born#Born_and_the_OT...
Does multicast see any actual use? I was under the impression that while it's theoretically great for a live video stream, nobody ever actually uses it.
My problem with Heroku is that their database instances are so ridiculously expensive. I can get 10 times the resources for the same price.

Even more so in the case of Redis.
In the case of sleep your brain can correlate the time of the alarm to whatever physiological state you are in at that point of sleep, which can create a strong associative effect. You could call it keeping track of time though it sounds more like keeping track of a point in time than keeping track of a duration.

I have the same relationship to my alarm clock.
Can you explain how this works in more detail? If I use someone's MIT license code that has patented stuff in it, does that make me a potential target? Seems hard to justify using MIT licensed code in that case?
they don't deserve more privacy than what we get
Is there a theory why so many archaeology stories show up on the front page of HN? I'm not complaining (I like reading about the topic), but most of the other frequent topics are stuff that are of pretty obvious interest to the tech-crowd.

Kinda puzzling that the one exception (that I've noticed, anyways) is archaeology.
What's the ratio of happy to unhappy users? If 80% of Nest users are happy you could see twice as many positive reviews as negative and still overstate the percentage of unhappy customers.
They aren't necessary but they are convenient. Being able to adjust the temperature in the middle of the night is great but being able to to adjust the temperature when on vacation is awesome. It's also flexible (will automatically adjust down if people are unexpectedly away for the day) and allows you to track energy usage more easily. Does everyone need one? No. But for some people the convenience is worth the money.
Sure, but we've had that level of automation for decades. My Honeywell programmable thermostat has time/day scheduling with several phases per day, and different phases for the weekend. It runs off a 9V battery and I can't tell you how long the battery lasts but I _can_ tell you that it's at least 15 years.
Yep. There's whole different point of views to be seen. People are saying propaganda like it means only the caricaturization of propaganda(i.e.: overt), and, corollarily, like what is not overt is not propaganda or like it's "but ours is nicer/good". It's not like this, propaganda is everywhere. To me, anything that's not the pure facts plus context is the same as propaganda/ideology, there's only reality or propaganda/ideology, it's what I'm saying. If you want to approximate reality of stuff getting the different perspectives is absolutely mandatory. I guess that's too much work for most people, though.
All mobile phones advertise calling. All of them warn that they are not meant for emergency calling.
"1 in 6 watches it, 6 in 6 pay for it".

Except that the marginal cost of providing ESPN service to people who do not watch ESPN is nearly zero.

A-la-carte pricing makes sense if the corporation is spending a-la-carte costs, but they're not: the cable hookup and maintenance costs almost the same either way. There are some issues with a cap on the number of channels that can be simultaneously transmitted in a cable pipe, but it's perfectly feasible to launch a few hundred simulcast channels on current tech. You're not paying for the stuff you don't watch, you're paying for what you do watch; Providing the selection of things that you can refuse to watch, is basically free.
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Its on my server, which is currently offline. I'll see if I can dig up the source in a day or so.
I used to own a Garmin dashcam and even though I really enjoyed the lat/lng overlay on the screen, I think what would be even better (especially for actioncams) is to have a little map on the right upper corner of the feed like the "picture-in-picture" feature in some TVs. The map would obviously need to be downloaded onto the device beforehand but that really shouldn't be a problem.
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Actual paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/05/1515478113

Basically, they analyze isotope ratios through the rock layers. Different weather patterns correspond with different isotope deposits. They were using this as a model to support an existing theory about a weather pattern that existed 70k to 55k years ago.
I'd say as a general overzealous rule that if at least two people in the company don't know the code, it shouldn't be publicly accessible if it being compromised could cause you financial harm.
I would say it is particularly true for Symfony, but other package maintainers, like Tailor Otwell for the Laravel framework, do an impressive job at documenting how to upgrade to newer versions and keeping BC to a minimum.

For instance, I just recently upgraded from Symfony 2.7 to 2.8. The upgrade path was pretty much "Remove all deprecated warnings, upgrade your Symfony package, done". The same upgrade path is used from Symfony 2.8 to 3.0, which makes it really easy to upgrade.

Symfony, as most PHP dependencies, can be installed via the "composer" package manager, which is pretty much the only package manager that is used in the PHP community, it seems. As dchesterton says, it is a very good piece of software.
They're usually astroturfed. Some vendors will go as far as offering a small rebate to customers who leave a positive review of the product.

I would guess that probably 85% of "user-generated content" on mainstream outlets like Amazon is the result of astroturfing or other paid schemes. It's practically impossible to compete in any online marketplace without turfing the crap out of every slightly relevant outlet. Your competitors are doing it constantly, and the disadvantage will be really big if you don't play ball too.

One example: our objectively superior product with a great design and great functional foundation was substantially less popular than the dirty rip off that had their site built with cheap oDesk labor and designed with cheesy stock photos, but spent ridiculous amounts of money on SEO and fake Facebook comments. We were substantially cheaper too. There was literally no reason to ever use the other person's offering, and there was no reason for them to show up ahead of us on searches, but they did.

Don't believe Google's line of BS that to get to the top you just need to put out good content. It's total nonsense. What you need are backlinks, which are bought and laundered into a network of sites controlled by the same SEO group, and social media clout, which is bought by paying third-world contractors $1.50/hr to make fake Facebook and Twitter profiles and talk about your company.
A quick Googling shows it exists only in high-end SSDs, but the information is from 2013.

Just anecdotally, my Nexus 9 does not even have the fstrim command anymore, nor do I see any discard options in the fstab. My Nexus 7 2012 had lots of interest about fstrim improving performance, but not my Nexus 9. I assumed the TRIM issue had disappeared.
Also related, but not yet confirmed: "Time cells", which are also located in the hippocampus: http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v15/n11/abs/nrn3827.html

One can possibly think of the hippocampus as a 'space-time integrator' that continuously indices high-level activation patterns from the cortex and stores them much like a log book. Memories in the hippocampus last minutes to months, after which they are either transferred to long-term memory in the cortex or lost.
The first chapter is here:
https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/4/b78a5a1-...

(not the final formatting)
In a cold climate you want to heat the place to some minimal level such that everything in the building doesn't freeze. In hot humid climates if you don't run the AC everything will mold.
I bought my smart thermostat (Ecobee) for a couple reasons -

1. Economic - it easily paid for itself in one summer by not running the A/C when no one is home. I have geofencing set up to do this automatically.

2. Comfort - my office/bedroom temperature is all I really care about as it's where I spend all my time. My thermostat was not wired to there, and temperatures fluctuated wildly in my office. Ecobee has remote sensors so that I can set the rooms I care about to the correct temperature.

Overall, it has certainly made my life a lot less complicated; I never have to touch the thermostat again to get comfortable in my office, and I save a lot of money too.
The parent comment said "off", which I took to mean that he measured his heartrate manually and compared to the device readout.
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Disable the autoaway settings and you have a conventional thermostat with the advantage of being able to remotely adjust the temperature.
The devs advise that there are still some problems with suspend / resume while 3D acceleration is in use. I imagine this should be fixed before 5.9 is released.

I also didn't run in to this bug.

Edit: Also didn't test Bluetooth or WWAN.
Don't they ship the free Nvidia Mesa driver either?
John Roberts, the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, is a pro-arbitration lawyer. In a complex legal landscape, arbitration clauses are winning. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitrat...
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I'll be not surprised if it contains some bitching about congress trying to bring accountability. I could care less about it. These guys are in the business of finding loop holes and using it. They will lie if they can get away with it
Something people often forget is that consumers aren't the only ones buying GoPros. They're used a ton by other businesses. And for businesses they're pretty much considered disposable since they're so much cheaper than an actual video camera.
"The term "linear programming" for certain optimization cases was due to George B. Dantzig, although much of the theory had been introduced by Leonid Kantorovich in 1939. (Programming in this context does not refer to computer programming, but from the use of program by the United States military to refer to proposed training and logistics schedules, which were the problems Dantzig studied at that time.)"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization#Hist...
It is also a gigantic pain in the ass to change wifi settings on the Nest Protect, and it's worse because they are mounted on the ceiling so you have to get a ladder. These guys could have learned a lot about ease of use from Sonos. In fact, for the money that Google spent, I would have bought Sonos five times rather than buying Nest.
Before the Nest there was exactly one excellent thermostat user interface: the oldschool rotary GE type like you probably have. I waited many years for a good programmable equivalent, and had to endure the endless stream of crap with hard to see LCD screens and tiny confusing buttons with tiny labels so you never knew which one made the heat go up. (And which one turned off the thermostat or changed some critical setting). Nest finally delivered that, and now look at all the copycats. It's kind of similar to what happened with the iPod and iPhone.

I don't really care for the "learning" feature but the 2 other features I find critical are 1) ability to schedule, and 2) remote control.

It's nothing you really need, but it's nice to have. I can program the temp to go 10 degrees lower overnight, and have the heat ramp up 30 minutes before we get up. I can have the blower run 15 minutes every hour without heat or cooling to make sure air circulates around the house. You could do that by hand but it would be more manual and cognitive work.
Haha, that's a nice solution. I recently did something like this and the process really makes you dislike the AT command set. If you don't want to take an old GSM phone apart to find its serial pins, a simple USB GSM modem, pretty much any USB GSM modem should be able to expose a /dev/ttyUSB* interface.
If you buy a heart-rate monitoring device to monitor your heart rate, and it fails to properly monitor your heart rate... why does it matter how you use that data?
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Ever heard of "there's always three sides to every story"?

Apart from what the others replied(those networks will show stuff that isn't 'interesting' for some demographic), having the 'your' and 'mine' sides of the story is pretty much necessary to approximate the 'true' side.
Yeah, to me a Team Lead is the programmer that gets called to meetings. Not a people manager. It varies between organizations, I'm sure.
New York bill would give law enforcement a backdoor into your smartphone
So when does something change from a watch into a clock? This thing is the size of a fist
The one that really ruffles my feathers is text highlight bringing up a share modal. That's how I keep track of where I was at; I, in fact, don't want to share this paragraph on Twitter and Facebook and Pinterest.
The Nest comes in two parts - the "smart" bit with the USB charger & battery & wifi, and the Heat Link - the actual radio control for your boiler.

The Heat Link has a big button on which lets you turn the heating on and off, overriding what the Nest is telling it. That's not as economical as a regular thermostat, but it means you won't freeze: https://nest.com/uk/support/article/How-do-I-turn-the-heat-o...
I think Haskell can easily be that if you and your team become okay with not writing perfect code. Looking for better ways to redactor in Haskell can be an endless hole, but with discipline I think you can achieve an unparalleled balance.

If that answer doesn't do it for you, you might be looking for Ocaml.
When I see a question like this, I always type in obvious words like "carry propagation bug" into Google just to see if it's a lazy question or there's a failure by INFOSEC authors on a topic. I was shocked that all I got was garbage about all kinds of CVE's and such with no clear explanation of the problem. Not clear in terms of someone searching for an article rather than bug report. Only one I saw in a few pages of Google was:

http://blog.skylable.com/2014/05/tweetnacl-carrybit-bug/

StackOverflow had nothing useful with that phrase. Weird. I tried Modular and Montgomery Multiplication as they're important key words that should give you an idea about potential carry issues. I found these decent descriptions in my short Googling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochanski_multiplication

http://www.hackersdelight.org/MontgomeryMultiplication.pdf

Best I can do with little time and the flood of irrelevant results I saw. Maybe need a thorough write-up on these sorts of things that shows up in Google. At least I serendipitously found a great paper on statically detecting flaws in error propagation:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~liblit/dissertations/crubio.pdf

So, thanks for asking even if not an intended benefit. :)
You're replying to a comment that links to an article on the domestic PsyOps program run by the DoD, officially, since shortly after 9/11. The issue is not that people are patriotic. It is not even that political dissent is not tolerated in mainstream media. It is that propaganda pieces, manufactured with the expressed purpose to manipulate the electorate, are broadcast.

It's not like there is a party line on everything. You are allowed to have differing opinions on benign issues, such as cooking, celebrities, or football.
> the PDF comes up as the second link

Sure, if you search for its title. But if you search for text within it, you'll find it doesn't come up at all.

> I trust the ACM's "goodwill" [...]

Sure. My suggestion is that Paul Graham trusts his own goodwill more than the ACM's and that that's one reason why he's put a copy on his website.
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It was never great, and it's been worse and worse since Google bought them. Examples of some issues with mine:

1. It doesn't honor DHCP lease expiration [1]. It will happily keep using its IP without renewing its lease. I've had situations where it's gone long enough without a lease renewal that another device has received its old IP and caused a conflict.

2. It constantly disassociates from the AP, and decides to come back on the network when it feels like it, not when there is traffic for it. And note, this is with a constantly powered device, so there should be no power saving causing it to power down. Also, the AP is about 6 feet away and there are zero other WiFi issues. Manually kicking the device off the AP causes it to come back immediately.

3. Their backend goes down all the time, usually for 1-2 hours.

4. They had a perfectly working method for turning heating on in advance of your setpoint with the goal of reaching your desired temperature at that time rather than just turning on at that time. Then they broke it [2]. This led to nice surprises like waking up to a completely cold house. Instead of rolling back the broken code, they refused to respond on the aforementioned thread for well over a month.

It's really inexplicable. They have nice industrial design, good brand recognition, no shortage of money behind them, and they screw up at every conceivable turn.

I'm going to try out the ecobee thermostat because I very much appreciate the convenience of being able to remotely adjust the temperature.

[1]: https://community.nest.com/thread/10316
[2]: https://community.nest.com/thread/11438
> However, what's not a joke is what happens when the internet goes down. So does our heat.

As a couple of other folks have noted, that's not normal. You might want to get on tech support with them.

My Nest just keeps running its last program when it looses internet.
pattis ftw
It sounds like you haven't given up your ownership of the code. If you're leading a team of 8-12 people and don't have time to do any coding by yourself, you no longer own the code, your team does. You are going to have to let go of your personal coding responsibilities and understand that there are always multiple solutions to problems. The solution members of your team use may differ from the solutions you would have chosen AND THAT'S OK. The most you should be doing is architecting a general solution for projects but leaving the actual implementation to your team. Depending on the complexity of these projects, your time may be better spent documenting/diagramming processes, improving specs/requirements.
In line with this is the classic "It Can't Be Hushed Here" Nest bug video, by Brad Fitzpatrick from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsMkLaEiOY

[Warning: contains extremely annoying Nest smoke detectors beeping. So prepare to lower your volume]

Brad looks very annoyed and it was no fun for him, but on an artistic level it is really well done, it is an epic battle between human and machine.
Oh, OK, you don't have that in the US apparently. Why's it necessary?
Should we use mocking libraries for go testing?
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Indeed, I almost never see the Haskell is impractical argument substantiated with proof or even anecdotal evidence.
If copyright law actually respected a balance between creators and the public, anything under digital restriction technology would be ineligible for it, since there's clearly no intention of adding to the public domain after the period is up. Of course we know it doesn't.

Anyone with half a brain knew the DMCA was a bad idea when it was being "debated". Now it's accepted because we've grown accustomed to workarounds. The only way our society will be fixed is when the reality-incongruent copyright system simply collapses.
There's potential there. Just not when the market is inherently leaning toward sneaky usages like Big Data mining.
The might not like you, OR you might be predisposed to think that of people.

Do you perceive yourself as liked in general, and these latest jobs are the exception? What's the concrete evidence, if any, of this attitude?
Serious question: How can you think that if you can buy wireless computers that can send and reveive SMS via their wireless connection ... that the only way to do so would be via some internet service?!?

edit: hello idiots! you might not believe it, but downvoting doesn't actually answer my question.
I've used it and am awaiting the result of a $26 dollar request from Target. (dropped prices on barstools)
> The LHC collides TWO protons! The net velocity between them is zero.

Yes, but only because their original velocity has been converted into other forms of kinetic energy, like heat and light, among other things like Higgs bosons. Here is what you said:

> Kinetic energy does not become heat and light.

I proved your statement to be false. End of story. Now stop trolling.
I had trouble finding reliable historical data. I didn't trust anybody that compiled the data, as they all had different results, and the powerball set of number has slowly expanded over the years.

I think it's reasonable that some numbers are more likely. Either by their initial placement or by subtle effects of aerodynamics and weight of the painted numbers.

That said I think it's a little absurd to choose numbers. Like it actually matters. Just get computer picks. It's the best chance to not split the pot, assuming a fair computer.

Unrelated: I don't think it makes much sense to buy more than one ticket. The EV is still slightly less than the cost of the ticket and after the initial ticket you cannot boost you odds again like that. Even with positive EV it's still insanely high variance, so I don't see how multiplying your odds makes any difference, compared to raising your odds from zero which your initial ticket does.
Star Trek, on the other hand, consistently presents an optimistic view of our capacity for civilization. I love science-fiction, even when it's dystopian. But why does so much of it have to be dystopian?
That must be a UK thing or something. I only have a single device. I know because I installed it myself -- there is definitely no manual override button, and I've never even heard of this Heat Link before.
You can't store a 4096-bit number in 32-bit register, so if you are multiplying numbers together you need to do it a piece (limb) at a time. Given that the arithmetic is modular, you can get away with "leaving some room" and not using all 32-bits, but instead using more 32-bit registers and treating them as if they are say 26-bit registers that can overflow 6-bits. For instance, Curve25519 (255-bit modulus) can be stored with 8 32-bit limbs, or 10 26-bit limbs (among other combinations). So if you do repeated calculations, you don't need to carry all of the bits all of the time. I don't know if it's the case for this bug, but I know it's been a bug in the past that they waited too long to propagate the carry (the extra 6-bits) into the next limb and it's overflowed the 32-bit register. This results in an incorrect calculation.
>There certainly are more forces at play, but money plays the key role.

I don't think money is close to playing the key role. If that were true it would only take a few billion to buy a presidential election.

Money is definitely necessary, but I don't think it's sufficient.
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years of iteration, really