skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has a long way to go. As far as I can tell prime or Amazon Fire TV is only available in a few countries.

I think they needs to go global quick, or they will not survive against netflix.

As it is now, the internet is a rather segregated place. Many media sites are only available in the US. "This is not available in your country".

I wonder if a big reason why netflix decided to make original content in the first place, is that its a huge pain to go global with content with regional rights.
I remember reading an article by a former military guy who was deployed in the middle east. Back home he had to deal with the police and basically said: "they reminded me of myself when I was deployed and operating in enemy controlled areas".

The guy goes on to explain on, according to him, the problem is that there is a narrative that cops should be allowed to do anything to protect their life, as opposed to protect the public.

This is always the excuse when a cop kills a civilian by mistake - "he feared for his life". Guess what? You're a freaking cop! Not a plumber, or an accountant. Cops should not be allowed to kill someone on suspicion that maybe there is a possibility that they will start shooting at them.
Under what circumstances would one want to receive these sorts of messages over a Facebook message instead of via email?

> If your user auths with Facebook, of course it makes sense to do your customer communication via Facebook, too.

If I've authed with you, it does not mean I want you to message me through Facebook.
How big is the Wikipedia database?

Current revision only of just the text of the articles is 8.8GB compressed, 27GB uncompressed. All revisions, all pages (talk etc. included) of text is around 5 terabytes. [...] Neither of those include media. [0]

The biggest version of this device has 32GB of storage. The math is not hard to follow. This is the kind of transparently infeasible pipe dream I expect from Kickstarter projects.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-many-gigabytes-or-terabytes-of-inf...
Seems like we should make something that this that could last for a thousand years. And then house them throughout the world in case of disaster or make them so cheap that everyone could afford to buy one as a novelty.
And to the Men, he gave nine rings of power...
1] You are not measuring the "important" phenomena

2] Measurement error obscures the signal

3] Missing data

4] Data coming from disparate parts of a system may not have been collected at the same unit of analysis

5] Domain experts may have really good mental models of how various factors relate to each other so when you do analysis of data it mostly confirms what the experts already know and is therefore "not very insightful"

6] Too many variables, not enough cases

7] Data sparsity

8] Necessity to combine the skills of a researcher with those of a domain expert (both of those elements can have at least moderately steep learning curves)

9] Time pressures - great insights that arrive too late for action are useless

10] Combinations of any or all of the above
The FBI and CDC log fatal shootings by police, but officials acknowledge that their data is incomplete. [1]

This is a little bit ironic in that the government agencies cannot do their job properly and it has to take a news company and their great investigative journalism to get it done right?

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-the-washington-p...
You two disagree on which 64 bits matter. ;)
I can't really blame them for ignoring the Mac, even the absolutely maxed out 27" iMac is nowhere near their minimum GPU requirement.

A Mac Pro is theoretically fast enough but only in games set up to leverage both GPUs - one of them alone doesn't meet the minimum spec either.
Also Orange is the New Black.
See Table 7: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf. Blacks are offenders in 57% of gun homicides, 60% of homicides committed in conjunction with another felony, 67% of drug-related homicides, and 42% of gang-related homicides.
I can't help but think of https://youtu.be/Y5BZkaWZAAA
My Samsung TV still doesn't show me the Netflix app. As far as I understand they didn't show it in the countries where Netflix was not available. I hope that they will enable it now that it is.
ES6 support in modern browsers is pretty okay (see: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/).

It doesn't eliminate the need to transpile, but it looks like transpiling may not be necessary forever.
> while attacking someone with a deadly weapon.

According to who?

In several cases, it was shown that the police claimed "attacking someone with a deadly weapon." that was later shown to be a false claim.
The best we could advise you to do is select both "Deadly weapon" (under the "Weapon" category) and "Other" (under "Threat Level"). Deadly weapon includes all firearms, and the Other (threat level) category includes, but is not limited to, individuals who were fleeing.

There will be some information in the blurbs that may indicate if the person was fleeing specifically. We hope that in future versions we will be able to provide a more specific breakdown.
But you probably can't tell your friend that is from another country to watch what you watched last night because it is more then likely not available in their country.
I don't think that's what he was explaining. To me, this reads as Jack saying essentially, "I like the 140-character limit, but sometimes you just need more text, and the current solution of having to tweet images like this is stupid, so we're looking into how to do it better without compromising the common case. I don't know exactly what we'll do yet, but we know there's value in short text and there's also value to long text."
PostgreSQL Streaming Replication Cheatsheet
There are regularly displays by men armed with AR-15s around cities in the US. Yet the police seem to be disinterested in shooting them. I wonder why?
Apple expected to focus on micro-LED displays at new Taiwan facilities
Deep Grammar
That was a really interesting story, thanks!

Also, the very positive tone of the historical article was refreshing. I know it's pure propaganda, but still, we could use some positive articles in the news every once in a while.
> people with massive amounts of computing power can decide what to decrypt?

No. That would be proof of work.
Here are the details of the software, it's based on Debian:

https://endlessm.com/developer/

I was hoping it would be available as an ISO, as it would make a great OS for my parents who aren't particularly tech savy.
>Maybe a stupid questions but what if they disrupted not just TV but also cinema?

They are trying. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 is being released simultaneously in theaters and on Netflix. Some chains complained and are refusing to show it.

But honestly, I don't see it. Cinema is $10-15/person/visit, and Netflix is $10/mo for an entire library of content. Profit margins for Hollywood aren't that great - so how do you bridge that price gap? How do you justify spending $200 million on Force Awakens and hope to recoup that from Netflix fees? You can't.
i don't think we're talking about the same phone. -> http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z5_compact-7535.php
enterprise-ready would mean that it is well documented, stable and mature, which it is not.
>Cops should not be allowed to kill someone on suspicion that maybe there is a possibility that they will start shooting at them.

Civilians in the US often have this right, so why shouldn't the police?
>AI, by itself, cannot interact with the physical world, past bit-flipping registers on a cpu (a negligible action). For AI to be a threat, in my opinion, it would need to be coupled with some form of physical manifestation that could, in some fashion, not be under the control of a human.

Now that's just silly.

An AI does not need a body for any reason. What it needs is a voice, software is pretty good at simulating that, and we can simulate images and video pretty well too. If an AI can become a master in the art of persuasion (say coupled with a great hacking ability) it could easily convince people to act in its name (much like old books do now) and pay off others do to its bidding.
One of the many good points that Lanier made was that there is not currently an inevitable, moore's-law-like progression that will take modern AI methods towards the "superintelligence" that is meant when AI is discussed as an existential threat.

Coupling that with the fact that any AI will be limited by its human-defined interface leaves me pretty unconcerned about AI, even if we ever figure out what truly makes a conscious, intelligent being and determine how to replicate it fully in some other medium.

That said, I appreciate Bostrom's work as a philosophical rather than practical matter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/us/long-taught-to-use-forc...
The first graph shows that we have made driving far less dangerous over time. The second graph shows that driving has become far more popular over time, popular enough to outweigh this effect until the early 70s.

The recent improvement in car accident rates is pretty impressive.
Playing devil's advocate, my first response would be to register accounts for, say, the 2,500 most common English words and then compose some rather nice essays.

@Yes, @something @like @that @might @prove @quite @funny.
Same here. I also want Steam to let me see the average reviews of games that it shows me on the main screen. I only buy games that are "Mostly Positive" and above, and it's very grating to have to click every title to see that information.
Pastebin and Reddit shakes hand
Given the population of the UK is about a fifth of the US, your post is so ridiculous it's hard to consider it anything but a troll.
What terrible reasoning.
works well in Greece (east-southern?) but the available content is dated, a disappointment really.
The FAQ seems to imply that having a CloudMagic account just makes it so that you don't have to set up your email accounts on each device: http://help.cloudmagic.com/article/create-cloudmagic-account...

They definitely use "the cloud", but their FAQ may be able to answer some of your questions there too:
http://help.cloudmagic.com/section/security/
>The idea here is that the casino will be more diligent in not tilting the odds too much in favor of the whale

Allowing scripted entries is one of the biggest examples of this and a huge differentiator between DFS and casino games like poker. You will very rarely have an absolute poker novice playing against a skilled shark. The novice will generally know they are a novice and will enter lower stake games. The shark's time is money and they will only enter games with high enough stakes to merit playing. This is completely different for DFS when scripting is allowed. The sharks can play an almost unlimited number of games against any opponent. If it is completely automated, there is no reason why the shark can't challenge the complete novice who is only willing to bet $5.
Just to clarify: this is to enable programs to have more a more direct and faster interface to data, while retaining data consistency and safety that typically would be managed by the OS?!

Is this not just another form of DMA (direct memory access)? And if so, how would it differ from current implementations? Sometimes DMA only refers to ram, though on many systems this is fluid between different data storage types (AMDs direct compute comes to mind), exactly to enable this kind of data access.
Alienating people by not knowing about sports, or for making fun of them?
There isn't a lot of data about this for the US. There is, however, writing on the subject that should be of interest:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2014/03/inequality

"Whenever the rate of return on capital is significantly and durably higher than the growth rate of the economy, it is all but inevitable that inheritance (of fortunes accumulated in the past) predominates over saving (wealth accumulated in the present).... Wealth originating in the past automatically grows more rapidly, even without labour, than wealth stemming from work, which can be saved."

Per the article, there is extensive data available from France on wealth, and in France inheritances as a proportion of income went from 24% in 1900 to 4% in 1950, but has increased to 11% today. If that proportion regressed to 1900 levels, 90% of wealth would be inherited by mid-century.

IMO, we're at the start of this process in the US, as tax-insulated retirement schemes like Roth accounts, trusts and other mechanisms allow for long-term/generational transfer of wealth without taxation.
Audi to Use Qualcomm Processors for Connected Cars
>Amazon has a long way to go.

Indeed. Its OK at the moment given that its piggy-backing off the Prime subscription. Without that I doubt I'd subscribe.
FWIW, I checked out at the "go install PostGres" pre-requisite. I'd prefer either being less opinionated about pgsql or making the dependency transparent via something like Docker.
So it's kinda like betting against New York when playing a small market team?
It appears you can build here
https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/master/doc/building....
Google's SDN is seriously massive. Petabit of bisectional bandwidth:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Insid...

One major difference between Google and AWS is that Google will carry your packets between data centers on its backbone by default. Google will also carry packets as close to the customer as possible, whereas AWS will dump it off as quickly as possible.

So, even between Google Cloud and AWS it's not an apples to apples comparison.
Hi ido!
Maybe this comment is a little bit out from this topic, but I saw from an earlier topic where u commented about the self-employed thing for a programmer in Vienna. I'm expecting to move soon in Vienna so can you tell me some start tips about self-employed as programmer? I didn't see any e-mail or other contact so this was the only way to contact you. Please forgive me.
No. Checking it out. Have you used this before?
I think there are two valid existential concerns regarding AI:

1) Widespread use of advanced AI in robotics/production has the ability to bankrupt the working populace, at which point something closer to pure socialism may take over; not so much an annihilation scenario.

2) AI is weaponizable -- at a certain point, given other technological advances in addition to AI, a relatively small amount of like-minded people will be able to produce unique weapons of mass destruction.
You're thinking of proof of work. Proof of stake means people with lots of money (cryptocurrency) can decide what to decrypt. Which is imo even worse.
Show HN: Make News Funny with this chrome extension (inspired by XKCD comic)
With Hangouts and Skype, you had to buy at least $10 worth of credit. I used Skype to call home. Point is, their website should have worked for account issues. The interesting part is that you are able to sign up for services from overseas (that part worked), just not cancel them.
I agree with dribel and Georg.

@Dribel - most times it took months not weeks! And by the time the insights had been found, the opportune moment for taking advantage of the insights had passed.

The organisations that are excelling are the ones that hire competent employees and invest heavily in setting up an agile analytics architecture which allows them to test hypotheses easily and quickly - these are the companies gaining a competitive advantage through analytics.
The Sharing Economy: What Comes After Uber?
Actually everything is supposed to be based off one typical serving, so if anything is off, it is wrong and I need to fix it :). If you take a look, the gram weights are different for each item.

I checked and it says 6 oysters weights 84 grams. How many oysters are eaten in a typical setting?
Somebody should tell Netflix that the EU is a unified market by law that does not exempt any digital service. So they had to sell to all EU countries right from the start.

At least the whole story with the vpns can stop. (Unless you live in Greece...)

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/buyi...

""For these types of services, and others, you have the
right to buy from a service provider located
in another EU country without:
-price discrimination
-having the seller refuse to sell to you simply
because you live in a different EU country.""

edit: You cannot deny services to the whole European Economic Area (wikipedia has a map so you can compare and see the excluded countries)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area

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> We don't need to excuse unwarranted police violence as a society

and yet you felt compelled to write this post.
>Most people relate Netflix to 'movies'.

Mine seems to be 99% series in the home screen.
It is astonishing because if you look around the world at other countries you will find many many countries in the developing world which were not fully socialist like the USSR, which yet failed to ever develop even remotely at the level Soviet did. You could pick India as an example. While they did have a lot of state intervention they non the less had a market with market prices. People could start their own private companies and they did. Yet India did not see the kind of development that the USSR experienced. And if you look beyond mere economic factors and look at health care, education, literacy etc, they were completely outperformed by the USSR which had a very highly regarded educational system and health care.

You have to add to this story as well that the USSR was devastated from WWII and received no marshal help, and yet managed to recover surprisingly quickly.
You engage me in a semantics debate in a condescending tone and then are wrong. Manslaughter does not require 'intent to commit harm'.

Yes, there are prosecutions of reckless/negligent drivers. However, the fact remains:

1) Most traffic fatalities are the result of human error.

2) Most traffic fatalities do not result in prosecution.

I can't find numbers to back up #2 but this semi-anecdotal evidence is telling:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/283394-killed-while-cycling-why-so...

This quote in particular makes my point:

> “We as a society have chosen to drive these big cars," said Joe McCormack, Assistant District Attorney for the Bronx. It’s his job to prosecute traffic crimes. "And we also as a society have chosen not to criminalize every single small mistake that just has a dramatic consequence because you're driving a car,” he said.
Perhaps make it only the 1000 most common words and rename Twitter "Thing Sayer"?
Briefly... We have many data sets, and the <10sec calculations happen every few seconds for every data set in active use. Caching results is rarely helpful in our case because the number of possible results is immense. The back end drives an interactive/real-time experience for the user, so we need the speed. Our loads are somewhat spikey; overnight in US time zones we're very quiet, and during daytime we can use more than 1k vCPUs.

We've considered a few kinds of platforms (AWS spot fleet/GCE autoscaled preemptible VMs, AWS Lambda, bare metal hosting, even Beowulf clusters), and while bare metal has its benefits as you've pointed out, at our current stage it doesn't make sense for us financially.

I omitted from the blog post that we don't rely exclusively on object storage services because its performance is relatively low. We cache files on compute nodes so we avoid that "80% of time is spent reading data" a lot of the time.

(Re: Netflix, in qaq's other comment, I don't have a hard number for this, but I thought a typical AWS data center is only under 20-30% load at any given time.)
Wikipedia explains:

> Visa Electron card accounts may not normally be overdrawn. Visa Debit cards, on the other hand, typically allow transfers exceeding available funds up to a certain limit

> Some online stores and all offline terminals (like on trains and aircraft) do not support Visa Electron because their systems cannot check for the availability of funds.

So you should try to get a Visa Debit card.
The beauty of fantasy sports is that it converts sports fans, a subculture noted for excessive enthusiasm, into suckers. That's a feature, not a bug.
Think of it as monetization of the sports sucker demographic.

From the industry perspective, they don't care who wins. They're a pari-mutual operator; the players bet against each other and the house takes a cut, like horse racing. This is different than casino gambling, where the players play against the house and the house can lose. That's why casinos don't permit blackjack card counting. FanDuel doesn't care how you plan your bets.

"91 percent of the prize money was won by a mere 1.3 percent of the players." Right. There's a sucker born every minute.
>Their entry will help force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure and increase average speeds.

I'm from a country with a similar profile (South Africa) and I can tell you it definitely won't do anything of the sort. They just throttle the hell out of you as an incentive to upgrade.
I disagree with him regarding the usefulness of CoCs -- spelling out the rules of engagement can be powerful -- but I respect that he put his money where his mouth is, so to speak.
I'm a disc subscriber and I think there's only been one movie in the last couple years that I wanted that they didn't have.
To some extent, yes, but 'slow' languages usually delegate batch work over large datasets to optimized libraries.

Even more likely, as I see it, is this contributing to the increasing rise of tools like spark, hadoop, etc. Slow languages will continue to be popular as orchestration around these tools.
Please do. We need more people to see this.
As someone that plays Star Citizen regularly with my Oculus Rift (that I got as a backer in the original Kickstarter, with an SDK), the one thing they won't need to worry about is the games/experiences available for the device.
Hoping the same for South Africa. So counterintuitive though :)
I dimmed the light but we do have stronger light on the ceiling. Good point with the light glare, I guess we will make sure they are behind every screen but they are pretty directional so if we make sure that they are pointing on the plants that should make the trick.

Thank you for the feedback!
CloudMagic supports Gmail push
> "covering their own ass"

I think you and jessaustin may be using different interpretations of that term, judging by their reference of the McDonald shooting. People are much more ok with police officers doing what they need to do to keep themselves and others safe at the time (your usage) than they are with officers lying about why they used deadly force after the fact to keep from getting in trouble (their usage).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Laquan_McDonald
That's nice finally the time has come
Yes it does. Back story - https://medium.com/@rohitnadhani/cloudmagic-for-mac-is-here-...
You know what a good solution to that? Constant cost for @mentions. Each one costs you two characters.

While you are at it, urls cost you 5. Images cost you 10.

Removes the benefit of shorter twitter handles, longer twitter handles doesn't fuck up what you are trying to say and, you can talk to multiple people in the same tweet.
> made up of frequently accessed Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia has a very long tail, no need to load articles such as Jabal al Utayfah or Poul Reumert or Screaming Life/Fopp.
Woh! I didn't believe that, Seriously!
Gaming will be neat and all, but how is reading?

I'd really like the infinite space for terminals and docs. Maybe turning my head to look over at stackoverflow would suck, but my glasses are thick, so even through the lens vision is blurry at the edges.

I can imagine a goofy hackers style 3d world would be amusing for a while. Even a really pedestrian window manager would be nice. terminals could be very tall, so i could look up to see many commands back. heck, i could float docs where the keyboard is right now.

Full visual field seems neat.